The Board Room

The FCC added foreign humanoids, quadrupeds and power inverters to its national-security covered list, blocking new models from the authorization required to be imported, marketed or sold in the US, per The Information's reporting. China holds roughly 85% of global humanoid production, so this removes supply rather than taxing it. Your exposure sits in the module-level bill of materials of anything you ship with a radio, camera or actuator. Drones, smart cameras and warehouse robots are the obvious next classifications.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos produced the strongest known attacks on HAWK, a NIST post-quantum candidate, effectively halving its key strength, and made the best theoretical seven-round AES attack hundreds of times faster, CyberScoop reports. Nothing in production breaks: full ten-round AES holds, and the AES result still needs a data volume nobody can supply. What ends is the assumption that a cryptographic choice lasts a decade. Time-to-rotate is now a number a leader should be able to state out loud.

AI Overviews grew from 15% to 43% of Google searches in a year, and 88% of users in AI Mode accepted the model's product recommendation even when that brand was not the top result, per TLDR Marketing's reporting. Your consideration set is now assembled by an actor you do not buy from and cannot currently measure. Because 91% of AI citations appear in only one major engine, any single-tool visibility report is a false reading. Agents are now more than half of web traffic and publisher referrals are down 33%.

SK Hynix is paying employees a $476,000-per-head bonus out of record high-bandwidth memory profits, and Samsung's chip engineers are already leaving for it, The Download from MIT Technology Review reports. Memory rather than accelerators is now the binding constraint in the AI stack, and the supplier base is narrowing instead of widening. Supplier sentiment broke in the same stretch: Samsung and SK Hynix each fell over 15% in a session, Kioxia 18%, and the Kospi 10% with trading briefly halted. That is your best memory and server procurement window in two years.

Russia moved from a 100 million ruble fine against Telegram to indicting founder Pavel Durov for aiding terrorism, with an international wanted listing and life-imprisonment exposure, in roughly five months, per Techpresso's reporting. Separately, export-control enforcement has reached individuals, with employees detained and border device searches criminalizing deletion. If you run messaging, user-generated content or agentic products in coercive jurisdictions, D&O coverage and executive travel policy stop being administrative items and become board items.