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LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on Wednesday to allege that a Chinese organization was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf of Beijing’s state security service. In its “Espionage Alert,” MI5 said more than 100 U.K.-based academics had contributed to projects funded by the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI), which had “very strong ties” to the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), Beijing’s civilian intelligence service. “MI5 has identified that the primary purpose of CGTRI is to fund academic research that directly improves MSS technical capability for espionage,”…
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