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Anthropic is assembling a team to design its own custom AI chips. The maker of Claude wants to co-design hardware and software together, a move aimed at making its models run faster and cheaper. It's a familiar playbook — Apple and Google both went in-house on silicon, and the efficiency gains were significant. Anthropic is betting the same logic applies to AI inference at scale.
Across the Pacific, Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies is planning a sixth mega-fab as it chases thirty percent of the global DRAM market by two thousand thirty. Following an eight-point-six billion dollar IPO earlier this year, the company could more than double its production capacity in the coming years. The catch is access — advanced chipmaking tools remain a bottleneck, with export controls still limiting what equipment CXMT can actually get its hands on.
And in a case that raises serious questions about digital rights at the border, a man named Samuel Tunick is facing criminal charges for allegedly wiping his phone before Department of Homeland Security agents could search it. The legal theory being tested here is stark — whether refusing to hand over your device to federal authorities can itself become a crime.
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