Jensen Huang, the CEO and co-founder of the world’s most prominent chip company, has allegedly been honey-trapped by a suspected Chinese spy, and the news has struck the internet like a match to gasoline. Huang has long been seen as a wife guy (or so everyone assumed). He and his wife, Lori, have been together…
Six months before the Nvidia spy scandal emerged, the New York-based short seller firm Culper Research had already raised questions about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s unusually close relationship with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that buys Nvidia chips. She is now suspected to be a Chinese spy. The Nvidia CEO admitted…
Hotel and resort giant Wyndham has acknowledged a cybersecurity incident after a good-faith security researcher discovered a bug that allowed anyone to access customers’ personal information. Security researcher Robert Wiggins at What Security exclusively told TechCrunch that he found a password inside the source code of Wyndham’s Android app, which granted access to an internal…
Launching a major tech IPO would seem risky right now, shortly after one of Nasdaq’s biggest selloffs and amid revelations that a CEO central to the AI boom had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. But that isn’t deterring Anthropic, which is moving ahead with its listing plans, according to The Wall Street Journal….
No executive has pulled the strings in the artificial intelligence era quite like Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang. He parlayed the boom into incredible wealth, became a close confidant of President Donald Trump, and emerged as a prominent voice in US-China relations. That now all stands in the balance. Over the last few days, Huang’s status…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired Heller Inc., a crisis communications firm known for handling sex scandals, at least a year before publicly acknowledged an extramarital affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, Wired reported. Heller Inc. founder Risa Heller has advised prominent men through personal scandals and sexual misconduct accusations, according to a…
Baidu has just released ERNIE Evolve, an automated research system that improves AI training and inference code. Given a repository, an objective and evaluation criteria, it picks research directions, edits code and runs experiments. Only changes that pass a hidden evaluator and a separate reviewer are kept. Baidu team tested the ERNIE Evolve automated research…
Geothermal company Fervo couldn’t have picked a better time to deliver its first power plants. In its third quarter earnings report, released Monday, the company said it now has $11.9 billion worth of contracted revenue on the books, up from $7.2 billion last quarter. Fervo has been hitting its deadlines recently, which undoubtedly has helped…
Google has added two new systems to its eighth-generation TPU lineup. TPU 8i Max targets massive context windows and rack density. TPU 8tx targets secure, confidential inference. Google TPU 8i Max is a dual-chip package built from 2 TPU 8i chips. Both arrive alongside TPU 8t and TPU 8i, announced in April. TL;DR Size: TPU…
Anthropic released new versions of its most advanced models on Monday, with the launch of Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2. The company says the new models “show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision,” and communicate more clearly with users. Notably, Anthropic is lowering the cost of Fable from $10 to $8 per million…
