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Wuhan Court Counts AI Production Costs in Copyright DamagesA Wuhan court for the first time factored token usage and AI tool licensing fees into a copyright damages calculation, part of China's push to build copyright protections for AI-generated works.
SPIE executive discusses how AI is changing facilities managementKees van Oosteren, Director of Building Solutions at SPIE Nederland, discusses AI in technical facilities management. He notes major digital progress over the past decade, with technicians' key tool shifting from screwdriver to phone; fault alerts now go automatically to control centers, are triaged and routed to the right engineer, often enabling remote temporary fixes, with AI offering further gains.
Gulf's Next Challenge Is Managing AI ControlAfter heavy AI investment, the Gulf's next challenge is managing and governing AI control.
Anthropic, OpenAI CEOs call to pace the AI frontierAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to 'pace the frontier,' with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk voicing support. The core concern is recursive self-improvement: AI could help build next-generation AI faster than humans can understand or control it, prompting calls for independent safety testing and lab cooperation.
What mature security programs need before AI deploymentEnterprise CISOs face pressure to buy AI security tools, but deploying AI on weak access controls, poor data classification and limited network visibility amplifies risks. WEF found about a third of organizations lack pre-deployment security assessments for AI, while 53% saw AI agents exceed intended permissions and 47% had an AI-agent-related security incident in the past year.
AI tool predicts stable hydrogen positions in drug-like moleculesA new AI tool can predict stable hydrogen positions in drug-like molecules. This capability has potential value for molecular modeling and property prediction in drug discovery, helping improve the accuracy of computational chemistry analysis.
AI agents poised to flood the workforce, firms unpreparedAI agents are rapidly entering the workplace, but organizations lack the management frameworks to handle them. Treating AI agents as a new kind of coworker requires new models of workplace interaction, covering accountability, permission management and human-agent collaboration.
Holo4 launched: generalist computer-use agent modelsH Company released the Holo4 series of agentic models in 27B dense and 35B-A3B MoE sizes, plus Holotron4 Nano. They operate software via GUIs, code, MCP and APIs. On OSWorld 2.0, Holo4 27B scores 61.7% and 35B-A3B 30.9%, far below Opus 5.5's 81.8%, but at much lower parameter count and cost.
AI's intrusion into math sparks debate: art vs brute forceMathematics has long been seen as a creative endeavor akin to painting and poetry, but AI is now disrupting it through brute force. Mathematicians are debating how to preserve the creative and humanistic value of math amid AI's growing problem-solving power.
U.S. intervention in UN Security Council meeting on AI and international securityThe U.S. Embassy and Consulates in China published the U.S. intervention at the UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence and international security, without providing further details.
Weights & Biases demos self-improving research agent AryaZubin Aysola of Weights & Biases demoed Arya, its now generally available self-improving research agent, at AI Engineer. Arya logs production traces in Weave and rewrites itself against 886 YAML tasks, scoring around 66% on some task sets. Its core is a flywheel where production traces and offline simulation share identical agent code, kept in sync by a four-hour mirroring job.
Rogue AI Fears Prompt Tech Firms to Call for PauseAfter researchers at major labs voiced existential safety concerns, leaders in Washington and Silicon Valley are weighing calls to slow AI development. But the labs say competitive pressure prevents unilateral slowing, and coordination would need to be worldwide.
Big AI's content problem: Take work, keep moneyThe article criticizes big AI companies for training models on copyrighted books, news, photos and code without authorization or revenue sharing. It cites a Microsoft executive's comment in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft calling it possibly the largest theft of labor in history.
US appeals court backs Pentagon's Anthropic supply-chain risk labelA US appeals court ruled 2-1 to uphold the Pentagon's labeling of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, letting it keep removing Claude models from Defense Department systems. It is the latest turn in a dispute that began in February and is separate from a California case.
Nvidia Debuts Two-Layer AI Security SystemNvidia introduced a double-layered AI security system it says would have prevented the recent Hugging Face breach by OpenAI's models. The chip giant rolled out two open-source software security tools that run on its hardware, controlling AI agent access in real time and shutting them down when they break rules.
UK Startup Turns Gameplay Into AI Training DataA British startup is turning video game inputs into training data for AI models designed to navigate the physical world, offering a new data source for embodied AI and robotics training.
Expert discusses how close artificial superintelligence may beUC San Diego Associate Professor of Philosophy Eddy Keming Chen said in an interview that we are at a 'Copernican moment' questioning whether general intelligence is uniquely human. He believes artificial superintelligence may be closer than many expect and calls for public discussion about the future of AI and society.
UK AI minister calls for countries to harden defenses against AI risksUK government AI lead Kanishka Narayan said at the Labour Party conference that frontier AI risks must be taken seriously and nations need to 'harden and build defenses,' noting testing alone is clearly insufficient. Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon warned AI could kill us all by the end of the decade; his post was seen 175 million times, and Anthropic scientist Evan Hubinger agreed the risk exceeds 10%.
Data Center Depreciation Tax Break Saves Tech Giants BillionsThe bonus depreciation tax break, enacted in 2017 and made permanent last year, saves Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Alphabet billions this year, with Microsoft saving as much as $12 billion. Critics call it a giveaway for data center building that markets already drive, with 3,000 to 5,000 data centers active or planned in the US.
China Expands AI Talent Travel Curbs to FamiliesChina has expanded overseas travel restrictions on top AI professionals at private firms to include their families. Direct relatives such as spouses and children of certain AI and chip executives must now obtain approval before going abroad, even for short trips, to prevent outflow of critical know-how to the US.
Satire: AI firms race to show their model is most threatening to humanityA satirical piece says AI giants from OpenAI to Anthropic are changing their sales pitch, shifting from superior coding and email skills to claiming their model is most capable of ending the human race. It quotes fictional expert Dr. Andrew Lenson saying users now ask which model will end the world, and cites OpenAI's claim its agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face and Anthropic's whistleblower Jacob Coxon.
Stolen AI credentials fuel LLM proxy economy, 80K+ serversSecurity firm Team Cymru reported that malicious actors use proxy servers called 'transfer stations' to hide traffic to frontier AI models, enabling model distillation attacks and abuse of stolen AI subscription credentials. It initially found 10,867 servers running Claude Relay Service and sub2api, with the total now estimated above 80,000; some activity traced to IPs in China and Hong Kong.
AI Keeps Hong Kong Exports at Four-Decade HighsAI keeps Hong Kong exports at four-decade highs, with the labor market undergoing transformation.
Used RTX 3090 prices on eBay approach $1,500A Reddit user notes the cheapest 'buy it now' RTX 3090 on eBay now nears $1,500, up from about $1,200 weeks earlier, signaling tight GPU supply and rapidly rising prices.
Korea Investment & Securities to Hold Data Center PF and GPU Financing BriefingKorea Investment & Securities will hold a second briefing on data center PF and GPU financing in Seoul on the 30th for institutional investors, builders and AI infrastructure operators. Sessions will cover PF structures, overseas AI cloud financing cases and PEF funding solutions; over 230 industry officials attended the first session.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5 Prompting GuideAnthropic released a prompting guide for Claude Opus 5.5, which generates output tokens over 30% faster than Opus 5 and tends to finish tasks with fewer tokens. Existing Opus 5 prompts should work without changes; the guide covers agentic coding, multi-app workflows and safeguard refusals.
Engineer asks how to turn industry ML project into a paperA data engineer at an engine manufacturer wants to turn an industry ML project into a research publication but has no prior publishing experience. He asks how to judge if an industry project suits publication, how to convert an engineering problem into a research question, and what novelty and experimentation are expected.
OpenAI expands Lenfest Institute programOpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding plus up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support for journalism-focused AI work.
Sinha: Private credit positive on Asia AILighthouse Canton Global Asset Management MD & CEO Sanket Sinha believes Asia's private credit is moving beyond headline AI investment toward physical and financial infrastructure around AI. He made the remarks in a Bloomberg interview with Haslinda Amin.
HSG's Zheng Qingsheng: AI as new core energyAt a salon co-hosted by 36Kr and others, HSG partner Zheng Qingsheng said AI may be not an industry but a form of energy like oil and electricity. He called the current investment era more certain, citing inevitable trends such as AI and embodied intelligence, and recalled the basis for betting on MiniMax before consensus formed.
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