Anthropic AI Talks, China's AI Plan, FortiBleed Alert

Anthropic’s International Chief says negotiations with the U.S. are "going fine" regarding the blocking of their Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models. He expects a resolution within days. Meanwhile, China has unveiled a 2 trillion yuan, five-year investment plan to build a national AI infrastructure. This plan will use Huawei Ascend chips instead of NVIDIA. OpenAI has acquired Astral and hired Noam Shazer, an architect from Google. However, several U.S. state attorneys general are investigating OpenAI over its advertising claims and handling of health data and data from minors. Fortinet users are warned about a new campaign called FortiBleed, targeting firewalls and VPN devices with stolen credentials. Over 73,000 compromised firewall URLs have been detected in 194 countries. Additionally, researchers found 15 fake JetBrains plugins stealing API keys from AI services. These were downloaded thousands of times. The bottom line is that the AI and cybersecurity landscape is rapidly evolving, impacting users and businesses worldwide.