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"Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool..."

"Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands"

"Loop has developed a family of artificial intelligence models, DUX, that can spot inaccurate supply chain invoices."

""Our historic data center build-out is on schedule and we will accelerate from here," OpenAI told the publication."

"The rise of Agents is the most profound transformation in the structure of compute demand... their normal state is continuous operation, involving multi-step reasoning, information retrieval, code execution, and result iteration."

"In order to solve these issues, Kohnan built a data platform centered on Google Cloud's data warehouse BigQuery and AI agent development platform Vertex AI Agent Builder."

"Robust financial performance and strong growth expectations from ASML and TSMC this week boosted sentiment across the tech industry, lifting stock prices and market capitalizations throughout the AI supply chain."

"By writing security rules in CLAUDE.md, even if a human accidentally presses Yes, Claude itself will reject dangerous patterns."

"This incident is like 'the airline mistakenly uploading the baggage inspection manual PDF to the public passenger Wi-Fi portal, and criminals using that manual to create fake baggage that slips through the inspection.'"

"During the scanner's testing, we found cases in AI-generated projects where more than 20 packages were imported that the developers themselves didn't even know existed."

"However, during this '3 hours', CI/CD pipelines with automatic update settings and AI agents seeking the latest tools (such as Claude Code) sequentially absorbed the poisoned packages, and the damage expanded instantaneously."

"Palliser suggested that Ajinomoto raise the price of its ABF product by more than 30 percent, pointing out that compared to its client companies, Ajinomoto's valuation in the capital markets still has a significant discount."

"OpenAI clearly stated that currently there are no actual cases of hackers using stolen certificates to publish fake apps, nor is there any evidence that users' personal data, the company's intellectual property, or internal core systems have been compromised."

"When a toilet company has become an AI concept stock, it shows just how hot the current AI storage track is... The global storage chip industry is experiencing its most severe supply-demand imbalance in forty years."

"OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised"

"This means that the greatest risk facing the artificial intelligence boom is not power shortages or declining demand, but rather the fundamental inability to mass-produce semiconductor chips."

"Samsung plans to invest $4B to construct a chip packaging facility in Vietnam's Thai Nguyen province to support AI demand; sources say the first phase costs $2B."

"The thing that stuck with me is it doesn't ask what things are. It drops you into a broken production system and asks what you'd fix. That's a completely different kind of test. And honestly a better one."

"Any future major AI development would be done under the umbrella of UN oversight, and would be studied and run in a high security sandbox for a long time before being released to the public."

"Semiconductor production = entire backbone of AI data centres."

"Agentic AI refers to autonomous AI agents that can perceive, decide, and act across supply chain workflows without constant human intervention."

"It is expected that total memory demand in the AI accelerator sector will surge 625 times by 2028 compared to 2023, driven by a 25-fold increase in single accelerator capacity to 2TB and a 25-fold expansion in global deployment scale."

"According to Apple industry chain sources, the plan for Apple's first foldable phone was determined long ago and is currently proceeding normally, with the product expected to be released in the second half of this year."

"The era of Agents does not belong to those who consume the most computing power, but to those who know best how to utilize computing power efficiently."

"Attackers use the package names fabricated by AI to register malware on npm or PyPI in advance, waiting for developers to inadvertently install them."

"What to sell, where to make it—the AI tool 'Accio' has shortened the procurement process that used to take months to just a few hours."

"For small entrepreneurs in the US, deciding what to sell and where to make it has traditionally been a slow, labor-intensive process that can take months. Now that work is increasingly being done by AI tools like Accio, which help connect businesses with manufacturers in countries including China and India."

"This article discusses a concerning issue where Generative AI could be used to intentionally insert backdoors into code."

"DRAM prices predicted to jump 63% in Q2, NAND up to 75% — follows 95% jumps in Q1, Trendforce says AI server demand keeps supply tight"

"AI coding agents can read .env and API keys. There is a risk of unintended external transmission."