2026-07-23
An AI now judges every move Rubrik's agents make, its AI chief said at VB Transform 2026 — but no one's measured if the judge is right
At a CISO roundtable organized by Anthropic's chief information security officer, Dev Rishi asked a simple question: Did everyone in the room have their AI governance and security policies written down? Every hand went up — about 14 people, by his count. His follow-up, about how anyone actually enforces those policies in practice, got a different response. "And everybody chuckled," [...]
2026-07-23
Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes
The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a simulated body, millions of times over. The company has […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.
Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift, and it has already spurred over $100 million in additional private support from alumni and donors including leaders in the Bay Area […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
Inside the data centres powering AI: gold racks, demented noise, and 40 diesel generators
AI can seem like magic, a voice from a phone, an answer from nowhere. Step inside the buildings that make it, and the magic evaporates. What is left is noise, heat, metal, and an enormous appetite for power. Axios’s Amy Harder toured a test server hall run by Digital Realty in Ashburn, Virginia, the heart […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
Google’s Gemini delay exposes a deeper problem: employee morale
Google is losing a race it once led, and the problem may be its own people. Six current and former DeepMind employees told Axios that low morale is slowing the lab’s model releases, Axios reported. The immediate symptom is Gemini 3.5 Pro. Google’s most powerful model is months behind, according to Bloomberg. Google did ship […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
Mark Zuckerberg launches an AI-optimism campaign, and a jab at the doomers
The AI industry has a mood problem, and Mark Zuckerberg thinks he can sell the cure. On Thursday, Meta’s chief executive posted a sunny vision of the AI future, and wrapped it in a marketing campaign. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said Meta “has always believed in giving people the power to share, connect, and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-23
Nvidia donated a GB300 supercomputer to the Navy, to teach officers AI’s limits
The Nvidia chip at the centre of America’s export fight with China has a new home: a classroom in Monterey. The Naval Postgraduate School has stood up a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer, the first in the US military, Nextgov reported. The machine runs on Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra generation, the same line the US forbids selling […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
