🔬 RESEARCH
- Slow Vale runs a persistent LLM-driven town with 800+ AI residents
Slow Vale operates an LLM-driven town with more than 800 persistent AI residents.- Slow Vale is an engineering project for building persistent multi-agent simulations.
- The Chinese server runs 800+ AI residents in one continuously operating city.
- Each character makes roughly 300–400 LLM calls daily with an average 30,000-token context.
- The system uses hosted DeepSeek Flash and relies on concurrency and context caching to manage inference costs.
⚠️ INCIDENTS & SAFETY
- South Korean banks probe suspected AI-assisted attacks exposing 65,000 records
South Korean banks were targeted in suspected AI-assisted cyberattacks exposing more than 65,000 records.- South Korean banks and other financial institutions, including Shinhan, KB Kookmin, Hana and Yegaram Savings Bank, were affected.
- Attackers reportedly used the open-source ARTEX AI penetration-testing system for automated reconnaissance, credential stuffing and vulnerability checks.
- Confirmed disclosures included about 25,000 Shinhan customers, 40,000 Yegaram customers, 119 KB Kookmin customers and 89 Hana customers.
- Authorities ordered inspections of externally accessible systems, authentication controls and incident-response coordination across financial companies.