AI Chips Advance, Security Breaches, Robots Roll Out Today

Microsoft just gave developers a way to run massive AI models right on their Windows 11 machines without sending anything to the cloud. Project Zenith handles models over thirty billion parameters locally. At the same time, chipmakers are pushing hardware forward. MediaTek unveiled a new budget phone chip, CXMT started shipping LPDDR6 memory that's already in Xiaomi's latest foldable, and Huawei is using 3D stacking on its Kirin processor to work around sanctions and boost AI performance. On the security side, it's been a rough week. A white-hat hacker took four thousand Bitcoin from Liquid Network in Toronto, gave back thirty-four hundred, and kept four point seven million dollars as a bounty. Keycloak disclosed a critical password reset flaw in Paris that lets attackers take over accounts. And Getac Holdings in Taipei got hit by ransomware that took their ERP systems offline. XPeng launched what it calls the world's first automated humanoid robot line in Guangzhou, with the IRON robot walking off under its own power at over eighty percent automation. Dacia revealed its new Spring EV built in Slovenia starting at seventeen thousand nine hundred euros. And Telegram went down for thousands of users in Singapore this morning.