Consumer Tech News (Sep 14-Sep 18): DOE Backs Quantum Computer With Self-Correcting Errors, OpenAI Faces AI Security Concerns & More

The Department of Energy (DOE) is putting up to $215 million behind a single goal: a quantum computer that actually corrects its own errors and does useful science by 2028.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) warned that if BYD Co. Ltd.‘s (OTC:BYDDF) (OTC:BYDDY) CEO Wang Chuanfu joins Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s business delegation to the White House next week, it could signal that discussions are underway over whether to allow Chinese automakers greater access to the U.S. market, a move she said would be "a terrible outcome" for Michigan’s auto industry.

Security specialists from the U.S. and China have called on their governments to brace for potential artificial intelligence (AI) threats that could compromise nuclear command networks or initiate military cyber operations.

Japan and the United States reportedly held working-level talks this week on building a semiconductor plant in the U.S., part of Tokyo’s $550 billion investment pledge under their tariff agreement.

A federal judge has reportedly ordered Alphabet Inc.‘s(NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google to overhaul its online advertising technology practices and appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor, while declining to force a breakup of its ad tech business.