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New technical standards identify industrial AI as national security issue

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What happened: On August 1, Chinese authorities publicly released three standards covering data security in the industrial sector. What caught our attention: The standards specify that AI-related data – including algorithms, source code, training model data, and data mining and analysis data – quali...



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