How one hacker used AI agents and a few thousand dollars to break into scores of sitesA cybersecurity researcher observed a Chinese-speaking hacker employing AI to compromise various companies' websites. The hacker utilised a...
DeepSeek pushes out updated AI model it says is faster, leanerThe firm unveiled the V4.1-Flash-1017 late Saturday afternoon with a series of posts on X saying the update had “stronger benchmark perform...
Meta’s Muse Spark Open is free to download, but comes with strings attachedThe main commercial restriction applies to companies that offer AI models as a service, giving customers model outputs through an applicati...
Researchers find 'Chinese fleet' of rogue AI probing AlibabaMore than a dozen agents suspected to be Chinese models operating on Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s cloud services attempted to access Alibaba Gro...
Moonshot execs in talks to settle dispute with shareholder ahead of planned IPO, people sayMoonshot, a Chinese AI startup, is currently in discussions with Recurrent.ai amidst a backdrop of legal challenges concerning alleged misc...
China AI developers publish safety tests for just 3.6% of model releases, report findsOnly a fraction of the 857 AI models released by Chinese companies have undergone safety testing, with merely 3.6% revealing published eval...
Chinese developer makes ARTEX AI agent closed-source after Korean bank hackThe Chinese developer of ARTEX said they have converted the AI agent to a closed-source project after cybersecurity firms identified it as ...
Nvidia-backed Reflection unveils first AI model to take on Chinese open modelsNvidia-backed Reflection AI debuted its first open-weight model named Beam on Monday, as the startup aims to compete with lower-cost Chines...
The only billionaires making money this year are in techThe roughly 100 technology fortunes among the world’s 500 richest people gained a combined $845 billion through Sept. 30, the most ever for...
Trump has just fired the starting gun on a new Cold War with ChinaThe US-China AI race is increasingly taking on the character of a Cold War-style strategic contest, with artificial intelligence becoming l...
Leading Democrat asks AI firms for data on any Chinese access to sensitive codeOpenAI and Anthropic have reported multiple instances of Chinese AI firms like Moonshot or DeepSeek "distilling" their AI models, or traini...
China's AI agents can lie and scheme - just like their US rivalsReuters examined more than 200 documents, ranging from university research papers to technical reports, and identified at least 20 studies ...
Beijing widens travel curbs to kin of top chip, AI talentGovernment agencies have recently begun to share the wider restrictions with affected people, which include prominent startup founders as w...
AI startup Black Forest Labs urges optimism from Europe despite safety fearsEurope needs to view artificial intelligence with more optimism -- despite growing warnings about its dangers -- or risk falling further be...
China's DeepSeek annualised revenue run rate hits $1 billion: ReportThe figure underscores the rapid growth of the AI company that shook the tech industry last year after its models challenged US assumptions...
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI this week, sources sayThe 15-member Security Council is set to meet on Wednesday to discuss AI and international security, weeks after several AI industry leader...
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI this week, sources sayThe Chinese AI startup will brief diplomats alongside representatives from OpenAI and Anthropic, as the UN Security Council weighs the risk...