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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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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
President Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after his affair admission: 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese media denies Beijing's link to Jensen Huang's affair, accuses the US media of a fabricated spy narrative, and warns the issue may hurt trade relations — Beijing dismissed allegations that it spied on Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, an episode that is spiraling …
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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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Bluesky: @tonytassell, @errantthinker, and @mikeelk
| 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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| 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.| Jay Bonggolto / Android Central: |
Google rolls out a Googlebook update that frees up 3GB to 6GB of RAM via on-device AI optimizations, reduces Chrome crashes, patches ~60 Android flaws, and more — Google's latest Googlebook update frees up to 6GB of RAM and fixes Chrome crashes. … Google is rolling out its November update …
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| 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 …
More: RuntimeWire and Seoul Economic Daily
| Adeel Hassan / New York Times: |
US federal prosecutors say businesses have lost $129M+ to scam calls using AI-generated voices to mimic company executives in the 18 months since July 2024 — A federal indictment alleges that three men used generative A.I. to impersonate voices of chief executives and lawyers to defraud companies of millions of dollars.
More: Legal Insurrection
| 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 …
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