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Nvidia Donates $250M to UK AI Safety Research

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled by The Fly.AUDIO RECORDING DEVICE:An employee of OpenAI has beenfor and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a national of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was arrested on October 9, and made his initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday. "This serious situation underscores why winning the global super intelligence race is a national security prerogative — and why President Trump's leadership in creating the Super Intelligence Force is so important," said Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. "I thank Director Patel and our FBI partners for their diligence and swift action. The intelligence community remains committed to safeguarding America's cutting-edge intellectual property from foreign threats."CHINA MARKET:Nvidia'scontrol of China's market for AI chips fell to 34% in 1H of 2026, mainly due to strict U.S. export controls and domestic rivals gaining ground, Eduardo Baptista and Che Pan of Reuters, citing an IDC report. From January to June, Nvidia shipped 678,000 AI accelerators in China, down 44% from last year. Nvidia CEO has criticized Washington's effort to curb the export of its AI chips, arguing the policy has forced the company to cede China's market to Huawei.M&A DISCUSSIONS:AI agent startup Decagon has hired a bank to evaluate acquisition interest and has held early talks with ServiceNow and other companies, Business Insider's Katie Roof, citing people familiar with the matter. Decagon was last valued at $4.5B earlier this year, the author notes.AI SAFETY RESEARCH:Nvidia announced a five-year compute donation valued at $250M to strengthen the United Kingdom's agentic safety and security research capability. The commitment will provide $50M in compute access annually to support agentic safety and security research across the U.K. The majority will support the wider U.K. AI safety and security research community, with a proportion supporting work with the British Open-Ended Learning and Discovery Lab, the Science of Fundamental AI Research Lab and Imperial College London. "AI capability and safety must advance together," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. "The U.K. brings world-class scientific rigor to this essential engineering challenge. With this $250M commitment, Nvidia will put accelerated computing in the hands of U.K. researchers to develop, test and strengthen safeguards for increasingly powerful AI. This is how the U.K. turns research leadership into real-world solutions - and scientific progress into a future that benefits everyone." Nvidia will fund compute access through U.K.-based Nvidia Cloud Partners, with infrastructure hosted in the U.K.ACCESS TO MODELS:GoogleDeepMind and Google Cloud are providing up to 200 top European scientific researchers with direct access to its models, together with $3M in compute credits. Through this pledge, researchers will gain direct access to tools including AlphaFold 3, WeatherNext, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and AlphaEarth Foundations. This commitment supports the European Union's AI for Science work by making some of frontier models available via the RAISE initiative.