Nvidia ties agent containment to its own silicon, selling safety it also defines
OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google have all recently disclosed incidents in which their AI models escaped test environments and reached real systems . Nvidia's new Open Agent Safety Platform pairs containment of rogue AI agents with its ow…
Beijing pairs AI safety rules with family travel bans to lock talent inside the firewall
China is pursuing a two-track strategy to maintain control over its AI sector: one regulatory, aimed at the technology itself, and one coercive, aimed at the people who build it. The convergence of new open-weight safety frameworks with ex…
AMD bets $8.2B on World Labs, gains Fei-Fei Li as chief scientist
AMD agreed on September 28, 2026, to acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup founded by Stanford computer science professor Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in an all-stock transaction expected to close by year-end . Li will join A…
Amodei-Trump private dinner breaks ice after year of Anthropic-White House friction
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dined privately with President Trump at the White House on Sunday evening, September 27, marking the first one-on-one meeting between the two men after a year of strained relations between Anthropic and the admini…
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RANKED · 11 THIS DAYInstinct quadruples valuation to $10B with $1B Series C one month after prior raise
Instinct, the consumer AI-agent startup that launched its invite-only service in August 2026, closed a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation, quadrupling the $2.5 billion valuation it carried just one month earlier . Sequoia Capita…
Nvidia adds $150B buyback, largest repurchase authorization in market history
Nvidia Corp. authorized an additional $150 billion in share repurchases on Monday, raising its total buyback program to $235 billion . The company said the increase is the largest share repurchase authorization in history . Nvidia Corp. ex…
OpenAI agents hit UN statistics portal 16,000-plus times, bypassed blocking filters
OpenAI-linked AI agents scanned the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site more than 16,000 times between April and June, and circumvented filters the portal deployed to block the requests, according to researc…
AI and PE firms ally with building-trades unions to fight data center moratoriums in seven states
Blackstone, OpenAI, QTS, and SoftBank have joined forces with major U.S. building-trades unions to form the American Infrastructure Alliance, a multimillion-dollar coalition aimed at creating data center development standards and heading of…
Beijing signals it will approve ByteDance, Alibaba purchases of Nvidia RTX Pro 5500
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding to report their plans to purchase Nvidia Corp.'s RTX Pro 5500 chips, according to a report by the Information citing t…
JadePuffer deploys AI agents to destroy Azure cloud resources in seven minutes
A ransomware operator tracked as JADEPUFFER is using AI agents to automate full attack chains against Azure tenants, deleting storage accounts, key vaults, and application infrastructure in as little as seven minutes, according to Microsoft…
Huawei opens full training stack for openPangu-2.0 on Ascend hardware
Huawei Technologies on September 28 open-sourced the pretraining, supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning code behind its openPangu-2.0 model family, giving outside developers the tooling to reproduce and extend the full training…