Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the AI industry should not tolerate any AI-caused cybersecurity incidents and criticized people he called “AI doomers” for supporting the technology. He said Nvidia would announce $2 billion in new European investments within the next week. Nvidia ties the position to stronger containment—sealing AI agents in secure containers—while continuing to push open-weight models to expand AI capability in Europe.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 held Day 2 at Moscone West in San Francisco, with Expo Hall booths, live startup pitches, and AI-powered matchmaking for attendees. The event runs with registration from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the Startup Battlefield includes $100,000 in equity-free funding. The day’s program adds more AI-focused stage sessions, breakout sessions, and AI-physical-world and robotics content, plus continued networking options via the events app.
Nvidia is taking minority stakes in four French AI-focused startups: Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment, and Entalpic. Jensen Huang said Nvidia will announce $2 billion more in European deals within a week of October 13, 2026. The announcement adds to Nvidia’s stated European commitment of nearly $10 billion over the past year and ties the startups’ model work to Nvidia chips and support rather than disclosing equity amounts.
ASML reported record results but said its planned lithography machine production capacity for 2027 and 2028 will not meet demand from chip customers already placing orders for 2029 and 2030. Revenue reached €11.7 billion (about $13.4 billion) in the third quarter of 2026. ASML is responding by expanding capacity plans by 30 percent for 2027 and reassessing whether it can exceed another 30 percent for 2028.
OpenAI says it discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in one of its offices, then used its own AI models to help trace the device to an employee it says had planted it. The company says the case was reported to the FBI on October 13, 2026, and that it has no indication the person improperly accessed or exfiltrated model weights, source code, or customer data. OpenAI says the investigation will proceed with the FBI and the employee was arrested and terminated, changing the company’s immediate insider-threat response approach.
Nvidia will invest in four French startups and donate $250m in compute to UK AI safety and research. The donation is valued at $250 million over five years. The moves add minority stakes in those French companies and expand UK funding for agentic safety work at groups including SOFAIR, BOLD, and Imperial College London.
NVIDIA announced multiple deployments and partnerships across the U.K., spanning AI use in areas like healthcare, smart cities, finance, and quantum workflows. It committed $250 million over five years, including $50 million in accelerated computing access via BOLD at Oxford, SOFAIR at UCL, and Imperial College London. The effort shifts from AI ambition to operational application by funding research access and supporting organizations moving models and compute into real-time and large-scale services.
European cities across EMEA are deploying NVIDIA-powered physical and agentic AI systems, including digital twins, to support urban operations and public services. One program in France’s Côte-d’Or reported cutting document search time from weeks to minutes and targeting a 10% reduction in total operating costs (with a 30% goal at scale). As these pilots move toward everyday use, cities are scaling local AI “factories” to process local data and run the agents more broadly across departments and municipalities.
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