Nvidia says its new AI security platform can stop rogue agents from breaking containment

The useful part

The chipmaker has teamed with more than 100 companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, CoreWeave, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Arm, and Intel, on the initiative. The security launch came the same day Nvidia announced a $150 billion increase to its share-repurchase program, the largest such authorization in U.S. The company, now worth more than $5 trillion, has been generating enormous amounts of cash as demand for AI chips continues to surge.

How it works

• Huang said the new systems, dubbed OpenShell and Nvidia Sentry, will perform a similar service for AI.
• "When you deploy an agent, no matter how smart, the first thing you do is take away all of its rights.
• You give it rights to files, data, tools, even internet access, only if it nee...
• "Essentially, what we're doing here is creating the modern browser, the browser for agents," Huang said in an interview on CNBC.

Details worth keeping

OpenAI was not included among the companies participating in the effort. In announcing the security platform, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang compared the current state of AI to the early days of the World Wide Web, when programs like Java were initially given free rein by browsers, resulting in a rash of viruses. That led to the introduction of safety barriers that limited access.