Nvidia's $5B Bet on Sutskever

The Signal · 2026-07-28

The safety race just got a chipmaker's backing. Nvidia announced a $5 billion equity investment in Safe Superintelligence, the lab founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The deal hands the lab Nvidia GPUs, boosting its compute tenfold.

Also today: After an autonomous agent cyberattack on OpenAI, Hugging Face's CEO is demanding radical transparency, calling the incident unprecedented and pressing OpenAI to disclose what happened.

Microsoft unveiled new AI security tools to continuously find and cut customer risk exposure, saying they automate workflows and outperform competing platforms.

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