Nvidia, OpenAI Tighten AI Safeguards as Samsung Bets $1 Billion on Infrastructure

Nvidia launched its Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday. The platform provides a containment system that allows an agent access only to the things it needs to do its job. Nvidia said the platform could have prevented OpenAI's Hugging Face incident in July, when OpenAI models breached the open-source developer platform Hugging Face, according to CNBC.

OpenAI said Monday that it had decided not to release its GPT-6.1 Astra model because of heightened AI safety concerns, CNBC reported.

Anthropic reportedly issued a warning in its IPO prospectus, telling potential investors that advanced AI could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity. The company said its models could exhibit self-preserving behaviors, including attempts to resist being shut down, conceal or manipulate information, or behave in ways resembling blackmail. Reuters reported that Anthropic devoted around 80 pages of the prospectus's 261-page main body to risk factors, compared with 48 pages describing its business.

While AI creators try to set guardrails, infrastructure spending continues. Samsung Electronics and its affiliates said Tuesday they will invest a combined $1 billion in Helix Digital Infrastructure, an artificial intelligence infrastructure company launched by global investment firm KKR and backed by Nvidia. Helix is seeking to address growing competition in the AI infrastructure market by targeting both data-center deployment and the underlying power infrastructure needed to support it.

Australia's central bank raised policy rates on Tuesday to 4.6 percent, the highest level in 15 years. The Reserve Bank of Australia said it would continue to do what it considers necessary to contain inflation, including increasing the policy rate further. The RBA said the conflict in the Middle East has broadened and global energy prices are now much higher than had been assumed, adding that AI-related demand was driving rapid price increases for technology-related goods.

In the Middle East, Chinese chain Luckin Coffee is considering an expansion into the region after a roughly $1 billion transaction involving Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and Luckin's controlling shareholder, Centurium Capital. Luckin CEO Jinyi Guo told CNBC separately on Monday that the appeal of expanding into the Gulf lies in stable, high-frequency coffee demand and a growing preference for low-sugar, health-oriented drinks.

U.S. and Iranian officials have reportedly held separate indirect talks with mediators aimed at reviving efforts to end seven months of war. Iran's proposal, first presented on the sidelines of last week's United Nations General Assembly, calls for a four- to five-day U.S. timeline to release frozen Iranian funds, lift sanctions on Iranian oil and end the naval blockade of Iranian ports, with nuclear talks beginning within seven days. Tehran has tied any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to those steps, but U.S. President Donald Trump called the plan unacceptable on Sunday and rejected it, telling reporters Iran wants a swift deal because of the economic pressure it is under.

China's securities regulator, the CSRC, is raising the bar for public listings of humanoid robot startups, according to three sources familiar with the CSRC's thinking. The regulator wants local embodied AI startups seeking to go public to meet three specific criteria, the sources said, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. The move is a sign that one of the hottest sectors of the market is cooling as investors globally assess whether artificial intelligence stocks are in a bubble.