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

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.Wondering whether that Cisco flaw affects you? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.Sources: CNBC; OpenAI; Bloomberg; CISA; BleepingComputer; The Hacker News; Help Net Security.