Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company will send AI chips to Saudi Arabia's Humain for a 500 MW data center buildout, as President Trump visits the kingdom
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, the Gulf nation's capital.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company will send AI chips to Saudi Arabia's Humain for a 500 MW data center buildout, as President Trump visits the kingdom
Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, the Gulf nation's capital.
Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's OFAC, which administers economic sanctions, and two other Treasury offices
Treasury's sanctions office hacked by Chinese government, officials say A troubling series of breaches of U.S. firms and agencies …
AT&T and Verizon say their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion; AT&T says a few “individuals of foreign intelligence interest” were targeted
- Carriers said hackers targeted political, intelligence figures — White House said nine telecom companies were victims
AT&T and Verizon say their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion; AT&T says a few “individuals of foreign intelligence interest” were targeted
- Carriers said hackers targeted political, intelligence figures — White House said nine telecom companies were victims
Sources: TSMC and Samsung executives have visited the UAE and are considering building UAE-funded chip factories; TSMC denies any new international expansion
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The US orders China-linked crypto mining company MineOne to sell property the company bought near an Air Force base in Wyoming, citing a national security risk
The White House on Monday gave a Chinese-linked company and its partners 120 days to sell property they had bought near …
Robotics startup Figure AI confirms raising $675M at a $2.6B valuation and is partnering with OpenAI to “develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots”
we're collaborating with @Figure_robot to expand our multimodal models to robotic perception, reasoning, and interaction. https://www.prnewswire.com/... Adam Cochran / @adamscochra...
Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019
- Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team
Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019
- Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team
A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears
without any public paper trail.” The data must flow. https://www.politico.com/... Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq : <rubs eyes> I'm sorry, a new one? Inside Biden's secret surveilla...
LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes
U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $4.6 billion worth of shares trade hands as of Thursday afternoon …
A look at SEC's hilariously grudging approval of bitcoin ETFs and the likelihood that they will be “physical” ETFs or interest-paying ETFs in the future
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Sources: Chinese-backed hackers breached Japanese cybersecurity agency NISC's email system; experts link the July 4 ransomware attack on Port of Nagoya to China
Infiltration comes as allies scrutinise Tokyo's defences against hacking — The organisation responsible for Japan's national defences …
OpenAI forms Superalignment, a team for developing ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems, with access to 20% of its compute secured to date
OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company's co-founders …
Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even ban the sales of Nvidia's A800 chip without a license
Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking
Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation's facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a potential cyberattack
updating software to fix vulnerabilities—using only Chinese nationals at the facility in Dalian, a port city at the southern tip of China's Liaoning province.” https://www.wsj.com/...
The European Union strike a provisional deal for its ~$47B Chips Act, which aims to double the bloc's share of global chip output to 20% by 2030
here's everything that's in it Tobias Mann / The Register : Europe finalizes €43B Chips Act it hopes will help free it from foreign fabs Jo He-rim / The Korea Herald : EU Chips Act...
Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more
Over 1,000 people, including Elon Musk, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. — Signatures