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AI News Brief: Samsung and SK Hynix keep posting record profits riding the AI boom, and South Korea’s government is reinvesting the tax windfall from these two chip giants to strengthen the domestic industrial base. The report notes Samsung Electronics is speeding up construction of a new fab near Seoul to meet surging demand for AI chips, while SK Hynix is likewise racking up record revenue and profit on AI-driven demand. South Korea’s government is channeling the sharp jump in tax revenue from these chip giants into…

AI News Brief: OpenAI recently disclosed and disrupted two ‘influence operations’ that used AI technology, involving the creation of fake front identities—including fake accounts posing as journalists, and setting up a think tank that was actually a front—to spread messaging and narratives pushing specific geopolitical positions. Through detection and analysis, OpenAI identified and cut off the accounts and activity chains behind these operations.

AI news brief: Pollo AI has launched a new generation of AI creation tools, integrating three model technologies, GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-Image-2.5, to help creators turn ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads. By combining these models, users can input text descriptions or concepts and the system generates richly detailed static visuals, which can then be extended into short video ad content with cinematic pacing and texture.

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 Reports indicate the deal was withdrawn in response to a demand from Beijing authorities, with Meta originally planning to gain control of Manus’s AI agent application through the acquisition, but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 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 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 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.

AI news brief: Musubi announced on Tuesday the release of PolicyLM-1.7B, a lightweight decision model built for real-time content moderation, released as open weights. The model’s core mechanism applies content policies written in plain English directly to messages for judgment, processing in under 50 milliseconds. Its cost and speed are designed to be comparable to the AI classification systems most social platforms currently use for content moderation, but it also carries the flexibility of a modern LLM…