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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 investigation into Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy raises …
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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Nvidia drops 5%+ after its board opens an investigation into Jensen Huang; the company originally 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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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Sources: Jensen Huang hired crisis communications firm Heller as early as October 2025; an NYT report in October 2025 on his Megaspeed ties caused tensions — The Nvidia CEO began working with consultants from Heller as early as October 2025, around the same time he was first linked to a suspected Chinese spy.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China was transferred to the DOJ after Nvidia intervened — An investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore company that was buying advanced Nvidia A.I. chips, was transferred to the Justice Department …
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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 — The woman at the centre …
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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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| 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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| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are “best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work”, for $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens — We've upgraded Claude Fable and Claude Mythos—models that are designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Google unveils two specialized TPUs launching in 2027: the 8tx, to be paired with an AMD CPU, and the 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is rolling out a broader array of artificial intelligence chips, aiming to capitalize on its rapid ascent …
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna — Meta Superintelligence Lab released a new AI model on Monday called Muse Ember, the lab's lightest and most cost-efficient AI model yet.
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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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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Meta expands its AI age estimation tech globally to apply Instagram's Teen Account protections for millions of users from 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.| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Elliptic: hackers behind the $6.3B Binance heist created at least six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain network to launder about $430,000 of stolen funds — The hackers who stole $6.3 billion from Binance Holdings Ltd. in crypto's biggest ever heist have turned to one of the sector's …
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French officials say Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France in October — French officials on Monday accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of responsibility for the cyberattacks that knocked … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Disney and Adobe sign a multiyear deal to build proprietary “artist-led” generative AI models with Adobe Firefly Foundry to support Disney's production pipeline — The partnership will give Disney ‘early access’ to AI tech for its resorts, cruise line, ESPN graphics, and more.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Medium launches TK, an AI-powered, minimalist note-taking, journaling, and private social networking app with daily prompts, its first major launch since 2017 — The company is betting that the future of blogging looks a lot like group chats. … For the first time ever, Medium is becoming more than just a blogging platform.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco — Powered by its SpotHero acquisition, Uber's new parking reservation tool is a play for commuter loyalty — and a staging ground for its robotaxi future.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
The US OCC fully approves Coinbase to become a chartered trust bank; sources say it could expand Coinbase's stablecoin business by letting 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 … | Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: |
Mavria, which aims to build modular data centers that can be shipped by trucks, raised $130M across pre-seed and seed rounds at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm — Mavria has raised money at a $1 billion valuation to build modular data centers that can be shipped by truck
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