AP reports Xi told Trump in their summit that differences over Taiwan could escalate into conflict. Trump has separately invited Xi to the White House on September 24, and Reuters reports China agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets.
Reuters reports a $200 million partnership between Anthropic and the Gates Foundation focused on AI applications in health and education.
Ben Thompson argues that agentic inference will be different than the inference we use today, and that it will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't waiting on the loop.
Transcript of a message from MIT President Kornbluth on funding and the talent pipeline. The HN headline cites a 20% drop in incoming graduate students; the post itself is framed around US research funding pressures.