California's attorney general issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on Thursday, opening a state-level inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks tied to the company's AI models, his office said.
European fleet operators, battery analysts and equipment makers are all warning that high energy prices and supply chain uncertainty are forcing a rethink of the continent's industrial base, with the newest flashpoint arriving on 1 October when EV100 members wrote to the European Commission opposing any weakening of truck CO2 standards.
OpenAI launched Dots, its "always-on" personal agent, at DevDay on Tuesday, 29 September, following Meta's Muse, and the personal-agent rush is colliding with a US labour market that is already sending mixed signals about AI.
South Korea's climate ministry lifted connection restrictions in the Honam region on 1 October and set out a plan to add more than 100 GW of renewable capacity by 2030, the latest sign that grid capacity, not generation, is the binding constraint on electrification.
US utilities are pausing procurement and pressing vendors for provenance answers during active bids, weeks before the Department of Energy publishes implementing rules for an executive order signed on August 26, 2026, according to SemiEngineering.
US utilities are already pausing procurement with foreign-linked supply chains ahead of Department of Energy rules due 24 December, after President Trump signed an executive order on 26 August declaring a national emergency over high-risk grid equipment.
On 1 October Reuters reported that Washington told France and Germany to release diesel from strategic reserves or face a US export ban, the sharpest turn yet in Europe's energy squeeze.
The US Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and the research group Metr, the first official US enforcement action aimed at rogue AI agents, according to The Guardian. The news was first reported by the New York Post.
Follow the Money reported on 30 September that Ursula von der Leyen's Congress of Europe pitch dropped a reference to bringing in "citizens and civil society", the week's most recent dated development in a dossier otherwise dominated by Europe's energy price problems.
The US Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs, the first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, according to The Guardian on 30 September.
Most large data centres in the Netherlands and across Europe are refusing to disclose how much electricity and water they use, a year-long investigation published on 30 September found, even as grid operators project the sector will take 10 to 15 percent of Dutch power by 2030.
Paris-based Inbolt closed an €11 million round on Wednesday to give industrial robots real-time perception, bringing its total funding to €30 million, according to Tech.eu.
Toyota dropped a 1,675 lb (760 kg) caravan 30 feet onto the roof of its electric Hilux at Bentwaters airfield in Suffolk, and the truck drove off, the stunt Electrek reported on 30 September. The same week, the money moving into electricity grids got bigger and harder to see.
Toyota dropped a 1,675 lb caravan onto the roof of its electric Hilux at Bentwaters airfield on 30 September and the pickup drove away. The stunt lands in the same week that grid and electrification data showed the harder numbers behind the transition.
Data centres across Europe are refusing to disclose how much electricity and water they consume, with fewer than a quarter of the largest Dutch facilities publishing figures, according to a study published on 30 September.
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs, The Guardian reported on 30 September. It is the first official US enforcement action aimed at rogue AI agents.
President Donald Trump is expected to announce roughly $200 billion in South Korean investment in the United States on Wednesday, including about $54 billion tied to the long-delayed Alaska LNG project, according to Bloomberg News reporting cited by Seeking Alpha.
Less than a quarter of the largest Dutch data centres publish their electricity and water consumption, despite an EU directive that has been in force for three years, according to a joint investigation published on 30 September.