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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 Decoderupdated Sep 16, 22:02 UTC · 5h agofirst Sep 16, 18:16 UTC · 9h agoAI industry 3 sources

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 Sep 16, 15:00 UTC · 13h agofirst Sep 10, 13:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry 2 sources

NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory

NVIDIA expands NVLink Fusion with NVHBM custom high-bandwidth memory for hyperscalers building trillion-parameter and agentic AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA announced that NVLink Fusion will expand to support NVHBM, a custom high-bandwidth memory option. The offering targets hyperscalers and AI innovators building next-generation systems where agentic AI and trillion-parameter workloads are mainstream. NVIDIA frames the announcement around co-designing compute, memory, storage, networking, and software as a unified system.

NVIDIA BlogAug 26, 21:05 UTC · 21d agoAI industry

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 BlogAug 24, 15:00 UTC · 23d agoAI industry

AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories

At AI Infra Summit, NVIDIA showcased Vera Rubin and DSX gains up to 1.4x tokens per megawatt, plus Annapurna, d-Matrix, and Pinterest partnerships.

Ian Buck's AI Infra Summit keynote before 8,000+ attendees emphasized validated agentic tokens per megawatt as the emerging AI infrastructure metric. Announcements include Amazon's Annapurna Labs collaborating on NVHBM custom high-bandwidth memory, d-Matrix integrating NVLink Fusion with Raptor XPUs, and Pinterest using Blackwell plus Dynamo inference software for conversational visual discovery. Lambda reported 23% better performance per watt with DSX MaxLPS on Blackwell servers, running 19 nodes on a 16-node power budget. NVIDIA says DSX MaxLPS combined with Groq 3 LPX on Vera Rubin NVL72 targets up to 35X token throughput per megawatt versus GB200 NVL72 for 2-trillion-plus-parameter models.

NVIDIA BlogSep 15, 16:55 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

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 DecoderSep 10, 12:23 UTC · 6d agoAI industry1

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 SecurityAug 26, 14:17 UTC · 21d agoAdvisory

ZDI-26-594: NVIDIA Megatron Bridge load_model_config Code Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

NVIDIA Megatron Bridge load_model_config code injection flaw (CVE-2026-24251, CVSS 7.8) enables remote arbitrary code execution on affected installs.

ZDI-26-594 describes a code injection vulnerability in NVIDIA Megatron Bridge's load_model_config function, tracked as CVE-2026-24251 with CVSS 7.8. Exploitation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations and requires user interaction. The advisory was published by the Zero Day Initiative on August 24, 2026.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 24, 05:00 UTC · 23d agoAdvisory CVE-2026-24251

Critical N-able N-central Vulnerability and Active Exploitation

N-able N-central pre-auth RCE zero-day CVE-2026-86218 (CVSS 10.0) is exploited in the wild; on-prem admins must upgrade to 2026.3 HF4.

N-able disclosed a third N-central vulnerability, CVE-2026-86218, a pre-authentication RCE rated CVSS 10.0, and released hotfix 2026.3 HF4 superseding build 2026.3.1.13. Huntress reproduced an exploit chain involving an authentication bypass (CVE-2026-86206/CVE-2026-86207) after a fully patched customer's N-central production server was compromised on September 4. Attackers appended strings like .invalid to account names and probed the /remoteControlAction.do?method=getPierDetails endpoint; Huntress worked with Cloudflare to disable adversary tunnel infrastructure. Hosted N-central instances are already patched; on-prem administrators must upgrade immediately.

HuntressSep 6, 11:00 UTC · 10d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-86218 CVE-2026-86206 CVE-2026-86207+2 CVEs

N-able Releases Hotfix for Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

N-able shipped Hotfix 4 patching CVE-2026-86218, a CVSS 10.0 pre-authentication RCE in N-central, with no confirmed production exploitation yet.

CVE-2026-86218 is a critical pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in N-able's N-central remote monitoring and management platform, disclosed September 6 with a maximum CVSS score of 10. It affects N-central versions before 2026.3.1.14 and is patched in N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 4. N-able says it has found no evidence of exploitation in production environments. It is the fifth N-able vulnerability disclosed in weeks, following two KEV-listed authentication bypasses and two internal API bypasses.

Infosecurity MagazineSep 7, 12:45 UTC · 9d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-86218 CVE-2026-18556 CVE-2026-18577+2 CVEs

[Control Systems] National Instruments security advisory (AV26-914)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a National Instruments advisory covering improper access control and cleartext sensitive-information flaws in NI SystemLink and SystemLink Server.

Advisory AV26-914, dated September 11, 2026, notes that NI SystemLink and SystemLink Server prior to or equal to 2026 Q3 Patch 1 are affected by improper access controls and storage of sensitive information in cleartext. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security urges users and administrators to review the vendor's links and apply available security updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 11, 15:56 UTC · 5d agoAdvisory2

Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend

MarkTechPost tutorial walks through NVIDIA's cuDNN Frontend graph API, covering kernel fusion, autotuning, plan reuse, and CUDA graph capture on Colab GPUs.

The tutorial explains how to express GPU computations as operation graphs via the cuDNN Frontend graph API, running the five-step build pipeline of validate, build operation graph, create execution plans, check support, and build plans. It progresses from a single fused convolution with bias and ReLU to autotuning across engine configs, FP8-style epilogues, attention, plan serialization, dynamic shapes, and CUDA graph capture. Each kernel is benchmarked against a PyTorch reference on a single Colab GPU to verify correctness and measure cost. The piece also covers practical setup issues like making libcudnn.so visible to the frontend's dynamic loader.

MarkTechPostSep 15, 21:37 UTC · 1d agoAI tools & infra2

ZDI-26-564: NVIDIA Transformers4Rec load_model_trainer_states_from_checkpoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-24232, a CVSS 7.8 deserialization RCE in NVIDIA Transformers4Rec's load_model_trainer_states_from_checkpoint function.

The Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-564, a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in NVIDIA Transformers4Rec. Remote code execution is possible, but exploitation requires user interaction such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-24232 with a CVSS score of 7.8.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 13, 05:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Advisory CVE-2026-24232

OpenVDN/vdn-minimax-h3 — new model trending #12 on Hugging Face

OpenVDN releases VDN-H3, an open hybrid-attention video model on MiniMax H3 that renders a 14.4-second 768p clip in 11.23 seconds on 8 B200 GPUs.

VDN-Minimax-H3 (VDN-H3) adds a frame-wise linear attention branch plus two LoRA adapters to MiniMax H3, distilled into 8-step and 50-step variants. It generates 768p, 14.4-second clips in 11.23 seconds on 8 B200 GPUs (90.5 seconds on one H200) using 8 denoising steps. Weights (about 82 GB total, including the 72 GB H3 base), the optimized inference stack, and training code are fully open-source under the MiniMax H3 Community License, which excludes the EU, UK, Korea, and US.

Hugging Face trending modelsSep 2, 05:03 UTC · 14d agoModel release1

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

NVIDIA announces local AI push at IFA 2026 with faster llama.cpp/vLLM inference, PAIR routing tool, and October RTX Spark PCs.

At IFA 2026, NVIDIA announced simplified local AI support for agents in Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, and Perplexity Portable Computer, plus new llama.cpp and vLLM optimizations delivering up to 1.9x faster local inference. NVIDIA also unveiled PAIR, a Personal AI Router for distributing inference across a local network's PCs, and compact RTX Spark Windows PCs from Lenovo and Acer arriving in October. The post recaps recent local-capable model releases including Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B), Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Qwen3.8-27B, DeepSeek v4 Flash (284B MoE, 13B active), Meta Muse Glimmer (30B), Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash, LTX 2.5, and MiniMax-H3 with the FastH3 distilled variant.

NVIDIA BlogSep 3, 16:00 UTC · 13d agoAI industry

NIST Seeks Public Input on AI-Ready NVD Modernization

NIST is seeking public comment on modernizing the National Vulnerability Database to support AI-powered vulnerability research.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology announced it is soliciting public input on modernizing the National Vulnerability Database. The initiative aims to make the NVD AI-ready to support AI-powered vulnerability research and analysis.

Infosecurity MagazineAug 12, 12:30 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Policy & legal

NVIDIA security advisory (AV26-900)

Canada's Cyber Centre flags NVIDIA Triton Inference Server versions through 26.03 and 26.06 as vulnerable, urging review of the September 2026 bulletin.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued advisory AV26-900 on September 9, 2026, noting that as of September 8, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server versions 0.0 to 26.03 and 0.0 to 26.06 are affected by vulnerabilities. The advisory includes no CVE identifiers or severity details and directs users to review NVIDIA's September 2026 Triton security bulletin and apply available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 9, 15:47 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory

ZDI-26-569: Linux Kernel Net Scheduler True Link Equalizer Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI publishes ZDI-26-569, a CVSS 7.5 race condition local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel net scheduler true link equalizer.

The Zero Day Initiative disclosed a race condition in the Linux kernel's net scheduler true link equalizer component enabling local privilege escalation. Exploitation requires the attacker to first run high-privileged code on the target system. The advisory carries a CVSS rating of 7.5; no CVE id is listed in the disclosure text.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 13, 05:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Advisory

Back-to-back N-able bugs send admins on a patching spree

CVE-2026-86218, a CVSS 10.0 pre-auth RCE in N-able N-central, is being exploited in the wild; Hotfix 4 mitigates it immediately.

N-able disclosed CVE-2026-86218 on September 6, a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw with CVSS 10.0 in its N-central RMM platform, and both N-able and Huntress report it is being exploited in the wild. It follows Huntress's disclosure of an exploit chain combining CVE-2026-86206 and CVE-2026-86207 that bypasses access controls to create unauthorized administrative accounts, investigated after a September 4 compromise of a fully patched customer environment. N-able has applied mitigations to all hosted N-central instances; on-premises customers must upgrade to Hotfix 4 (build 2026.3.1.14) immediately.

CSO OnlineSep 7, 11:53 UTC · 9d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-86218 CVE-2026-86206 CVE-2026-86207+2 CVEs

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

Opinion piece urges migrating 35KB preprompts from Anthropic/OpenAI to self-hosted Ollama, citing session privacy risks and safety filters blocking security research.

The author documents gotchas migrating 35KB preprompts from Claude Opus to self-hosted Ollama, motivated by fears that frontier providers train on user sessions, citing the OpenAI Navier-Stokes controversy. The piece argues inference providers cannot audit their own retention or training pipelines and that only self-hosted hardware offers verifiable privacy. It also criticizes frontier safety filters for refusing vulnerability research tasks and calls for models that support exploitability testing in CI/CD pipelines.

Hacker News · AISep 14, 13:59 UTC · 2d agoAI industry HN 41↑ · 13 comments1

N-able Patches Critical Zero-Day in N-central

N-able patches critical unauthenticated RCE zero-day CVE-2026-86218 in N-central, exploited in the wild; on-premises admins must apply hotfix 2026.3 HF4.

N-able released an urgent hotfix (2026.3 HF4) for CVE-2026-86218 (CVSS 10), an unauthenticated RCE in N-central exploited as a zero-day. Scanning/exploitation attempts observed from IP range 23.234.64.0/18 starting September 4; admins should check logs for scanning and unrecognized new accounts. The hotfix supersedes patches for CVE-2026-86206 and CVE-2026-86207, which Huntress observed potentially chained in the wild to bypass authentication in production environments.

SecurityWeekSep 8, 10:37 UTC · 8d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-86206 CVE-2026-86207 CVE-2026-86218

DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NEO-CODER-MAX-MTP-GGUF — new model trending #8 on Hugging Face

A new Qwen3.8-27B GGUF fine-tune claims ARC-C 735 at 8-bit with thinking tokens cut 2x-10x versus the base model.

Independent creator DavidAU released a GGUF fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B built with Unsloth, claiming ARC-C of 735 at 8-bit and 719 at 4-bit, trending #8 on Hugging Face. The 'TURBO' variant cuts thinking tokens by one half to as much as one tenth while retaining output quality and detail. The repo ships both regular and MTP quants and claims gains over the base model across seven benchmarks, using 'Cold Fusion (GAIN + Unsloth)' and 'Fable Fusion 711' training methods.

Hugging Face trending modelsSep 1, 07:01 UTC · 15d agoModel release

nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 — new model trending #28 on Hugging Face

NVIDIA released an NVFP4 4-bit quantized build of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B-parameter MoE vision-language model, via Model Optimizer.

The checkpoint quantizes Qwen3.8-Flash-Next — a hybrid-attention (Gated DeltaNet and Qwen Sparse Attention) Mixture-of-Experts model with 125B total and 6B activated parameters, plus 51B n-gram embeddings and 4B MTP — using NVIDIA Model Optimizer v0.46.0. NVFP4 benchmarks stay close to FP8: GPQA Diamond 91.5 vs 92.0, MMMU Pro 78.3 vs 77.1, Terminal-Bench 2.1 82.9 vs 83.3. It targets Blackwell B200/B300 GPUs, runs on vLLM, supports 262K context extendable to 1M tokens, and is licensed under the NVIDIA Open Model License with Qwen Community License 1.0.

Hugging Face trending modelsSep 2, 04:03 UTC · 14d agoModel release

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

NVIDIA partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure financing.

NVIDIA announced partnerships with major financial firms including Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The independent financing platforms are designed to mobilize more than $500 billion of third-party capital to support AI infrastructure buildout. NVIDIA frames the move as positioning AI factory compute as an investable asset class.

NVIDIA BlogAug 12, 00:38 UTC · Aug 12, 2026AI industry

ZDI-26-691: Linux Kernel Netlink-based Wireless Configuration Integer Overflow Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ZDI-26-691: integer overflow in Linux kernel netlink wireless configuration (CVE-2026-53182) allows local privilege escalation by attackers already running high-privileged code; CVSS 8.2.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-691 discloses an integer overflow in the Linux kernel's netlink-based wireless configuration that allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations. Exploitation requires the attacker to first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code on the target system. ZDI assigned a CVSS rating of 8.2 and CVE-2026-53182.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesSep 14, 05:00 UTC · 2d agoVulnerability CVE-2026-53182

N-able N-central Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Exploited in the Wild

CISA added CVE-2026-86218 (CVSS 10.0), a pre-auth RCE in N-able N-central, to KEV after N-able confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; patch by September 11.

CISA added CVE-2026-86218, a maximum-severity static code injection flaw enabling pre-authentication remote code execution in N-able N-central, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a September 11, 2026 deadline for federal agencies. The flaw is fixed in N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 4 (released September 5), and N-able told customers it has been observed being exploited in the wild. Separately, Huntress is investigating the compromise of a fully patched customer N-central environment on September 4 and cannot yet confirm which flaw was used, while Rapid7-disclosed CVE-2026-86206 and CVE-2026-86207 can be chained by an unauthenticated attacker to create a rogue System Administrator account.

The Hacker NewsSep 9, 04:27 UTC · 7d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-86218 CVE-2026-86206 CVE-2026-86207

The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open Internet

Researchers counted 36,769 publicly reachable self-hosted AI endpoints, only about 2% behind HTTP authentication, exposing Ollama, vLLM, and Flowise to abuse.

A Mysterium VPN study found 36,769 self-hosted AI endpoints reachable through internet scanning, with only 2.02% returning an HTTP authentication challenge. Open WebUI accounted for 18,529 reachable instances, Ollama for 6,935 fingerprinted hosts, and 5,223 agent-builder and workflow platforms were exposed, often holding API keys, database credentials, and other secrets. The report highlights LLMjacking risk from exposed Ollama APIs, a critical Flowise bug (CVE-2026-40933), leaked n8n tokens, and prior SentinelOne/Censys research finding roughly 175,000 exposed Ollama hosts in 130 countries.

Security AffairsSep 11, 17:27 UTC · 5d agoAI safety & security CVE-2026-409331

N-able patches critical N-central zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-86218)

N-able shipped an emergency hotfix for CVE-2026-86218, a pre-auth RCE zero-day in N-central RMM observed exploited in the wild.

N-able released Hotfix 4 for N-central 2026.3 on September 5 (build 2026.3.1.14), fixing CVE-2026-86218, a critical pre-authenticated remote code execution flaw in its RMM platform popular with MSPs. A private customer notice marked urgent said the zero-day 'has been observed being exploited in the wild,' while the public advisory said there were no confirmed production exploits. Huntress also flagged two high-severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-86206 and CVE-2026-86207, which allow authentication bypass and unrestricted access; they were patched the same weekend and were discovered by Rapid7's Stephen Fewer. N-able advised auditing N-central user accounts for unexpected users.

Help Net SecuritySep 7, 00:00 UTC · 10d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-86218 CVE-2026-86206 CVE-2026-86207