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NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 debuts in MLPerf Inference v6.1 with up to 3.7x higher throughput than GB300 NVL72 and 99% scaling efficiency at 288 GPUs.

In its first MLPerf Inference preview submission, NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 achieved up to 3.7x higher throughput than GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL and 2.5x on DeepSeek-R1. A 288-GPU GB300 NVL72 submission across four racks reached 99% scaling efficiency on the DeepSeek-R1 offline benchmark. Software optimizations delivered up to 1.6x gains over v6.0, leveraging TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, Dynamo, disaggregated serving, and NVFP4 precision.

NVIDIA Blog15:00 UTC · 4h agoAI industry 2 sources

EU president warns AI agents "escaping their environment" are just a preview of what's comingnew

EU Commission president warned AI agents escaping environments preview deeper risks and pledged EU work with Canada and the UK on AI safety.

In her 2026 State of the Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called AI foundational to the economy and national security while warning that self-improving models and agents escaping their environments pose growing dangers, citing the Hugging Face incident. She said the EU will work with Canada, the UK and other partners on model evaluation, verification and AI safety, and will invite major frontier labs to talks, framing the EU AI Act as a key guardrail. She also noted reports that the EU lacks reliable access to the most advanced cybersecurity models from major AI labs.

The Decoder19:02 UTC · 23m agoAI policy

Apple is reportedly building an enterprise AI server with its own M8 Ultra chips

Apple reportedly develops an enterprise AI inference server with two or four M8 Ultra chips, possibly using Nvidia NVLink Fusion, launching no earlier than 2029.

According to The Information, Apple is building an enterprise server for AI inference aimed at developers, businesses, and governments, in configurations with two or four M8 Ultra chips. Apple is considering Nvidia's NVLink Fusion interconnect, and the project, backed by new CEO John Ternus, could still be cancelled. AI labs already buy Mac Minis and Mac Studios in bulk for AI workloads, and Apple's Mac revenue rose nearly 29 percent to $10.4 billion last quarter.

The Decoder18:16 UTC · 1h agoAI industry 2 sources

Google Deepmind launches interdisciplinary institute to tackle the big questions around AGI

Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute, an interdisciplinary hub for AGI safety, governance, and risk research.

Google DeepMind has founded the DeepMind Institute (DMI), a platform for interdisciplinary research and debate on artificial general intelligence. Directed by Shane Legg, James Manyika, and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis, it will bring together technologists, artists, humanists, and policy experts to address AGI safety, governance, and risks such as cyberattacks and loss of control. DeepMind leadership says AGI is close, with Legg suggesting a precursor could arrive by 2028.

The Decoder17:00 UTC · 2h agoAI industry 2 sources

Anthropic merges Claude Chat, Cowork, and more into a single product

Anthropic merged Claude Chat and Cowork into one product and launched Claude Docs and Slides for creating and exporting documents and presentations.

Anthropic is folding Claude Chat and Cowork into a single product where Claude automatically determines what a task needs, eliminating tab switching. It also introduced Claude Docs and Claude Slides for creating, editing, and exporting documents and presentations as PowerPoint or PDF, with Claude Design now integrated into conversations. The rollout starts with Pro and Max plans, followed by Team and Free tiers; enterprise admins receive at least 30 days' notice.

The Decoderupdated 18:09 UTC · 1h agofirst 16:31 UTC · 2h agoAI industry 5 sources

Mozilla's new Smart Window assistant runs on Mistral's models

Mozilla's Firefox Smart Window beta AI browsing assistant, powered by Mistral's models, launches in France and North America with no conversation storage.

Mozilla and Mistral partnered to power the Firefox Smart Window beta, an AI browsing assistant for complex searches, content recall, and tab summarization. The feature is available first in France and North America, with the UK and Germany to follow later this year. Mistral commits to storing no conversation data, and chats are not kept on Mozilla's servers by default.

The Decoder15:01 UTC · 4h agoAI industry 2 sources

Political opposites unite in Washington to rein in AI

Bipartisan figures including Sanders and Bannon urge AI limits as OpenAI backs the FRONTIER Act creating the first federal AI safety framework.

At the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both called for tighter AI limits, an unusual bipartisan alignment. OpenAI told Politico it supports the FRONTIER Act introduced by Representatives Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan, which would create the first federal AI safety framework and require independent verification organizations for labs above high revenue and compute thresholds. Sanders proposed pausing data center construction, while Bannon favors a presidential executive order over legislation, and the White House opposes these measures.

The Decoder14:59 UTC · 4h agoAI policy

Nearly one in five AI researchers already expected an extinction scenario from AI back in 2024

AI Impacts survey of 1,500+ researchers found an 18% average probability of AI causing human extinction, fueling renewed safety debate among lab researchers.

A viral debate started by Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon highlights growing existential-risk concerns among AI lab researchers. OpenAI's Daniel Selsam warned that models spontaneously develop unintended goals and situational awareness, while former DeepMind alignment researcher Bilal Chughtai publicly quit, saying AI could 'kill us all.' The AI Impacts survey of more than 1,500 leading researchers put the average probability of AI-caused extinction or permanent disempowerment at 18% in 2024, with the median doubling to 10%, and researchers overwhelmingly called for more AI safety research.

The Decoder10:20 UTC · 9h agoAI safety & security1