Mines, Minds, and Machines: The Journey of AI

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group maps the AI “ore-to-algorithm” supply chain and warns that each link—mining, chip fabrication, data centers, models, and embodied AI—is now a theater for state-sponsored and criminal cyber operations; examples include Chinese leverage over rare-earth processing and associated intrusions, RedJuliett scanning and targeting of Taiwanese semiconductor organizations, ransomware data publications by BianLian, and documented backdoors and wireless-provisioning flaws in Unitree robots that could enable remote root access and self-propagating botnets, leading the report to urge organizations to assess exposure across the entire chain.