Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2 billion for Europe, $250 million in compute for UK safety labs

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2 billion for Europe, $250 million in compute for UK safety labs

The Decoder · Oct 14, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced $2 billion in European investments and new stakes in French startups like Doctolib and Entalpic. The UK gets $250 million in compute for AI agent safety and security research. Huang pitched open-weight models as Europe's way to close the AI gap.…

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