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29.06.26 - 11:06
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Chinese AI model′s bug-hunting prowess narrows gap to US (SCMP)
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A Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) model whose launch has been hailed as another “DeepSeek moment” can go toe-to-toe with US rival Anthropic's powerful Mythos model on cybersecurity tasks, researchers have said.
Beijing-based start-up Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2, released on June 13, beat Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model in benchmarking tests by cybersecurity company Semgrep, The Wall Street Journal reported. When Semgrep researchers gave it further instructions, GLM-5.2 matched that model and......
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29.06.26 - 11:00
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British American Tobacco to slash 9,000 jobs as it turns to AI (The Guardian)
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Dunhill maker to cut about a fifth of workforce, aiming to reduce costs and become more 'technology enabled'Business live – latest updatesBritish American Tobacco (BAT) will cut about a fifth of its 47,000-strong workforce this year, as the cigarette-maker looks for ways to push down costs and become more “technology enabled”.BAT, which is one of the biggest tobacco groups in the world, has announced it will cut 5,500 jobs by the end of the year and outsource a further 3,500, affecting a total of 9,000 employees. Continue reading......
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29.06.26 - 10:42
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Baidu′s CFO on How It Became a Full-Stack AI Player | Odd Lots (Bloomberg)
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In the China tech space, Baidu is now a full-stack player in the AI industry. The company makes its own chips, has its own AI models (Ernie), its own cloud system, and it's integrating AI into its self-driving car business, Apollo Go. But before all this, Baidu was known for being China's leader in search. Things, obviously, have changed a lot since the company was founded in the late 1990s. In today's episode, we speak with Baidu CFO Henry He about the company's AI ambitions. He talks to us about maximizing token spend, how Chinese tech firms are thinking about safety and alignment, the global robotaxi competition, and how the core search business fits into the company now. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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29.06.26 - 10:18
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South Korea′s Massive AI Investment Push (Bloomberg)
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South Korea is launching a 1,350 trillion won ($880 billion) plan in corporate investments to build out critical AI infrastructure and cement its global dominance in the semiconductor market. President Lee Jae Myung called the sweeping mega-project a "national survival strategy" for the AI era. Bloomberg's Avril Hong breaks down the press conference, where President Lee was joined by the CEOs of tech giants Samsung and SK Hynix to outline the multi-year roadmap. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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