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Samsung has helped ratify a new NVMe technical standard called PCIe Exported NVM Subsystem Migration, and the timing is no coincidence. AI data centers are hungry for smarter, faster storage, and this hardware-level shift means the industry has fresh reason to keep buying premium drives rather than waiting for prices to fall.
That demand story connects to a broader question about where artificial intelligence is actually heading. George Hotz, the hacker and entrepreneur, has published a long-form essay called AI Two Thousand Forty and the Cult of Intelligence, arguing that our current obsession with scaling may be building something closer to a religion than a technology. It is early traction on Hacker News, but the argument is pointed enough to warrant attention.
And on a sobering note, the lending protocol Bonzo on the Hedera network lost roughly nine million dollars after an attacker found a verification flaw in a third-party oracle contract. It is a reminder that decentralized finance remains only as secure as its weakest dependency, and oracle exploits continue to be one of the most reliable attack surfaces in the space.
Those are today's signals worth watching. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
