ChainCatcher news, according to the Korea Economic TV, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) under the Financial Services Commission of Korea held a "Anti-Money Laundering Trustee Meeting" to discuss regulatory plans against new types of money laundering methods such as virtual asset trading.The FIU will focus on cracking down on money laundering activities using virtual accounts and simple remittances, conducting special operations once a month to analyze suspicious transactions related to crimes such as voice phishing, pyramid schemes, and gambling targeting vulnerable groups. The Financial Supervisory Service stated that it will strengthen inspections of companies with insufficient implementation of anti-money laundering systems and promote cooperation between consumer protection departments and anti-money laundering departments.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Bitcoin Office of El Salvador, in line with President Bukele's economic freedom policy, the Salvadoran government has passed a groundbreaking artificial intelligence bill aimed at providing regulatory clarity and certainty for the AI industry, particularly covering the development and innovation of open-source models.This new legislative framework ensures that both proprietary and open-source AI systems receive appropriate protection, with a particular emphasis on legal safeguards for open-source development. This is the world's first national legislation that explicitly extends legal protection to open-source AI development. While proprietary models will continue to benefit from existing international protection mechanisms, this draft provides a clear legal framework for open-source AI development at the national level for the first time.Article 19 of the new bill creates the most comprehensive legal protections for AI developers in Latin America and globally, including sandbox protections and measures against third-party abuse. The bill clearly states that proprietary models will continue to benefit from existing international protections while explicitly extending legal safeguards to the field of open-source AI development for the first time.According to the bill, the Salvadoran government will establish an AI laboratory to promote the development, research, and application of AI in government agencies and services, improving citizens' quality of life through enhanced traffic flow, water quality monitoring, and optimization of geothermal resources. The laboratory will also provide resources and the latest technologies to educational groups and institutions to develop domestic engineering capabilities. El Salvador has implemented a zero-tax policy for AI innovation and development, and the passage of this bill positions the country as a forward-looking participant in the global AI landscape, placing innovation, excellence, and open-source collaboration principles at the core of its policy.

ChainCatcher news, the Hong Kong SAR government announced a funding of 1 billion HKD to establish an artificial intelligence research institute.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Information: Meta Platforms (META.O) is discussing a $200 billion artificial intelligence data center project.

ChainCatcher news, Bitget has released a research report on the profound impact of artificial intelligence in the recruitment process. By introducing AI-driven recruitment systems, Bitget has achieved automation of resume screening, precise matching of candidates to positions, and improved decision-making efficiency, significantly optimizing the recruitment process.Before the introduction of the AI system, Bitget relied on manual candidate screening and external recruitment agencies, with an average recruitment cycle lasting up to 48 days, and some technical positions taking even more than 50 days to fill. Due to the heavy reliance on third-party recruitment agencies, nearly 40% of recruitment costs were consumed by these services, while the internal HR team had to handle about 500 resumes each month.After the introduction of the AI recruitment system, Bitget's recruitment cycle was shortened by 38%, reducing from 48 days to 30 days. The efficiency of AI-driven resume screening improved by 76%, allowing the HR team to focus on screening high-potential candidates. The automated process not only reduced recruitment costs by 25% but also increased employee retention rates by 15%. More precise job matching effectively reduced the first-year turnover rate, while AI also helped decrease recruitment bias by 38%.

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, artificial intelligence startup Genspark has raised $100 million at a valuation of $530 million.

According to ChainCatcher news, as reported by Cryptoslate citing a VanEck report, Bitcoin mining companies are accelerating their transition to artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) businesses due to unstable transaction fee income.The report points out that while network congestion may lead to short-term fee increases, the rise of off-chain solutions such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), futures markets, layer two networks, and centralized exchanges creates uncertainty for long-term on-chain revenue growth.It is reported that several mining companies, including Cipher Mining, Iris Energy, Riot Platforms, and HIVE Digital Technologies, have begun to lay out related businesses.VanEck expects that Bitcoin mining companies will allocate 20-30% of their power capacity for AI and HPC businesses in the future to diversify their revenue sources.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform stating: "Coinbase is using artificial intelligence in multiple areas, including fraud prevention, customer support, risk scoring, design, and 100% of engineers have started using Cursor.But the next step is that every ticket in Jira/Linear should come with a draft PR automatically generated by AI based on the description and screenshots. We will start with the lower difficulty 'fix' type tickets and will expand to all tickets in the future."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, the "Xuhui District Business Environment Optimization Action Plan 8.0" and the new round of industrial policy system were released successively on February 14. It will focus on key areas such as cross-border investment facilitation, digital governance standardization, and internationalization of intellectual property protection, launching "ten major actions" with 34 tasks and measures. By 2025, it will lead with artificial intelligence and fully promote the vigorous development of key industries such as digital economy, life and health, cultural creativity, modern commerce, sci-tech finance, professional services, and high-end manufacturing, while actively cultivating new track industries such as low-altitude economy, blockchain, synthetic biology, and embodied intelligence, seizing the "nuclear explosion point" of industries and accelerating the growth of new quality productivity.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana ecosystem DePIN protocol io.net has announced the launch of the IO Intelligence platform, which combines Vector Database as a Service with up to five intelligent agents and 25 open-source AI models, including DeepSeek, Meta Llama, and Mistral.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, informed sources revealed that Baidu (BIDU.O) plans to release its next-generation artificial intelligence model in the second half of this year.Sources say that the "foundation model" known as Ernie 5.0 will have significant enhancements in multimodal capabilities, but did not specify its features. "Multimodal" AI can process text, video, images, and audio, and combine them together, as well as convert across categories— for example, converting text to video and vice versa. The foundation model can understand language and perform a wide range of tasks, including generating text and images, as well as communicating in natural language.Currently, Chinese companies are racing to develop innovative artificial intelligence models to compete with OpenAI and other American companies.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com News, the EU launched its artificial intelligence regulatory work on February 2, focusing on the definition of AI systems, promoting AI literacy, and banning high-risk AI practices.Institutions like the European Artificial Intelligence Board welcomed the EU AI Act, but some civil society groups believe the legislation fails to adequately protect human rights.Innovation supporters are concerned that these regulations may stifle growth, particularly for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and startups. HAL8 Chief Technology Officer Vladimir Lelicanin emphasized the need to establish regulatory sandboxes to help businesses comply without hindering innovation.

ChainCatcher news, Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha stated that Saudi Arabia will collaborate with global technology innovators to invest $14.9 billion in artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and cloud computing. These technology partners include Google Cloud, Lenovo, Alibaba Cloud, Qualcomm, Groq, and Salesforce.Ahmad Al-Khowaiter, Executive Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Saudi Aramco, added: "Our business is focused on scale. That’s why we need to collaborate; no single company can deliver on the promises of artificial intelligence. It has to be a partnership, and it must be implemented by multiple companies to deliver the technology we need."

ChainCatcher news, on the 9th local time, on the eve of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, French President Macron announced an investment of 109 billion euros in the field of artificial intelligence over the next few years.Macron expressed his hope that France could seize the opportunities brought by this new era and stated that one hundred thousand young people would be trained in this project. He emphasized that Europe should avoid the approach of regulating before innovating when facing the challenges of artificial intelligence, or it will fall off the track of innovation and lag behind in the competition in this field. The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit is scheduled to be held in Paris, France from February 9 to 12.

ChainCatcher news, according to citynews, the University of Waterloo announced that it has received a grant of 1 million USD (1.4 million CAD) from Interop Labs.This funding will help increase its research fund and establish a new artificial intelligence and blockchain research laboratory at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, which will be called the "GENESIS Lab." The lab will provide 12 PhD positions and 6 undergraduate scholarships through the student-run organization Waterloo Blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, according to AXIOS, the White House calls for public input on artificial intelligence policy.