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Nvidia and South Korea's SK Group have formalized a strategic partnership valued at more than five hundred billion dollars, covering next-generation memory supply, a two-gigawatt AI data center built on Nvidia hardware, and expanded AI infrastructure. It is one of the largest technology deals announced this year, and it signals just how aggressively both companies are betting on AI's physical buildout.
From billion-dollar ambitions to legislative guardrails — US lawmakers are pushing forward the AI Kill Switch Act, which would give the Department of Homeland Security authority to throttle or shut down frontier AI systems in an emergency. Companies that refuse to comply could face fines of up to twenty million dollars per day. The bill raises hard questions about who decides when an AI poses enough risk to pull the plug.
And on the security front, researchers say they have found a way to bypass Apple's Gatekeeper protection on macOS by swapping out a previously verified app with a malicious one that the system won't re-examine. Apple's response was essentially a shrug — arguing the scenario falls outside what Gatekeeper is designed to catch, leaving the real vulnerability, as so often, in human behavior rather than code.
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