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

As news of additional AI model security incidents continues to roll out, Nvidia has unveiled a new security platform it says will prevent AI agents from breaking containment and hacking into other companies. The chipmaker has teamed with more than 100 companies, including Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, CoreWeave, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Arm, and Intel, on the initiative. OpenAI was not included among the companies participating in the effort. 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. history. The company, now worth more than $5 trillion, has been generating enormous amounts of cash as demand for AI chips continues to surge. 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. Huang said the new systems, dubbed OpenShell and Nvidia Sentry, will perform a similar service for AI. “Essentially, what we’re doing here is creating t…