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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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| Bill Bishop / @niubi: |
Jensen Huang's affair raises questions about Alice Huang's access to his devices and Trump conversations, and represents “another successful op” for China's MSS — On the Jensen Huang-Alice Huang affair, you have to give the MSS credit for running another successful op.
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| 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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| 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.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Alice Huang and her partner pitched a Southeast Asia data center project to China-based investors in 2025, saying they had “no problem securing GPUs” — Alice Huang boasted of having access to Nvidia GPUs and her connection to Alibaba in bid to secure investment for major data centre project| 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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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Google unveils two specialized TPUs, the TPU 8tx, to be paired with AMD CPUs, and TPU 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks, launching 2027 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is rolling out a broader array of artificial intelligence chips, aiming to capitalize on its rapid ascent … | 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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| 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.| 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.| Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Nominal, which builds software to make hardware manufacturing more efficient, raised $240M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B after raising $80M in March — Nominal Inc., a startup building software to make manufacturing more efficient, has raised $240 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation … | 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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| 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.| Laura Dubois / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU sues IBM, French IT group Atos, and Italian contractor Leonardo over delays in developing its smart border system, which caused travel chaos — Lawsuit filed in Estonia relates to repeated delays in developing Entry/Exit System — The EU has sued IBM and two European companies …
More: Silicon Republic, The Guardian, and Reuters
| 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
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