Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news
Nvidia is pulling Wall Street into the AI buildout. Its shares fell on the news

A group of financial firms is working with Nvidia on a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure. The group covers Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR. …

OpenAI paused a model over cyber risk on Friday. On Monday it shipped one trained to refuse less.
OpenAI paused a model over cyber risk on Friday. On Monday it shipped one trained to refuse less.

OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on Monday. It is a model built on GPT-5.6 Sol and trained for zero-day discovery and exploit-chain development, and the company says it was also trained to refuse fewer higher-risk dual-use cyber requests. Access runs only…

YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program
YouTube just doubled the price of admission to its Partner Program

From 1 February 2027, a channel applying to the YouTube Partner Program will need 1,000 subscribers and 8,000 valid public watch hours over the previous 365 days. The current bar is 4,000 hours over 12 months. The Shorts route doubles as well. Twenty m…

House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.
House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.

The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the …

The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230
The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230

The Ninth Circuit handed the social media companies a defeat on Monday. It did not hand them a ruling. The San Francisco appeals court rejected their bid to overturn a lower court and shut down some 2,400 federal lawsuits over claims they built their p…

Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968
Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968

Mark Zuckerberg announced a $1 billion Future Is For Everyone Fund on Monday. It will invest directly in the American communities where Meta builds data centres. The commitment sits inside a 6,500-word letter, The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a …

Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it
Lambda is borrowing $917m to buy chips from the company that invests in it

Lambda is selling a $917 million leveraged loan to finance a chip purchase, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Jeannine Amodeo, Paula Seligson and Gowri Gurumurthy broke the story. The money pays for GPUs and other infrastructure as part of a contract with …

American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.

Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpasse…

Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale
Malicious AI ‘skills’ turned agents into credential thieves, at scale

Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the research at the Black Hat conference. Attackers had cloned real skills into typosquat…

OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk
OpenAI is slowing down its next model over ‘critical’ cyber risk

OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities. So it is pausing some internal work on the model and scaling up …