Nvidia is donating $250 million worth of computing power over five years to support AI safety and security research in the UK, The Guardian reports.
The company is worth roughly $5.5 trillion because nearly everyone building powerful AI needs its chips. Now the shovel merchant is also helping researchers determine whether the gold rush can hack the lawnmower.
The funding is real and useful. So is the conflict baked into the image: the company accelerating the boom is buying a very large fire extinguisher and placing it beside the flamethrower.