Criminals Are Now Targeting AI Chips Like Gold and Cash

Criminals used to go after gold, jewelry, and cash. Now some of them are staging car crashes on California highways to steal computer chips instead. That’s how valuable AI hardware has become on the black market. Can we say we’re surprised? Hardly. AI has driven up the price of computer hardware so much that organized crime now treats a truckload of server parts the way it used to treat an armored…