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Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent — 2026-08-05
## Short Segments AI's rapid growth is raising alarms at the Federal Reserve, OpenAI and Anthropic models are under scrutiny for hacking, and Texas halts data center connections for audits. Coming up, Taiwan investigates Chinese firms for poaching chip talent. First, a Federal Reserve official questions if AI is becoming 'too big to fail'. Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid has raised concerns about the financial scale of the AI industry, suggesting it may warrant macro-level policy discussions. Schmid's remarks echo the language of the 2008 financial crisis, highlighting the potential…
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