Going rogue. Breaking containment. Misalignment. P(doom). As the industry booms, an entirely new vernacular has emerged in the debates over how consequential artificial intelligence really…
Author: Lauren Goode
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
Amidst ongoing reports of AI agents wreaking havoc on online infrastructure, chipmaker Nvidia is rallying tech companies to use its new open-source tool for AI…
AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
A biological computing startup that uses neural patterns from rat brain cells to build artificial intelligence just got a major boost from Amazon. Starting Tuesday,…
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand,…
A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler also says it has improved the density of SRAM using ferroelectrics, which can read and write data at lower voltages than the mechanisms typically…
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, which makes online developer tools and maintains a massive library of open-source data sets, for nearly $13 billion.…
Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI
A huge debate is brewing in Silicon Valley over the proliferation of Chinese-made artificial intelligence tools, particularly “open-weight” AI systems that, by some measures, can…
Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia is hyping up its new Vera Rubin chip system this week, revealing new performance benchmarks for the GPU and CPU combo ahead of rival…
Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion
Qualcomm will acquire the Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion. The companies announced the acquisition on Wednesday; Qualcomm said it expects to…