Evening edition: silicon races and developer pivots

Back in April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was toying with the idea of producing its own AI chips as a means of responding to chip shortages. Now, it would appear that the company is getting serious about this idea.

On Thursday, The Information reported that Anthropic was in contact with Samsung to explore a collaboration around the pending chip. However, Anthropic hasn’t yet decided what the chip will be used for, how it will fit into the server, or how powerful it will be, according to the report.

When reached for comment, Anthropic told TechCrunch that a diversified hardware stack that includes chips from Google, Amazon, and Nvidia will continue to be pivotal to its compute strategy. On the topic of a potential Samsung partnership, the company said it had nothing further to add.

A number of AI companies have sought to develop custom chips — both as a way to create unique hardware for specific compute tasks and to gain a certain amount of independence from Nvidia, which continues to be the undisputed leader of the chip industry.

Anthropic’s announcement may also be a response to one made last week by its key competitor, OpenAI, which has teamed up with Broadcom to announce its own custom-built inference processor, dubbed “Jalapeño.” OpenAI says that the chip is more efficient, demonstrating better performance-per-watt, than other competitor chips. Amazon and Google both offer custom-built TPUs as part of their cloud offering.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported on Thursday , citing two people familiar with the matter. Under the proposal, other AI companies would donate similar stakes, although significant questions remain about the specifics.

According to the FT’s reporting, the donation would be meant to “secure good relations with the administration and … address political blowback.”

Similar discussions were reported by CNBC in June and were subsequently confirmed by President Trump, who said he had discussed “concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the companies.” At the time, no specific size for the proposed equity stake was given.

The talks remain preliminary and, per the FT, it’s likely that any formal action would require congressional approval, which would significantly complicate the matter.

The idea of a public AI fund has also been publicly discussed by Altman, and OpenAI has grown increasingly specific in its proposals for how such a fund could be structured. Most recently, a policy paper titled “ Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age ,” released by OpenAI in April, proposed a public wealth fund that could invest directly in AI labs and companies deploying their technology.

Techmeme reports a memo that Microsoft is merging consumer and enterprise Copilot chatbots.

The unified surface is named AutoPilot and is said to include coding tools and AI agents.

The information provided is about product packaging and workflow consolidation, not detailed feature diff.

The change implies a single integration point for Copilot usage instead of two parallel entry surfaces.

The Hacker News entry links to Podman’s own post announcing Podman v6.0.0.

The story currently has 283 upvotes and 107 comments in the thread.

The scraped material confirms the release announcement and engagement level.

It does not include the full release notes, so teams should verify details directly from the linked blog post.

The linked post states that since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk encryption keys from memory.

The story has 349 upvotes and 169 comments in the community thread.

This is presented as a behavior-level kernel change around memory state after suspend.

The captured material does not include migration instructions, so validation should be done in your own environment.