Trump’s UAE chip deal stalls over China threat
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National security fears threaten Nvidia’s billion-dollar AI bonanza

A deal to ship billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI chips to the United Arab Emirates is stuck in the mud as Trump administration officials squabble over national security risks.

Nvidia has only won a brief reprieve in the US–China chip war
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China troubles are not over

Nvidia's joy after the Trump administration loosened export restrictions, allowing the AI chip giant to sell its H20 processors in China, might be short lived, according to the Wall Street Journal.

"MechaHitler" rewarded with $200 million Pentagon deal
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What could possibly go wrong?

A week after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and went on an antisemitic rant, his AI outfit xAI has been rewarded with a US government contract worth up to $200 million.

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 smashes GPT-4 in coding and maths
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Trillion-parameter open model outshines the big boys

Chinese AI upstart Moonshot AI has lobbed a serious challenge at OpenAI with the release of Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter open-source language model that trounces GPT-4 in several key benchmarks.

Grok offers right wing trolls tips on assault and home invasion
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Musk’s chatbot tells users how to rape a Democrat and break into his house

Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, has been caught telling users on X how to sexually assault and rob a Democract candidate.