The FBI warned on Tuesday that the Silent Ransom Group (SRG) extortion gang is now targeting U.S.-based law firms in in-person data theft attacks.
“As of Spring 2026, SRG actors use a social engineering scheme to pose as an employee from the victim’s IT department. SRG actors either directly call or send phishing emails to urge employees to call the SRG actor posing as IT support,” the FBI warned in a Tuesday flash alert.
“While on the phone, the SRG actor directs the employee to grant access to a remote desktop session. If that attempt fails, SRG sends a threat actor to the victim’s location to gain access to insert a storage device into the victim’s computer.”
By going to the victim’s location in person, the malicious actors can steal data by connecting USB drives or external hard drives to the victim’s computer.
The FBI included the unauthorized installation of external hard drives or USB drives on company computers, and the presence of unidentified or unauthorized individuals claiming to be IT support and attempting to access computers, as possible indicators of an SRG attack.
“Through phone calls and phishing emails, SRG actors pose as IT support to establish access to victim computers and exfiltrate data, usually through legitimate remote access tools or by sending an individual in-person to the victim company’s location to gain physical access to computers,” the FBI added.
SRG uses the stolen data to extort the victims by sending a ransom email that threatens to sell or post it on their leak site, and will also call the victims’ employees or clients to pressure them into beginning ransom negotiations.
Also known as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, this cybercrime gang has been active since at least 2022 and has been targeting legal and financial organizations in the United States since early 2023.
As previously reported by BleepingComputer, the same group of threat actors was also linked to BazarCall campaigns that provided initial access to corporate networks in Conti and Ryuk ransomware attacks.
In March 2022, after the Conti shutdown, they separated from the cybercrime syndicate and formed the Silent Ransom Group (SRG), known for data theft and extortion operations following targeted phishing attacks.
This week’s flash alert follows a May 2025 FBI private industry notification warning that the same extortion gang had been targeting U.S. law firms in callback phishing and social engineering attacks for more than two years.
A May 2025 EclecticIQ report detailing the cybercrime group’s attacks on legal and financial institutions in the United States also revealed that the attackers register domains to “impersonate IT helpdesk or support portals for major U.S. law firms and financial services firms, using typosquatted patterns.”
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The update also introduces the app’s take on film stock simulation.
Halide, one of the best alternatives to the iPhone’s built-in camera app, is getting another upgrade. Developer Lux Optics is rolling out Halide Mark III, a paid update that adds a photo editor and filters that simulate film stock. The features extend Halide’s approach to photography after Lux Optics added a way to circumvent Apple’s image processing pipeline with the release of Halide Mark II in 2024.
Looks, Halide’s new filtering system, is part of a larger “film simulation engine” that’s being introduced in Mark III. All the app’s photo features can be customized or disabled, but Halide will now add things like grain and halation to photos you capture depending on the look you chose. Halide Mark III includes five new looks alongside Process Zero, the app’s zero-processing option, and Apple’s default image processing. Those include:
Valencia: A look designed for landscapes and cityscapes, with “thick contrast, deep saturation and solid color separation.”
Rembrandt: A look for portraits that features “thick contrast in the mid-tones” and “abundant color in the low end” to highlight bone structure and capture uniform skin-tones.
Nova: Another look that works best with landscapes, and is “exceptionally colorful, with tight contrast and smooth peachy highlights.”
Zephyr: The “most subtle and restrained” look, with “filmic contrast” and “the character of a traditional print.”
Chroma Noir: A black and white look with “medium contrast” and “a touch of extra grain.”
All these new looks include HDR support if you want more detail in highlights and shadows. They can also all be edited and tweaked with Halide’s new Photo Lab editor. The built-in editor is designed to be approachable. There’s a Quick Edit tab if you want to quickly switch film simulations or toggle HDR, along with dedicated sections for making in-depth changes to things like color balance and exposure. The whole thing is designed to show you as much or as little as you need, but the iPad version of Halide Mark III seems like the ideal place to edit thanks to its two-panel setup.
These new features are being paired with updates to Halide’s design and the placement of its virtual buttons. The new design adopts some of Apple’s Liquid Glass tenets, while exposing the most important controls — things like focus, aspect ratio and a lens picker — so that you don’t have to go digging through menus.
As with previous updates, Halide Mark III is available for a monthly subscription of $10, a yearly subscription of $20 or a one-time purchase of $60. Existing subscribers and anyone who purchased Halide Mark II will get the update for free.
This is the first major Halide update Lux Optics has rolled out since its co-founder, Sebastiaan de With, left the company to join Apple in January 2026. The split has reportedly been a bit more complicated than it initially appeared. Not only did Apple originally try to acquire the company, but de With was reportedly fired from Lux Optics after the company’s other co-founder Ben Sandofsky began investigating him for allegedly misusing funds.
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Also somehow censoring too much while refusing to hand over account ban evidence for review
The EU’s moderation appeals watchdog says Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube routinely leave hate speech online while stonewalling attempts to independently review suspended accounts.
Appeals Centre Europe, an Ireland-certified dispute settlement body operating under the EU’s Digital Services Act, says it overturned platforms’ decisions not to remove reported hate speech 70 percent of the time between April 2025 and March 2026, including content targeting migrants, Roma communities, religious minorities, and LGBTQI+ people.
TikTok fared worst, with the Appeals Centre overturning its decisions in 83 percent of reviewed hate speech disputes, followed by Instagram at 74 percent, Facebook at 61 percent, and YouTube at 58 percent.
The report suggests that Europe’s moderation accountability regime is functioning more or less how veteran tech policy watchers feared it might. In theory, the system gives EU users a free way to challenge moderation decisions through an independent review body. In practice, Appeals Centre Europe says platforms often fail to hand over the disputed content or account material needed to review cases.
Account bans appear to be where the process really starts to fall apart. Appeals Centre Europe says that despite receiving more than 14,000 suspension disputes, it got enough content from platforms to fully review fewer than 150 cases. Instead, thousands of cases ended in what the Appeals Centre calls “default decisions,” in which platforms failed to provide the material within 30 days, and the ruling automatically went in the user’s favor. More than 7,300 disputes ended that way.
Meta appears to be struggling most with the “independent review” part of independent review. The report says that out of more than 4,600 eligible Facebook and Instagram account suspension disputes, the company supplied the disputed content in fewer than 100 cases.
The findings also complicate the increasingly popular narrative that platforms are over-censoring everything in sight. Appeals Centre Europe says it overturned decisions to remove users’ content 52 percent of the time in cases where it could actually review the material. Rules around restricted goods and services proved especially messy, with the group overturning removals in 65 percent of reviewed disputes.
In other words, the platforms appear capable of simultaneously leaving up content they should remove while deleting content they should leave alone, which is an impressive operational achievement even by social media standards.
Thomas Hughes, CEO of Appeals Centre Europe, said: “Online hate and harassment have real-world consequences for many people and communities. In more than two-thirds of our decisions about hate speech, we found that platforms failed to enforce their own policies and left up hateful content. This goes to show that platforms don’t always get it right. If you’re in the EU, you can challenge a platform’s decisions free of charge to Appeals Centre Europe and get an expert, impartial review.”
However, the report also suggests platforms do not always implement the Appeals Centre’s decisions even after cases are reviewed. In one section covering disputes submitted by civil society groups, the organization says it is aware of only “a handful” of cases in which platforms acted on its rulings, while many disputed posts remained online.
That’s not exactly the robust moderation accountability system Brussels has spent years promising users. ®
Reducing cybersecurity budget a ‘high-risk strategy’, said Saros Consulting co-founder.
Irish businesses show a split approach to security, with only half of the surveyed IT leaders admittedly increasing their cybersecurity budget, while one in four reduced spending for 2026.
This, as cybersecurity threats grow multi-fold in recent years, with bad actors increasingly employing AI tools to bolster their approach.
The insights stem from a new Saros Consulting report carried out by Censuswide, which surveyed 200 IT decision-makers in organisations in Ireland with more than 250 employees.
According to the survey, increased investments in cybersecurity is enabling leaders to explore new avenues to bolster their defences, with 30pc of the surveyed willing to pay bounties to experts who can expose vulnerabilities.
This is already happening in practice, with around 27pc admitting to have already done this.
Despite this, only 50pc are confident that they can detect attackers before any damage is done, while only 51pc said they have an incident response plan. And, only 54pc of those surveyed said that they test their incident response plan once or more per year.
Lacking an effective response plan often leads to significant financial and reputational damage for businesses at the hands of bad actors, with a different survey from 2025 reporting that nearly one-third of large enterprises in Ireland paid at least one ransom to cybercriminals over the year.
The average cost Irish businesses spent out of pocket in cyber ransoms amounted to nearly €700,000.
Meanwhile, businesses need to keep up with the constant change in the cybersecurity landscape by ramping up their own infrastructure.
In a recent interview with SiliconRepublic.com National Cyber Security Centre’s director of resilience Joseph Stephens shared his concerns around the effect advanced AI models such as Anthropic’s Mythos would have on small businesses in the country.
Censuswide, in its newest report, finds that 55pc of the surveyed IT leaders said their legacy systems are increasing their organisation’s cybersecurity risk. To tackle this, large enterprises in Ireland are dedicating 28pc of their IT budgets on mandatory system upgrades.
Although, 30pc of their budgets are dedicated to maintaining systems that the leaders know should be replaced.
“Reducing cybersecurity budgets at a time of increasing threat complexity is a high-risk strategy for large enterprises,” said Ray Armstrong, the co-founder and co-CEO of Saros Consulting.
“Cybersecurity underpins every aspect of modern IT strategy, from digital transformation to regulatory compliance. Organisations who deprioritise it risk exposing not only their systems, but also their customers, their reputation and their long-term resilience.”
Justin van der Spuy, also the co-founder and co-CEO of Saros Consulting, added: “There is a clear disconnect between the scale of today’s cyber threats and the decision by some large organisations to reduce investment in this area.
“What is needed now is strategic clarity and a long-term approach to resilience. Businesses must ensure they are supported by experienced partners who can help them navigate evolving threats and increasing regulatory complexity.”
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A team of Seattle high schoolers will compete against underwater robotics teams from around the world during the MATE ROV World Championships in Canada next month.
Triton Robotics is making its third straight trip to the international event in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The independent team is comprised of seven 11th graders who all attend Seattle Academy.
MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) ROV, which takes place June 25-27, challenges teams to complete underwater mission tasks drawn from real-world ocean science problems. This year’s tasks include mapping cold-water coral ecosystems, deploying ocean observatory instrumentation, modeling offshore wind turbines, and operating profiling floats beneath sea ice — a notoriously difficult environment for conventional monitoring equipment.
The 2026 competition is themed around two United Nations science initiatives focused on ocean sustainability and cryospheric research.
Triton is bringing two custom-built systems to the competition. Njord, a remotely operated vehicle, will handle the wave tank and flume tank challenges, navigating strong currents, low visibility, and precision manipulation tasks. Skadi, an autonomous vertical profiling float, will operate in the National Research Council’s ice tank, diving beneath sea ice that conventional ocean-monitoring floats can’t reach.
Triton also built TritonOS, custom onboard software that handles depth-hold stabilization and lets the pilot instantly flip Njord’s controls so the rear manipulator operates as intuitively as the front arm — something no commercial system could do. The team added specialized tools for the mission tasks, including computer vision for invasive crab identification, a photogrammetry pipeline for iceberg measurement, and pneumatic grippers calibrated using tomatoes until they could grasp delicate cold-water coral without crushing it.
“This season has been about iteration — testing, breaking things, understanding why they failed, and rebuilding them better,” said Tenzin Larkin, the team’s co-CEO.
Triton Robotics is fully student-led and unaffiliated with any school, according to a news release. Members oversee engineering design, software development, budgeting, testing, documentation, and pool operations; mentors provide workshop and safety oversight. The team completed approximately 30 deep-water pool tests this season with zero safety incidents.
Team members include Griffin Fisher, Tenzin Larkin, Thomas Gust, Simon Hajduk, Theo Lipson, Miles Lipson, and Emi Enoki.
“Our mission is to help the environment through engineering,” said Gust, the team’s other co-CEO.
Update: A Triton Tech team from Edmonds College north of Seattle will also compete in the same event. The team — which is raising funds — is competing for the third consecutive year, and is in the “Pioneer” class against colleges from around the globe. In its inaugural year, a last-minute team built an ROV from PVC pipe and placed fifth in its category. Last year, the team traveled to Michigan and finished ninth in the world.
Lars Moravy serves as Tesla’s vice president of vehicle engineering. During a recent appearance on the Ride the Lightning podcast he answered a direct question about fitting a third motor into the Model 3. His answer left little room for doubt. He thinks about the possibility all the time. The exchange happened at a moment when Tesla had just finished deliveries of the final Model S and Model X Plaid cars. Those vehicles carried the tri-motor layout that gave the Plaid name its reputation for extreme acceleration. With those models now gone from the lineup, the badge sits unused for the first time in years.
Moravy describes how a Model 3 version is expected to use the same carbon-sleeved motors that powered earlier Plaid cars, and how the carbon wrap allows the rotors to spin like crazy, at really high speeds, without breaking apart due to the intense forces at work. The same motors that provided consistent high output in the larger Plaid cars are now expected to accomplish the same in the smaller Model 3 chassis.
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The current Model 3 Performance models are already rather rapid, reaching 60 in around 2.9 seconds and producing an astounding 510 horsepower. A tri-motor setup based on the more advanced design would not only save a few tenths of a second, but it would also keep power levels high for longer periods of time without the normal significant drop-off. That’s not all; you’d likely witness improvements to handling, ride quality, and even aerodynamic downforce, pushing the car to the very limits of what the platform can manage. Space, however, remains the challenge here, as the Model 3 rear subframe simply does not have enough place for an extra motor, inverter, and all of the accompanying circuitry; as Moravy describes it, it’s a terribly tight squeeze that would necessitate a complete reworking of the already constrained arrangement.
Tesla has a stringent criteria for any new project, since the returns must be evident and the resources diverted from other tasks must be justified. The company is currently focused on developing robotaxi operations, moving forward with the Optimus robot, and finishing the next-generation Roadster. That Roadster, the first off the line, will have the latest motor technology first, with production set for the middle of next year.
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No television would be complete without a remote control. TV companies have started to take liberties with this tried-and-true control method, from making them really tiny and eliminating buttons to incorporating microphones and even screens on remote controls. While many modern smart TVs have shifted to Bluetooth or Radio Frequency (RF) connections, there are still millions of good old-fashioned infrared and universal remote options out there. Every TV owner also knows that a remote control getting dirty is pretty much unavoidable.
Whether it’s dust from not using it very often or from the oil of snacks you prepared for movie night, it’s just a fact of life — remote controls get dirty. Cleaning a remote control is simple, and you should try to do it monthly, especially if someone in your house is sick, to kill any potential germs. All you need is 70% rubbing alcohol, a microfiber cloth, and some toothpicks, all of which you probably already have lying around the house.
The cleaning process itself is pretty straightforward. First, for safety, ensure that you remove the batteries from the remote. Then dab or spray a bit of rubbing alcohol onto the microfiber cloth and gently wipe down the remote. If you can’t find 70% isopropyl alcohol, don’t worry, you can also use a standard electronics-safe disinfecting wipe, which is among the useful gadgets and tools to keep your electronics clean and sanitized. This helps with stickiness, and as we know, stickiness is an unavoidable reality with any remote control, whether that is from food and skin creams, or perhaps the remote you have is really old, and the buttons have developed rubber reversion.
If you’re cleaning your remote primarily to kill germs or disinfect it after someone in your house was sick, the American Chemistry Council has a handful of products, which were approved during the COVID-19 days, including Lysol and Clorox disinfecting wipes.
Once you wipe it down, use a toothpick to remove any leftover grime around the buttons’ edges. Then, dry off the remote, re-insert the batteries, and you may continue your Netflix movie nights. Not only does cleaning the remote control help maintain good hygiene around the house, but let’s face it, none of us wants to hand one of our guests a dirty remote with sticky buttons. We might risk never having them as our guests again.
Samsung has teamed up with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Diabetes Research Center to investigate how wearables can help people on GLP-1 manage muscle loss. They’re specifically using Galaxy Watch 8, which the company released last year, for their study. Samsung says the study will focus on investigating the “feasibility of managing muscle loss for GLP-1 patients by utilizing biometric data including body composition, activity levels and heart rate provided by Galaxy Watch and Samsung Health.”
In its announcement, the company has referenced a KFF poll that says nearly one in five adults in the US has taken a GLP-1 drug at some point to manage Type 2 diabetes and to lose weight. With that many people using the medication, it’s no surprise that companies like Samsung would want to incorporate features that would serve them into their products.
At this point, scientists are still figuring out the long-term effects of using GLP-1. Mayo Clinic’s David N. Brennan, M.D. said one of doctors’ emerging concerns is the loss of muscle mass. Over 30 percent of weight loss on the medication can be from muscle, he wrote. And while it’s not that different from the muscle loss one experiences with other weight-loss methods, scientists are worried that patients aren’t always regaining that muscle when they regain weight after stopping treatment.
Researchers from the University of Virginia conducted a study into muscle loss from GLP-1 drugs and determined that it could undermine long-term health. “This is a serious concern. Muscle, especially axial muscle, is essential for posture, physical function and overall well-being,” they wrote. They explained that losing lean body mass increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, which could lead to diminished quality of life.
Samsung’s study, which will be led by Dr. Melissa Putman from the MGH Diabetes Research Center, will divide 100 adults just starting GLP-1 treatment into two groups. One group will use Galaxy Watch 8 to monitor their body composition with its Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA), as well as to track their physical activity and to get personalized exercise guides to prevent the loss of muscles. The other group will be given the standard guidance most people taking GLP-1 get. Researchers will then use clinical-grade DXA scans to track the changes in the participants’ body composition. By comparing results between the two group, they can figure out if wearables like the Galaxy Watch 8 can effectively support people on the medication.
“Many GLP-1 patients struggle with muscle mass loss, a common side effect that can cause an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and a drop in basal metabolic rate, which can lead to future weight regain,” said Dr. Putman. “We’re interested in exploring how continuous data from a wearable device can provide invaluable insights into a patient’s activity levels, heart rate and body composition, giving clinicians a more holistic view of treatment impact and allowing for more timely, data-driven adjustments to their care plan.”
Samsung regularly collaborates with educational institutions to determine how its wearables can be used to monitor and predict health problems. It teamed up with Stanford University last year to improve its sleep apnea feature. More recently, it said it figured out how to predict fainting with “high accuracy” after working with the Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital in Korea.
ETH Zurich researchers say they have generated certified “perfect randomness” for the first time by using a quantum Bell-test setup with two entangled superconducting chips connected by a 30-meter cooled link. “In the long term, this work could play a similar role in digital security as atomic clocks do for timekeeping: a physically certified source of randomness that other systems can rely on,” reports Phys.org. “Possible applications range from the encryption of sensitive communications and digital identities to public randomness services for lotteries and blockchain applications.” From the report: They call their method randomness amplification. “This was made possible by an improved so-called Bell-Test with simultaneously high quality and high data rate,” says [Renato Renner and Andreas Wallraff]. He and his coworkers use a complex setup that consists of two superconducting chips, which they cool down to very low temperatures close to absolute zero. Each chip represents a quantum bit or qubit, which can take on the states “0” or “1” or any arbitrary superposition of these states. A 30-meter-long tube, which is also cooled down, connects the two chips.
Microwave photons can fly back and forth between them, thus creating quantum mechanical entanglement. This means that a quantum measurement on one qubit, which randomly yields the values “0” or “1,” influences automatically and at a distance whether “0” or “1” is measured on the second qubit. The separation of 30 meters ensures that, during the measurement, even at the speed of light, no information can be exchanged between the qubits. This would disturb the perfect randomness.
Wallraff and his team made the choice of the exact type of measurement (or “measurement basis” in technical jargon) on the two qubits depending on an imperfect random number generator. Renner’s coworkers could then amplify the randomness of the measurement results further using a special algorithm. “The resulting sequence of zeros and ones is now really perfectly random, and we can even certify that,” says Renner. He likens this result to crossing a ridge: “The technical improvements allowed us, for the first time, to create random numbers that will remain perfectly random for all eternityâ”no matter what analytical methods are used to assess their randomness.”
The findings have been published in the journal Nature.
Alright, this is getting dire. In addition to all of the anti-vaxxer bullshit that has infected HHS thanks to RFK Jr.’s appointment to run the department, we have also made the point recently that an equally big problem is the talent drain occurring at HHS as well. Between the voluntary exits by smart people who don’t want to be part of something this stupid and the scores of smart people who have been fired by Kennedy and his hand-picked goon squad, HHS and its child agencies have significantly less talent within them today than they did a year and a half ago. And I haven’t even mentioned yet that we don’t currently have Senate-confirmed heads of the FDA, the CDC, or a Surgeon General. What’s the point of these positions if they mean so little that the Trump administration isn’t going to bother to fill them?
But Kennedy isn’t done, yet. Just recently, he fired the leadership of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a volunteer group that works with government to mandate what preventative care procedures are approved such that insurance services have to cover them without copay.
In letters dated May 11, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notified the two doctors who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that he was terminating their appointments immediately, before the end of their multiyear terms.
The Department of Health and Human Services already had largely sidelined the task force, indefinitely postponing scheduled public meetings over the past year and thus leaving some long-expected updates on cervical cancer screenings and other topics in limbo.
Kennedy didn’t inform Drs. John Wong and Esa Davis as to why their positions were being terminated in his letter. But he did go before Congress recently and talked about wanting to reform the task force because he considered their approach and work lazy and not transparent enough. We’ve heard Kennedy make these noises about transparency in the past and we know that they are bullshit. He is almost certainly instead looking merely to install sycophants that will do whatever his bidding happens to be. Particularly as it appears that the task force was prevented from publishing some of its work.
Some health advocates had worried that Kennedy was preparing to replace the expert panel with less experienced political appointees, like he had done with a critical vaccine advisory committee. Over the past year, the task force wasn’t allowed to publish its final update to the cervical cancer screening guideline or take steps to update recommendations about maternal depression, said former task force chairman Dr. Michael Silverstein, a pediatrician.
“This is a level of government intrusion into scientific processes that I’ve not experienced in my 10 years on the task force,” he said.
What chaos comes out of this move remains to be seen, though there can be no doubt that chaos is on the menu. There are treatments out there that could benefit from approval from the task force, but insurance won’t cover them without that approval. We’re talking about screenings for cancer and other dangerous afflictions. Kennedy could also install people who will approve whatever crazy whim he comes up with next. Perhaps insurance will have to cover snorting cocaine off of toilets while supervised by a doctor.
You may laugh at that, but look around you. Does it really sound that crazy with all that has gone on at HHS the past 18 months?
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Micron and SK Hynix join rival chipmaker Samsung in the $1trn club, after the latter hit the milestone valuation at the start of the month.
Leading chipmakers Micron and SK Hynix have both surpassed $1trn in market value, as AI drives demand for the companies’ memory chips.
Micron shares grew by more than 19pc yesterday (26 May) after investment bank UBS published a report that tripled its price target on the company’s stock from $535 to $1,525 per share – with UBS citing long-term agreement opportunities with major customers and partially fixed pricing on those deals.
The valuation milestone comes after Micron hit a valuation of $700bn at the start of the month.
Meanwhile, South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix also reached a $1trn valuation after its shares rose by 12pc today (27 May).
Last month, the company reported a five-fold surge in quarterly profits, while recent research from Counterpoint showed that SK Hynix held 57pc of the high bandwidth memory market in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Micron and SK Hynix join rival chipmaker Samsung in the $1trn club, after the latter hit the milestone valuation at the start of the month.
The valuations come as AI continues to fuel significant demand for the companies’ memory chips – a critical component of data centre expansion.
Other tech giants have benefitted majorly from this demand, including Nvidia, which recently revealed record Q1 revenue of $81.6bn. Last year, Nvidia became the first company to hit a $4trn valuation.
While companies like Micron, SK Hynix, Samsung and Nvidia have benefitted from the chip demand, the surge has also led to a major global chip shortage.
Earlier this year, IDC and Gartner warned that the global chip shortage could cause significant decline in smartphone and PC shipments, while also predicting sharp rises in price for the products due to a predicted surge in combined DRAM and solid-state drive prices by the end of 2026.
While chipmakers continue to grapple with the demand, reports indicate some companies might be considering alternative solutions to the shortage.
Last month, Reuters reported that AI giant Anthropic is considering the possibility of building its own chips. Rivals Meta and OpenAI already have such projects underway.
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