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Oracle embeds ChatGPT and Codex in its business software
At Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, Oracle expanded its OpenAI partnership: ChatGPT and Codex will be built into Oracle's business applications and database products, and Oracle Cloud will add Google TPUs, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip and Cerebras systems.
Read News · Security 3 min readLiteLLM attack traced to a key left live for five months
The malicious 1.107.0 release of popular AI gateway LiteLLM traces back to a master key pushed to a public repository in May and never revoked. The poisoned package was downloaded about 49,000 times in under two hours.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readSpaceX closes $40 billion debt deal for Nvidia AI chips
SpaceX has closed roughly $40 billion of Apollo-led debt financing to buy Nvidia GPUs for its AI data centres. Elon Musk warned that debt markets have nearly shut for AI firms without independent revenue.
Read News · Security 3 min readPHP2Shell: critical PHP flaws hit most of the web, patches out
Two critical flaws in PHP's core let attackers run code on a server without logging in. Patches shipped on 21 October, exploit attempts began the same day and several government sites went offline as a precaution.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readOpenAI brings its models and Codex to Google Cloud
GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna entered private preview in Google Cloud's Model Garden, putting OpenAI's models on all three of the largest US clouds.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readGermany and Nvidia sign an industrial AI declaration
At the Invest in Germany summit in Berlin, the German government signed a joint declaration with Nvidia on physical AI models. Nvidia announced planned investments in four German startups, and about a dozen firms including Siemens and Audi are expected to join.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readAmazon opens TorchNeuron to run PyTorch code on Trainium
Amazon put TorchNeuron, which lets existing PyTorch code run on its Trainium chips with a one-line change, into public beta under Apache 2.0, targeting Nvidia's software advantage.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readDeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, its production inference engine
DeepSeek released DeepInfer, the inference software behind its own services, on GitHub under Apache 2.0. It targets V4.1-Flash and supports Huawei Ascend chips on par with Nvidia.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readMeta opens up about Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale AI cluster
Meta says the first phase of Prometheus, its Ohio supercluster, is finished and it is working to grow it to about 1 million GPUs. The Muse model family was trained there.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readSemiAnalysis sees about 50 GW of new data centres in 2027
Research firm SemiAnalysis forecasts roughly 50 GW of new global data centre capacity in 2027, and says the bottleneck may shift from power to chips and memory.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readServiceNow gives AI agents verifiable identities with AI Passport
ServiceNow's AI Passport records each AI agent's identity, permitted actions, reachable systems and accountable owner in a cryptographically signed credential. If an agent exceeds its scope, the platform can restrict or stop it.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readTSMC posts record quarterly profit on $46.7 billion revenue
TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, grew third-quarter revenue 41% to $46.7 billion, beating its own guidance. Gross margin dipped slightly as 2-nanometre production ramped up.
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