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Odaily News: Paolo Ardoino posted on platform X that the Tether P2P team is developing a peer-to-peer search engine that can scale to thousands of nodes, achieving high availability and censorship resistance through self-organizing, fault-tolerant data structures. In the current test environment, the team has successfully distributed the full Wikipedia archive across 100 nodes and enabled search functionality.
According to Euronews, the European Commission, under the Digital Services Act (DSA), has designated ChatGPT as a "Very Large Online Search Engine" and Reddit and Roblox as "Very Large Online Platforms", with all three required to comply with the EU's strictest online safety regulations within four months (by the end of November). This designation is significant—the European Commission has determined that AI chatbots capable of real-time web content retrieval are equivalent to search engines at the regulatory level, marking the first time ChatGPT has been classified in this manner. All three platforms exceed the 45 million monthly active user threshold in the EU: ChatGPT at approximately 159 million, Reddit around 57.2 million, and Roblox roughly 48 million. Under the DSA, all three platforms must conduct annual systemic risk assessments (covering areas such as illegal content, protection of minors, mental health, fundamental rights, and election security), undergo independent audits, and provide data access to regulatory authorities. Violations can result in fines of up to 6% of global annual turnover. This brings the total number of platforms subject to the strictest DSA oversight to 28.
Odaily News: SemiAnalysis posted on X that AMD middle managers are spending the time of more than 20 engineers trying to expand their sphere of influence and secure promotions through a useless side project called the "ATOM Inference Engine," rather than allocating those resources to inference engines actually being used by real customers like Meta and xAI, such as SGLang and vLLM.SemiAnalysis said that dozens of AMD engineers, including principal engineers and AMD Fellows, have privately contacted the firm, stating that due to internal office politics at AMD and support from some middle managers, they are unable to discuss their concerns internally. Middle managers are consuming the time of more than 20 full-time engineers to develop this side project with almost no customers, and the engineers involved are all "10x engineers" who should have been dedicated to developing customer-facing inference engines like vLLM and SGLang.SemiAnalysis said that middle managers will likely respond by pointing to the only customer using the project in a production environment—Alibaba, based on Qwen—but further investigation shows that this is merely a limited deployment of ATOM by Alibaba's enterprise business unit, not the main business unit behind Qwen.SemiAnalysis stated that AMD management has diverted resources and limited internal GPU R&D clusters away from engineers supporting production-grade inference engines such as vLLM and SGLang, instead using them to expand their own influence and engage in office politics, showing a profound lack of respect for AMD engineers.
Odaily News: Sui announced on X platform that @osec_io has manually reviewed AftermathFi's perpetual contract engine, and @Certora has completed verification through mathematical methods. The two institutions reviewed the same codebase using two different approaches. The market will open tomorrow, and both audit reports will be publicly released.