AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via ‘clean’ GitHub repositories — Mozilla’s 0din team shows how Claude Code can be exploited by its own helpfulness

Claude and other AI agents fooled into running malware with just a minimal GitHub repository — ask the bot to initialize the project and you get hacked

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Apple reportedly lobbies Uncle Sam for access to Chinese memory chips — tech giant allegedly wants to buy from blacklisted CXMT
 Apple reportedly lobbies Uncle Sam for access to Chinese memory chips — tech giant allegedly wants to buy from blacklisted CXMT

Following a historic price hike, the Financial Times reports that Apple is lobbying in Washington to secure approval to buy cheaper RAM from CXMT. The manufacturer is currently designated as a Chinese military company, but is not entirely banned by the White House.

Onsemi buying cash-strapped Synaptics in $7 billion all-stock deal — smart power meets edge AI hardware

Onsemi and Synaptics to merge in a bid to build comprehensive platforms for robotics, physical AI applications.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5.6 gets the same banhammer treatment as Anthropic’s Mythos from the federal government — source says that Washington cautioned OpenAI against releasing the model without receiving approval

The U.S. government wants dibs on U.S. AI labs’ most powerful models, asking for access 30 days before they go public. OpenAI is voluntarily complying with the President’s executive order but wants ‘to achieve a more sustainable approach for future releases.’

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Apple will skip its high-end M6 Mac chips and fast-track an AI-focused M7 generation for 2027, report claims — may release a base M6 chip for entry-level Macs this year

Apple will release a base M6 chip for entry-level Macs this year but skip the Pro and Max versions of that generation, jumping instead to an accelerated M7 family.

IBM goes sub-1nm, develops 0.7nm-class technology — offering up to 50% higher performance and 70% higher energy efficiency compared to IBM’s 2nm-class node
 IBM goes sub-1nm, develops 0.7nm-class technology — offering up to 50% higher performance and 70% higher energy efficiency compared to IBM’s 2nm-class node

IBM’s new 0.7nm-class fabrication process uses nanostack transistors, requires 2x more FEOL steps for massive improvements in performance, power, and area.

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Epic boss Tim Sweeney blasts Steam for putting AI tags on games — says move is ‘irresponsible of Valve’

The Epic executive said in an interview after unveiling Unreal Engine 6 that AI tools help make developers far more productive. Putting the AI tag on games discourage their use, especially as titles with this label gets fewer reviews and tend to have more negative reviews, as well.

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The AI tokenmaxxing party is crashing over spiraling costs — leaked consulting firm audio suggests no one is sure how to measure AI effectiveness

A recording from a meeting at consulting firm Accenture has raised concerns over how much companies are spending on AI. As companies bullish on AI rush to take advantage of the technology, solutions to out of control token spend could see non-technical employees encouraged to stop using it for spurious tasks.

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Anthropic claims that China’s Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly ‘distill’ its Claude model — violations occurred from April to June 2026

AI tech giant Alibaba, often considered as the Amazon of China, is being accused by Anthropic for using Claude to train its AI models. The American AI startup claimed that it traced over 25,000 accounts to operators that were affiliated with Alibaba and Alibaba Qwen.

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Qualcomm plans China-specific data center chips — new Dragonfly lineup will include nerfed AI accelerators that comply with export thresholds

Qualcomm has announced that it will bring all four of its Dragonfly data center product lines to China.