The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."
—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Latest corporate news, GPU platform announcements, Blackwell chip scaling, and market leadership developments from NVIDIA.
The company said Quasar 438B scored 43 on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index, ahead of Mistral Medium 3.5 at 30, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra at 38 and Inkling at 42.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. CEO Jensen Huang said the open-source AI platform will stay independent of NVIDIA hardware, while NVIDIA scales its infrastructure for more than 18 million developers sharing millions of models and datasets.
More than 100 Poolside employees, including engineers, are expected to join NVIDIA and contribute to its Nemotron open-weight AI models.
NVIDIA will provide credit support for 4.25 IT-GW of initial capacity at PORTS-Pike, where OpenAI will be the customer and SB Energy will build, own and operate the data center.
A working group convened by NVIDIA has drafted SAFE, a framework under which companies would confidentially report AI agent security incidents into a shared pool.
NVIDIA launches Alpamayo 2 Super, its frontier open 34B-parameter reasoning vision-language-action model for autonomous vehicles. Built on Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and released under OpenMDW-1.1 for commercial use, it enables robotaxis, trucks and mobile robots to reason before acting.
A Reuters review of over 80 academic papers and patents has found Chinese institutes with ties to the PLA using distillation techniques on US AI models, including OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and Anthropic’s Claude Haiku, to develop domestic defense-linked AI systems.
Researchers and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta,, and other frontier AI companies are urging US government support for AI pacing tools, arguing competition makes it hard for individual companies to slow down.
As the AI chip race intensifies, the collaboration spans AI factory construction, AI memory supply and AI cloud infrastructure, combining SK Telecom’s AI infrastructure with SK hynix’s advanced HBM technology to support sovereign, enterprise and physical AI expansion.
NVIDIA, IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, SpaceX and nearly 40 other technology companies have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a global coalition to develop and share open-source tools, techniques and models to defend against AI-powered cyberattacks.
