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AI News Brief: Butterfly Effect, the parent company of Manus, announced on Thursday that it has completed a fresh funding round of over $500 million after Beijing ordered the cancellation of Meta’s $20 billion acquisition bid for the AI startup. Reports indicate the deal was withdrawn in response to a demand from Beijing authorities, with Meta originally planning to gain control of Manus’s AI agent application through the acquisition, but the deal ultimately fell through…

AI news brief: Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says recent cyberattacks on several South Korean banks appear to have been carried out with the help of AI services, including Anthropic’s Claude Code and ARTEX, an open-source tool recently developed in China. See the original article for details.

AI News Flash: Samsung Electronics reported Q3 operating results with profit surging nearly 9x year-over-year, driven mainly by strong demand for advanced memory chips, a key component indispensable to AI computing. Also worth noting, Samsung has reached an agreement with its memory chip division union to allocate 10.5% of that division’s operating profit toward employee bonuses, showing that part of the windfall from this AI chip demand surge is flowing directly back to production line workers…

AI News Brief: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly backed a warning that rapid advances in AI’s math capabilities could threaten current blockchain cryptography before quantum computers ever do. Ethereum researcher Justin Drake posted on Wednesday urging the industry to prepare for ‘bunker mode,’ arguing that AI may soon be able to crack the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (…

AI news brief: this is a Nous Research news summary, unrelated to any memory system, here’s the direct translation: open-source AI agent developer Nous Research has closed a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, confirming earlier TechCrunch reporting. The round was led by Robot Ventures, with participation from Nvidia and others.

AI news flash: Shoko Chukin Bank is planning to build partnerships between Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises and US AI startups, including portfolio companies backed by Silicon Valley VC firms the bank has close ties with. This move is part of the bank’s push to expand its business scope and strengthen SME support following privatization, after recently completing its transition to private ownership and seeking to bolster its financial structure through share sales. The original summary only covers the partnership direction and background, without disclosing the specific collaboration mechanism, funding scale, or the list of startups expected to be matched — see the original article for details.

AI news brief: Anthropic has stirred backlash in Japan’s publishing industry after buying up books in bulk from Japanese distributors. The report notes that while this practice may be legal, it has reignited debate over how authors’ copyrights should be protected when their work is used for AI training. The original summary doesn’t include specifics like purchase volume, amounts, or the publishers involved — check the source link for details.

AI News Flash: According to the GitHub Blog, developers haven’t gotten careless — they’ve just been outpaced by how fast tooling has advanced, and as AI-assisted tools let developers write more code faster, the risk of secret leaks scales right along with it, which means secret protection has to grow with software output instead of staying stuck at manual-review scale.

AI news brief: Radisson Hotel Group has partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT app powered by OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips. See the original article for full details.

A College Planner feature is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help teen students manage the college application process. The update also brings several new features, including flashcards and quizzes for studying, plus a teen AI council that lets young users weigh in on product direction and how AI gets used.