Chinese AI models now handle most requests on two large developer platforms, CNBC reports. On OpenRouter they accounted for 57-67 percent of tokens used in the week of September 14, compared with 6-13 percent in February, and on Vercel for 55 percent in August, compared with 11 percent in January. According to representatives of both platforms, companies choose them mainly for coding and AI agents, because they are good enough and much cheaper than American models.
In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," Bill Gates came out in favor of a law regulating AI: "No one thinks self-regulation is enough." In his view, AI is already so powerful that in the hands of people with bad intentions it could lead to "a billion deaths." He called a kill switch that would let authorities shut down models insufficient on its own: safeguards and oversight, he said, must be mandatory.
Nvidia has stopped selling GB202 chips for GeForce RTX 5090 cards to partners, including for the D variants for the Chinese market, and the chips will go exclusively to professional and data center cards, Tom's Hardware reports, citing a factory notice revealed by leaker @hongxing2020 and confirmed by @Zed__Wang; Nvidia did not comment. The top GeForce model will be the RTX 5080 24 GB, and the 16 GB version will be discontinued. The professional RTX Pro 5500 card has the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5090 (21,760), but 84 GB of memory instead of 32 GB, and costs much more.
Books by People confirmed on Wednesday, October 7, that the UK Intellectual Property Office has approved its mark for books written by humans, Wired reports. The fingerprint-shaped mark is meant to go on the cover; the publisher submits a declaration of authorship, the startup checks the manuscript with its own software, and its staff review early drafts and materials from the writing process. Publishers pay a flat membership fee and a separate amount for each book submitted; five have signed up so far, and the first book with the mark is due out by the end of the year.