| By Linyi Zheng | China’s largest chipmaker, SMIC, has set up a new semiconductor production line in Shanghai. The production line aims to mass-produce chips to support Beijing’s goal of achieving chip self-sufficiency.
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| By Eliana Pisons | The EU has seen a significant surge in the adoption of AI among its firms with over a third of EU companies incorporating AI as the region works towards its digital goals.

| By Loc Le | After raising $80M in a Series B funding round, the London and Brooklyn-based voice AI startup ElevenLabs has reached a valuation of $1 billion.

| By Loc Le | Microsoft announced the company experienced a cyberattack perpetrated by the Russian-state-sponsored hacker group Midnight Blizzard.

| By Lauren LaPorta | Russian advanced persistent threat ColdRiver has expanded and evolved its phishing campaigns against Western officials and allies of Ukraine through the deployment of a new custom backdoor, Spica. Google’s Threat Analysis Group continues to protect user safety through Safe Browsing blocklists and user safety alerts.

| By Loc Le | Apple’s latest iteration of their flagship Apple Watch has been under scrutiny in the US as the tech giant found itself in a legal dispute with medical tech company Masimo.

| By Loc Le | Microsoft and OpenAI were hit with a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, claiming Microsoft and OpenAI “simply stole” their copyrighted works and used them to train AI models such as ChatGPT.

| By Linyi Zheng | Surging EV demand sent auto exports from China beyond levels seen before the pandemic. In the first half of 2023, China’s automobile exports were 2.34M units, up 76.9% year-on-year.

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