Last Week in Tech – Anthropic vs Alibaba, OpenAI's Own Chip, and an Emergency Cisco Patch — Tech Talks With Kinsoft

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Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Anthropic takes an extraordinary allegation to US lawmakers, accusing Alibaba's Qwen team of the largest-ever "distillation attack" on Claude. OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeño," OpenAI's first custom AI chip. Qualcomm spends nearly $4 billion buying Modular to chip away at Nvidia's CUDA lock-in. And CISA orders an emergency patch of an actively-exploited flaw in Cisco's phone-system software.

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Sources: CNBC; OpenAI; Bloomberg; CISA; BleepingComputer; The Hacker News; Help Net Security.