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Nvidia forms Open Secure AI Alliance without OpenAI, Google or Anthropic

On July 27, 2026, Nvidia announced the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), uniting nearly 40 companies including Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, SpaceX and Hugging Face around open-source tools for defending against AI-powered cyberattacks. Contributions include Microsoft's multi-agent vulnerability scanning framework, Hugging Face's Safetensors format, and IBM and Red Hat's signed patching system. The alliance formed days after the Hugging Face breach, and OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are notably absent.

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IBM's nanostack demo puts nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail of silicon

IBM unveiled its nanostack chip architecture on June 25, 2026, and the images went viral in mid-July: transistor channels built from three nanosheets roughly 15 atoms thick, bonded in vertical layers, fitting nearly 100 billion transistors on silicon about the size of a fingernail with up to 50% more performance or 70% better energy efficiency than IBM's 2nm node. The 0.7nm label is a node name rather than a measurement, and researchers have publicly pushed back on it. It is a lab result: IBM targets commercial use within five years, while experts quoted by MIT Technology Review expect wide deployment closer to a decade out.