Will Washington’s tech crackdown test fragile US-China truce?
Ahead of next month’s expected summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington, a low profile US regulatory agency has…
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Zhipu AI’s answer to Project Glasswing marks shift for Chinese cyber safety: researcher
Zhipu AI’s launch of China’s first answer to Project Glasswing signals a shift in how the country’s top artificial intelligence labs approach global cybersecurity, according…
Zhipu launches flagship model GLM-5.3 as China seeks Mythos-level edge in cyber defence
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu, also known as Z.ai, has unveiled its flagship GLM-5.3 model, saying it beat Anthropic’s frontier Mythos 5 model in a…
Launch of DeepSeek’s Harness marks its strategic pivot towards autonomous agentic AI
Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is venturing into a new battleground beyond large language models, launching a developer preview of its long-anticipated Harness – a…
DeepSeek’s updated V4 Pro AI model struggles on benchmarks, shines in cybersecurity
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has quietly released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, an updated version of its latest flagship model, leaving some developers underwhelmed by its overall capabilities…
Hong Kong student arrested over HK$3m scam deceived by same swindlers
Hong Kong police have arrested a 19-year-old university student accused of swindling more than HK$3 million from a man after apparently being hoodwinked by scammers…
US lifts TikTok ban on government devices after ByteDance restructuring
The White House has formally lifted the ban on TikTok on US government devices after the Justice Department determined that the version operated by the…
Baptist University reviews IT security after ransomware group claims breach
Baptist University has said it is reviewing the security of its information technology (IT) systems after a ransomware group claimed online to have illegally accessed…
China’s Kimi K3 AI model escapes isolated sandbox during security test: researchers
China’s top open-weight AI model Kimi K3 broke out of its isolated test environment during a cybersecurity evaluation, according to US security researchers, following similar…
US presses China over alleged scam bosses despite growing police cooperation
US President Donald Trump has personally pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping over transnational criminal organisations involved in Southeast Asia’s sprawling online scam industry, a senior…
China launches probe into Palo Alto Networks as US trade tensions intensify
Beijing has launched a cybersecurity review into products sold in China by US technology firm Palo Alto Networks, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced on…
US AI leaders turn to Chinese open-weight models, challenging closed-source safety claims
More American titans of artificial intelligence are describing Chinese open-weight models as better for AI safety and security than closed-source models, challenging the long-standing claim…