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China Nixes Nvidia, OpenAI Babysits, Google Shops; npm Worm Crawls; UK Trump Pageantry; Remedio Raises $65M
China Prohibits Nvidia’s AI Chips
China Prohibits Nvidia’s AI Chips: Beijing has ordered its biggest tech firms to stop buying Nvidia’s AI chips, the Financial Times reports, going beyond earlier guidance that warned against a China-tailored Nvidia model. It looks like either leverage to make Washington loosen export curbs or an accelerator for full-on tech decoupling—what analyst Bill Bishop says would finally bury the “China fantasy” that limited Nvidia sales keep China hooked on U.S. tech. Nvidia’s CEO added that the two countries have “larger agendas” to work out—translation: the chip drama is just the appetizer in a much bigger geopolitical tasting menu.
UK rolls out pageantry for Trump’s state visit
UK rolls out pageantry for Trump’s state visit, serving gilt-edged diplomacy at Windsor Castle as the U.S. president dines with the royals and becomes the first American leader formally welcomed there. London is betting that brass bands and King Charles’s gravitas can help Europe prod Trump to lean on Moscow over Ukraine—serious stakes wrapped in ceremonial velvet. Trump’s fondness for monarchy meets a monarch quietly sympathetic to Kyiv; Tina Brown even calls Charles “the last man standing” with global gravitas in our digitally scrambled age. Still, as the Washington Post’s London bureau chief noted, even all this pomp is unlikely to soothe a world careening from crisis to crisis—great optics, limited shock absorbers.
Remedio Raises $65 Million to Address Patch and Vulnerability Gaps
Remedio Raises $65 Million to Address Patch and Vulnerability Gaps, betting enterprises are done collecting alarms like trophies and would prefer actual fixes. The startup is building a unified platform that automates secure remediation across misconfigurations, patching, and compliance—closing the chasm between risk visibility and action. CEO Tal Kollender says the funding will speed growth, expand the U.S. sales footprint, and finally turn “we found it” into “we fixed it,” a novelty in a market drowning in dashboards.
Google: Let AI Handle Your Shopping
Google: Let AI Handle Your Shopping—because nothing says progress like handing your wallet to a robot. Google unveiled an Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) that lets AI agents make purchases, but only with a user “mandate,” essentially a signed permission slip to keep agent-led spending accountable. Translation: convenience with guardrails, so your digital concierge doesn’t redecorate your bank account while you’re asleep.
OpenAI Introduces Age Verification and Parental Controls for Minors
OpenAI introduces age verification and parental controls for minors, rolling out age estimation tools and, in some cases, ID checks for users claiming to be over 18—a sober step taken amid growing scrutiny after teen suicides were linked to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots.
Worm Infiltrates npm Repository
Worm Infiltrates npm Repository as an apparent Dune superfan unleashes the first self‑propagating attack on the JavaScript registry, seeding wormable code that exfiltrates data to GitHub repositories named “Shai‑Hulud.” Security researchers are calling it among the most severe JavaScript supply‑chain hits to date—proof that if you build an ecosystem on trust and haste, a sandworm will eventually surf right through it.
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