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Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company's Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April 14th, or it will leak the data it has stolen. In a statement provided to Kotaku, the company said that the compromised data was limited in scope and "this incident has no impact on our organization or our players." It's unclear exactly which data was compromised, but it … Read the full story at The Verge.

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China's 15th Five-Year Plan reveals a deliberate bet on small, open, and efficient AI models over the West's expensive proprietary giants. DeepSeek trained a GPT-4 rival for $6 million and released it free. Alibaba's Qwen hit 700 million downloads. Chinese models now account for nearly 30 percent of global AI usage. The strategy is not about beating the West on benchmarks. It is about becoming the default AI infrastructure for the rest of the world, and it is already working.

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

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