AI dismissal ruled unlawful, TV boxes run a model, Character.ai files for bankruptcy
What happened
Three AI stories from October 19. A Beijing Chaoyang court ruled that an insurer unlawfully fired an employee for using third-party AI, since the company had not banned it and showed no leaked secrets or actual harm. Anthropic ran the Gemma4-26B-A4B model on 15 TV boxes costing about $55 each, at 0.39 tokens per second; the research has not achieved full runaway self-replication. Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy protection, with no further details on proceedings or asset sales.
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- Computing Life · Share · Yage员工用 AI 被辞退获法院支持、Anthropic 电视盒推理实验与 Character.ai 破产资产出售分析
北京朝阳法院判保险公司辞退使用第三方 AI 的员工违法，Anthropic 用电视盒合跑模型，Character.ai 申请破产保护。法院指出企业未明文禁用第三方 AI，也未举证文件涉密或实际损害；Anthropic 用 15 台约 55 美元的电视盒运行 Gemma4-26B-A4B，速度为 0.39 token/秒，研究尚未实现完整的失控自我复制。
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