Senior figures at OpenAI and Anthropic are privately war-gaming a catastrophic AI-related incident that knocks out financial services, power, or water, followed by the political firestorm that comes next, according to Axios (October 9, 2026). OpenAI confirmed it runs preparedness exercises designed to improve readiness, emphasizing those scenarios are not considered inevitable. Anthropic declined to…
Samsung and TSMC will join Intel in adopting ASML’s latest High NA extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography chip fab machines, ASML announced. The three companies also unveiled a new initiative to adopt larger 12-inch photomasks that will hopefully boost manufacturing yields and lower chipmaking costs. Samsung and TSMC will deploy ASML’s NA EUV tech by 2028…
