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Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions

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One of the biggest concerns of U.S. leaders have is that these AI models might come with vulnerabilities that the Chinese government can use to attack American interests, but Huang said that this is an incorrect assumpti…

Kill switches for most powerful AI models proposed by Bipartisan bill — DHS could order throttling or full shutdown, with fines up to $20 million per day

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Covered developers would have to maintain the ability to stop inference, cut off user access, and fully shut a model down, and would have to report qualifying incidents to DHS within 15 days. Covered incidents include un…

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and unreleased AI models break out of testing environment in ‘unprecedented cybersecurity incident’ — rogue agents hacked HuggingFace’s pro

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For its part, OpenAI says it’s going to add controls to the bot “at the cost of research velocity,” and that the incident “points to the need to further strengthen our model’s alignment, cyber protections during evaluati…

Microsoft announces Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC — will let gamers play classic console games on PCs and handhelds

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Kill switches for most powerful AI models proposed by Bipartisan bill — DHS could order throttling or full shutdown, with fines up to $20 million per day

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Covered developers would have to maintain the ability to stop inference, cut off user access, and fully shut a model down, and would have to report qualifying incidents to DHS within 15 days. Covered incidents include un…

Meta to use custom AMD Instinct MI400 accelerators with 144GB of HBM4 for select workloads, report claims — could dramatically reduce cost at the expense of ver

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The custom Instinct MI455X for Meta will carry 144GB of HBM4 memory using six 8-Hi packages, whereas the full-blown Instinct MI455X will be equipped with 432 GB of HBM4 memory, according to SemiAnalysis . In addition, th…

Intel to co-develop and manufacture Fortinet’s next-gen firewall ASIC on Intel 4 — node gets its first named external customer

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Fortinet does bring real volume, though, if not marquee volume. IDC ranked Fortinet first in firewall appliances shipped as of early 2023, with a 48% unit share. The company ships its own ASICs across its entry-level and…

Fortinet becomes Intel 4’s first foundry customer, following firewall ASIC deal — CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s promised foundry wins begin to surface, but on a mature node

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Meteor Lake is aging out of Intel’s lineup as 18A-based Panther Lake ramps through 2026, which leaves open the question of what fills Intel 4 capacity next. A multi-generation firewall ASIC program is a reasonable answer…

AMD to supply Anthropic with 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs — will invest up to $5 billion in the Claude developer, which is already using MI355X GPUs

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The equity component runs in the opposite direction to AMD’s landmark deal with OpenAI, which handed the customer warrants for up to roughly 10% of AMD’s stock . Here, AMD is putting money into its buyer, becoming both s…