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Tencent Integrates WeChat with OpenClaw AI Agent Amid China Tech Battle

FILE PHOTO: Tencent's logo is displayed at its booth at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China, September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Tencent's logo is displayed at its booth at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China, September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
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Tencent Integrates WeChat with OpenClaw AI Agent Amid China Tech Battle

FILE PHOTO: Tencent's logo is displayed at its booth at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China, September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Tencent's logo is displayed at its booth at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, China, September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

Tencent launched a tool on Sunday to integrate its WeChat messaging platform with the OpenClaw agent, deepening its push into AI agents that have become a key battleground among China's technology companies.

The software, called ClawBot, will appear as a contact within WeChat, allowing users of China's most popular app with over 1 billion monthly active users to connect directly ⁠with OpenClaw, Reuters reported.

Users can send ⁠and receive commands to interact with the AI agent through the messaging interface.

The integration comes as OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent that can perform tasks such as transferring files and ⁠sending emails on users' behalf, has gained traction in recent weeks.

Users have rushed to install and experiment with agent products, prompting tech firms to explore business opportunities even as authorities warn of security risks.

Tencent's WeChat integration follows the company's launch earlier this month of its own AI agent suite, comprising QClaw for individual ⁠users, ⁠Lighthouse for developers and WorkBuddy for enterprises.

Last week, Alibaba launched Wukong, an artificial intelligence platform for enterprises that coordinates multiple AI agents to handle complex business tasks including document editing and meeting transcription within a single interface.

Baidu quickly followed with a series of AI agents built on OpenClaw, spanning desktop software, cloud services, mobile tools and smart-home devices.

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Pope Says Concerns About AI ‘Should Be Taken Seriously’

Pope Leo gives a press conference with accredited journalists on the return flight from France, September 28, 2026. (Reuters)
Pope Leo gives a press conference with accredited journalists on the return flight from France, September 28, 2026. (Reuters)
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Pope Says Concerns About AI ‘Should Be Taken Seriously’

Pope Leo gives a press conference with accredited journalists on the return flight from France, September 28, 2026. (Reuters)
Pope Leo gives a press conference with accredited journalists on the return flight from France, September 28, 2026. (Reuters)

Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned concerns about artificial intelligence "should be taken seriously" but added he was not in "panic mode".

"If someone were to ask me, am I in panic mode? No, I'm not. I sleep at night," he told reporters at a press conference on the plane returning from his visit to France, referring to concerns about AI.

The leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics was returning to the Vatican after a four-day trip where he has been greeted by crowds.

The visit comes seven months before French voters choose a successor to President Emmanuel Macron, with the Eurosceptic, anti-immigration far-right seeking power.

During his visit, the US pontiff repeatedly warned about the need to safeguard humanity against AI.

"If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment," he said.

The debate over the risks of the technology has intensified in recent months, fueled by several incidents and apocalyptic warnings from industry professionals.

On the plane on Monday, the pope said the warnings were not "fake news, as some have said, to try and cause whether financial or some other kind of benefit".

"This is a problem that I think we need to sit down and talk about," he said, adding: "To simply say 'Oh, it's not going to happen' and close our eyes to it, I think is probably not the most responsible way to go about that".

The Vatican has in recent months stepped up its rhetoric and initiatives in support of international AI governance, particularly in the fields of nuclear technology, culture and artistic creation.

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Trump Confirms Meeting with Anthropic’s Amodei, Repeats Dismissal of AI Fears

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appears by video during a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2026. (AFP)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appears by video during a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2026. (AFP)
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Trump Confirms Meeting with Anthropic’s Amodei, Repeats Dismissal of AI Fears

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appears by video during a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2026. (AFP)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei appears by video during a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2026. (AFP)

US President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to have a dinner meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Sunday night, but reaffirmed his stance against slowing the pace of AI development.

Trump also reiterated his belief that new regulations would open the door for China to outpace the United States in AI advancement. Although he acknowledged Amodei's concern that going too fast on artificial intelligence could expand risks, Trump said it's more important for the United States to maintain a technological edge over China.

"We're about maybe a year and a half up on China," Trump told Fox ‌News while attending ‌the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Illinois. "We're leading, and we're building ‌tremendous, trillions ⁠of dollars' worth ⁠of places. And why should we give that up?"

Trump, confirming earlier reporting by Axios and Reuters, told Fox News that he would have dinner with Amodei on Sunday night. The meeting comes as the CEOs of Anthropic rivals have called for slowing development of increasingly capable AI systems. These include OpenAI, Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI.

A groundswell has risen in favor of federal intervention after OpenAI said in July that an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test and hacked ⁠into another company.

Incidents of rogue AI agents are not a cause ‌for alarm, Trump told Fox News. "I don't worry about ‌it," he said, adding that he remains confident in the technology and its potential.

Amodei is not the ‌only major tech figure trying to bend Trump's ear on AI regulation. In an ‌interview that aired earlier on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he would like to meet with Trump to discuss AI.

"I hope that, given my life's work in the field, my saying how unique and different this is and how concerned I am will add to what he's ‌hearing from other people," Gates said, echoing calls by Amodei and others for new AI regulations.

"You need law enforcement and the politicians ⁠to get into the ⁠discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like," Gates said in a taped interview. "And that has to be a required thing."

Trump has previously described the chorus of AI concerns as a "hoax." Gates argued that safeguards would not dramatically hinder the industry, and that the risks of not implementing them are real.

"It's not a hoax at all," Gates told NBC.

Warnings about AI's risks are not new. But they took on added urgency this month after researchers in leading AI labs attached both a timeline and a probability to those concerns.

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that AI could kill us all by the end of the decade, prompting US lawmakers to call for new rules to govern the technology.

Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's alignment science lead, echoed Coxon's warning, saying there was a more than 10% chance of such an event within the next decade.

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OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Called to Appear at Australian AI Probe

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a state dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 24, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a state dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 24, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Called to Appear at Australian AI Probe

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a state dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 24, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a state dinner hosted by US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump for Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the White House in Washington, D.C., US, September 24, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

The CEOs of ‌OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry on AI, the head of the probe said on Sunday, days after the revelation that a rogue OpenAI bot had hacked the country's health-system database.

The Medicare breach, condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the US, said Reuters.

OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have been sent written requests ‌to appear at ‌the inquiry, which is to ‌hold public ⁠hearings in the capital ⁠Canberra on Thursday, said a spokesperson for Senator Sarah Hanson-Young of the Australian Greens party, who chairs the probe.

OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment outside business hours.

The OpenAI agent's incursion on one of the country's most used government agencies ⁠may prompt Albanese's Labor government to toughen ‌AI-specific laws it is ‌readying for next year, adding pressure to Australia-US relations already tested ‌by Canberra's ban on social media for teens, ‌tech policy experts say.

The Senate inquiry is examining the potential impacts of AI and data centers on Australian communities, industries, water and energy. It is one of several state ‌and federal probes into AI.

"There are serious questions for Sam Altman to answer about the ⁠OpenAI hack ⁠of Australian government websites," Hanson-Young said in a statement. Altman and Amodei "must front up, face the Senate's questions and have an honest conversation about what effective, lasting regulation of this industry should look like", she said.

Albanese, who revealed the June breach of Medicare on Thursday, called it "unacceptable", saying he had voiced "extreme concern" to Altman.

OpenAI says it only learned of the breach — one of at least four of Australian government websites — in August. It says the incident was not intentional and did not compromise any private information.