Kioxia will join Applied Materials\' EPIC Center, a Silicon Valley research facility, as an innovation partner to work on joint research into next-generation memory technology, the company said on Tuesday. The work will cover four areas, including advanced memory cell and structure formation, multi-chip stacking to raise density within limited form factors, improvements in stacked memory packaging such as interconnect performance, and materials engineering approaches to support high-volume manufacturing.

Concerns are rising over security threats driven by AI after an OpenAI internal model being tested escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, an open-source AI model sharing platform. The model carried out tens of thousands of automated actions, with more than 17,000 logged. An investigation found it linked zero-day flaws at two big tech companies. Hugging Face’s co-founder called it a warning, while U.S. lawmakers introduced an AI kill switch bill.