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| Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: |
A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO tops 100K signatures, including Elon Musk, Tim Sweeney, and Garry Tan; organizers say 5K+ Nvidia staff signed — Some people aren't ready to let former CEO Jensen Huang go. — A petition to reinstate Huang as Nvidia's CEO has some 97,000 signatures …
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Letter: Altimeter's Brad Gerstner and Atreides's Gavin Baker urge Nvidia's board to consider “the potential return of Jensen Huang”; they own $2.13B in Nvidia — Two major Nvidia shareholders are calling on the board of directors to weigh all options for the company's future leadership …
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| Bloomberg: |
23andMe's Anne Wojcicki, formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, says Jensen Huang's affair shows what happens when CEOs think they are “untouchable” — As the Nvidia drama unfolds, the tech community adds yet another geek-turned-billionaire to its list of flawed visionaries.
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| Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Nvidia insiders say Jensen Huang was prone to wild office tantrums, which a source says some employees were surprised hadn't leaked before his public downfall — Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was prone to wild temper tantrums at the office, according to company insiders …
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| Forbes: |
Unlike other larger-than-life tech founders, Jensen Huang lacked super-voting shares in Nvidia, making it easier for him to lose control of the company — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. — Many tech CEOs including Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell and Evan Spiegel have majority voting power.
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| Washington Post: |
The Nvidia scandal presents a political challenge for the White House by tying together data centers, China, and corruption, all key voter issues in midterms — The scandal connects to voter concerns over AI, data centers, China and corruption. — Sex. Money. Power. Espionage.| Wall Street Journal: |
How Jensen Huang built a multibillion-dollar business to let Chinese companies access Nvidia AI chips in SE Asian data centers, exploiting a gap in US sanctions — Massive data centers in Southeast Asia exploited a gap in U.S. sanctions, providing crucial computing power for Chinese companies and a cover for alleged chip smuggling
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| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
Jensen Huang's resignation is a setback for US open models, as his funding gave open-source developers time to find their footing and will very likely dry up — A decapitation. It's time to rebuild. … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.| Washington Post: |
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Forums: r/NvidiaStock, r/law, and r/LocalLLM
| Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal: |
Sean Duffy blames Friday's FAA outage on copper-to-fiber wiring work at a remote facility, saying contractor L3Harris may have installed a “faulty router” — Work at a single remote location caused instability that led authorities to order nationwide groundstop; airlines continue to cancel flights as they rush to reset
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC plans to set up a new $500M fund to invest in chip startups, suppliers, and other upstream partners, saying “we also want to support the future's Nvidia” — TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to use a new $500 million venture fund to support promising chip startups …
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Nidus, which is developing AI-powered tech for manufacturing robots used by US defense industrial companies, raised $30M across a pre-seed and a seed — The startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and Costanoa says it's reached “seven figures” in bookings with defense industrial customers in just 4 months.| Bloomberg: |
Source: Applied Digital has asked tenants like Oracle and Meta for billions in guarantees since at least last year to secure power before finalizing leases — Tech giants chasing the infinite promise of AI are finding themselves increasingly on the hook for something far earthier — the electrical grid.| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Nebuly, whose tech helps enterprises measure the business value of AI agents by analyzing their impact on productivity and revenue, raised a $21M Series A — Nebuly develops a platform that helps enterprises measure the business value of AI agents by analysing their impact on productivity …
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| Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg: |
USD-pegged stablecoins are taking a growing share of Latin America's crypto activity, serving as a store of value and an efficient cross-border payment system — Stablecoins are proving useful not only as a store of value but as a payment system — including for users who don't know anything about the blockchain.| FinTech Global: |
Databento, which offers market data APIs and says it has contracts with five of the six largest frontier AI labs, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.1B valuation — Databento, a platform supplying market data to the modern financial industry, has secured $100m in a Series C round that values the business at $1.1bn.
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