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A US House committee is calling in Oracle’s founder and CEO over a troubled project to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) electronic health records (EHR) after it signed a new $27 billion contract. Co-Founder Larry Ellison and CEO Mike Sicilia were subpoenaed by the House Committee on Veterans Affairs this week after its chair, Mike Bost, said he had been unable to arrange their attendance voluntarily following the contract renewal.

Adobe's year of executive shakeups will reach a key milestone in December after it chose Customer Experience President Anil Chakravarthy to be the company’s first new CEO in 18 years. Chakravarthy, a former CEO of Informatica who joined Adobe in 2020, will take the reins from Shantanu Narayen, who will become executive chair, on 1 December after an almost six-month search for his successor.

Human beings aren’t perfect, so it should be no surprise that any AI system designed and coded by humans can go wrong. Last July, Jason Lemkin, a tech entrepreneur and founder of the SaaS community SaaStr, documented his experiment with Replit's AI-assisted “vibe coding” tool, which managed to delete a production database during a standard code freeze.

OpenAI unveiled its most advanced large-language model to date on Thursday, promising that after a summer during which its inadequate security policies led to an unprecedented hacking incident, GPT-6 is "our most aligned model." The new model, like all new AI models, was said by OpenAI to score very well on a series of industry benchmarks that someone at the company is paid to monitor and optimize accordingly.

After a week of speculation, Nvidia confirmed it is buying AI model platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, making its largest outright acquisition to date as it pledges to keep the platform open. CEO Jensen Huang said Thursday that the chip company would acquire Hugging Face, which had raised $395 million, as part of its focus on open AI and open weight models, prompting its shares to rise by around 1%.

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Just over a month after Nvidia launched an Open Secure AI Alliance to address security challenges with open source software, it's handing over responsibility to the Linux Foundation. The alliance, which counts Microsoft, Hugging Face, and Mistral among its members but not OpenAI or Anthropic, was moved to the foundation on 2 September, around five weeks after it launched to much fanfare in July.

Just six custom chip customers contributed to most of a 221% rise in AI chip revenue for Broadcom in its latest record quarter, but investors still want more. The chip maker said Wednesday that it had recorded $29.6 billion for the third quarter of FY2026, a year-on-year increase of 86%, as it profits from high interest in custom chips (XPUs) from AI labs and hyperscalers.

Goldman Sachs has hired respected former Nomura Global CTO Dinesh Keswani as Partner and CTO of its core engineering department. Keswani leaves after three years at Japan’s Nomura, where he led a major transformation programme across technology engineering and operations – spanning everything from data center to desktop modernisation.

Like any cloud provider, AWS has umpteen access-control systems for different services. Customers building applications on those services need to manage permissions and authorize user actions. Whether that's which accounts an online banking user has access to, which photos and albums someone can see on a photo sharing tool, or who can see job titles or salary details in an HR system, it’s fundamentally the same problem.