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Meta has fired long-term infrastructure head Santosh Janardhan

Meta informed TechCrunch that Santosh Janardhan, the company's long-term infrastructure head, will be leaving, to be replaced by Dave Brown, who joined Meta as an infrastructure vice president this year. Janardhan had originally planned to leave next year and will take on an advisory role at Meta Compute. Meta did not specify the reason for Janardhan's departure.

British AI chip startup Fractile raises $720 million in C round funding

British AI chip startup Fractile raised $720 million in Series C funding from Sovereign AI Fund, among others, with a valuation potentially reaching $7 billion. The company plans to launch its first chip and system next year, with its full-stack solution including a machine learning compiler to accelerate LLM execution.

TSMC plans to invest $1 billion in Anthropic and OpenAI

TSMC's board approved an investment of up to $500 million in OpenAI preferred stock and Anthropic common stock, which will purchase at the expected IPO price. This move will inject confidence into the market, but analysts warn that the circular financing between investors, suppliers, and customers makes it difficult to assess the true market demand for AI hardware and services.

Claroc claims over 35,000 Grok generative applications can be accessed without login, including patient data and plaintext passwords

Security company Claroc reported that out of 37,571 Grok-generated applications still online, 35,578 (94.7%) were accessible without login. The leaked content included ICU patient lab values, a list of over 3,500 employees from a hospital group, and 18 sets of plaintext account passwords from a time-tracking application source code; another 24 applications from SpaceXSI and X employees exposed internal sales area maps and advertising proposals.

US data brokers sold a $500 million reinforcement learning training environment to Chinese AI labs.

A U.S. data company sold approximately 500 million U.S. dollars' worth of training data to a Chinese AI laboratory, including reinforcement learning environments, helping them save costs on model development. The Chinese laboratory purchased products that had previously been sold to Anthropic or OpenAI to bypass expensive internal development. Due to memory bottlenecks in Chinese chips, these savings are particularly valuable, and by using the output of U.S. models such as GPT or Claude as training examples, the Chinese laboratory can narrow the gap with fewer computing resources.

Grok Build has a security vulnerability that exposes SpaceXSI sensitive data

Cybersecurity company Claroc discovered a security vulnerability in Grok Build, an AI programming tool under SpaceXSI, leading to the leakage of sensitive data of thousands of users, including SpaceXSI's own data. Application sharing links generated by Grok, with identifiers located in the domain name, can be publicly retrieved through passive DNS services, causing information leaks from institutions such as hospitals and fire departments, where only one application was password-protected. SpaceXSI later removed 24 applications exposing internal data but did not handle other publicly accessible applications.

UK regulators threaten universities with sanctions if they do not adopt anti-AI exam formats

The UK higher education regulator Office for Students (OfS) has said AI makes fair marking of student course work 'almost impossible', urging universities to return to traditional exams and face-to-face presentations.

US data company sells data worth about $500 million to Chinese AI labs, including reinforcement learning environments to help improve model performance in specific fields.

US data company sold about $500 million data to Chinese AI labs, including reinforcement learning environments to help improve model performance in fields such as coding, networking, finance, law, and biology. These environments simulate the world to allow models to train repeatedly and use scoring standards to optimize output. Chinese labs can save over 70% of inference computing costs annually by purchasing the same RL environments as US companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.

OpenAI acquires AI travel service provider Odessia

OpenAI has acquired the AI travel planning platform Odessia. Odessia founder Francis Davidson will join OpenAI, responsible for the direction of 'The Future of Travel'.

NVIDIA crisis has drawn attention from corporate governance experts.

NVIDIA's stock price has fallen by nearly 10% for two consecutive days, despite the company not releasing major news. After CEO Huang Renxun admitted to an extramarital affair, the board has hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz law firm to conduct an internal investigation.

New York implements AI regulation, requiring OpenAI and Anthropic to report safety incidents within 72 hours.

UK regulator says AI makes it almost impossible for teachers to judge whether course assignments reflect students' true level

The Student Affairs Office of the Higher Education Supervision Agency in England investigates that the widespread use of AI makes it almost impossible for university teachers to judge the authenticity of student assignments, and universities should adopt traditional exams and on-site presentations as assessment methods. It is common for students to use AI to complete assignments, with some students admitting that they used ChatGPT to write papers without being detected, and teachers report that assignments are highly similar and current assessment methods are ineffective.

Anthropic's underwriters are considering raising the IPO offering price, with the valuation potentially exceeding $1.5 trillion

Anthropic's underwriters are considering raising the IPO offering price to a range above $70 to $78 per share, with a target valuation potentially exceeding 1.5 trillion dollars. The company plans to go public next week, raising up to $64 billion, with strategic partners investing $26 billion.