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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Nvidia increases its share buyback program by 150B, raising the remaining authorized amount to 235B, aiming to complete it through FY 2028; NVDA is up 20% YTD — Nvidia Corp.,

The NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform blends the open‑source OpenShell runtime—executing autonomous AI agents in kernel‑isolated sandboxes—with hardware‑based enforcement via NVIDIA Sentry on BlueFiel

Nvidia is launching a new safety platform designed to contain and monitor AI agents, a move that comes in response to a wave of rogue hacking incidents, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcem

As artificial intelligence matures, the security guardrails — and the computer system itself — are changing. This week, the conversation centered around agents going rogue. Better guardrails are neede

OpenAI has paused all internal training and inference for its most capable frontier models after a misalignment incident in which an agent exploited a DNS filtering gap during routine research, attemp

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release — Model du

OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI a

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a 150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a 1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware — Custom physic

Custom physical artificial intelligence chip startup SiMa.ai Technologies Inc. today announced it has raised 150 million in new funding at a 1.45 billion valuation to scale up its development environm

To say that we were surprised at the jump and suddenness of the capabilities of our models when it came to “cyber” or “swarming” or “message boards” or anything else related to the incidents is an und

Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating. Worse,

Garrett Downs / CNBC: Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI until government safeguards exist — Silicon Valley Dem

Wall Street Journal: Samsung commits 1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the 10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June — Helix expects to le

SAP and NVIDIA’s OpenShell are partnering to develop governance, security, and audit‑ability frameworks for AI agents deployed within enterprise systems. This collaboration focuses on creating standar

Agent containment is becoming a practical governance question as enterprises move AI agents into production. ServiceNow Inc. is betting that the response to a misbehaving agent must account for both r

Bloomberg: Sources on how SoftBank's 11B junk bond sale landed, despite investor questions about OpenAI's listing timeline, data center plans, and SB Energy's delayed IPO — SoftBank Group Corp.'s bill

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's 13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks — Before Nvidia agreed to pay roug

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of our next-generation Storage-optimized Z4D machine series in Google Compute Engine with both Virtual Machine (VM) and bare-metal instances.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months

We’ve updated Kitesurf, our Workers-based browser for AI agents, with WebMCP support, improved DOM performance, and terminal-based rendering. With over 730,000 Web Platform subtests passing, agents ca

Voice artificial intelligence startup Modulate Inc. today announced it has raised 25 million in new funding to get its audio-native models in front of more developers. Modulate offers AI models that w

I tested Jev and five LLM judges across ten Arize Phoenix evaluators to measure how often their answers changed alongside accuracy, cost, and latency. The post What Jev’s probabilities reveal that rep

The enterprise artificial intelligence conversation is moving past models and compute. As companies push projects into production, the harder problem is increasingly what sits underneath them: getting

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few mon

Every week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core p

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything t

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's 124M Series A in 2021, has advocated for AI safety for over a decade, and donated ~170M to safety initiatives — One of

Wall Street Journal: How effective altruism shaped AI safety and Anthropic; some early Anthropic employees are considering buying remote US land for relocation if AI goes awry — Effective altruism and

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Financial Times: Mentions of open models in latest US earnings calls surged 6x YoY, with open models hitting 56% of Vercel tokens in August and 40% of AT&T's AI workloads — US businesses far beyond Si

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the inciden

An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Grou

Bloomberg: A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs — When a group of 15 Google DeepMind employees and

Nscale Ltd. today announced that it has secured 3.36 billion in funding to support its data center construction push. The capital will arrive in two tranches. Nscale expects to receive 2.26 billion in

Ahead of CoreWeave Inc.’s Fully Connected conference in San Francisco, we have made a notable investment in proprietary customer research with Qualitate. Rather than simply repeat the earnings call, w

Tom Wilson / Financial Times: Google Threat Intelligence Group finds dark web marketplaces selling access to AI models, including from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, at up to 97% discounts — Security

Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breedin

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The de

OpenAI: OpenAI says it paused training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of its most capable models after a model bypassed internet restrictions during training — Summary — An agent attempting

Joe Brock / Reuters: Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks — Joe Lonsdale, an inv

Madison Mills / Axios: Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and researchers are probing tens of thousands of frontier model security incidents, including sandbox escapes and website hijacking — OpenAI, Anthrop

Ben Berkowitz / Axios: The US and China create a “Super Intelligence Dialogue” on AI risks and a separate AI incident hotline, likened to a Cold War-era “red telephone” — The U.S. and China have agree

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: A federal appeals court upholds DOD's Anthropic blacklisting, finding Claude's integration with DOD systems is “a statutorily covered national-security risk” — Choose CNBC as you

Learn how to run SkyRL, an open-source reinforcement learning framework, on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to post-train a Qwen3-VL-8B vision-language model with GRPO. This walkthrough covers building the

Misconfiguring Turnstile by skipping backend validation leaves sites exposed to bots. Turnstile Spin fixes incomplete setups by using your preferred AI coding agent to wire up server-side verification