10 expert takes on AI's shift from rollout to risk management

• Moscow Fashion Week will host emerging designers from around the world from September 26 to October 1, 2026. • The event will feature more than 70 fashion shows.

• Three white-hat hackers from Hacktron gained employee-level access to OpenAI’s internal codebase in July. • TypeSafe AI released a new model called Jev that is 20–200x faster and 40–400x cheaper than standard large language models.

• Moscow will host Moscow Fashion Week from September 26 to October 1, 2026, to showcase emerging designers from around the world. • The event is scheduled to run for six days starting in late September 2026.

• The New York Times filed legal briefs in its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies infringed upon thousands of news articles. • A Microsoft director described AI scraping as the largest theft of labor in human history, while another memo warned that the technology creates a doom loop that hurts both model performance and the web.

• Mozilla released its latest State of Open Source AI report showing that open-source models are closing the gap with proprietary systems in cost, capability, and adoption. • The report highlights that European nations are prioritizing digital sovereignty and infrastructure to reduce dependence on foreign technology.

• Nineteen European nations have entered the pre-notification phase of the IPCEI-AI to build a sovereign industrial AI stack and reduce reliance on US technology providers. • Germany is coordinating the effort with a commitment of over $1.15 billion and is offering grants of up to $28.8 million per project to European companies.

• European AI companies, including Mistral, rejected calls from US rivals to slow the development of advanced artificial intelligence on September 18. • Mistral and other firms accused US competitors like Anthropic of using safety concerns as a tactic to protect their own market dominance.

• European AI companies, including Mistral, rejected calls from U.S. rivals to slow the development of advanced artificial intelligence on September 18. • Mistral and other firms accused U.S. competitors of using safety concerns as a tactic to protect their market dominance.

• FinTech companies raised over $850 million across various deals this week. • Chift is using new capital to develop an agentic layer, which is a system that allows AI to configure integrations automatically and act safely on financial data.

• Venture capital investors initially passed on 5 European success stories, highlighting the challenges of spotting future successes. • These European companies, from countries such as Czechia, Austria, and Belgium, have now proven themselves, despite initial skepticism from investors.

• Mei founded the AI startup HiDream.ai after leaving JD to focus on image and video generation rather than large language models. • The company completed two funding rounds totaling nearly RMB 100 million by December 2023, with initial backing from 15 University of Science and Technology of China alumni.