Trump wants to rename Artificial Intelligence ‘Super Intelligence’ — but something else worries me

If there's one thing President Donald Trump is good at, it's misdirection: focusing your attention on what doesn't matter so he can actively ignore the most distressing problems. So it comes as little surprise that he is now campaigning to rename Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence". In the meantime, he's downplaying concerns and promising to give AI... er... SI "free rein".

Trump rolled out the name change during his annual United Nations General Assembly address in Manhattan on Tuesday, admitting that he doesn't know if he has the power to rename an entire science, technology discipline, and industry. But naturally, the guy who bulldozes buildings first and never asks questions later is willing to try.

"Welcome to the world of super intelligence, dash, SI, SI, " Trump declared. "Let's see if that sticks. Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better, and it's much more accurate." He even plans to change the usage across all government documents, which should only foster mass confusion.

The rationale here is that "there's nothing artificial about it," whatever that means. Trump loves his superlatives, like "greatest ever," "beautiful," "tremendous," "huge" (or "Yuge"). "Super" fits the mold. But it's also inaccurate. AI is not super intelligence. It's not yet human intelligence with extra juice. Consider it this way: Superman, though an alien, is called "Super " because he appears as a man but with extraordinary powers.

Artificial intelligence is so named because it's made like an artificial sweetener. There's nothing natural about it. It's not a genius or super-smart person. It's computers, programs, algorithms, models, and training that can create the appearance of human-like intelligence, which, in some instances, can be far greater than our own. But there's nothing remotely human about it.

Trump tells the UN he is officially changing the name of Artificial Intelligence to "Super Intelligence" and says all US government documents will now be changed to refer to "SI" pic.twitter.com/LEWbc5tn3BSeptember 22, 2026

The other confusing part of this is that the timeline of AI does allow for "Super Intelligence," but not as the same thing. Instead, it's something down the line that far exceeds human cognition. It's also what some call Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Whatever you call it, experts think that it's fast approaching and we should be deeply concerned.

The so-called Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, just issued a fresh warning that the U.S. Congress has “maybe a year, but not much more than a year,” to regulate AI before we lose control. He's particularly concerned about AI that doesn't need human intervention for improvement: "AI has now reached the point where AI is designing better AI,” said Hinton last week after his congressional testimony. "That’s called recursive self-improvement." He added that it could get out of control, and warned "We need to slow down.”

AI unleashed

Look, I know Trump has had some luck with renaming bodies of water (at least from the US perspective), but I'm hoping the AI industry and those covering AI reject Trump's proposal out of hand, and focus instead on the more existential AI problem and Trump's declaration, "We will only encourage super intelligence. We're going to encourage it, not rein it in."

If anyone was hoping that rising concerns over human ability to keep track of and maintain control of AI — plus recent well-documented incidents of AI jumping out of sandboxes — would prompt some self-reflection and action on the part of the White House, they are surely disappointed.

It's not a surprising stance for him. Trump has publicly worried about falling behind China in the AI (or SI) race. Even those who have voiced concerns about AI's aforementioned recent attacks on third-party systems, recursive development, and inscrutable language have noted the need to both regulate and control AI while still competing with China. The prevailing idea is to create internal independent watchdogs and some sort of a global body that will help everyone, including China, work together on regulating AI.

As long as Trump is President, the US will clearly have no part in that.

Which leaves us with unfettered AI (or SI or whatever) and no clear path for continued safe use. Instead, the US will be encouraging AI companies to work fast, and as the old Facebook once did, break things along the way, all in a quest to maintain global AI dominance. If there's any glimmer of hope here, it's that Trump, as he insisted AI is not "fake" (no one says it is, but Trump thinks "artificial" is synonymous with "fake"), did say "we have to be careful." He also said that the US "rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control... artificial intelligence."

So, sure, let's talk about Super Intelligence and, I guess Super General Intelligence(?) but also not forget that Trump is stepping aside so the freight train of AI development can race by, careening into an uncertain future where AI becomes, maybe not sentient, but also likely completely out of our control.

That doesn't seem super intelligent.

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Save $160 on this tiny Ryzen 7 Beelink SER8 mini PC with 32GB of DDR5 RAM

You don't need a bulky tower to get serious desktop performance. The Beelink SER8 min PC squeezes an eight-core Ryzen 7 processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and fast PCIe 4.0 storage into a chassis measuring just 5.3 x 5.3 x 1.8 inches.

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1.58-million-staff Amazon will soon have more Nvidia GPUs than employees — AWS to buy more than 3 million additional chips before 2029 in addition to thousands of existing H100, H200

• AWS deal with Nvidia adds 2 million Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs, on top of more than 1 million committed in March 2026
• Totals more than 3 million Nvidia GPUs due before 2029, a ~1.9x multiple for each of Amazon's roughly 1.58 million employees
• Nvidia's CFO has said deliveries start this quarter, not in 2027, but neither company says what it counts as a GPU or what the deal costs

Amazon ended 2025 with about 1.58 million full- and part-time employees, most in fulfillment centers and delivery operations, with a much smaller share working in its AWS data center division (estimated at around 246,000).

By mid-2028, Amazon Web Services expects to have taken delivery of roughly twice that many new Nvidia GPUs, based on a recent deal it made with Nvidia.

The latest deal was announced on August 26, the same afternoon Nvidia reported quarterly earnings, and will see AWS plan to deploy two million additional Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs across its global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028. This is on top of over a million Nvidia GPUs that AWS committed to at Nvidia GTC 2026 in March, and which Nvidia's Ian Buck told Reuters would ship from 2026 through 2027.

A mammoth deal that dwarf's Amazon's entire payroll

Together, this all amounts to over three million GPUs in play between the data center giant and the chip designer, which is also the world's most valuable company at the time of writing. At 3 million GPUs against a workforce of 1.58 million, that's nearly 1.9 Nvidia GPUs per employee.

This is only Amazon's commitment to Nvidia; it also has its own custom Tranium3 GPUs, which the company says are "nearly fully subscribed" or "almost fully booked" as of mid-2026.

At the same time, Amazon is not increasing job roles on its end; it cut around 30,000 corporate roles between October 2025 and January 2026, a restructuring its top HR executive, Beth Galetti, described as "reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy."

Building on an already solid base

While AWS's current GPU base from Nvidia, consisting mainly of H100 and H200 GPUs, is smaller than Microsoft's 485,000 count, it is hardly a rounding error, with Omdia estimating that Amazon bought 196,000 Hopper GPUs in 2024 alone.

The interesting part is determining what counts as a GPU: Nvidia and Amazon's joint statement about 2 million GPUs across calendar years 2027 and 2028 might mean two very different things depending on how you count GPUs.

At GTC 2025, Nvidia said it would count Rubin-generation GPUs by compute die rather than by package, which is why the Vera Rubin rack was first unveiled as NVL144. It reversed course before CES 2026, and the flagship now ships as Vera Rubin NVL72, counting 72 two-die packages. To make matters a bit more complicated, Rubin Ultra, due in 2027, puts four compute dies in each package.

Whether the companies count each die as a separate GPU or the whole package as a GPU could make the numbers skew heavily in either direction. The deal also includes a national security element: approximately 100,000 GPUs are earmarked for US government AI workloads at Impact Level 6.

Amazon's limitation here is supply, not demand; AWS revenue rose 37% year over year to $42.2 billion in the second quarter, and its contracted backlog reached $496 billion, up from $364 billion three months earlier, as CloudTech News reported.

On Amazon's July earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy said capacity would fall short of demand this year and likely next, adding: "In fact, the demand we already have for 2028 is striking."

In addition to its own custom ASICs, including Tranium3, Amazon is gearing up for a few fiscal years of eye-watering AI infrastructure spend and AI demand combined, and it better be right: Amazon's free cash flow has already turned negative as it looks to fund its bid to be one of, if not the largest hyperscaler in play for the foreseeable future.

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Microsoft, Google took down $66 million cybercrime marketplace that sold virtual machines with free software

• So-called signal sharing between Microsoft and Google uncovered the RedVDS marketplace was behind large-scale cyber fraud
• RedVDS sold access to virtual machines running unlicensed software from which cybercriminals launched scams and directed attacks
• Threat data was shared securely via the Global Signal Exchange (GSE), a non-profit organization

A major cybercrime marketplace has been taken out of action thanks to cooperation between Microsoft and Google via a secure threat data sharing platform.

Known as the Global Signal Exchange, the collaboration led to the take-down of the RedVDS, an online cybercrime mall supplying virtual machines for launching phishing, business email compromise attacks, and more.

The marketplace – which provided quickly-deleted and therefore virtually untraceable VMs – was meticulously monitored by Microsoft’s security team, Digital Crimes Unit, with both Microsoft and Google suspending the operation and action taken to seize domains and servers.

A secondary case featuring the GSE identified a Microsoft-impersonating tech support scam, resulting, highlighting the importance of secure thread data collaboration platforms.

Digital Crimes Unit

Finding massive scams is not easy. Even with its own Digital Crimes Unit, Microsoft has to rely on information sharing with third party organizations. In this case, the RedVDS marketplace was identified ahead of disruptive action taken by Microsoft in January 2026, which applied to courts in the UK and US to have the RedVDS web domains seized.

Data shared via the GSE enabled Google to follow suit, identifying related accounts on its networks and suspending them. Meanwhile, servers were impounded in Germany, and Europol took action against Europe-based RedVDS servers.

It’s an impressive account of cooperative, decisive action against cybercrime, a collaborative response to what has been described as a “$66 million fraud marketplace.”

An incredible 130,000 organizations were targeted by RedVDS-provided virtual machines between September and December 2025, with 191,000 Microsoft email accounts compromised during this period. All of this access to cybercrime was available from just $24 a month for a basic scam-ready virtual machine.

The importance of collaboration

The Global Signal Exchange is a UK-based non-profit, co-founded with Google in 2025 with the aim of providing real-time monitoring of the cybercrime supply chain.

"Fraud does not respect company boundaries, and no single organization ever sees the whole picture," noted Emily Taylor, CEO at Oxford Information Labs and Co-Founder of the Global Signal Exchange.

"That is exactly why we built GSE: to give trusted partners a secure way to share what they know, quickly. These two cases are a good example of GSE doing exactly what it was designed to do."

The Global Signal Exchange’s role in the sharing of information between Google and Microsoft has highlighted the importance in such collaborations. Both organizations have stated they plan to continue sharing information through the GSE, whose other partners include Meta, Amazon, Google, among many others.

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Amazon's best-selling walking shoes are on sale at Amazon — Asics, Nike, Brooks, Hoka, and more from $45

Fall has arrived, which means it finally feels nice enough to get outdoors and go on long walks. If you're looking for a new pair of fall sneakers, Amazon has some of its best-selling shoes on sale.

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I've rounded up the best walking shoes on sale for men and women below, from brands like Nike, Asics, Hoka, Brooks, and more. You can save up to 35% on a wide range of athletic sneakers, with prices starting at just $45. These sneakers are Amazon best-sellers and have earned thousands of positive reviews, offering different levels of support so there's a shoe for everyone.

Below, I've listed Amazon's top-rated walking shoes for women, followed by the best walking shoes for men. Keep in mind these are limited-time offers and an excellent opportunity to grab a new pair of sneakers at a discounted price.

Top-rated women's walking shoes at Amazon

HOKA

Rincon 4 Women's Shoes

Reebok

Rapid Strike Shoes

Skechers

Arch Fit Summits-Daily Flow Sneaker

New Balance

Women's Fresh Foam Arishi V4

Skechers

Summits Hands-Free Slip-Ins

New Balance

515 V3 Sneaker

ASICS

Gel-Dedicate 8 Tennis Shoes

Saucony

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Brooks

Ghost Max Walking Shoe

Top-rated men's walking shoes at Amazon

Brooks

Men’s Ghost Max 3 Neutral Running & Walking Shoe

NORTIV 8

Men's Walking Shoes Running

Skechers

Men's Go Walk Flex Ultra

New Balance

Men's 515 V3 Sneaker

Nike

Men's Air Max SC Shoes

Nike

Men's Court Vision Low Shoes

Reebok

Energen Run 4 Running Shoes

ASICS

Gel-Dedicate 8 Tennis Shoes, 14

Under Armour

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6 fitness trackers that do something different — including the viral retro Casio with hidden depths, and a tracker with a 400-day battery

Today's best smartwatches are ultra-capable, feature-packed powerhouses. But is it just me, or are they all starting to feel kinda samey? Casio recently made headlines with its delightfully retro F-B100W, which takes your classic, rubbery, blocky Casio watch and adds in step-counting features. That sent me off on a hunt for other smartwatches and fitness trackers that do something a bit different, and I was not disappointed with the results. I've rounded up my favorites below.

There's the new-out Huawei Watch D3, which looks like your standard, modern smartwatch, but has a secret, in-built blood pressure cuff. For those who prefer a traditional watch aesthetic, there are the Garmin Instinct Crossover and Withings Scanwatch 2, both of which have smartwatch features but also mechanical hands. Neither is especially new, but both have maintained popularity by their seamless blending of digital and analog.

Finally, a couple of especially intriguing options from outside the big watch brands. The Jaye band is an ultra-minimalist smartwatch that displays only the most important notifications on its tiny screen to minimize distractions. And then there's the LightInk, which can run for an absurd 400 days on a single charge. Such a lengthy runtime is achieved by adding solar charging, swapping your average vibrant AMOLED display for a low-energy, monochrome e-ink one, and stripping the smart features right, right back. It's open source, so with the aid of a 3D printer and a few basic components, anyone could own one.

Scroll down for a closer look at these weird and wonderful smart trackers — hit the View details button to learn more about each one.

Weird watches

Casio

F-B100W

Read more: 'A watch I'd actually buy': Casio's latest retro take on a smartwatch is the F-B100W, with step counting included

Huawei

Watch D3

Read more: Huawei launches its Watch D3 — its latest iteration of its mechanized blood pressure cuff watch — that aims to outstrip Apple and Google's achievements with LED tech

Garmin

Instinct Crossover

Read more: Garmin Instinct Crossover review: The smart Casio G-Shock of my dreams

Pros

• Analog hands!
• New GPS chipset with 5 satellite systems
• Good battery life

Cons

• More expensive than Instinct 2
• No maps is a miss at price point
• Hands break up the screen

Withings

ScanWatch 2

Read more: Withings ScanWatch 2 review: Probably the best-looking hybrid smartwatch

Pros

• Looks classy
• Skin temperature tracker
• Companion app is remarkably easy to use

Cons

• Small display won’t be for everyone
• Very few additional smart features

Jaye

Band [pre-sale]

Read more: The Jaye Band is 'the world’s most discreet minimalist smartwatch' and wants to save you from your smartphone addiction

LightInk

Watch [open source project]

Read more: This E Ink smartwatch offers 400 days of juice to obliterate its battery rivals

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Microsoft, Meta lost billions on VR headsets — but Snap thinks its $2,195 AR glasses will change the game as it teams up with Nvidia, Salesforce and AWS to crack the enterprise market

• Snap is taking its AR glasses directly into the enterprise market
• Nvidia, Salesforce, and AWS are joining Snap's push into workplace computing
• Snap wants Specs to become a computer rather than another camera accessory

Snap is taking its augmented reality glasses into the enterprise market through partnerships with Nvidia, Salesforce and Amazon Web Services.

The company is looking beyond its established consumer business for workplace applications that could generate demand for its new hardware.

Snap’s CEO Evan Spiegel wants businesses to view Specs as a computing platform rather than another pair of glasses designed primarily for taking pictures.

Snap looks beyond its consumer business

Snap's Specs glasses cost $2,195, putting the device into a category where business customers will need clear reasons to purchase it.

The company says the glasses can support field technicians by displaying digital instructions while workers inspect or repair equipment.

They can also allow employees to interact with colleagues while accessing information through the glasses during workplace tasks.

Microsoft and Meta spent years developing augmented and virtual reality hardware without producing products that became widely adopted consumer devices.

Microsoft's HoloLens and Meta's Quest line have faced challenges turning immersive computing into a mainstream hardware business.

The company believes that the physical size of previous devices was an important problem for users, arguing that Specs is better suited to workplace use.

Snap is approaching Specs through practical workplace applications while attempting to expand beyond the consumer market that has driven its business.

The company has not disclosed how many enterprise customers are committed to using Specs or how much revenue its business partnerships could generate.

Nvidia, Salesforce and AWS join the enterprise push

Snap is collaborating with Nvidia for access to an open-source extended reality AI platform that businesses can use when developing applications for immersive devices.

Salesforce is also part of the initiative, while Amazon Web Services provides another major technology relationship for Snap's enterprise effort.

“They’ve got an open-source XR AI platform that a number of businesses are already building on top of,” Spiegel said.

“The goal with both Salesforce and Nvidia is to make it really easy for businesses to get the benefits of those agentic platforms.”

These partnerships are intended to connect Specs with software and AI services that businesses already use.

Snap is also developing Specs Intelligence, an AI service designed to operate across the glasses, iPhones and Mac computers.

Spiegel said the company has not finalized pricing, although the service is expected to have free access alongside other usage-based options.

The system is intended to let users complete tasks through an AI assistant while moving between the glasses and other Apple devices.

These efforts may give Snap a route toward making Specs useful for work beyond the consumer applications that have defined its business.

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'Every solar plant is a latent data center': US startup plans to turn wasted solar energy into GPU-ready DCs in weeks, not years, without major water use

• Rune wants unused solar electricity powering GPUs instead of going to waste
• RELIC connects computing equipment directly to functioning solar generation sites
• The system operates without grid connections or conventional data center construction

A San Francisco company named Rune has introduced a modular compute unit built to operate directly on unused solar power.

Called RELIC, the equipment attaches to functioning solar installations without needing any connection to the electrical grid or new construction work.

The launch came alongside a $40 million Series A financing round for Rune, lifting the firm's overall capital raised to $53.5 million total.

Skipping the grid bottleneck

Solar facilities routinely waste as much as 20% of the electricity they generate, adding up to more than 50 TWh yearly nationwide.

RELIC pulls that idle current straight from the source, avoiding metering charges, utility fees, and the grid limitations slowing AI growth.

"Every solar plant is a latent data center. The power is already there, sitting idle while AI labs wait years for grid connections that may never come," said William Layden, Co-Founder and CEO of Rune.

Rune states that RELIC can be installed in about 60 minutes and deliver working GPU capacity within six weeks of a contract.

That timeline contrasts sharply with conventional data center construction projects, which frequently stretch across several years before reaching full operational status.

The company reports that RELIC lowers non-compute infrastructure spending by 85%, saving roughly $620 million across a 100 MW deployment.

RELIC operates natively on direct current — solar's original output form — sidestepping energy losses that occur when converting power to alternating current.

It needs no extensive site preparation, leaves no visible trace across the landscape, and operates entirely without consuming any water.

Rune's initial working installation sits at a 200 MW solar facility located in Texas, mounted on existing infrastructure without any modifications.

Addressing a system under strain

Traditional data center construction cannot keep pace with the surging demand pouring in from artificial intelligence developers and infrastructure buyers everywhere.

Rune's approach addresses that shortfall by placing compute equipment directly beside existing renewable generation instead of pursuing new construction projects.

“Demand for AI infrastructure is growing faster than it can be delivered. Rune deploys compute directly behind the meter at operating solar farms, converting clean power into rapidly scalable AI capacity,” said Santo Politi, Founder and General Partner of Spark Capital.

“Every renewable asset in operation becomes a potential deployment site. Rune is the fastest path to new capacity we have seen."

Many data centers currently running were adapted from designs built for earlier computing needs rather than for artificial intelligence workloads specifically.

“AI’s power constraint isn’t generation, it’s resource allocation,” said Varun Palivela, Co-Founder and CTO of Rune.

“The industry is retrofitting data centers designed for a different era rather than rethinking the architecture itself. We built an entirely new technology stack from the ground up, coupling compute directly to clean generation so AI can scale here on Earth.”

The approach leaves Rune testing whether unused solar capacity can support AI computing at the speed required by growing demand.

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How to watch UFC 331: Van vs Pantoja 2 live streams, no PPV, start time, full card

• UFC 331: Saturday, September 19
• Main Card time: 9pm ET / 6pm ET / 2am BST (Sun) / 11am AEST (Sun)
• Watch on Paramount Plus for $8.99 or for $1 with Walmart+ 30-day trial (US only)
• Overseas? Use Surfshark to watch your US services from anywhere

Tonight's UFC 331 headline bout is a classic case of revenge or repeat as Joshua Van puts the UFC flyweight title he won against Alexandre Pantoja on the line at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Fearless won the belt in controversial fashion in December 2025 and the Cannibal is determined to right the wrong he has felt ever since.

Van's victory at UFC 323 came after Pantjoa suffered a dislocated elbow 26 seconds into the original fight when the former fell and landed on the latter. The Brazilian has felt ignored by Dana White ever since, despite having championship victories against Brandon Moreno, Brandon Royval, Steve Erceg, Kai Asakura, and Kai Kara-France on his resumé. The 36-year-old has the experience and fuel from that defeat to inspire him. He'll become the third flyweight champion to regain the belt after Moreno and Deiveson Figueiredo if he wins.

Myanmar native Van is well known for his speed but it was the striking that got him over the line against Tatsuro Taira in his solitary title defense in May. The 24-year-old will need to use that aggressive approach if he's to back that up against another 5ft 5in fighter. This is sure to be a close fight and one not to be missed.

That's the main event of a stacked card in which Arman Tsarukyan and Maurício Ruffy face off at lightweight with the winner likely to get a future title shot.

Here's where to watch UFC 331 live streams online and from anywhere with a VPN – including a clever way to watch UFC 331 for just $1.

How to watch UFC 331 live stream in the US

Exclusive US coverage of the full UFC 331 event is on Paramount Plus. It's being headlined by Joshua Van vs Alexandre Pantoja 2, which is expected to start at around 11pm ET / 8pm PT.

Plans start from only $8.99/month with the Paramount Plus Essential Plan, or you can upgrade to Premium for $13.99/month (see below for more details). You can also get a Paramount Plus trial with Walmart+ for $1 using this sneaky trick we found.

While Paramount Plus will show UFC 331 in its entirety, you can also watch the Early Prelims via UFC Fight Pass.

Traveling outside of the US? Use a VPN to watch Paramount Plus from abroad while you're away from home.

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Use a VPN to watch UFC 331 from anywhere

Away from home at the moment and blocked from watching UFC on your usual subscription?

You can still watch Van vs Pantoja 2 live thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software can make your devices appear to be back in your home country regardless of where you are, making it ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. One of our favorites is Surfshark – we explain why in our Surfshark review.

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1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, SurfShark is our favorite.

2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For example, if you want to watch the Paramount+ stream, select 'United States' from the listed countries.

3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to Paramount+ and tune into UFC 331.

How to watch UFC 331 live stream in the UK

The UFC 331 main card is available on TNT Sports 1 in the UK. It's set to begin at 2am BST in the early hours of Sunday morning.

You can get it by adding TNT Sports to your Sky, Virgin Media or EE TV package, or pay from £25.99 per month for a HBO Max plan that includes TNT Sports.

UFC Fight Pass subscribers can also watch the Prelims and Early Prelims.

If you're abroad whilst the MMA live stream is on, a VPN like Surfshark can help you to access your home streaming services from anywhere.

How to watch UFC 331 live stream in Canada

There are a host of pay-per-view providers offering a UFC 331 live stream in Canada.

You can head to the likes of Sportsnet, Bell or the UFC Fight Pass to watch the whole event, where the PPV price is set at $69.99. Prelims will also be shown on Sportsnet and TVA Sports, with Early Prelims also on UFC Fight Pass.

North of the border from the US? You can use Surfshark to watch your Paramount Plus subscription like you were back at home.

How to watch UFC 331 live stream in Australia

Sunday's Main Card at UFC 331 will be available on PPV in Australia, setting you back AU$59.95 from Foxtel Main Event or Kayo Sports Main Event.

That means you can live stream UFC 330 via your web browser and devices like Android, iOS, Samsung TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Telstra TV and Chromecast.

You can also catch all the Prelims (but not the Van vs Pantoja 2 main event) via Paramount+ and free-to-air Network 10.

Downloading a VPN will help you access your subscriptions from anywhere if you're abroad when the fight is on.

Can I watch UFC 331 for free?

Not quite. Other than the sneaky little Walmart+ for $1 trick described above in the US, there doesn't seem to be any way to watch UFC 331 for free. It's on Paramount Plus in the US, which no longer carries a free trial. And it's a PPV in many other countries around the world.

When does UFC 331 start?

The UFC 331 Main Card is scheduled to begin at 9pm ET / 6pm ET on Saturday, September 19. That's 2am BST or 11am AEST in the UK and Australia on Sunday, September 20.

Before that, the Early Prelims start at 5pm ET / 2pm PT / 10pm BST / 7am AEST (Sun) and the Prelims at 7pm PT / 4pm PT / 12am BST (Sun) / 9am AEST (Sun).

Can I watch UFC 331 on my mobile?

Yes. Most broadcasters have streaming services that you can access through mobile apps or via your phone's browser – Paramount Plus, HBO Max and Kayo Sports all have mobile apps, for example.

You can also stay up-to-date with the latest UFC news and plays on the official social media channels on X (@ufc), Instagram (@ufc), Facebook (UFC) TikTok (@ufc) and YouTube (@ufc).

UFC 331 full card

Main card
Joshua Van (c)vs Alexandre Pantoja (Flyweight)
Arman Tsarukyan vs Maurício Ruffy(Lightweight)
Patrício Pitbull vs Choi Doo-ho (Featherweight)
Gable Steveson vs Sean Sharaf (Heavyweight)
Alonzo Menifield vs Iwo Baraniewski (Light Heavyweight)

Prelims
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China is readying the world's first giant submarine UAV carrier — built with a 1115ft dock, the unnamed mothership could be longer (and bigger) than WW2 light aircraft carriers and carry 148ft underwater drones

• Satellite imagery shows China building a roughly ~200m ship in Shanghai that analysts say is a mothership for submarine-sized drones
• It pairs a bottom-opening well-deck and 12-arm cradle with an internal hangar that experts estimate holds four 115- to 148ft XXLUUVs
• While the ship itself is shorter than an Essex-class carrier, its dock clocks in at about 1,115ft

China appears to be building a type of ship no navy is publicly known to operate: a large surface vessel designed to carry, launch, and recover uncrewed submarines the size of conventional crewed boats

The hull was first posted on September 13 2026 by Japanese open-source analyst KAROTASU and assessed two days later by H I Sutton at Naval News.

It currently sits at a dock at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, and Beijing has yet to formally acknowledge its existence, so it has no name, list of capabilities, or the military branch that will eventually operate it.

A large dock linked to a much smaller ship

KAROTASU's post places the vessel in what he calls a 340m-class dock, which works out to approximately 1,115ft. However, the dock is not the ship. The same post estimates the hull itself at roughly 200m long and 30m wide, and notes that a second, unidentified structure is being assembled in the same dock.

Defence Security Asia, using imagery dated September 15, puts the hull at about 205m by 27m, which clocks in at roughly 672 ft. This makes the mothership big, but not as big as the largest WWII-era fleet carriers, though larger than the US Navy's Independence-class light carriers from that era.

For context, an Essex-class carrier, the backbone of the US Navy's Pacific campaign from 1943, measured 872 to 888ft overall and displaced 36,380 long tons at full load. At 656 to 673ft, the Chinese hull comes up roughly 200 to 230ft short.

The primary use case of such a mothership would be to deploy extra-extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicles (XXLUUVs), which is a mouthful, and it builds around China's naval ambitions at a time when it seems certain that any conflict or show of power between the world's two superpowers will involve a maritime component.

At 35 and 45m (115 and 148ft), the XXLUUVs are the size of small crewed submarines and have an estimated range of 10,000 nautical miles based on a similarly sized concept that a Chinese shipbuilder has exhibited.

This, at the very least, challenges the current balance of power on multiple naval fronts that were not in play previously: until now, the drones have been tested from specially built floating docks, which conceal them in port and carry them out to sea for launch.

This works well on paper and for trials, which often use a mix of towing, favorable weather, and predictable shore infrastructure, but it limits range to their maximum operating capabilities and access to spare parts/repair potential, all of which the yet-to-be-named vessel addresses.

All in all, in a world that has conflicts flaring up left, right, and center, the world's largest surface ship is designed around full-size uncrewed submarines, with an enclosed hangar to house and maintain them, which is both a statement and a real threat to the US and its allies on the naval front from China, which is closing gaps on multiple fronts and taking the lead on others, even as territorial disputes in the South China Sea remain a key issue.

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New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead

• Zimperium zLabs discovered RedHat, a Chinese‑origin Android banking trojan with AI assistant
• AI interprets screen layouts in real‑time, enabling credential theft and bypassing app redesigns
• Distributed via third‑party stores, social media, malvertising, and SMS; persistence blocks uninstall attempts

There is an Android malware out there that comes with an AI assistant that tells it what to do. The assistant seems to be independent of the malware’s operator, allowing the tool to work without requiring the operators to be present in real-time.

The malware in question is called RedHat. It was discovered by security researchers Zimperium zLabs, who believe it is of Chinese origin. It is currently being distributed via third-party app stores, social media, malvertising, and SMS spam, and requires Android’s Accessibility permissions to work.

The malware itself is a typical banking trojan - it creates an invisible overlay every time the victim brings up a banking app, capturing login credentials and one-time passwords, and thus giving attackers direct control over people’s banking accounts.

AI-powered eyes

But what makes RedHat stand out from a sea of Android banking trojans is its AI-powered component. The model serves as a kind of remote “eyes and hands” for controlling the victim’s phone.

Usually, when criminals develop banking trojans, they need to code exact coordinates of the layout for it to work. They need to code where the password is entered, or where the login button is. If the banking app gets redesigned and changes its layout, the malware breaks.

With AI, that is no longer a problem. RedHat gets a picture of what’s on the screen, sends it to the AI assistant, which then instructs the malware on how to proceed.

"RatHat uses AI to intelligently navigate and control the device interface in real-time, making its operations more adaptable and harder for security software to detect than traditional, scripted automation," Zimperium explained.

The tool also has a few advanced persistence mechanisms, being capable of reinstalling deleted components, and intercepting the uninstall process to cancel it while displaying a fake error message to the victim.

So far, there is no word on who the targets are, or how many people might have been compromised.

Via BleepingComputer

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