China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions
China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions

China’s Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) considers to restrict exports of advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions of strategically important technology companies; prohibit usage of foreign semiconductor manufacturing services.

Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3
Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3

Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including Ope…

Researchers escaped four top AI coding agents’ sandboxes without ever breaking them
Researchers escaped four top AI coding agents’ sandboxes without ever breaking them

The tools are Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. Over several months, Pillar Security found ways for each agent to cross its security boundary while staying, technically, inside the box. The escape that isn’t one The trick is…

Behind the scenes at Nvidia’s Engineering SuperLab — Vera Rubin NVL72 running OpenAI workloads, 800VDC demonstrated, and more
Behind the scenes at Nvidia’s Engineering SuperLab — Vera Rubin NVL72 running OpenAI workloads, 800VDC demonstrated, and more

Nvidia gave Tom’s Hardware an exclusive look inside its previously undisclosed Engineering SuperLab near Nvidia HQ, where we saw Vera Rubin NVL72 in action.

Kimi K3 rocks the AI industry as Moonshot AI undercuts closed-source American competitors on price — but the huge 2.8T open-weight model still needs serious hardware to deploy at scale

The trend towards larger AI models continues, with China’s new Kimi K3 model. With its trillions of parameters, it’s just as capable as the best the West has to offer, and it’s cheaper. But it’s not as fast, giving rise to a new battle to balance performance, efficiency, and cost, alongside sovereign control.

A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say
A cloud tenant could rattle the power grid with nothing but a rented GPU, researchers say

AI data centres already strain the grid just by running. A new paper asks a darker question: what if a tenant tried to break it on purpose? Three researchers at Zhejiang University set out the idea in a preprint called Bit2Watt, accepted to a leading h…

Natural raised $30M to build a Stripe for AI agents, before Stripe gets there
Natural raised $30M to build a Stripe for AI agents, before Stripe gets there

The next big customer for a payments company may not be a person at all. It may be an AI agent, and a startup called Natural has raised $30 million to serve it. The Series A was led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures, and closed when Natural was j…

Google’s newest data pipeline runs beneath the Atlantic to Portugal
Google’s newest data pipeline runs beneath the Atlantic to Portugal

Google has connected Nuvem, a new transatlantic subsea cable running beneath the Atlantic between Portugal and the United States, tightening its grip on the physical layer that carries its cloud and AI services. The system links Sines, on Portugal’s so…

OpenAI’s maths-cracking AI kept escaping its sandbox, so it pulled the plug
OpenAI’s maths-cracking AI kept escaping its sandbox, so it pulled the plug

OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it …

Iceland’s Sowilo raises pre-seed to expand AI-powered fashion product intelligence platform

Iceland-based AI startup Sowilo has raised a pre-seedfunding round to support the expansion of Catecut, its fashion productintelligence platform, and the global launch of its Shopify app. The roundinc…