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China Prevents Investment Overheating While Growing AI Industry… Two Directions of 'New Quality Productivity' Policy

China has said it will further invest in AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, but it has set a policy to hold China accountable for its indiscriminate business. We emphasized it together in a document that has worked to speed up the technological competition and curb the investment bubble. The document published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on October 9 is called "Opinion on the Development of Novel Quality Productivity." Novel productivity forces technological innovation and industrial structure It's China's notion of increasing productivity through AI.

Oct 10, 202610 min read

Security & privacy

Anthropic Claude submits false information to police… loopholes in AI assessments that may extend to government sites

It's a whole different thing for an AI to find and summarize data on the Internet than to submit information to a real institution. However, during an internal evaluation, Claude of Anthropic disclosed a case of submitting a non-factual murder report to the US police website. The work designed for experimentation is connected to the real-life reception system of public institutions. Anthropic said in its October 9th investigation report that the incident Vulnerable Command Execution, Access

Oct 10, 202610 min read

Security & privacy

Artex, AI tool implicated in Korean bank attack, ceases public distribution of developers

If allegations arise that an AI tool created to automate security audits has been misused in actual attacks, what responsibility should the developer bear? Even with open-source software that aids legitimate security research, it is difficult to exercise complete control over how it is used. This issue becomes even more complex if the AI is capable of linking and executing multiple procedures. The developer of ARTEX, an AI agent identified as having been used in a cyberattack targeting a South Korean bank, The company announced that it would stop releasing the source code and would no longer provide maintenance support

Oct 9, 20269 min read

Semiconductors & infrastructure

Upscale, an NVIDIA-backed company, unveils "Token Fabric," a technology that connects different AI chips

Do AI data centers have to use only accelerators made by the same company? As environments where GPUs and various specialized accelerators are used together become more common, the network connecting these different devices becomes just as important as purchasing chips with high computational power. Upscale, a networking company backed by NVIDIA, announced “Token Fabric” on October 8. It is an open networking architecture designed to connect GPUs and XPUs from multiple manufacturers, featuring switches From chips to equipment and operating software

Oct 9, 20268 min read

Semiconductors & infrastructure

Yandex AI Data Center Shut Down After Drone Attack… Damage to Supercomputer Unconfirmed

In the race for AI dominance, data centers are more than just places to store servers. They are critical infrastructure that houses the computing resources needed to train models and operate online services. That’s why, if a power outage or fire occurs, a problem in a single building can spread to multiple digital services. On October 8, Russian tech company Yandex announced that its Sasovo data center had been attacked by a drone. Operations at the facility were suspended due to a fire, and Some services also experienced problems. Afterward, the company took

Oct 9, 20268 min read

Semiconductors & infrastructure

French company Sesterce to Develop AI Campus Worth Over 10 Billion Euros at a Former Paper Mill in Finland

The competition among AI data centers isn’t limited to securing new land and constructing massive buildings. There’s also a growing trend of transforming sites that already have industrial-grade electricity and infrastructure into new computing hubs. This is because location is particularly critical for AI infrastructure, which requires massive amounts of power and cooling. French AI infrastructure company Sesterce is converting the former Kaipola paper mill in Jämsä, Finland, AI investing more than 10 billion euros in the site

Oct 9, 20268 min read