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Pope Leo says fears about AI are not ‘fake news’

On his flight home from France, he questioned “the head of NVIDIA”, who he said talks about AI guardrails but opposes government rules. He said he is not in “panic mode”.

Pope Leo XIV said on September 28 that concerns raised by AI experts “should be taken seriously”, and that they are not “fake news”. Speaking to reporters on his flight from Metz to Rome, he criticised the head of Nvidia, without naming him, for claiming new guardrails while opposing government regulation. He said he is “relatively optimistic”.

Nvidia puts a hardware guard around AI agents

OpenShell limits what agents may reach. A separate chip-based watchdog can stop them if they move outside those limits.

Nvidia launched its Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28. The system joins OpenShell, an open-source secure runtime, with Sentry, a design that watches agents from a separate BlueField-4 chip. Nvidia says Sentry can quarantine an agent in milliseconds. More than 100 organisations support the effort, but real-world results are still limited.

China may let firms buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500, report says

The Information reports the ministry asked ByteDance and Alibaba about their purchase plans. Reuters could not verify the report, and the card is not on sale yet.

China’s tech ministry asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to report their plans to buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500, The Information reported on September 27. It told some of them that it intends to approve the purchases, according to the report. Reuters could not verify the report. An Nvidia spokesperson said US firms remain restricted by outdated US export controls and by China’s own limits on imports.

AMD is now worth more than $1 trillion

The rally rests on a bet that AI agents will need more processors.

AMD’s shares closed at a record $615.52 on September 21, lifting its market value above $1 trillion for the first time. It announced no new deal or product. Traders are betting that AI agents will need many more server processors.

AI data centres want faster grid access

A new alliance says flexible power use is the deal.

Google, Nvidia, Emerald AI, and energy companies launched a coalition for data centres that can reduce or move electricity use when the grid is stressed. The promises now need measured results.

Salesforce built a reasoning model for CRM work

Its strongest results come from Salesforce tests.

Koa is based on Nvidia Nemotron and trained with synthetic business tasks. Salesforce says it makes fewer CRM action errors, but the benchmark and the customer pilots still need outside study.

Nvidia added software for fault-tolerant quantum computers

The hardware is still the hard part.

CUDA-Q Logical links quantum programs, error-correction methods, and hardware estimates. Fermilab reports faster design work, while Sandia’s QUOPS benchmark offers a common test for future systems.

US officials are examining Nvidia’s unusual Groq deal

An investigation is not a finding of wrongdoing.

Reports say the Justice Department is studying a licensing deal that moved Groq leaders to Nvidia without buying the company. Nvidia’s accounts show $17 billion in payments and obligations tied to the agreement.

Nvidia’s Australia plan reaches 2 gigawatts

“Up to” is doing important work.

Nvidia and eight Australian partners say their sites could support up to 2 gigawatts of AI capacity by 2027. The announcement names the companies, but it does not give one full project schedule or energy plan.

Nvidia PAIR lets AI work across several computers at home

The free, open-source tool sends separate Ollama and LM Studio tasks to trusted computers on one local network. It does not combine their memory into one larger GPU.

Nvidia wants to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion

Hugging Face is a major home for open AI models. Nvidia says it will keep the platform open to other chips and clouds, but users and regulators will watch closely.