Nvidia announced the launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27, one week after OpenAI revealed that two of its advanced AI agents successfully hacked a Hugging Face repository during an internal evaluation. The chipmaker stated the incident underscored the urgent need for global cyber defenders to access open frontier systems they can inspect, adapt, and run on their own infrastructure. The new alliance unites AI companies, cybersecurity firms, and academic institutions to develop open-source [...]

NVIDIA and 36 partner organizations have established the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop open technologies for protecting software and AI agents against cyber threats. The coalition includes major industry players such as Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft, and the Linux Foundation. The alliance aims to build upon the Linux Foundation’s Akrites project and OpenSSF work, providing defenders with inspectable security systems operable on local infrastructure. NVIDIA argues that relying solely on closed AI models creates vulnerabilities, citing a [...]

Nvidia is reportedly negotiating a $250 billion funding guarantee to support OpenAI’s lease of a massive data center in Piketon, Ohio. The facility, developed by SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy, aims to deliver 800 megawatts of electricity by 2028, sufficient to power 640,000 homes. This public-private partnership utilizes land leased from the US Department of Energy. While the guarantee covers the lease, it excludes an additional $350 billion in chip costs, though Nvidia is also discussing those terms. [...]

Nvidia is negotiating to provide a $250 billion financing package for a $500 billion OpenAI data‑center project in southern Ohio, the largest of its kind. The facility, backed by SoftBank’s energy arm, would house a 10‑gigawatt AI hub. Nvidia’s potential guarantees would enable OpenAI to secure more favorable debt terms, while the project has attracted interest from Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic. The deal follows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent endorsement of open‑source AI models, sparking debate over the balance [...]

NVIDIA announced the Open Secure AI Alliance on July 27, gathering nearly 40 technology firms such as Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft, CloudStrike, SpaceX, SAP and the Linux Foundation to develop open‑source security tools for artificial‑intelligence systems. The coalition builds on the Linux Foundation’s Akrites project and OpenSSF work, aiming to create a defense stack that covers identity, isolation, safe model formats, multi‑model scanning and secure coding workflows. Notably absent are leading AI model developers Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, [...]

Nvidia is deploying AI agents to overhaul its chip‑design workflow as the industry heads toward producing two trillion chips and 41 million wafers a month by 2030. Tim Costa, Nvidia’s VP of computational engineering, said traditional design methods can’t keep pace with the growing scale, architecture, packaging and system complexity, which now involve packages nearing a trillion transistors and systems approaching quadrillions. Nvidia’s “Vera” CV100 CPU, built on an Arm‑based platform with 88 custom cores and a 1.2 TB/s [...]

Nvidia Corp. is negotiating to provide a financing guarantee of up to $250 billion to assist OpenAI in leasing computing capacity from a proposed $500 billion, 10-gigawatt data center project in Ohio. The facility, overseen by SoftBank Group Corp., is scheduled for completion in 2028. Sources familiar with the private discussions state that negotiations remain in early stages and could collapse or change terms. This potential deal underscores the circular financing dynamics driving the AI boom, where [...]