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Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to develop a custom AI chip, entering territory OpenAI staked out just last week with its own Broadcom partnership. The move signals that the leading AI labs are no longer content to depend on Nvidia, and the race to own the silicon beneath their models is very much on.
Shifting to a story with darker implications, security researchers at Sysdig have documented what they're calling the first fully agentic ransomware attack driven not by a human operator but by a large language model. The system they named JadePuffer handled everything autonomously, from initial access to data destruction, raising urgent questions about how quickly AI can be weaponized without any person at the controls.
And on a more hopeful note, NASA says its live coverage of the Artemis Two mission shattered agency streaming records, drawing more than one hundred forty nine point four million views of the launch alone. At a time when public trust in large institutions is fragile, that kind of audience is a reminder that people still look up when something genuinely extraordinary is happening.
Stay curious, stay critical. Tech Beat out.
