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• Chinese AI Chipmaker Biren Targets $623M Hong Kong IPO

  23-12-2025 18:16 via eweek.com
  Shanghai-based Biren Technology is planning to raise up to $623 million through an initial public offering in Hong Kong. The company is offering 247.7 million shares priced between HK$17 and HK$19.60, with trading expected to begin on Jan. 2.If successful, the deal will mark the first new stock listing of 2026 in Hong Kong, setting an early tone for what analysts expect to be another busy year for technology offerings in the city.Founded in 2019, Biren focuses on graphics processing units used i
  
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• OpenAI Steps Up Security as ChatGPT Atlas Faces Ongoing Prompt Injection Threats

  23-12-2025 17:33 via eweek.com
  OpenAI is tightening the screws on ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered browser agent, as the company warns that prompt injection attacks remain a persistent threat that is unlikely to disappear soon.In a detailed security disclosure published this week, OpenAI explained that it has rolled out a new security update to Atlas’ browser agent after uncovering a new class of prompt injection attacks through internal testing. The update includes a new adversarially trained model and stronger syste
  
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• Alphabet Expands AI Infrastructure Push With $4.75B Intersect Deal

  23-12-2025 17:23 via eweek.com
  Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has agreed to acquire energy and data center infrastructure firm Intersect in a $4.75 billion cash deal, deepening its push to secure power for the next wave of AI growth.The acquisition is designed to accelerate the buildout of data centers and on-site power generation, bringing Intersect’s multi-gigawatt energy projects and infrastructure expertise closer to Google’s expanding AI operations.What Alphabet is buying — and what’s st
  
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• US Department of War Expands GenAI.mil Platform With xAI Partnership

  23-12-2025 16:59 via eweek.com
  The US Department of War has entered into an agreement with xAI, bringing the company’s frontier-grade AI systems to GenAI.mil, the department’s newly launched internal AI platform.The move expands the War Department’s growing AI ecosystem, which is being rolled out across its roughly three million military and civilian personnel. According to the department, xAI’s tools will be added alongside other already-deployed systems, further embedding generative AI into dail
  
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• Chinese AI Startup Z.ai Takes On OpenAI Via Cheaper Prices

  23-12-2025 14:16 via eweek.com
  A Chinese AI startup might have tempted developers around the world to test their latest creation.
  Z.ai has released GLM-4.7, which is a massive 358-billion parameter beast that’s claiming to deliver GPT-4-level performance while slashing costs by up to 80%. It looks like a good move as AI expenses continue crushing developer budgets worldwide.
  The model packs a sophisticated Mixture-of-Experts architecture with an enormous 200,000-token context window, meaning it can analyze entire codeba
  
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• OpenAI Debuts Personalized Year-in-Review ChatGPT Experience for Users

  23-12-2025 12:24 via eweek.com
  OpenAI has potentially unveiled its most shareable feature yet.
  The company dropped “Your Year with ChatGPT” — a personalized year-end recap that mirrors Spotify Wrapped’s addictive format, complete with colorful graphics and revealing insights about how people actually use AI.
  Social media is already exploding with users sharing their surprisingly personal AI habits. The timing couldn’t be more perfect — with 2025 fading from view, this new feature analyzes y
  
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