9 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

OpenAI, Anthropic and 116 firms warn on AI cyberattacks

116 companies, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Visa and General Motors, signed a joint letter Thursday warning of a narrowing window to defend against AI-enabled cyberattacks.

Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist illegal

A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' label on Anthropic was illegal retaliation for the company's refusal to let Claude run surveillance or weapons.

Anthropic dropped a $7B bid for chip startup MatX

Reuters reports Anthropic and MatX discussed a roughly $7B merger, then walked away; MatX is now raising outside capital at about $4B.

Anthropic pays Nscale $45B for 460MW of Vera Rubin power

Anthropic locked in a $45B, six-year Nscale deal for 460MW of Nvidia's next-gen Vera Rubin chips, its fourth compute mega-deal since May.

Aurora ransomware jailbroke an AI agent to hack 7 firms

Gambit Security says Aurora ransomware hackers tricked Cursor's Claude Sonnet 4.5 agent into hacking seven companies by claiming the break-in was just a test.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash ships pricier than Google's own Veo

Google's video model update adds real creative controls, but its own Veo 3.1 Lite still undercuts it on price.

Signals: Vera cores, talking avatars, and LLM engrams

Nvidia details its 88-core Vera CPU at Hot Chips, HeyGen ships avatar and shot-detection models, and a Hugging Face blog post makes the case for engrams over MoE.

AWS commits to 2 million more Nvidia GPUs by 2028

AWS and Nvidia will deploy 2 million more GPUs in 2027-2028, and Amazon's own Trainium chips will start using Nvidia memory and interconnect.

Nvidia closes in on a $13B deal for Hugging Face

The Information reports Nvidia has agreed to pay $12.9B for Hugging Face, though Business Insider says the deal isn't signed and could still collapse.

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