EVA Tech BriefIT/DevOps

2026-07-23 - 7:30 PM PKT

Frontier LLMs

GPUs and Silicon

AMD signs 2-gigawatt Instinct GPU supply deal with Anthropic

AMD will supply Anthropic with 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPU capacity and plans to invest up to $5 billion in the Claude developer. The first gigawatt is expected online in the first half of 2027 using AMD Helios rack-scale systems, while Anthropic is already deploying MI355X accelerators.

Cloud and Infra

Pakistan Tech

Security

Check Point zero-day exploited to gain full administrative access

Check Point patched CVE-2026-16232, a critical authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process that has been exploited in the wild. The flaw affects Security Management and Multi-Domain Management deployments and can allow attackers to obtain full administrative access under certain configurations.

msaRAT malware hides command traffic inside Chrome and Edge

The Chaos ransomware group is using a newly identified backdoor called msaRAT to conceal command-and-control communications. The malware routes its traffic through Chrome or Edge, making malicious activity harder to distinguish from normal browser use.

Dev Tools

Experts dispute claims that Kimi K3 relied on Anthropic model extraction

AI researchers say Kimi K3's rapid capability gains are unlikely to be explained solely by distillation from Anthropic's Fable model. Their assessment highlights the difficulty of attributing frontier-model performance to a single training technique or alleged source model.

Ford embeds Apple Maps into its next-generation EV platform

Ford will integrate Apple Maps directly into its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform, beginning with a planned $30,000 midsize pickup in 2027. The implementation uses new developer tools to provide native turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic data, incident information, and search inside the vehicle infotainment system.