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AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
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AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
South Korean neocloud-service provider Elice Inc.’s shares rose for a second straight day, climbing above their IPO price and suggesting investors remain committed to the AI trade despite surging industry spending.
For many of us, artificial intelligence (AI) started out as something to play with. We asked it to write poems and arrange our calendars; we shared its more entertaining mistakes. Then it became something to believe in: an escape from drudgery, an assistant to every profession, even perhaps the start of a new industrial revolution. Now it is something to fear. The progression has been astonishing. Governments are scrambling to draw up AI strategies, companies are reorganising operations and...
Bloomberg's Mark Cranfield argues robust AI infrastructure demand will likely continue to support Asian chip makers despite near-term volatility sparked by big tech earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)
In a rare BTV interview, John Pearce, Chief Investment Officer of Unisuper says AI industry is closer to the top of the super cycle. In a conversation with Bloomberg's Haidi Stroud-Watts, he talks about what makes some AI business models dodgy and the risks in the space. (Source: Bloomberg)
Publisher Boreal says investigations confirmed the Haitian-Canadian Thelyson Orelien used AI in his breakthrough novel.
Government agencies and companies around the world shut down websites on Wednesday after two critical flaws came to light involving PHP, a programming language that is the basis for a large share of the internet. PHP sits underneath popular web design platforms, so the weaknesses potentially affect a vast range of websites, from online stores and news outlets to government services. Wiz, one of the security firms that found the issues, estimated that PHP runs about 70 per cent of the world’s...
Just two weeks before the US midterm elections, Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he did not believe America would maintain its lead over China in frontier AI indefinitely, describing restrictions on advanced chips as Washington’s key leverage. “I don’t believe for one second that we’re going to maintain a lead over Chinese frontier models forever. But we should for as long as we can,” said Himes at a Brookings event in Washington. “And the one real lever we...
The US government’s latest ban on Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek could have a chilling effect on the wider American business community and deter companies from adopting low-cost Chinese AI models, industry experts say. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built on the Chinese AI model from their IT systems, according to a directive signed in July and published on Monday. The...
The highway authority’s internal AI assistant helps officials navigate policies, contracts and project reports, while its developers work to make employees’ expertise reusable across offices
Technological tools meant to preserve a craft are now able to digitally reproduce it without involving the craftsperson.
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the growing divide between open-source and closed-source AI as a battle between “light and darkness”. The company on Tuesday released DeepInfer, an inference framework tailored to support its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on both Nvidia’s SM100 Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) and Huawei...
Only 3 per cent of Hong Kong companies have fully integrated AI into their workflows, with many facing hurdles including resistance to organisational change and outdated digital infrastructure, a survey has found. Consultancy Accenture, which polled 150 companies and released the results on Wednesday, said the survey suggested businesses had a strong desire to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in their work but many struggled to put it into practice. “Hong Kong really has strong AI ambitions...
Tokyo, Oct. 21 (Jiji Press)--The Group of Seven major economies have agreed to strengthen cooperation on artificial intelligence safety as rapid advances in cutting-edge AI technology raise growing concerns over potential misuse and unintended behavior. At an online meeting of digital and technology ministers on Tuesday, the G7 discussed how to share information and ensure rapid reporting a...
South Korean AI computing supplier Elice Inc. surged on Wednesday, recovering much of the ground lost after a 32% slump in its trading debut, as a string of upbeat US tech earnings lifted sentiment.
The growing popularity of Chinese artificial intelligence models has emerged as a key risk factor for Anthropic ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering, according to US research firm Hedgeye Risk Management. “It’s all about Chinese competition when analysing Anthropic,” said Felix Wang, managing director and global tech sector head at Hedgeye. “Many of my clients are asking the same question.” The assessment comes as Anthropic faces renewed investor jitters over whether its massive AI...
As artificial intelligence reshapes the finance industry, commercial bankers are facing a “more miserable” transition than their central banking counterparts, the head of the world’s largest lender by assets said. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China president Liu Jun said that while central bankers focused on oversight and policy, commercial lenders bore direct financial and legal liability when deploying AI at scale. “If [ICBC] deploys AI tools … towards different business lines, and all...
Two weeks out from the Midterm elections, there’s bipartisan pushback against data centers that suck the water and power out of communities. Just two years ago, ChatGPT was still a brand new thing, and AI was admired with awe by most voters. Like in 2024, the hot button issue in swing constituencies remains inflation or ‘the price of eggs’. But anxiety over the end of the month is now coupled with anxiety over the end of the world. In 2026, bots and large language models write papers and churn out campaign ads. We'll ask about calls for regulation despite fierce resistance from tech billionaires and whether the latest wobbles from the stock market signal that the race to corner the market and scale up at warp speed may be running out of road.
(Sponsored) Businesses across Latin America are using generative AI to draft marketing copy, product descriptions and customer communications. But faster publishing also raises a practical question: who checks the output before customers see it? RSM’s 2026 survey of 461 respondents, most from Latin America, found that roughly 40% of organisations were implementing AI. Only 18% […] The post AI-Generated Content Grows in Latin America: How Businesses Can Verify It appeared first on The Rio Times.
Just days after announcing his departure from Moonshot AI, teen Chinese artificial intelligence prodigy Nathan Chen Guangyu seems to have found his next destination. On Tuesday, Arfur Grok, a widely-watched anonymous social media account that tracks AI talent movements in the US, posted that the former Moonshot AI researcher was joining Discovery Loop, an AI start-up founded by four former Google senior researchers including former chief scientist Jeff Dean. Launched just two months ago, the...
Straia, a higher-education startup focused on data analytics, has raised $3.1 million from investors to help schools tackle issues like student retention.
China has set up a new state-owned enterprise dedicated to managing the country’s massive data resources, a significant move designed to turbocharge the nation’s artificial intelligence industry and bolster its digital economy. The National Data Group Co – based in China’s “city of the future”, Xiongan New Area in northern Hebei province – is tasked with “developing and utilising data resources, unlocking the value of data elements, serving AI development and fostering a data industry...
US equity futures slip, pausing an AI recovery in stocks, after South Korean data center company Elice plunged in its trading debut. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heads to Norway for fresh peace talks as tensions with the US deepens. SpaceX, Netflix, General Motors, RTX, and Northrop are set to report earnings. Jeanne Sun of Citigroup Global Markets joins "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss her outlook for this earnings season. (Source: Bloomberg)
Booming demand from AI means supply constraints are no longer limited to summer and winter.
Yuki Chen, a prolific Chinese cybersecurity researcher, has joined leading Chinese artificial intelligence model company Z.ai as the country’s AI sector grapples with the technology’s growing impact on global cyberspace. Chen’s appointment comes amid growing concern over AI-assisted cyberattacks and autonomous agents acting beyond their instructions, including recent cases involving Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings as well as US start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic. “New journey, new mission!” Chen...
Companies making power and electrical equipment to serve data centers are facing growing risks of a pricing squeeze by top artificial intelligence labs, according to analysts at Barclays Plc.
The tide is turning on neoclouds, a business segment that’s emerged over the past few years to supply the vast amounts of data center computing needed to power artificial intelligence systems.