BMW will recall 147,830 vehicles in China due to a manufacturing issue with the starter motor, which could cause difficulty starting the car or, in extreme cases, a fire risk, China’s market regulator said on Wednesday.

Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, said Thursday that the world urgently needs to regulate rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technologies.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 11 warned he may withhold federal broadband funding from states whose AI regulations, in his administration’s view, hinder American technological leadership.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Monday signed into law a landmark bill regulating artificial intelligence, News.Az reports, citing Kazakh media.

Editor’s note: Faig Mahmudov is a journalist based in Azerbaijan. The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of News.Az.

Synopsys Inc. has secured final regulatory approval from China for its $35 billion acquisition of engineering software firm Ansys Inc., removing one of the last major obstacles to closing the blockbuster deal.

Apple was hit with a 150 million euro ($162.4 million) fine by French antitrust regulators on Monday for abusing its dominant position in mobile app advertising on its devices via a privacy control tool.