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The American government claims that Moonshot AI illegally used Anthropic’s Fable model to develop Kimi K3 and circumvented Nvidia’s microchip restrictions. All the details.

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence bypasses controls and hacks the Hugging Face platform to “cheat” on a test, triggering alarm among experts who warn that the race for AI model advancement risks outpacing our ability to govern them.

During a cybersecurity test, two advanced OpenAI models identified and exploited a vulnerability to bypass certain restrictions and breach the systems of the Hugging Face platform. The startup describes the incident as “unprecedented,” reigniting concerns about the security of artificial intelligence.

Samsung could invest around 1 billion euros in the French startup Mistral AI, the largest generative artificial intelligence company in Europe, considered the only one capable of competing with American firms. However, the difference in approach compared to OpenAI and Anthropic is significant. Numbers, details, and context.

In the end, the pressures from the advertising industry prevailed, and the final version of the European Commission’s guidelines to help providers and developers of artificial intelligence systems comply with the transparency obligations set out in the AI Act has become more cautious compared to the initial proposals. All the details.

The establishment of the Digital Solutions Business Unit and the appointment of Fabio Momola as General Manager. Here are the latest developments in the Engineering group.

Amd is set to launch Helios, its first integrated architecture for artificial intelligence, aiming to take market share from Nvidia. Microsoft will use it for Azure, but Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle will also rely on the company’s new technology developed by Lisa Su.

After the AI-driven rally, the major memory chip manufacturers – Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron – are losing ground in the stock market. The market fears a new oversupply, but this time the semiconductor cycle could be different. However, the Chinese factor remains an unknown.

Meta is in talks with Anthropic to lease computing power from its data centers worth up to $10 billion over two years.

The startup Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, the largest Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence model that matches or surpasses top US models in many benchmarks.

Apple has obtained approval from Chinese authorities to launch Apple Intelligence in the country, a step for which partnerships with Alibaba and Baidu proved essential.

OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta have launched new, more efficient and low-cost artificial intelligence models: after the initial extravagant expenses in AI, companies are now demanding greater affordability.

AI has transformed memory chips into a crucial strategic component, establishing South Korea and its companies Samsung and SK Hynix as leaders in the global supply chain. The ISPI report.

The season of inclusion (and rights) at Meta is definitely over. Twenty-six former and current employees are denouncing the use of artificial intelligence tools in layoffs, claiming that the algorithms primarily targeted workers with protection needs, including people with disabilities, those on leave, and pregnant women. All the details.

The Chinese startup DeepSeek is now worth 50 billion dollars and establishes its founder Liang Wenfeng as the richest entrepreneur in the world among creators of artificial intelligence models, with a 78% stake that sets him apart from other key figures in major rival American companies. Facts, figures, and curiosities.

Zhilin Yang envisioned the future of Moonshot AI as a combination of OpenAI’s technological idealism and ByteDance’s corporate philosophy. Aresu’s insight

The increasing use of AI in European institutions risks impoverishing democratic debate and increasing the Union’s dependence on models developed in the United States. Excerpt from the European Morning Briefing.

Companies are digging deeper than ever into workers’ internet history, both before and after hiring. The Wall Street Journal article

Toyota will use Nvidia’s artificial intelligence technologies in its automotive plants and in its “sustainable” smart city prototype, Woven City. All the details.

Tsmc announces a new $100 billion investment in the USA aimed at the construction of four state-of-the-art manufacturing plants in Arizona.

Oracle leads the competition to provide Japan with a top-secret cloud service, essential for strengthening cybersecurity and intelligence sharing with allies against Chinese threats.

What do the two sets of binding measures for Google under the Digital Markets Act issued by the European Commission entail and aim to achieve?

New York has become the first state in the United States to ban the construction of new large-scale data centers for one year. Public discontent towards data centers is growing across the country—mainly due to rising electricity bills—and ten other states plan to impose similar bans. Numbers and details.

Revenues below expectations and shares plummeting in pre-market: AI is shifting money from software to data centers. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna admits mistakes: “we wavered” and “did not adapt” to the new technological context.

Nvidia, under pressure from the Trump administration, has cut more than half of its authorized Asian customers allowed to purchase its AI chips, introducing new controls that worsen the shortage of advanced processors in China.

The expert group established by the European Commission recommends banning access to social media, video games, and AI-based chatbots for minors under 13 years old, but doubts remain about the effectiveness of the bans, age verification, and the ability of young people to circumvent the restrictions. All the details.

Rising energy costs and geopolitical tensions are driving Western companies to turn to Chinese artificial intelligence, but Beijing is considering restricting foreign access to its most advanced models. Facts, figures, and commentary.

Meta is focusing on a proprietary microchip to reduce dependence on Nvidia. Meanwhile, TSMC says it will not be able to fulfill all orders (revenues, meanwhile, are soaring), and SK Hynix also reports a shortage of memory chips. All the details.

Palantir celebrates record successes under Trump but risks collapse due to controversies related to immigrant deportations, excessive alignment with the president’s agenda, and the increasingly polarized image of its CEO Alex Karp.

Alibaba is experiencing a comeback as a key player in AI thanks to the open-source Qwen models that dominate global rankings. However, it faces internal divisions, enormous infrastructure costs, monetization challenges, and increasing geopolitical tensions.

During a meeting with employees, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly admitted that the efforts made so far had not yielded the expected results. Even the launch of Meta Compute leaves observers perplexed.

The opportunity related to AI is not limited to the major hyperscalers: it involves a large number of global companies that help address bottlenecks in the semiconductor supply chains, data centers, and connectivity. The analysis is provided by the ClearBridge Investments team, a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments.

Hyundai presents its humanoid robots Atlas during the World Cup: it intends to produce at least 30,000 per year in the United States. It also aims to become the 100% owner of the American company Boston Dynamics, which manufactures them.

Microsoft’s disclosure offers a rare insight into the tactics used in tax havens. The New York Times article.

According to former presidential advisor Sriram Krishnan, the Trump administration rejects an overly bureaucratic approach to AI, favors light regulation to promote innovation against China, but reserves the right to intervene with targeted measures when national security is at stake.

The clash between Anthropic and the Trump administration appears to have limited effects, while OpenAI remains more exposed to political oversight. Excerpt from Liturri’s press review.

Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft, accusing Sam Altman’s company and specifically its hardware lead Tang Tan of stealing confidential technologies and components to develop their own AI devices.

The United States suspects that an ASML EUV machine has arrived in China, but the Dutch company denies it. In the background, the clash between Washington, Beijing, and Brussels over control of semiconductors is intensifying.

As accusations related to the use of language models (LLMs) shake the world of literature and media, linguists explain what truly distinguishes human writing from that generated by a machine. The Guardian article

What is happening in the European Parliament regarding the extension of Chat Control 1.0. Excerpt from the European Morning Briefing

After the agreement with Intel, Apple announced a $30 billion investment to purchase Broadcom microchips, strictly produced in the United States. Tim Cook’s company needs to maintain good relations with the Trump administration, which had threatened tariffs on iPhones.

The EU Court has no doubts: Apple is a gatekeeper for the App Store and iOS. Cupertino had tried to deny this by suggesting an interpretation that split its platforms based on the type of device used for access.

Video game massacre at Microsoft: after last year’s 9,000 layoffs, another 4,800 workers will be let go. The Xbox division is particularly affected. Two studios regain their independence, and two other teams are said to have been sold. Not even id Software and Bethesda, known for their video games that sell millions of copies, are spared from layoffs.

Brussels challenges the French law banning social media for under-15s, deeming it non-compliant with European regulations, and aims to introduce a crackdown applicable to all minors in the Union. Will it really succeed by September? Facts and comments.

ByteDance, Alibaba, and others will remove the ability to create virtual characters to converse with. The decision follows Beijing’s new regulations aimed at limiting the risks of emotional dependency and psychological involvement with artificial intelligence.

South Korea launches a nearly $600 billion plan with Samsung and SK Hynix to massively expand memory chip production, strengthening leadership in AI and redistributing economic growth towards the southwest of the country.

Submarine cables, vital arteries of global internet traffic, are being redesigned by tech giants to bypass the contested waters of Asia, such as the South China Sea and the straits, following the AI boom and rising geopolitical tensions. The Economist report.

The RAM crisis is hitting the American Apple so hard that, following the official price increases for Mac and iPad last week, Apple reportedly asked the White House to turn a blind eye to a potential Chinese chip supplier: Cxmt, which is on the Pentagon’s blacklist for being too close to the Dragon’s military apparatus.

Google has restricted Meta’s use of Gemini models due to a lack of computational capacity, revealing the severe infrastructural bottlenecks that are holding back the entire AI industry. The Financial Times article.