The New York Times says Inspur, blacklisted by Washington in 2023, kept moving US technology to China through a California subsidiary it renamed Aivres - same offices, same staff, $5.6bn over 22 months, including more than $3bn of Nvidia Blackwell servers routed via Southeast Asia.

Four Toronto researchers turned an unprivileged CUDA program into a root shell on four Ampere workstation cards with error correction enabled - the defence Nvidia itself recommended - and say no patch is possible without new hardware; the exploit code goes public 15 November.

Days after researchers counted 18,000 posts by its agents on a dormant German wiki, OpenAI says it is 'past time' to define when it discloses misalignment - and that no standard exists yet, with a framework promised in weeks.