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The FortiBleed campaign leaked configs from ~75,000 internet-facing FortiGate firewalls, with admin credentials hashed using weak SHA-256 (pre-PBKDF2) easily cracked offline. This highlights risks of exposed management interfaces and inadequate password policies.

Palo Alto Networks announces general availability of AI Gateway, integrating Portkey technology, positioned as the enterprise AI control plane. It unifies LLM, MCP, and A2A gateway execution, processing over 68 trillion tokens with sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% availability.

The European Commission mandates Google to grant third-party AI assistants (e.g., ChatGPT) system-level access on Android by Android 18 (2027), including wake word, Home button, context reading, and device AI compute. Additionally, Google must share search data with rivals from 2027, risking fines up to 10% of global revenue (~$40B).

At WAIC 2026, Huawei publicly demonstrated the Atlas 950 SuperPoD, a 1024-ascend NPU card cluster, and unveiled the 灵衢2.0 high-speed interconnect protocol. This signals a strategic shift in China's AI infrastructure from single-chip to system-level leadership, creating a closed-loop ecosystem that directly challenges NVIDIA's NVL series dominance.

TSMC announces an additional $100B investment in Arizona, bringing total US commitment to $265B, with plans for 6 fabs focused on 3nm and beyond. This move localizes advanced process for AI chip demand from NVIDIA, Apple, AMD, reshaping global semiconductor supply chain. Q2 net profit surged 77% YoY, FY capex raised to $60-64B.