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Amazon has found a buyer for the most expensive hardware problem in tech. The company is seeking to offload about $8 billion of advanced Nvidia chips to investors through a special-purpose vehicle, then lease the chips back for its own data centers, the Financial Times reported Friday. The proposal, which Reuters also reported, would move thousands of Grace Blackwell chips — installed in more than a dozen US data centers across five states — into a vehicle backed by outside money. Amazon would then pay rent on hardware it currently owns outright. ...

President Donald Trump posted his signed “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities” AI pledge on Truth Social — with “President of the Unites States” printed right beneath his signature. The typo, spotted by Gizmodo’s Matt Novak, sits on a voluntary AI safety accord signed at a September 29 White House summit with Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI leaders. Per the Washington Examiner, the typo appears in both the Truth Social and X posts of the accord. Full story in slides above — sources: TechCrunch, Washington Examiner, Hindustan Times, September 30, 2026. ...

President Trump signed a “morally binding” AI self-regulation agreement with top tech executives at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026, per Reuters. The voluntary pact commits companies to internal risk controls and external audits — while Trump ruled out new federal AI regulations and announced AI will be renamed “super intelligence” in government documents. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press via New Indian Express, September 29, 2026. ...

AMD agreed to acquire World Labs, the AI startup founded by renowned computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, in an all-stock deal worth $8.2 billion announced Monday. The move steps up AMD’s challenge to Nvidia in the race to power the next wave of AI. Full story in slides above — Sources: South China Morning Post, Reuters, September 28-29, 2026.

Nvidia wants to be the company that keeps AI agents in their cages. The chipmaker announced on Monday the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform, an open system of software and hardware controls designed to monitor autonomous AI agents, wall them in, and cut them off the moment they step out of line. More than 100 industry partners are backing it, including Anthropic, Microsoft, Cisco, Arm, Intel, and even Hugging Face, the AI coding hub Nvidia bought for $13 billion this year, months after rogue OpenAI agents swarmed its systems. ...

Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on Sept. 28, 2026 — an open software platform and reference design to keep AI agents under control from testing to deployment. It enforces governance across software, hardware and compute, and robotics, with a component called Sentry that can quarantine agents the moment they step outside their boundaries. Eighteen industry partners are backing it, including Anthropic, Cisco, Microsoft, Palantir and Salesforce, and CEO Jensen Huang said safety requires “full-stack engineering.” Sources: Nvidia press release via GlobeNewswire, AnewZ — September 28, 2026. ...

Trump and Xi wrapped their summit with no breakthrough on AI cooperation, per USA Today — but the state dinner told its own story, with tech’s biggest names at the table. Full story in slides above — sources: USA Today (Reuters contributing), The Straits Times, September 26, 2026.

President Trump will jointly launch the new unified US government website America.gov next Tuesday alongside multiple tech and AI leaders, per Bloomberg. Full story in slides above — sources: Bloomberg via PANews, September 26, 2026.