Cyber attacks, AI chips, quantum and robotics updates

This week the tech map lit up with a cluster of security alerts. Microsoft’s UFO automation framework carries a critical bug that could let attackers take over Android phones, while a new malware called Fire Ant is turning Cisco routers into surveillance footholds. Two major health companies, Boston Scientific and McKesson, both disclosed breaches that spilled patient records and device data, and Hugging Face reported its own data leak. On the AI front, the UK pledged a hundred million pounds to boost domestic startups for the NHS and defence, and the Pentagon rolled out hardened ChatGPT and Grok models for military use. OpenAI showed off a home‑grown Jalapeño chip that it says beats Nvidia’s top part on power efficiency. Meanwhile, Diraq placed an eight‑qubit silicon quantum processor in an Equinix data centre in Sydney, a robot kindergarten opened in Beijing, and Apple finally cut Intel apps from the Mac App Store. The picture is clear: threats are spreading fast, governments are betting big on sovereign AI, and the hardware frontier is moving from quantum labs into everyday spaces.