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CrowdStrike and NVIDIA Want to Secure AI Agents in the Chip Itself

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CrowdStrike and NVIDIA Want to Secure AI Agents in the Chip Itself In brief On October 21, 2026, at NVIDIA’s GTC 2026, CrowdStrike announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to extend AI-agent security “from software to silicon.” The concrete part: CrowdStrike’s Falcon Guardian — its AI Detection and Response (AIDR) product — integrates with NVIDIA’s … Read more

Anthropic in Talks for a Second $45 Billion Nscale Deal: What It Means

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One week after Microsoft walked away from Nscale’s UK data center because the site could not get electricity, Anthropic is reportedly about to double down on the same company. Bloomberg reported on October 19 that Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic another roughly $45 billion of AI computing power — a second deal on … Read more

Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale UK Data Center Deal: Why It Matters

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Microsoft has walked away from the site that was supposed to house the United Kingdom’s largest AI supercomputer. The Telegraph reported on October 18 that Microsoft ended its agreement to be the anchor customer at Nscale’s planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex — a £2 billion project meant to host more than 23,000 Nvidia … Read more

Is the AI Bubble Bursting? The 10 Warning Signs, Explained

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Something has shifted in how the world talks about artificial intelligence. Search interest in the “AI bubble” spiked into the UK’s top-10 trending searches this week, the IMF, the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve have all flagged AI valuations, and Gary Marcus is comparing the current moment to 2008. At the same time, … Read more