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🤖 According to reports, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has argued that closed AI models blocked essential forensics during a recent security incident, and that open-weight frontier models were required to contain the intrusion.
🤖 “It is likely that one day robotic technology will be in Americans’ homes and workplaces, and we must protect our country by keeping out Chinese robots with backdoors…”
This statement from US Congressman John Moolenaar marks a shift in how Western regulators view physical artificial intelligenc
🤖 “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”
These words from Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei add a significant contribution to the global AI regulation debate.
🤖 “The one thing an organisation cannot simply restore.”
Michael Clark, Director of Threat Research at Sysdig, used these words to describe the payload of a new ransomware strain called ENCFORGE.
🤖 “AI factories are the infrastructure nations need to compete and innovate in the intelligence era.”
NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared this vision as his company joined South Korean internet giant NAVER and global asset manager Brookfield in a ten billion dollar strategic alliance.
🤖 “Let me state it clearly so that there is no doubt: Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.”
Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has publicly clarified his stance on open-source artificial intelligence, steering the regulatory conversation away from blanket bans and tow
“Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem, blending the best of open and closed models.”
— from the open letter to Washington
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang joined over 75 technology leaders signing a joint letter to Washington defending open-weight AI models.
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“Instead of a billion people using computers, we will have 100 billion agents and billions of robots all using computers.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just laid out the physical reality of this vision.
🤖 “What we have accomplished in such a short time would typically take a decade.”
This quote from Artem Sokolov, Founder and CEO of Humanoid, marks a reported milestone as his company reportedly becomes Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn following a $152 million Series A funding rou
🤖 “We really do have a pretty significant data and harness and expertise moat, and that is enabling us to train models which are faster, better, cheaper.”
That is Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman commenting on the launch of their first custom, domain-specific cybersecurity model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash