Saudi Arabia, China Discuss Efforts to Boost Technological Partnership

The Saudi and Chinese delegations meet in Beijing. (SPA)
The Saudi and Chinese delegations meet in Beijing. (SPA)
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Saudi Arabia, China Discuss Efforts to Boost Technological Partnership

The Saudi and Chinese delegations meet in Beijing. (SPA)
The Saudi and Chinese delegations meet in Beijing. (SPA)

Saudi Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha met with Beijing Mayor Yin Yong to discuss developing a partnership between the Kingdom and China in technology, space and innovation.

The officials in Beijing discussed partnerships in the field of smart city technologies and efforts to develop technological competencies and facilities for Saudi entrepreneurial companies to enter the markets of Beijing, as well as the exchange of expertise in several technological areas, mainly digital entrepreneurship and legislation related to the digital economy growth.

Vice Minister of Communications and Information Technology Haytham Al-Ohali and Saudi Ambassador to China Abdulrahman Al-Harbi also attended the meeting.

Al-Swaha also met with Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang.

They discussed ways of expanding partnerships in research, development and innovation, especially in fields related to health, environmental sustainability, energy, industry and economics of the future, which is in line with the national priorities for research, development and innovation launched by the Kingdom.



OpenAI's Internal AI Details Stolen in 2023 Breach

FILE PHOTO: AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot miniature in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot miniature in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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OpenAI's Internal AI Details Stolen in 2023 Breach

FILE PHOTO: AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot miniature in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot miniature in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

A hacker gained access to the internal messaging systems at OpenAI last year and stole details about the design of the company's artificial intelligence technologies, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
The hacker lifted details from discussions in an online forum where employees talked about OpenAI's latest technologies, the report said, citing two people familiar with the incident.
However, they did not get into the systems where OpenAI, the firm behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, houses and builds its AI, the report added.
Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
OpenAI executives informed both employees at an all-hands meeting in April last year and the company's board about the breach, according to the report, but executives decided not to share the news publicly as no information about customers or partners had been stolen.
OpenAI executives did not consider the incident a national security threat, believing the hacker was a private individual with no known ties to a foreign government, the report said. The San Francisco-based company did not inform the federal law enforcement agencies about the breach, it added.
OpenAI in May said it had disrupted five covert influence operations that sought to use its AI models for "deceptive activity" across the internet, the latest to stir safety concerns about the potential misuse of the technology.
The Biden administration was poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard the US AI technology from China and Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI Models including ChatGPT, Reuters earlier reported, citing sources.
In May, 16 companies developing AI pledged at a global meeting to develop the technology safely at a time when regulators are scrambling to keep up with rapid innovation and emerging risks.