Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue briefly commented on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s departure on Thursday, calling it a “really sad day.” Nvidia had announced its plan to acquire the platform for open-source AI models in September for $12.9 billion, making it the second-largest acquisition in the company’s history, just behind that of chipmaker Groq’s assets…
United Airlines said it will restrict access to AI agents seeking to book flights and manage reservations on their users’ behalf, citing a risk to cybersecurity and undermining federal regulations. The airline is the latest American corporate giant to prevent customers from using AI agents and autonomous assistants to access their systems. The move comes…
In the wake of the industry-shaking news of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump is floating the idea that former Apple CEO Tim Cook should take over the position. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that “only one man” could take Huang’s place: Tim Cook of Apple. “A…
Nvidia’s CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang is officially out, and longtime chief financial officer Colette Kress is in. The chipmaker’s board of directors announced Thursday that Kress, who joined Nvidia in 2013, has been named interim CEO following Huang’s resignation amid a scandal over his extramarital affair with a Chinese businesswoman believed by US officials…
Jensen Huang has resigned from his position as president and chief executive of Nvidia, the company confirmed on Thursday, just a few days after he admitted to a romantic affair with an alleged Chinese spy, sparking a U.S. national security crisis. In a regulatory filing, Nvidia said its board accepted Huang’s resignation on Wednesday. Nvidia…
Congress is gearing up to subpoena Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to answer their questions about his affair with an alleged Chinese spy, Bloomberg reports, citing two House Republicans. The report comes a week after House Republicans Brian Mast, John Moolenaar, and Rick Crawford sent a letter to Huang asking him to appear before their committees…
If you care about privacy, don’t feed your own personal information into a chatbot, which—among other concerns—could use it to train AI tools. Employees, though, mostly don’t have a choice. A new, multibillion-dollar industry is dedicated to selling and buying work files and emails to companies seeking fresh sources of data to improve their AI…
When Palantir chief executive Alex Karp sat down with Politico this week, he reportedly used the word “progressive” eight times to describe both his political philosophy and his company. “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life,” Karp told Politico, which noted that he called the Democratic Party “totally irresponsible” in the distant time of October…
Fractile, a British startup developing AI chips, has raised a $720 million Series C backed by Britain’s Sovereign AI Fund with hopes of “ensuring the U.K. has a greater stake in the hardware that will underpin its future economy,” its government stated. Alongside the likes of Axelera, Etched, and OLIX, this makes Fractile one of…
IBM has announced IBM Quantum Nighthawk r3, its next superconducting quantum processor. It is designed to run 10,000 quantum operations accurately across 520 programmable qubits. In 2027, IBM plans to link 2 r3 chips into a single 1,040-qubit system. For developers, the announcement is speed. The current Nighthawk r2 already runs workloads up to 19x…
