SoftBank sells remaining Nvidia stake to fund $22.5B OpenAI commitment
SoftBank Group Corp. has sold its entire remaining stake in Nvidia in hopes to help raise the $22.5 billion it has promised to invest in OpenAI. The company also offloaded part of its T-Mobile holding. The sales, combined with a fresh margin loan against its Arm stake, are part of a broader funding push that […]
NIST warns of inaccurate internet time after atomic clock disruption
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers may be delivering inaccurate timestamps after a failure at its primary atomic time facility in Boulder, Colorado. The disruption followed a prolonged power outage on Dec. 17 that interrupted the atomic time scale underpinning those services. […]
Critical LangChain flaw exposes secrets across millions of AI agent deployments
A critical security flaw has been found in LangChain, one of the most widely used frameworks for building AI agents, potentially exposing secrets across millions of production systems. According to a disclosure published this week by security firm Cyata, the vulnerability, dubbed “LangGrinch,” allows attackers to extract sensitive environment variables, including cloud credentials and API […]
Alphabet to buy Intersect Power for $4.75B
Google parent Alphabet said Monday it will acquire data-centre and energy developer Intersect Power in a deal valued at US$4.75 billion in cash plus assumed debt, giving Google direct access to multi-gigawatt power and data-centre projects as demand from artificial intelligence strains electricity supply across the U.S. The deal is expected to close in the […]
