OpenAI is close to landing a $500 billion data centre with backing from Nvidia, the chipmaking giant. Nvidia is in talks to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would rank among the largest of the AI boom. The facility represents a major bet on the infrastructure needed to train and run frontier AI models at scale. Source
Nvidia and Microsoft have launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, uniting them with SpaceX, IBM, and other technology companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The initiative excludes OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models, reflecting mounting concerns over the safety of increasingly capable AI systems. Source
Enigma raised $71 million in its seed round to simplify robot control by making it as intuitive as adjusting volume. The round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Conviction Partners, Sarah Guo's investment firm. The capital will support the robotics company as it scales its technology for making autonomous systems easier to operate. Source
Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43 percent of searches, marking a rapid adoption of AI-generated answers as the default way people discover information online. The expansion underscores how quickly the company's search-integrated AI feature is reshaping user behaviour and information access patterns across the web. Source
Hundreds of conversations with Claude, Anthropic's chatbot, were discovered as being publicly accessible online. The issue appears to have originated from Claude's "share chat" feature, which allows users to create links enabling anyone with the assigned URL to view a conversation, raising questions about how ostensibly private AI interactions are being indexed and exposed by search engines. Source