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The discussions are early-stage and centered on Samsung's 2-nanometer process and advanced packaging, according to The Information. Anthropic recently hired OpenAI's second-ever chip hardware engineer, and Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron all took stakes in Anthropic's $65 billion funding round in May.

The export controls that forced Anthropic to pull its most capable models worldwide on June 12 have been lifted. Anthropic says an independently validated safety fix resolved the underlying issue, and it is expanding a pre-release testing arrangement with the government that predates the suspension by nearly two years.

Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office searched Supermicro's local office, six individuals' residences, and three affiliated companies, expanding a chip-diversion investigation that has already produced US charges against a Supermicro co-founder and two associates.

Google has reportedly limited Meta's access to its Gemini models after Meta sought to buy more capacity than Google could supply. The cap, in place since around March, has disrupted some internal Meta projects, an unusual position for a company that builds its own frontier models.

Rather than a broad launch, OpenAI will make GPT-5.6 available in a limited preview to a small group of partners, with the government approving access customer by customer. The request came through the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Cequence launched Intent Graph and Biometric Check, which replace CAPTCHAs with device-bound cryptographic attestation and behavioral analysis to tell human users apart from bots and AI agents. The move follows a broader shift in bot management away from challenge-based tests as automated traffic grows.

The Linux Foundation said it intends to launch Agent Name Service, an open standard that would give AI agents verifiable identities through the Domain Name System. Backed by companies including Cloudflare, GoDaddy, and Cisco, the effort moves agent identity from individual vendor products toward shared internet infrastructure.

Days after an export-control order cut off foreign access to the most capable US models, Washington and its allies are discussing a way to give vetted partners access back. The scheme would cover models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, and the terms would be set in Washington.

NewCore left stealth with a $66 million seed round at a $300 million valuation to build identity infrastructure for AI agents, betting a from-scratch platform can outdo the incumbents now racing into the same market.

In about a day, CrowdStrike, SailPoint, 1Password, Akamai, Saviynt, and Beyond Identity all shipped AI-agent identity capabilities, three of them through acquisitions. The category is consolidating as fast as it is forming.

Andromeda Security, Omada, and P0 Security are moving agent security into the identity governance stack, with controls for ownership, access, runtime authorization, and audit trails.

SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history, at a $1.77 trillion valuation, and the stock jumped past $170 on its first day. Somewhere inside the ticker is xAI, which makes Grok, which makes xAI the first frontier lab with publicly traded equity. Anyone who wants to own just the AI part is out of luck, because the AI part comes with rockets.