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| 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” that secrets were compromised — Nvidia Corp.'s board is launching an investigation into whether Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was targeted …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of a classified memo this spring warning US officials 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 …
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| 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.
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| New York Times: |
Jensen Huang maintains deep control over Nvidia, managing 60+ direct reports and owning a 3.56% stake, presenting a challenge for Nvidia's 10-person board — The chief executive has a tight grip on his company, presenting a challenge for Nvidia's board, which is investigating his affair with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy.
More: Axios, 24/7 Wall St., and DailyCoin
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Nvidia drops ~5% pre-market after its board opens a probe into Jensen Huang; Nvidia previously dismissed the interactions as “nothing unusual or unexpected” — Board of chipmaker opens investigation after chief executive Jensen Huang admits to affair
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia Senior Director Madison Huang, daughter of Jensen, cancels a high-profile Seoul appearance citing a “family matter”, throwing the event into disarray — Nvidia Corp. co-founder Jensen Huang's daughter planned to showcase deepening ties with two of South Korea's most important AI players Monday.
More: The Asia Business Daily
| 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.| 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.| Mark Anderson / Bloomberg: |
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| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
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| 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 …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
The US OCC grants Coinbase full approval for a trust bank charter; sources say it could expand Coinbase's stablecoin business and let it issue stablecoins — Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US crypto exchange, said a key regulator has fully signed off on its request to become …
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| Reuters: |
Internal EU assessment: Russia's “Operation Overload” opportunistically exploited recent French riots by spreading fabricated videos impersonating Western media — A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest …
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| Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
Amsterdam police arrested between 150 and 200 protesters for trespassing and violence at a Microsoft data center construction site owned by Pure Data Centers — The people were protesting against the use of fossil fuel generators to power data centers.| 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.| Miriam Waldvogel / Washington Post: |
US voters in Harwood, North Dakota rejected a ballot measure that opposed Applied Digital's $3B data center, set to open in 2027, bucking a nationwide backlash — On Election Day, much of the country turned against the massive projects that power AI. Here's why one place didn't. — SummaryLoading...
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta says it is globally expanding Instagram's AI age estimation tech to apply Teen Account protections to teens aged 13 to 17 who misrepresented their age — Meta says it will expand Teen Account protections to millions more kids, even if they've misrepresented their age.
More: Mashable and Meta Newsroom
| Mark R. Long / Wall Street Journal: |
Alphabet's Wing plans to invest up to $125M over two years to build a 15,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce tens of thousands of drones — Plus: Manufacturing employment rebounds; global automakers target U.S. pickup and SUV buyers as demand sputters elsewhere| 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 …
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