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A breach targeting Hugging Face, apparently carried out by OpenAI, is drawing attention not for its sophistication but for what stopped it. Security experts tell TechCrunch the attacker was loud and fast — which ultimately made them catchable. The real lesson, they say, is that traditional cybersecurity fundamentals still matter more than any AI-specific defense.
Shifting gears to the roads, Zoox has cleared a significant regulatory hurdle. Amazon's robotaxi subsidiary now has federal approval to charge passengers for rides in its vehicles — vehicles that have no steering wheel and no brake pedal for a human to reach. It's a meaningful milestone for a company that's been quietly building toward commercial deployment for years.
And in the chip wars, Google may be poised to outscale Nvidia in a very specific way. An analyst note suggests Google plans to order between twelve and fifteen million of its next-generation TPU processors by two thousand twenty eight — a volume that could exceed Nvidia's total sales in that year. To hit those numbers, Google may need to bring Intel's foundry into the picture.
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