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Responding to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's claim that AI has more than a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News there is 'zero chance' AI will end the world by 2030. He argued that stoking fear about AI risk is unnecessary and irresponsible.
Prominent hardware leaker Kopite7Kimi says Nvidia's next-generation RTX 60 series, built on the Rubin architecture, won't launch until 2028 at the earliest, later than the previously rumored late-2027 window. Nvidia declined to comment, saying it doesn't discuss rumors or unannounced products.
Prominent leaker Kopite7kimi now expects Nvidia's Rubin-based RTX 6000 series to launch in 2028, later than his earlier forecast of late 2027. This aligns with a similar prediction from leaker Kepler_L2, who also expects AMD's RDNA 5 Radeon 10000 series to slip to 2028, though AMD's smaller 'AT2' GPU remains on track for next year.
TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts examined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's newly published proposal urging the industry to slow AI development pace, contrasting it with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's dismissal of AI backlash concerns as overblown, echoing President Trump's stance against regulation. Podcast host Sean O'Kane expressed skepticism that Amodei's plan contains enough concrete detail to actually change corporate behavior, despite apparent support from figures including Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
In a CBS Sunday Morning interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said there is a '0% chance' AI will end the world and called warnings from other tech leaders about AI risk 'irresponsible' and unscientific. He rejected calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman to slow AI development, and said no new laws or guidelines are needed despite reported incidents of AI models bypassing safeguards.
On this date in 2018, Nvidia released the GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, the first consumer GPUs built on the Turing architecture with dedicated hardware for real-time ray tracing. CEO Jensen Huang touted the launch as ushering in a new era of graphical realism, though the mainstream RTX 2070 didn't arrive until October and few games initially supported the new capability. The RTX 2080 outperformed the previous-generation GTX 1080 Ti but launched at a higher price of $799 for the Founders Edition.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as President Trump's closest corporate ally in shaping AI policy, with Trump publicly dismissing safety concerns as a 'hoax' during a call to Huang at the All-In Summit. Huang is set to join Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, underscoring his growing access inside the administration. Nvidia's revenue has ballooned to $215 billion as its chips power the AI systems built by OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
Swedish startup Scaleout Systems showed off an autonomous loitering munition, built on a BAE Systems Bofors airframe, that used onboard AI running on an Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to detect, rank and strike an armored vehicle without human guidance mid-mission. The demo, part of NATO's DIANA-backed ALMA and FEDAIR programs, completed the full flight in under 320 seconds using no external communications, relying instead on locally trained computer-vision models shared via a 'Tactical Computer Vision Network.' A human pilot remained available as a failsafe but was not required once the mission began.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a CBS interview there is a '0% chance' AI will destroy humanity by 2030, dismissing fears raised by Anthropic's former alignment lead Evan Hubinger, who put the odds above 10% within a decade. Huang argued such warnings serve political or attention-seeking motives rather than genuine risk assessment, and said AI developers can manage safety without added government regulation.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI safety concerns should be solved through engineering rather than new regulations or industry slowdowns, contrasting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's more cautious stance on AI progress. The disagreement highlights a divide among top AI industry leaders over how fast development should proceed.
OpenAI has fully unveiled Jalapeño, its first AI accelerator chip, boasting up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and 232GB of high-speed memory. The company says benchmarks show up to 3.6x lower latency than Nvidia's GB300 at lower power, and that the chip went from concept to silicon in under 20 months using its own large language models to accelerate design work with a team of fewer than 100 engineers.
AMD released a white paper expanding on its earlier performance claims for the upcoming EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs, reiterating that a 96-core Venice chip is about 20% faster per-core than Nvidia's 88-core Vera on SPEC CPU 2026's Integer Rate test. The paper also details throughput results showing the 256-core EPYC 9996 outperforming Intel's Xeon 6980P by 2.37x and Vera by 2.24x, plus a 78% generational gain over the prior 192-core EPYC 9965.