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Sources: Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of a classified memo this spring warning Trump admin that Jensen Huang was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy — The secretary of state's role in drafting a secret memo highlights how top officials were concerned by last spring … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia's board launches a probe into whether Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, saying it has no reason to believe Nvidia secrets were compromised — Nvidia Corp.'s board is launching an investigation into whether Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was targeted … | Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after affair admission, saying he is a “fine person” and “I haven't heard he's done anything wrong” — President Donald Trump called Jensen Huang a “fine person” and said he should stay on as the chief executive officer … | Madison Mills / Axios: |
Email to staff: Jensen Huang admits an affair, takes “full responsibility”, and says he fell short of his duties to Nvidia's board, shareholders, and employees — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy in a message to his company.| Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor: |
Jensen Huang's scandal poses a rare crisis in US corporate history, given the national security stakes, his centrality to Nvidia, and its role in the AI race — There's little precedent in US corporate history for the crisis facing Nvidia after reports that Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese “honeytrap” operation.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and filings detail how Jensen Huang has brought his children and other family members into Nvidia, making it unusually family-run for Silicon Valley — The Nvidia CEO has elevated his children to prominence. His board is investigating reports that he was an espionage target.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities — The company wants to turn Siri into a true AI agent. … Apple's new CEO is pressing software chief Craig Federighi … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Cognition CISO Alex Stamos on how AI is upending cybersecurity, AI-powered red teaming, vulnerabilities in legacy codebases, and more — Today, I'm talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now.| CBS News: |
When talking about AI safety, President Trump says “I don't mind guardrails. But I don't wanna put us in a deep second position”, and “China has no guardrails” — This past Tuesday, President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered an extraordinary midterm repudiation … | Financial Times: |
How Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Pat Grady erased Roelof Botha's legacy, halving GPs and unwinding his fund; sources say he joined SpaceX's board behind their backs — Closures of London office and permanent capital fund mark latest efforts to streamline Silicon Valley VC firm| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Job listings show Amazon is building a “new-to-world” home robot to operate “alongside family members”, after its $1,450 Astro reached only a few thousand homes — Jeff Bezos made a bold bet in 2017. A sci-fi and robotics enthusiast, Bezos was convinced that consumers … | Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent's chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu says AI's bio abilities will soon make it “possible to do harm” and Anthropic has a “strong argument” for closed models — Artificial intelligence models will soon be powerful enough to master biology, presenting both benefits … | Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4B, the largest known such purchase by an AI lab — AI lab bypasses traditional suppliers to secure scarce equipment as demand for energy surges — Anthropic has struck a massive deal … | Ian Hodgson / Wall Street Journal: |
US professional services added 70K jobs in October, the most since July 2022, as AI-exposed consulting, legal, and accounting all grew despite AI job-loss fears — Strong hiring at law offices, consulting firms staves off fears of job apocalypse — Consulting firms, law offices …
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