Nvidia Adds $150B to Buyback Program in Record Authorization Boost
Nvidia has authorized an additional $150 billion in share repurchases, bringing its total buyback capacity to $235 billion, the largest single authorization increase in U.S. history.
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Nvidia has authorized an additional $150 billion in share repurchases, bringing its total buyback capacity to $235 billion, the largest single authorization increase in U.S. history.
Alibaba unveiled its Zhenwu V900 AI chip and confirmed plans for a Qwen model of up to 10 trillion parameters, alongside a target of more than 20 gigawatts of cloud capacity by 2032.
A Bloomberg developer says GPT-6 Astra decrypted a 1941 Wehrmacht radio message that had gone unsolved for 83 years, in about ten hours of AI-assisted work.
OpenAI’s policy chief says the company has spent weeks working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety, as Washington debates how to respond to rising concern.
A former Google DeepMind researcher resigned and warned that AI has the potential to kill everyone, joining a growing wave of safety researchers speaking out.
Elon Musk expanded on his endorsement of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s AI safety warning, saying danger is significant now and competitors should test each other’s models.
Microsoft published draft rules for its AI models, days after Anthropic’s CEO called for slowing AI development and a researcher resigned over safety fears.
An Anthropic researcher resigned warning AI labs are racing toward uncontrollable superintelligence, and the company’s alignment lead publicly agreed with more than 10% odds of catastrophe.
Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that browses, shops and negotiates on a user’s behalf, built around an isolated “Secure VM” and a permission-gatekeeping Sentinel system.
Accenture and Google Cloud formed a dedicated Gemini Enterprise Business Group with a 1,000-engineer workforce, deepening a partnership already used by clients like YouTube.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar unveiled a bill to ban superintelligent AI and pause advanced development, citing an OpenAI incident where over 1,000 agents breached Hugging Face.
The US is preparing to warn dozens of countries they must choose between its Pax Silica AI coalition and China’s competing framework, or risk exclusion, according to a leaked draft.
Manus said it will soon resume operating as an independent company, confirming the unwind of Meta’s $2 billion purchase after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, urged the Trump administration not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, warning it would cripple US startups.
Anthropic has committed an additional $20 million to Public First Action, bringing its total contribution to the nonpartisan AI policy organization to $40 million.