🍭 Samsung Just Reversed Its AI Ban 🔄

Good morning. Somewhere inside Samsung's compliance department, someone is quietly renaming a three-year-old policy doc from "Generative AI: Prohibited" to "Generative AI: Core Infrastructure."

Let’s dive in 👇

🍳 What’s Cookin’:

• Samsung went from banning ChatGPT to one of OpenAI's biggest rollouts

• Google DeepMind's Nobel laureate jumped ship to Anthropic

• Anthropic is paying 1,000 people to deploy Claude inside nonprofits

Samsung & OpenAI
🤝 From Ban To Biggest Rollout

The Bite:

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in Korea and across its global Device eXperience division, which covers smartphones, TVs, monitors, and consumer electronics worldwide.

OpenAI called it one of its largest enterprise deployments to date.

Samsung also began running Google's Gemini Enterprise and Anthropic's Claude alongside ChatGPT on June 12 as part of a broader "AX" (AI Transformation) initiative.

The rollout reverses a company-wide ban Samsung imposed in May 2023 after engineers pasted proprietary semiconductor source code and meeting transcripts into the consumer version of ChatGPT.

Snacks:

• Samsung banned all external generative AI tools in May 2023 after three data leaks within 20 days of granting employee access

• The DX division spans roughly 125,000 employees across mobile, TV, and consumer electronics worldwide

• Codex weekly active users in Korea grew 800% since February 2026

• Samsung supplies HBM4 memory for OpenAI's custom Titan AI chip under a Stargate partnership

• Sam Altman visited Samsung's Suwon campus on June 15 for a workplace AI keynote

Why it Bites:

In May 2023, Samsung was the story every CISO pointed to when blocking ChatGPT.

Engineers pasted source code. Meeting notes. Semiconductor test sequences.
Three incidents in 20 days.

And the ban that followed wasn't just Samsung's policy.

It became the industry's template.

Apple, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs all locked down within weeks.

Three years later, Samsung is handing the same tool to everyone.

Not a pilot. Not a sandbox.

Full deployment, all of Korea, entire DX division worldwide.

But the risk didn't disappear.

"Enterprise-grade security controls" is doing a lot of work in this announcement.
The core tension is still the same:

Samsung employees are now sending product roadmaps and manufacturing workflows through a model built by a company Samsung also sells memory chips to.

Customer and vendor in the same transaction.

But Samsung isn't going exclusive.

On June 12, the DX division quietly started running Gemini Enterprise and Claude alongside ChatGPT. Three vendors, same day.

So OpenAI framing this as one of its "largest enterprise deployments" is press release energy.

Samsung is hedging across three platforms while OpenAI takes a victory lap.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🧠 Nobel Laureate Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind For Anthropic
→ AlphaFold creator and 2024 Chemistry Nobel co-winner announced his departure after nine years. It’s the second major DeepMind exit in a week.

🤝 Samsung Deploys ChatGPT And Codex Company-Wide
→ Samsung reversed its 2023 ChatGPT ban and rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in Korea and the global Device eXperience division. The rollout marks one of OpenAI's largest enterprise deployments.

🤖 Anthropic Commits $150M To Claude Corps Nonprofit Fellowship
→ The program will place 1,000 paid fellows inside U.S. nonprofits for 12 months to deploy Claude, with CodePath as employer of record and the first cohort starting in October.

💽 Qualcomm In Talks To Acquire Tenstorrent For Up To $10B
→ The deal would give Qualcomm access to Jim Keller's RISC-V AI chip designs and engineering team as it pushes into the data center market ahead of today's Investor Day.

🏛️ DOJ Moves To Dismiss NAACP Lawsuit Against xAI Data Center
→ The Justice Department intervened in the Clean Air Act case over SpaceX's gas turbine-powered Colossus facility in Mississippi, citing national security and disclosing Grok's role in 2,000 strikes during Operation Epic Fury.