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06.02.26 - 19:18
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Mandelson lobbying firm sought work with Russia and China state companies, Epstein emails show (The Guardian)
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Peer and Benjamin Wegg-Prosser met disgraced financier before formal foundation of Global CounselBoss of lobbying firm founded with Peter Mandelson quitsPeter Mandelson's former lobbying firm sought work with companies controlled by the governments of Russia and China shortly after he left ministerial office, according to emails the disgraced former minister forwarded to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The emails show how Mandelson and Benjamin Wegg-Prosser scrambled to drum up high-paying foreign business after co-founding Global Counsel even as Mandelson remained a member of the House of Lords. Potential clients included the Russian state investment firm Rusnano and the state-owned China International Capital Corporation, the emails suggest. Continue reading......
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06.02.26 - 16:12
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Tesla launches China AI training centre as self-driving race accelerates (SCMP)
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Tesla has begun operating a China-focused artificial intelligence training centre to enhance its cars' self-driving capabilities in the world's largest electric vehicle (EV) market, following Beijing's deregulation of the technology.
Grace Tao, vice-president of Tesla, told Shanghai-based financial news outlet Cailian on Friday that the centre had sufficient computing power to support development of assisted-driving features. However, she did not disclose details such as the centre's location or......
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06.02.26 - 14:48
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China fines firms for fake ChatGPT and DeepSeek services in IP theft crackdown (SCMP)
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China's market regulator has penalised several companies for posing as DeepSeek and OpenAI's ChatGPT to defraud users, in its latest crackdown on unfair competition and intellectual property (IP) theft in the artificial intelligence sector.
The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China's market watchdog, fined Shanghai Shangyun Internet Technology 62,692.70 yuan (US$9,034) for operating a fraudulent ChatGPT service on Tencent Holdings' super app WeChat.
The service posed as the......
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06.02.26 - 13:36
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Alibaba′s bubble tea giveaway pushes Qwen past Tencent′s Yuanbao to top of China App Store (SCMP)
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Hours after Alibaba Group Holding began offering freebies including bubble tea through its artificial intelligence app Qwen on Friday, a surge in downloads pushed the chatbot past Tencent Holdings' Yuanbao to the top of China's Apple App Store, climbing from 10th place a day earlier.
More than 10 million free orders – worth 250 million yuan (US$36 million) – were placed within nine hours using vouchers capped at 25 yuan through Qwen, its team said on its official Weibo account.
The surge in......
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