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Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush

Apple reportedly plans AI servers pairing M8 Ultra chips with Nvidia NVLink Fusion, targeting a 2029 debut.

According to The Information, Apple is considering re-entering the server market it left in 2011 with the Xserve retirement, betting on its ARM-based M processors amid surging AI compute demand. The servers may run two or four M8 Ultra chips and could incorporate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion interconnect, and Apple recently turned to Nvidia chips for its revamped Siri servers. A product would likely debut around 2029, and plans could still change; Mac Mini and Mac Studio popularity with AI developers has already caused shortages.

The Verge · AIupdated · 8h agofirst · 13h agoAI industry 3 sources

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers

Microsoft branded its developer-optimized Windows setup Project Zenith, with 64GB+ memory devices from AMD that run 30B+ parameter AI models locally.

Microsoft named its developer-focused Windows configuration Project Zenith, targeting new hardware with 64GB or more of unified memory. AMD unveiled the first Project Zenith device at IFA, a miniature PC powered by Ryzen AI Halo chips, with more devices expected in the coming months. The setup ships with a preconfigured Windows install and preinstalled developer tools including Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, WinAppCLI, and Windows Dev Skills. Microsoft says it lets developers run 30B+ parameter models locally and unmetered, reducing reliance on metered cloud tokens.

The Verge · AI · 12d agoAI industry1

Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets your Claude logs stay in your cloud

Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, letting regulated customers keep Claude usage logs in their own cloud storage under their own keys with automated misuse detection.

Anthropic unveiled Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, co-designed with eight members of the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk and more than 100 customers including Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, Comcast, KPMG, and Salesforce. Misuse-detection activity data can live in the customer's Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage under customer-managed keys, with fully automated review and no human inspection by Anthropic; automated systems watch for offensive cyber or biological capability development and signs of stolen credentials. The offering replaces the friction around Fable 5's 30-day retention policy, costs nothing extra, spans Claude Enterprise, Claude Platform, Amazon Bedrock, Google's Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry, with broad availability targeted for later this fall.

Help Net Security · 15d agoAI industry1

Linux Foundation takes on TRACE, a hardware-backed runtime evidence specification for AI agents

The Linux Foundation adopts TRACE, an OPAQUE-contributed spec giving AI agents hardware-attested, cryptographically verifiable runtime and compliance evidence.

The Linux Foundation accepted the TRACE (Trust, Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence) specification contributed by OPAQUE, developed with AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and the Technology Innovation Institute. TRACE binds runtime environment, software, policies, data classifications, and tool usage into a portable, cryptographically verifiable artifact, composing existing standards such as RATS, EAT, SLSA, SCITT, SPIFFE, and EAR. It recorded nearly 135,000 PyPI downloads within 10 weeks of its June 2026 introduction, and its technical workstream will be hosted by the Coalition for Secure AI.

Help Net Security · 22d agoAI tools & infra

[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeno custom inference chip claiming 1.5-1.9x better perf-per-watt than NVIDIA GB200/GB300, deploying in-house by year-end.

At the 37th Hot Chips conference, OpenAI published first benchmark details for its custom Jalapeno inference chip, claiming 1.5-1.9x more work per watt, 1.7-3.6x lower end-to-end latency, and 2.1-4.1x higher interactive-workload performance versus NVIDIA GB200/GB300, with the 700W-rated part staying at or below 550W in tests. Deployment into OpenAI's own infrastructure begins by year-end, with Gen 2 deep in development and Gen 3 underway. OpenAI also said GPT-Astra and Codex helped write low-level kernels, reportedly 1.5-1.8x faster than human-expert code for selected attention and MoE blocks. Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX and Apple M6 were also featured at the conference.

Latent Space · 21d agoAI industry

Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs

Microsoft's Project Zenith delivers a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience running 30B+ parameter AI models locally on 64GB+ unified-memory PCs, starting with AMD Ryzen AI Halo.

Project Zenith is a preconfigured Windows 11 developer experience for PCs with at least 64 GB of unified memory and 250 GB/s or higher memory bandwidth, capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without metered cloud tokens. First systems are powered by AMD Ryzen AI Halo, with additional OEM and silicon partner devices expected in coming months. The environment ships with WSL and Linux containers, pinned developer tools, and day-one AI agent security features including OS-enforced agent identity and containment through Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC).

Help Net Security · 9d agoAI industry1

Weekly Cybersecurity Newsletter Bulletin – Microsoft 0-day, FortiOS, PAN-OS Flaw, Revolut Data Breach, and 20+ Stories

Weekly roundup: Microsoft patches 973 flaws including two actively exploited zero-days; FortiOS CAPWAP flaw deploys PivotC2 RAT; PAN-OS root RCE disclosed.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 973 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days under active exploitation: CVE-2026-85880 (Windows ALPC) and CVE-2026-81963 (Windows Update Stack), both elevation-of-privilege bugs. SOCRadar reported active exploitation of CVE-2025-25249 (CVSS 9.8) in FortiOS CAPWAP, deploying a Node.js RAT called PivotC2 that exfiltrates Exchange mailboxes to Wasabi cloud storage; 178 devices were compromised out of 30,000 scanned IPs, attributed to a Russian-speaking financially motivated group. Palo Alto disclosed CVE-2026-0310, a 9.2-rated buffer overflow enabling root code execution on PA-Series firewalls, and Fortinet disclosed CVE-2026-84393, a ZTNA certificate validation MITM flaw. Cyera also revealed CVE-2026-6471 ('PostGREShell'), a 12-year-old PostgreSQL logical-decoding flaw allowing code execution via REPLICATION-privileged accounts.

Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot

Check Point revealed BTR Reforged, a technique weaponizing Microsoft Defender's built-in BTR.sys driver to delete security software at boot without exploiting any vulnerability.

Check Point Research disclosed BTR Reforged, a technique that abuses BTR.sys, a legitimately signed Windows Defender boot-time remediation driver, to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2 without exploiting a software flaw. The BTR_CLI proof-of-concept tool, presented at Black Hat USA 2026 and DEF CON 34, installs the driver via direct registry writes and executes deletions during the boot-time 'golden window' before Defender's user-mode services start, demonstrated by deleting the full Defender stack on a patched Windows 11 machine. Exploitation requires SeLoadDriverPrivilege; Microsoft confirmed it does not meet criteria for immediate servicing and no patch is planned. No evidence of real-world abuse was found, and related indicators of compromise via Sysmon events were published.

The Hacker News · 26d agoToolsCVE-2021-240921

Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution

CrowdStrike links previously unseen Slim Spider group to crypto custody secret theft at Brazilian financial institutions since March 2026.

CrowdStrike is tracking Slim Spider, a previously undocumented financially motivated group attacking Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. The actor used custom Bash scripts to steal temporary cloud credentials, exfiltrated digital asset custody secrets, and used Foundry's cast tool to derive Ethereum wallet addresses, while deploying Go-based backdoor MikeDor and an implant impersonating Brazil's SPI instant payment infrastructure. Slim Spider also pivoted to Azure DevOps and Kubernetes clusters and used panels including NEXUS // Scanner, Painel de Emails Entra ID, and Painel Pix for reconnaissance and unauthorized Pix transfers. Separately, Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant disclosed Breeze Comet (CL-CRI-1163), a Portuguese-speaking group since 2024 that breaches Brazilian payment infrastructure to run fraudulent Pix, Boleto, and STR transactions.

The Hacker News · 8d agoThreat actor in the wild

Leading Publishers Bring Blockbuster PC Games and Technology to NVIDIA RTX Spark

NVIDIA announces EA, Embark, and Ubisoft titles plus anti-cheat and visual upgrades for RTX Spark ahead of launch at Gamescom.

NVIDIA is promoting RTX Spark at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, with Electronic Arts, Embark, and Ubisoft bringing blockbuster PC titles to the platform ahead of its launch. The announcement covers new game support, anti-cheat technologies, and increased visual quality. The piece is a product-marketing update rather than security research or AI safety news.

NVIDIA Blog · 22d agoAI industry

Hackers Use Claude AI Agents to Automate Cyberattacks, Develop 0-Days and Evade Detection

Anthropic reports state-sponsored and criminal actors used Claude AI agents to automate attacks, discover zero-days, and rewrite malware to evade detection.

Anthropic Threat Intelligence's report covering December 2025 to August 2026 details AI-automated campaigns by espionage groups, criminals, and hacktivists. GTG-20006, aligned with Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard, targeted Ukrainian and European government and drone supply chains, used Claude to autonomously rebuild malware when detected, hijacked hotel Wi-Fi DNS to serve ClickFix lures, and stole over 300,000 identity records from a North African government. Operators linked to ShinyHunters decompiled roughly 1.8 million Android packages for hardcoded secrets and pivoted from an XSS flaw in a SaaS vendor into 200+ downstream organizations in about 34 hours, harvesting 2,100+ Azure AD token sets across 40 tenants. The Chinese-linked GTG-10007 ran parallel agent swarms that surfaced more than a dozen candidate zero-day vulnerabilities in a single month.

Cyber Security Newsupdated · 12h agofirst · 6d agoAI safety & security in the wild 19 sources1

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

Two developers built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini in one month via clean-room reverse engineering.

Niklas and the author reverse engineered Apple's AGX GPU firmware ABI and user-space components in about a month, a process that normally takes years, producing an OpenGL ES 3.0 conformant driver fast enough to run Minecraft at 200fps on an M4 Mac Mini. The work was done transparently using hypervisor traces without examining Apple binaries, following clean-room practices, and included a custom shader compiler, command stream builder, and a full Linux kernel driver for the firmware ABI. The A18 Pro firmware ABI proved significantly more complex than the M1's, with 1.5x as many structs and twice as many pointers. All experiments and provenance evidence were published in public agx-re repositories.

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service ships its native Linux app out of beta and adds streaming optimizations for Frame Generation responsiveness.

NVIDIA announced that the native Linux application for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service is officially out of beta. The update also delivers cloud optimizations that make Frame Generation feel more responsive while streaming, and Performance members will see higher frame rates. The announcement is timed for the back-to-school season and also mentions improvements for Chromebooks.

NVIDIA Blog · Aug 13, 2026AI industry

Linux Foundation Introduces TRACE Standard for AI Runtime Evidence

The Linux Foundation introduced TRACE, an open standard providing hardware-attested runtime and compliance evidence for AI agents.

The Linux Foundation announced TRACE, an open standard designed to generate hardware-attested runtime evidence for AI agents. The standard aims to give auditors and regulators verifiable proof of what AI agents actually executed. It targets compliance and assurance needs for organizations deploying autonomous AI systems.

Infosecurity Magazine · 21d agoAI tools & infra1

Counterfeit installers to system compromise: Tracking a deceptive software download campaign

Microsoft tracks a counterfeit software-installer campaign compromising multinationals' China operations, moderately linked to the Silver Fox (Yinhu) actor.

Microsoft Defender Experts is tracking an active campaign using spoofed software download sites for brands such as Razer, Kaspersky, Microsoft Edge, Calibre, and Baidu Netdisk on .com.cn and .hl.cn domains, delivering installer archives whose hashes change per download, indicating server-side payload generation. The implants establish persistence, weaken security protections, and communicate with attacker-controlled infrastructure, with confirmed compromises across healthcare, manufacturing, gaming, technology, logistics, government, and education. Microsoft assesses with moderate confidence that the activity matches the publicly reported Silver Fox (Yinhu) fake software campaign; it has not attributed it to a nation-state actor.

Microsoft Security Blog · 15d agoThreat actor in the wild1

Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation

Nvidia and Palantir integrated open Nemotron models and cuOpt into Foundry to run AI-driven supply chains, starting with Nvidia's million-part operation.

Nvidia and Palantir announced a partnership to run supply chains with AI, first deployed on Nvidia's own network of millions of parts and thousands of suppliers; a single Vera Rubin rack contains 1.3 million components. Palantir is integrating open Nemotron models into its Foundry platform for customer fine-tuning, while Nvidia cuOpt handles scenario planning and optimization, with decisions fed back to improve models over time. The stack runs on customer hardware or in the cloud through the Sovereign AI OS reference architecture with infrastructure partners Dell, Cisco, Rackspace, and Nebius, with more details shown at AIPCon 11.

The Decoder · 6d agoAI industry1

Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye

METR analysis finds AI accelerating cyber vulnerability discovery, while SPADE self-play environment generation improves Qwen3 reasoning benchmark scores at 30B scale.

Import AI 470 discusses a METR research note reporting differential acceleration from AI: major acceleration in reported cyber vulnerabilities (cURL, OpenSSL, Firefox, Microsoft, NVD, OSV), minor acceleration in mathematics, and no measurable acceleration in AI-research optimization benchmarks. It also covers SPADE, a self-play framework from a multi-university team (University of Washington, Stanford, MIT, CMU, and others) that co-evolves executable training environments and agent capability using Environment Designer and Reasoning Agent roles with hint-based regret rewards. Trained on Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507, Qwen3-8B, and Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 via GRPO (400 rollouts of 25 environments), SPADE lifted the 30B-A3B game-environment suite average to 58.3, +8.1 over base, and improved tool-use results across backbones. The issue also references Hawkeye for building better GPU kernels.

Import AI · 23d agoAI research1

Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra

Game studio Playco used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to build three game prototypes, reporting 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.

Playco, a game development company, used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model to generate three themed game prototypes from a single grey-box foundation. The company reports the new model cut manual fixes by 50% compared to its previous model workflow. The piece is an OpenAI-published customer story highlighting Astra's use in game prototyping.

OpenAI News · 13d agoAI industry

Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow

Hugging Face demonstrates rebuilding the AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion web interface using its Gradio Workflow framework.

Hugging Face published a post showing how to rebuild the AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI experience with the Gradio Workflow framework. The article body was unavailable, so details beyond the title are limited, but the piece appears to be a tutorial on composing interactive AI interfaces with Gradio Workflow components.

Hugging Face Blog · 7d agoAI tools & infra

How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory

NVIDIA argues AI factories with custom XPUs and NVLink Fusion connectivity must optimize tokens-per-second, tokens-per-watt, cost and uptime.

NVIDIA published a blog explaining that AI factories running continuously are economically defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. It argues hyperscalers and AI-native companies building custom XPUs need infrastructure designed as a complete factory rather than collections of individual accelerators. The piece promotes NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion and full-stack XPU connectivity as the foundation for such world-class AI factory builds.

NVIDIA Blog · 23d agoAI industry

Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit

Researcher Nightmare Eclipse released ShieldCrash, a Microsoft Defender zero-day PoC that bypasses September patches and reads files as SYSTEM.

Zero-day researcher Nightmare Eclipse (MSNightmare) published ShieldCrash, their 11th Microsoft zero-day, a proof-of-concept bypass of the ShieldBreak patch (CVE-2026-69414), which itself had bypassed the fix for RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656). ShieldCrash works on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems that have applied the September 2026 patches and allows arbitrary file reads as SYSTEM, though not arbitrary writes or a full SYSTEM shell. Microsoft has not said when it plans to patch the issue. The researcher recently also released zero-days affecting CrowdStrike Falcon (FalconFlank), Kaspersky endpoint antivirus (HardBreacher, patched), and Gen Digital's Avast (PrettyPrague).

[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro

Z.ai released open-weight GLM-5.3-Flash (320B/18B active, 1M context, MIT) while Nvidia confirmed buying Hugging Face for $13B.

Z.ai formally launched GLM-5.3-Flash, the model previously previewed as Ox Alpha: 320B total parameters with 18B active, a 1M-token context window, natively multimodal, MIT-licensed, and claimed on par with Claude Opus 4.8 on coding. Artificial Analysis scored it 57 on its Intelligence Index at $0.09 per task, roughly 7.5x cheaper than GLM-5.3, and it scored 84.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Nvidia's $13B acquisition of Hugging Face (~80x its $150M ARR) was confirmed, nearly double its initial $7B January offer. The roundup also notes Qwen shipping an impressive Flash model on Chinese chips as part of a broader open-model narrative.

Latent Space · 21d agoModel release1

Chaotic Eclipse Released GreenSection, A PoC For NVIDIA Memory Corruption Zero-Day

Researcher Chaotic Eclipse released GreenSection, a PoC exploiting an unpatched out-of-bounds write in NVIDIA Windows user-mode shared memory.

Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse disclosed an out-of-bounds write in NVIDIA's Windows user-mode components, which share a global memory section (\BaseNamedObjects\{52813408-3561-4705-820a-2b3b78be92ba}) with full read/write access to all users. The PoC crashes applications running Vulkan or OpenGL; the researcher says the bug could cross user boundaries or compromise dwm.exe but did not fully assess the impact. No CVE has been assigned and no patch is mentioned. The researcher recently released zero-day PoCs against Kaspersky, Avast, and CrowdStrike Falcon.

Security Affairs · 9d agoExploit / PoC 2 sources

GeForce NOW Gives Gamers More Ways to Play at Gamescom 2026

NVIDIA announced Gamescom 2026 GeForce NOW updates: DLSS 4.5 controls, new Steam device support, GOG single sign-on, Firefox access, and more cloud games.

At Gamescom 2026, NVIDIA announced expanded support for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service, including new Steam devices, GOG single sign-on, Firefox browser access, and more big PC games coming to the cloud. The company also introduced new NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 technology controls that let members fine-tune gameplay. The announcements are consumer gaming product news rather than security or research developments.

NVIDIA Blog · 20d agoAI industry

New infosec products of the week: September 4, 2026

Weekly roundup covers F5's AI-powered WAF enhancements, Ping Identity's personal AI agent access, Superna 2.15 cyberstorage, and BugBase Pentest Copilot Enterprise.

This week's product roundup features releases from BugBase, F5 Networks, Ping Identity, and Superna. F5's WAF for Distributed Cloud adds anomaly detection and agentic threat intelligence for real-time virtual patching, Ping Identity launched Enterprise Personal Agent Access for securing personal AI agents, Superna 2.15 adds guided event-closing workflows for cyberstorage operations, and BugBase's Pentest Copilot Enterprise automates black-box pentesting across 100 vulnerability types using real Chromium browsers.

Help Net Security · 13d agoTools

Update your firewall rules: Teams and Copilot are changing address

Microsoft is redirecting Microsoft 365 and Teams web users to new *.cloud.microsoft domains, requiring firewall and proxy rule updates by early October.

Starting September 2026, Microsoft is redirecting M365 web users to copilot.cloud.microsoft and Teams web users to teams.cloud.microsoft, announced via MessageCenter posts MC1465764 and MC1462915. All redirects should complete by early October 2026, with limited Teams exceptions possible until December 31, 2026. Microsoft advises reviewing client, proxy, firewall, and secure web gateway configurations, and suggests using TenantRestrictions to control personal Microsoft account access instead of blocking the new Copilot address.

CSO Online · 5d agoAdvisory1

Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

Arm unveiled Mali G2-Ultra NX, its first AI-native mobile GPU with in-shader neural acceleration, third-gen ray tracing, and up to 24% higher benchmark performance.

Arm announced the Mali G2-Ultra NX, the first AI-native Mali GPU, integrating neural accelerators directly into shader cores alongside a new execution engine and third-generation hardware ray tracing. It introduces Neural Super Sampling (NSS), Neural Frame Rate Upscaling (NFRU), and Neural Super Sampling and Denoising (NSSD); the Neural Dawn demo with Sumo Digital showed up to 4x performance efficiency and 70% lower external memory traffic versus native rendering. Arm claims up to 24% higher benchmark performance, 13% lower DRAM traffic on ray tracing benchmarks, and up to 120 FPS with NFRU. Over 14 billion Mali GPUs have shipped to date.

d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment

d-Matrix will integrate its Raptor inference XPUs with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion, MGX racks and Spectrum-X networking for rack-scale AI factory deployment.

Inference chipmaker d-Matrix announced adoption of NVIDIA NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA's scale-up and scale-out networking, MGX rack architecture, and broader AI factory platform. NVIDIA claims 3x lower XPU-to-XPU latency than off-the-shelf Ethernet and 3 TB/s per-XPU all-to-all bandwidth via sixth-generation NVLink. d-Matrix plans to integrate Vera CPUs, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, BlueField-4 DPUs and Spectrum-X Ethernet, with racks able to work alongside Vera Rubin NVL72 GPU systems. Other NVLink Fusion partners include AWS, Arm, Intel, Fujitsu, Marvell, MediaTek, Samsung and Cadence.

NVIDIA Blogupdated · 15h agofirst · 6d agoAI industry 2 sources

Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses

Interconnects surveys new open models—Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview—while analyzing a licensing split: Western labs opening up, Chinese frontier labs getting restrictive.

The roundup covers Motif-3 (MIT license, strong scores for its size), GLM-5.3 (switched from MIT to a custom license with a $10 billion revenue threshold and undefined 'affiliates' clause requiring Z.AI security review), and Tencent's Hy4-preview (competent but prone to overthinking). It also notes dots3-note-prev from RedNote/Xiaohongshu (won IMO 2026 with a perfect score), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B-A6B with GDN and Qwen Sparse Attention), NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16, and Ling-3.0-flash. The core theme: Google and Meta adopted Apache 2.0 while Chinese frontier labs (Zhipu, Kimi K3, MiniMax M3) adopted restrictive commercial licenses.

Interconnects · 8d agoAI research

Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

Switzerland's Federal Chancellery launched a pilot replacing Microsoft 365 with open-source openDesk on 3,000 federal workstations by end of 2027.

Switzerland launched a CHF 9 million pilot to migrate 3,000 federal workstations (about 7% of the federal workforce) from Microsoft 365 to the German open-source openDesk suite, targeting completion by end of 2027. The move follows a successful 172-employee proof of concept (PoC BOSS) and the 2024 EMBAG open-source law, driven by digital sovereignty concerns about foreign access to Swiss government data. The Swiss Army's Cyber Command plans a faster migration, replacing Microsoft 365 with openDesk by October 2026, while Microsoft is investing over CHF 325 million in Swiss AI and cloud infrastructure.

NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face

NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion while pledging to keep the platform open, multi-cloud and vendor-neutral.

NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications used by over 18 million developers and 200,000 companies. NVIDIA says the platform will remain open, with no requirement to use NVIDIA compute, and will continue supporting multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment. NVIDIA is already Hugging Face's largest contributor of open models and datasets, with more than 500 models and 250 open datasets released.

NVIDIA Blog · 13d agoAI industry

Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI

Hugging Face released @huggingface/kernels, a library offering 200+ WebGPU compute kernels to accelerate AI inference locally in browsers.

Hugging Face introduced the @huggingface/kernels package, bundling more than 200 optimized WebGPU compute kernels for running AI workloads locally. The release targets browser-based and on-device inference, reducing reliance on server-side compute. No article body was available beyond the title, so benchmark results and supported models are not specified.

Hugging Face Blog · 16d agoAI tools & infra

NVIDIA security advisory (AV26-849)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed NVIDIA security advisories covering vulnerabilities in NemoClaw, OpenShell, Unified Fabric Manager, and DGX Spark.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued bulletin AV26-849 flagging NVIDIA vulnerabilities across NemoClaw and OpenShell (multiple versions), NVIDIA Unified Fabric Manager (multiple versions and models), and DGX Spark (versions prior to 1.110.13). The advisory links to NVIDIA security bulletins and urges users and administrators to apply updates as they become available. No exploitation details or CVE identifiers are enumerated in the advisory text.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 21d agoAdvisory

JarvisGUI: Towards Cross-Device GUI Agents with Dynamic Task Composition

JarvisGUI benchmark tests GUI agents on cross-device workflows across Android, Windows, and Ubuntu, revealing major gaps in state transfer and long-horizon reasoning.

JarvisGUI is a dynamic benchmark that formulates GUI tasks as input-output transformations under a lightweight type system, automatically composing multi-step cross-device workflows across Android, Windows, and Ubuntu virtual environments. Evaluation shows state-of-the-art open-source GUI agents struggle with state-transfer awareness, cross-platform contextual reasoning, and long-horizon dependency management, exposing a capability gap invisible to existing single-device benchmarks.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 7d agoAI research1