The British data center project Stargate UK, touted with investments of up to 20 billion British pounds, was apparently nothing more than a PR stunt. According to Heise, neither OpenAI nor data center operator Nscale ever visited the intended site. Only a delegation from Nvidia inspected the premises. The project aimed to train and operate large AI models in a domestically owned data center.
On WhatsApp, the recently introduced username feature is raising security concerns. Experts warn that criminals could use the names of well-known individuals for fraud attempts. Meta stated that usernames of prominent figures are already reserved and protected. However, it emerged that the founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange found his X-registered username had already been reserved by someone else.
In China, Alibaba has banned its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude AI model. The reason is an alleged hidden function in Claude’s source code that allows Anthropic to detect access from China. Anthropic itself already prohibits the use of its models in China, but Chinese companies found ways to use the models undetected.
Source: www.heise.de
