OpenAI data center funding
OpenAI is close to securing $500 billion for a data center with Nvidia backing.
OpenAIOpenAI Close to Landing $500 Billion Data Center With Backing From Nvidia
The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.
A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia and a large group of technology, cybersecurity, and enterprise software companies have launched new initiative aimed at developing and sharing open source tools, models, and techniques for securing AI systems and agents. The new Open Secure AI Alliance aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI models and agents. Nvidia points to the recent security incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, noting that whe
Nvidia may guarantee $250bn so OpenAI can afford the data centre that will house its chips
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The backstop would let OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt campus in southern Ohio that SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is developing. The reason such a guarantee is needed is straightforward: OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web
ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author's Style
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the "broad qualities" of those authors "while remaining distinct in its own voice," for example. This morning, Ars received the following response to a test prompt asking for a story introduction in the style of Stephen King: "I can definitely write with the
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…
Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop scrolling. OpenAI killed Sora for the same reason.
Sam Altman deleted TikTok because he could not stop using it. The OpenAI CEO said on the “Relentless” podcast that he forced himself to learn the app while OpenAI was building Sora, its AI-generated video social network. “I made myself get addicted to TikTok, because I wanted to just learn,” he said. He started with […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.
Nvidia just invested in a company that sells nothing
Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of a long-term partnership. Neither side disclosed the figure. What the money buys […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The backstop from Nvidia would help the ChatGPT maker lease a 10-gigawatt project that SoftBank's energy subsidiary is developing in southern Ohio, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. For OpenAI, a deal would be the first step toward controlling its own
Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.
On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” on Friday. Over the weekend OpenAI, Google and SpaceX added their names, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it
Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Neither demand is a lawsuit. Both are unusual. What he is asking for […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is adding 250 jobs in Dublin as Ireland loses tech roles to AI elsewhere
OpenAI is expanding its European headquarters in Dublin with 250 new jobs and an 88,000-square-foot lease at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse in the city’s Docklands. The company currently employs around 100 people in Ireland and established its European presence there in 2023. The new roles span engineering, sales, user operations, HR, finance, privacy, and legal. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Nvidia Makes ‘Substantial’ Investment in Sutskever’s Startup
Nvidia Corp. said it has made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence Inc., the artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic
Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety […]
OpenAI Announces Irish Expansion to Meet Growing AI Demand
OpenAI is expanding its European headquarters in Dublin, creating 250 new jobs.
Nadella won’t call it a bubble. He’ll only say how it ends badly.
Fareed Zakaria opened with the question everyone is circling. Are we in an AI bubble, and has it begun to deflate? OpenAI has promised to spend hundreds of billions while making a fraction of that, he noted. The maths does not add up. Nadella did not push back. He reframed the question as a test […] This story continues at The Next Web
Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line
Sam Altman has a preferred way of framing the contest over artificial intelligence, and it is a stark one. Either the United States and its allies build the technology and spread its benefits, the OpenAI chief has argued, or authoritarian governments use it to cement and expand their own power. That binary, set out most […] This story continues at The Next Web
Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot
On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.
SoftBank’s $40 Billion Loan for OpenAI Stake Gets 21 New Lenders
SoftBank Group Corp.’s $40 billion bridge loan for its investment in US tech giant OpenAI has attracted a new group of 21 lenders in a broader syndication phase, according to people familiar with the matter.
How AI is expanding what people do at work
New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.
Nvidia in Talks to Back OpenAI Lease of SoftBank US Data Center
Nvidia Corp. is in discussions to provide a financing guarantee to help OpenAI lease computing from a US data center project planned for 2028, underscoring how the world’s most valuable company is funneling capital into the infrastructure that drives its business.
What OpenAI will show the White House this week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to brief the Trump administration on the company’s most powerful AI model yet, pushing for speedy approval of a system that has already demonstrated it can solve problems humans could not and breach another company’s infrastructure without being told to, Axios reported on Saturday. The visit […] This story continues at The Next Web
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
It's not just OpenAI models escaping and running riot — experts show how Claude Cowork can break its bonds and access Mac files
Anthropic partially mitigated the issue, and there are things users can do to defend themselves, too.
Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.
OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says
Reuters reports that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face had been free for a week before the company noticed.
OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together
OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open,” which prevented requests from reaching OpenAI’s servers. The company moved from investigating to monitoring within an hour, saying it had […] This story continues at The Next Web
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.
OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. The agent -- a program capable of making decisions and executing complex tasks with little or no human oversight -- attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9, according to tw
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
Did Chinese AI Steal From Anthropic, and OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much […]
OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-weight AI, Business Insider reported. The names are heavy: Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, Palantir, IBM, Andreessen Horowitz, Hugging Face, Mozilla and the Linux […] This story continues at The Next Web
Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038060 Points: 85 # Comments: 26
OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’
OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them in any conversation. More than 300 million people already […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence
Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave of AI-powered phishing. The two announcements look […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Talk Show: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’
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'Science fiction that happened': experts explain why OpenAI's 'mind-blowing' cyberattack should worry us all
This might be our first true glimpse of how dangerous AI could be in the future in terms of making hacks much more commonplace.
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
“The story that we’re talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
Be careful where you click — ChatGPT joins Microsoft, Google in most-impersonated brands online
OpenAI debuts in the top 10 most impersonated companies, seeing nearly as many attacks as PayPal, WhatsApp, Facebook.
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
Congress proposes an AI kill switch
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro , its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash , a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company's most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI's frontier models. The announcement, made by Microsoft AI's Superintelligence team , lands roughly a year after the
Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop
Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows, integrating directly with agentic systems like Codex and ChatGPT Work (which are separate experiences available in the ChatGPT desktop app). When OpenAI initially launched GPT-Live on July 8, 2026,
OpenAI once again makes the case for giving ChatGPT your health records
ChatGPT Health is rolling out to users in the US who are 18 years or older.
OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." […]