Techmeme
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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 (New York Times)
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Nvidia Senior Director Madison Huang, daughter of Jensen, cancels a high-profile Seoul appearance citing a "family matter", throwing the event into disarray (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
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Nvidia drops ~5% pre-market after its board opens a probe into Jensen Huang; Nvidia previously dismissed the interactions as "nothing unusual or unexpected" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
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Analysts warn Russia's Rassvet broadband satellite network could come online as early as 2027 after its troubled development, enabling more deadly drone strikes (Financial Times)
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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 (Adeel Hassan/New York Times)
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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 (Laura Dubois/Financial Times)
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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 (Bloomberg)
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As companies replace human workers with AI agents, determining managers' grade and pay is becoming harder, as both often depend on how many people they manage (Pilita Clark/Financial Times)
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Toronto-based Ada and SF-based Dialpad, both makers of AI customer service software, agree to merge, sources say in an all-share deal valuing Ada at ~$430M (Globe and Mail)
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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 (Jay Bonggolto/Android Central)
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Sources: ByteDance seeks to expand its data center project in Ceara, Brazil, with a second phase larger than its ongoing $10B, 300MW project (Peter Millard/Bloomberg)
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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" (CBS News)
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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 (Wall Street Journal)
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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 (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Semafor)
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An interview with Cognition CISO Alex Stamos on how AI is upending cybersecurity, AI-powered red teaming, vulnerabilities in legacy codebases, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)