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New York Times, AFP, and others join spur to discuss AI's news usage history and licensing

As AI summarizes article content in search results, news readers can get information without visiting the original site. It's convenient for the user, but it's harder for the media company that produced the article to figure out where and how much it was used and get paid. In this situation, news of major media outlets such as The New York Times, AFP, and The Economist joining the spur coalition on October 12 (local time) It came out. spur was able to increase the use of news content by AI companies

Oct 13, 20268 min read

Security & privacy

Anthropic Reveals Claude Model Distillation Attack Defense… Reduces Inferred Data Extraction by 90-99%

It's not just user personal information that needs to be protected from AI model security. The ability of models developed at enormous cost to be replicated in large quantities with competitors' training data is also becoming increasingly important. That's why Anthropic released a defense technique to prevent Claude from extracting reasoning information. Anthropic said on October 12 (local time) that after applying several defensive measures, the reasoning tokens obtained by the attackers were about 90 to 99 percent less than before. eliminating the attack altogether.

Oct 13, 20268 min read

Semiconductors & infrastructure

Microsoft Unveils Own AI Chip Maia 300… What the 2027 Gigawatt-Level Deployment Plan Means

Model performance isn't the only thing that matters as the competition for AI services grows. How many answers you can generate at the same power and cost will also determine your profitability. There's this problem behind Microsoft's unveiling of its next-generation self-accelerator Azure Maia 300. Microsoft announced the design and system configuration of the Maia 300 on October 12 and said it will begin multi-gigawatt deployments in 2027. materialized

Oct 13, 20268 min read

AI models & services

Meta Launches Muse Wonder · Muse Wonder Full… Intensify AI Competition to Remember and Perform to the End

The competition standards of AI models are shifting from simple question responses to how long and reliably they handle actual work. Meta unveiled the new models Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12 (local time) and started offering them to developers. Both models are aimed at coding, as well as the tasks that need to be read in context, such as reviewing legal documents, understanding financial information, and organizing health-related information. Of our models

Oct 13, 20268 min read

Semiconductors & infrastructure

Third drone attack at Yandex data center in Russia… Why AI and cloud services are shaking

If you are deeply connected to a single corporate infrastructure, from search and mapping, to calling taxis, to payments, to artificial intelligence, how much impact will stopping one data center have? The question became a real issue when Russian technology company Yandex was attacked by drones in three data centers in a matter of days. On October 11, Yandex confirmed that the infrastructure of the data center in the Vladimir region had been damaged and had completely shut down. Sasovo facility completely shut down, Kaluga City

Oct 12, 202610 min read

Industry & policy

Supermicro Contractor Pleads Guilty in China Export Case for AI Server… New Phase of $2.5 Billion Case

An important change occurred as the export control of AI semiconductors in the United States led to actual court judgments. Ting-Wei 'Willy' Sun, a contractor associated with Super Micro Computer, pleaded guilty to four charges in a case involving the illegal transfer of a state-of-the-art AI server to China. Last March, when the US prosecution prosecuted Supermicro-related individuals, they were in the filing stage. This time, one of the defendants

Oct 10, 202611 min read