Bessent and He Lifeng opened pre-summit talks in New York covering AI, tariffs and critical minerals, while a September 20 Times op-ed demanded an immediate ban on recursively self-improving models.
Op-ed demands ban on self-improving models now A September 20 New York Times opinion piece argues for an immediate ban on AI models that recursively improve...
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Pre-summit talks put AI beside tariffs and minerals Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng began meetings in New York on Sunday to shape a Trump-Xi...
A September 20 New York Times opinion piece argues for an immediate ban on AI models that recursively improve themselves. Its core claim is that labs are internally testing systems well past what they release publicly.
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Source: sammyfans.comTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng began meetings in New York on Sunday to shape a Trump-Xi agenda. Xi is due in Washington on Thursday and is skipping the UN.
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View the media kit →Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen team open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, a 7B1 unified text-to-image and editing model with native RGBA transparent-image generation and two Prompt Enhancer models built on Qwen3.5-VL 9B2.
Why it mattersThe claim that a 7B1 open model beats most closed image models on most benchmarks should be tested on your own assets before you cut any closed-model image spend.
Continue readingA September 20 New York Times opinion piece calls for an immediate ban on AI models that recursively improve themselves, warning that labs are internally testing systems well beyond what they release.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng opened talks in New York on Sunday to set a Trump-Xi agenda on AI, tariffs and critical minerals ahead of Xi's Thursday arrival in Washington.
Market mood reads Greed, with risk appetite holding even as the Pentagon puts the Iran war cost at $43.6 billion through September 3.
The September 20 op-ed argues that labs are testing systems internally well past what the public sees and that self-improving models should be banned now, not later. The timing matters: nearly 130 heads of state are in New York with AI risk formally on the General Assembly agenda, and AI is also on the Trump-Xi list. The piece frames the question governments will face this week: whether to regulate capabilities or the process that produces them.
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On the same weekend a Times op-ed asked for an outright ban on recursive self-improvement, Alibaba handed the world a 7B1 image model with transparency built in and Samsung pushed AI video tooling to a flagship phone line. Governments are only now putting AI on a summit agenda next to tariffs and critical minerals, which means the policy answer arrives well after the distribution does. For builders the practical read is to assume open weights and on-device AI keep compounding, and to assume the constraints land later and land unevenly. Build on what you can host yourself, and keep the self-modifying loops gated before someone else decides where that line sits.
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