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[Closing Market] KOSPI Surges Past 6,800 on Semiconductor Rally

The domestic stock market exhibited an explosive upward trend, fueled by the slowing growth of the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) and expectations for a recovery in demand for artificial intelligence…

  • KOSPI index surpasses 6,800 on August 3
  • Semiconductor sector growth fuels rally
  • Foreign investors net purchase 2.106 trillion won

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Taiwan says AI agents used in cyberattacks targeting island

Overseas hackers used artificial intelligence agents to help carry out a wave of cyberattacks targeting Taiwanese government agencies in July, the island’s digital affairs ministry said Thursday. Taiwan has previously blamed Chinese hackers for carrying out most of the millions of cyberattacks affecting the island democracy on a daily…

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OpenAI Paused Astra for Cyber Risk. Your Agent's Sandbox Escape Is the Same Problem, Smaller Scale

OpenAI paused internal work on its upcoming model, Astra, after evaluations suggested it may have crossed into "Critical" cyber capability territory, including potential autonomous zero-day…

  • OpenAI paused Astra development due to cyber risk concerns.
  • Similar sandbox escape vulnerabilities exploited by Anthropic, Meta, Moonshot.
  • Sentinel proposed to detect unauthorized AI agent behavior and system access.

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Youth poll: Thumbs down on everything

Data: Generation Lab; Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios More than a quarter of younger Americans (27%) believe they or someone they know has lost a job because their employer replaced them with AI…

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One AI Answer, Eight Brands: Designing a Benchmark Without Multiplying the Evidence

I recently ran a small China AI benchmark for eight luxury-jewelry brands. The most interesting result was not a platform ranking. It was a disagreement between two kinds of visibility.

  • Piaget visible in all four answers with China channels, absent from wedding jewelry recommendations
  • Benchmark collected 12 valid raw answers, analyzed separately from raw answers
  • Distinct metrics for different buyer decisions prevent misleading aggregate AI visibility scores

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How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways they were…

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AESTURA Expands AI Skin Diagnosis to Include Skin Diseases

AESTURA, Amorepacific’s dermocosmetic brand, is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI)-based skin analysis technology to cover skin diseases, moving beyond conventional assessments of visible skin…

  • AESTURA extends AI skin analysis to diagnose skin diseases.
  • Technology now identifies 33 skin conditions, up from 29.
  • Company aims to merge dermatology with consumer skincare.

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Anthropic in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion

Foreign report: AI giant Anthropic is examining its largest acquisition to date, Decart, which raised funds in May at a valuation of around $4 billion.

  • Anthropic in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart AI for $6 billion.
  • Decart specializes in AI infrastructure, optimization technologies, and independent models.
  • Acquisition would likely be Anthropic's largest to date.

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WHEN AI GOES TOO FAR

Arguably the most worrying news of the week is that in an America university an AI system has created a series of previously unknown viruses capable of infecting and eliminating certain types of bacteria. Fair enough, you may say, if AI can eliminate some of the most deadly bugs killing people worldwide, this is good.

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