{"id":927859,"date":"2026-10-14T13:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927859\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:10:12","slug":"nvidia-worth-5-5tn-donates-250m-to-uk-for-ai-safety-research-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927859\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia, worth $5.5tn, donates $250m to UK for AI safety research | Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The $5.5tn (\u00a34.1tn) US chipmaker Nvidia<\/a> is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support AI safety research.<\/p>\n

The donation from the world\u2019s most valuable company comes as the UK government confirmed its AI Security Institute (AISI), which tests advance AI models, will be able to examine cutting-edge technology<\/a> developed by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google before they are released.<\/p>\n

Nvidia said the donation, which spans five years, would \u201csupport agentic safety and security research across the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n

Safety concerns about AI agents \u2013 highly capable computer programs that are able to design and perform sequences of tasks autonomously \u2013 have risen since the summer, when OpenAI confirmed that a \u201cswarm\u201d of agents had attacked Hugging Face<\/a>, a tech startup.<\/p>\n

Nvidia did not reference AISI in its statement but said most of the money would \u201csupport the wider UK AI safety and security research community\u201d, with a proportion of the cash going to the British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab, the Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab \u2013 run by the Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford and University College London universities \u2013 and Imperial College London.<\/p>\n

The computing power will be delivered via UK-based datacentres using Nvidia chips.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UK brings world-class scientific rigour to this essential engineering challenge,\u201d said Jensen Huang, Nvidia\u2019s chief executive. \u201cWith this $250m commitment, Nvidia will put accelerated computing in the hands of UK researchers to develop, test and strengthen safeguards for increasingly powerful AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kanishka Narayan, the UK\u2019s AI minister, said the announcement was a \u201cvote of confidence in our world-leading strength and expertise in AI research\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Monday Narayan confirmed that AISI was conducting tests on US-developed AI models before they are released, after reports that the White House had restricted access.<\/p>\n

The AI minister also warned that the UK faces agentic attacks similar to the one carried out by OpenAI agents on Australia\u2019s healthcare system this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems likely, if not inevitable, that our own cyber defences will be breached,\u201d said Narayan.<\/p>\n

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Anthropic, the developer of the Claude chatbot, warned of a new AI safety threat on Monday<\/a> after it published a blogpost stating its models could soon become self-replicating. They find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices such as smart ovens and lawnmowers, the company said.<\/p>\n

Under such a scenario the models could power themselves without datacentres, and instead could use a \u201cbotnet\u201d of interconnected devices, Anthropic said, adding that the world should prepare for a future where such botnets were here to stay.<\/p>\n

\u201cA replicator like this would be challenging to shut down since there\u2019s no centralised point to shut off,\u201d Anthropic\u2019s researchers wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $5.5tn (\u00a34.1tn) US chipmaker Nvidia is donating $250m worth of computing power to the UK to support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-927859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}