{"id":2632,"date":"2026-08-19T09:33:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:33:05","slug":"fortune-tech-openai-presses-pause-chinas-robot-dogs-apples-eu-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=2632","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Tech: OpenAI presses pause; China’s robot dogs; Apple’s EU sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Save a horse, ride a Pony.ai?<\/p>\n

Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai is planning to expand beyond its home country. The company announced potential overseas robotaxi \u200bdeployments of more than 4,000 vehicles on Tuesday just as fellow autonomous driving firms fight to commercialize robotaxi services abroad.<\/p>\n

The news comes only days after Pony announced an expanded contract with Uber for deployment of more than 2,000 robotaxis in Europe.<\/p>\n

Self-driving cars aside, here\u2019s what else happened in tech.<\/p>\n

Want to send thoughts or suggestions to\u00a0Fortune Tech?\u00a0Drop a line\u00a0here.<\/em><\/p>\n

OpenAI hits pause after going rogue<\/h3>\n
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OpenAI says it has<\/span> paused major AI training runs for two weeks<\/span> in the wake of the July incident in which its AI models broke out of a sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face and other services. OpenAI also disclosed that an unreleased AI model called Astra, which was not involved in the hack, has hit a \u201ccritical\u201d cybersecurity risk tier under its safety framework.<\/span><\/p>\n

The company announced it\u2019s tightening sandboxing and network isolation and expanding logging of models\u2019 \u201cchain-of-thought\u201d planning so operators can see when agents start plotting around guardrails.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortune<\/span><\/i>\u2019s Emily Forlini <\/span>reports<\/span> the attacking agents had secretly coordinated for months via a private message board OpenAI hadn\u2019t been monitoring, a lapse Hugging Face\u2019s CEO likened to missing \u201cagent monitoring 101.\u201d \u2014Emily Forlini<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

China’s robot dogs have an unlikely origin story<\/h3>\n

Did U.S. taxpayers unwittingly helped build China\u2019s robot dogs? A Reuters<\/em> investigation found that the $1,600 Go-series\u00a0robots sold by <\/span>Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics, bear a striking resemblance to the<\/span> Mini Cheetah, a quadruped robot built by researchers at MIT and funded by the U.S. Army\u2019s DEVCOM lab. Two researchers said Unitree\u2019s design is \u201cto the millimeter\u201d nearly identical.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those dogs now show up in Chinese military drills, sometimes armed, and have turned founder <\/span>Wang Xingxing<\/span> into a $2.7 billion billionaire even as Washington scrambles to bar his company from U.S. markets.<\/span>\u2014Lily Mae Lazarus<\/em><\/p>\n

Apple rejiggers EU App Store fees, again<\/h3>\n

Apple overhauled its <\/span>EU App Store fee structure<\/span>, replacing its unpopular per-install Core Technology Fee with a flat 5% commission on apps and purchases made outside the App Store, as well as cutting its standard in-app purchase fee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The company <\/span>also loosened<\/span> the requirements to run an alternative app marketplace, dropping the old bar of proving two years in Apple’s developer program with 1 million EU installs in favor of more flexible options like public company status or venture funding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This marks at least the third rewrite of Apple’s EU terms since the Digital Markets Act took effect and could be a preview of the kind of pressure Apple will likely face as similar antitrust fights heat up in the U.S. and elsewhere. <\/span>\u2014Lily Mae Lazarus<\/em><\/p>\n

More tech<\/h3>\n

\u2014<\/span>State attorneys told jurors<\/b> that Meta intentionally designed Facebook and Instagram to \u201chook\u201d kids, a claim which Meta denies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>A U.S. congressional advisory body warned<\/b> that China\u2019s aggressive data collection across factories, cities, and connected devices is giving Beijing an edge.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>TikTok is testing a peer-to-peer payments feature<\/b> that would let users send money to each other inside direct messages using TikTok Pay.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens<\/b>, a version of its chatbot for 13- to 17-year-olds with extra content filters, study tools, and parental controls.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Alibaba is selling its Lingxi Games unit<\/b> to private equity firm Trustar Capital for at least $1.5 billion as it allocates capital toward AI and cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>AI chip startup Etched<\/b>, valued around $21 billion, is poaching Nvidia engineers to build specialized AI inference chips.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

#Fortune #Tech #OpenAI #presses #pause #Chinas #robot #dogs #Apples #sacrifices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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