UK court jails young hackers for massive London transport cyberattack
A UK court on Thursday jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of…
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US hardens AI stance on China as Anthropic calls for extending lead
Washington is moving to strengthen its artificial intelligence posture towards China, with lawmakers advancing new export control bills and the Trump administration deepening cooperation with…
China works on AI safety benchmark as regulators target large model risks
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has started building a safety benchmark to evaluate artificial intelligence models, as regulators in the United States…
Beyond Claude Code: the Chinese AI tools poised to benefit after back-door alert
Beijing’s recent cybersecurity warning against American artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is expected to accelerate a shift among Chinese developers towards domestic coding alternatives, according to…
Anthropic hits back after China warns of Claude Code ‘backdoor’ risks
US artificial intelligence company Anthropic said users in China being advised to uninstall its flagship Claude Code product were not supposed to be using it…
China weighs open-weight AI’s security risks against national tech innovation strategy: researchers
China is facing a delicate regulatory balancing act as it weighs the security risks of open-weight AI models against an innovation strategy that has been…
Fine firms for data breaches, Hong Kong cybersecurity experts urge
Cybersecurity experts have called on authorities to impose fines on firms that suffer data breaches after the personal information of more than 1 million people…
Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns
Alibaba Group Holding has banned its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code for work, citing security risks related to the US artificial intelligence firm’s previous…
Cyberattack on Hong Kong’s Shun Hing Group affects data of 1 million people
A cyberattack on leading Hong Kong appliance distributor Shun Hing Group has compromised the personal information of more than 1 million people, according to the…
Chinese AI model’s bug-hunting prowess narrows gap to US
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…
China warns popular phone games may provide map data to train foreign military AI models
China’s top anti-espionage agency on Monday warned gamers that a company with overseas defence ties may be obtaining geospatial data via an augmented reality game.…
‘Digital ID cards’: China moves to regulate AI agents with unified identity system
China is establishing an identity system for artificial intelligence agents, as part of new national standards released on Friday to regulate the next frontier of…