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Amsterdam police arrested between 150 and 200 protesters for trespassing and violence at a Microsoft data center construction site owned by Pure Data Centers (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
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.
Internal EU assessment: Russia's "Operation Overload" opportunistically exploited recent French riots by spreading fabricated videos impersonating Western media (Reuters)
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 …
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)
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…
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)
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…
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)
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
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)
Financial Times : Analysts warn Russia's Rassvet broadband satellite network could come online as early as 2027 after its troubled development, enabling more deadly drone strikes — Moscow's flagship space project would enable more deadly drone strikes deep inside Ukraine — Russia is racing to…
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)
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…
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)
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…
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)
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…
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)
Pilita Clark / Financial Times : 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 — I was chairing a panel discussion about AI the other day when someone in the audience asked about…
Toronto-based Ada and SF-based Dialpad, both makers of AI customer service software, agree to merge in an all-share deal valuing Ada at ~$430M, sources say (Globe and Mail)
Globe and Mail : Toronto-based Ada and SF-based Dialpad, both makers of AI customer service software, agree to merge in an all-share deal valuing Ada at ~$430M, sources say — Ada Support Inc., the Toronto-based company that makes AI customer service software for businesses, has agreed to combine …
Google rolls out a Googlebook update that frees up 3GB-6GB of RAM via on-device AI optimizations, reduces Chrome crashes, patches ~60 Android flaws, and more (Jay Bonggolto/Android Central)
Jay Bonggolto / Android Central : Google rolls out a Googlebook update that frees up 3GB-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…
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)
Peter Millard / Bloomberg : Sources: ByteDance seeks to expand its data center project in Ceara, Brazil, with a second phase larger than its ongoing $10B, 300MW project — TikTok owner ByteDance is considering expanding a data center project in northeastern Brazil, a move that would strengthen its…
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)
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 …
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)
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…
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)
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…
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)
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…
Tencent's chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu says AI's bio abilities will soon make it "possible to do harm" and Anthropic has a "strong argument" for closed models (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post : Tencent's chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu says AI's bio abilities will soon make it “possible to do harm” and Anthropic has a “strong argument” for closed models — Artificial intelligence models will soon be powerful enough to master biology, presenting both…
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 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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 …
Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after affair admission, saying he is a "fine person" and "I haven't heard he's done anything wrong" (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg : Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after affair admission, saying 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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