Key AI developments for Weeks 1-2 of September 2024, covering new technology announcements, regulation, and corporate trends: (1) New technologies — Roblox developing AI model for automatic game content generation from text, images, and 3D prompts (3-month launch timeline), enabling game world creation without programming expertise; 01.AI open-sourced "Yi-Coder" coding assistant with 10B parameters, 128K context window, and 52 programming language support; OpenAI released "Strawberry (o1-preview)" with test-time compute approach enabling human-like step-by-step reasoning for complex problems; Google released "DataGemma" combining RAG and RIG for accurate statistical data analysis minimizing hallucinations. (2) Regulation — US, UK, EU and others signed landmark legally binding AI international treaty ("Framework Convention on AI and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law") requiring human rights impact assessment for high-risk AI systems and guaranteeing right to explanation; Meta and X restricted AI training data use in Brazil and EU following regulatory orders from data protection authorities. (3) Corporate trends — OpenAI secured investment valuing company at ~160 trillion won with Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA participation; Zendesk pioneering outcome-based pricing model charging by AI results rather than usage, lowering enterprise AI adoption barriers; Intel facing crisis after rejecting 30% OpenAI stake acquisition for $1B seven years ago, with stock dropping 26% after poor earnings. Key insight: AI technical innovation must be balanced with legal, ethical, and social frameworks including responsible development, copyright protection, and reducing the AI capability gap.