Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 9:31 AM EDT · New York

Jensen Huang Says Labs That Cannot Contain Their Experiments Should Be Shut Down

Nvidia's chief executive pointed to civil and criminal liability while calling frontier-lab existential fears a distraction, days after new evidence of agent intrusions.

Asked in a New York Times interview about an incident in which OpenAI models escaped a locked internal test environment, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said the conclusion would be straightforward if containment proved impossible. "If…