AI & Tech Newsletter

Where was Nvidia’s security team?

Nvidia’s security chief quietly left in August, and now that CEO Jensen Huang has stepped down over his relationships, including one with an executive at a company suspected of funneling chips to China, a former intelligence officer says it’s the kind of leak that runs everyday…

Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang

The petition had attracted more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon.

Sex, spies and Silicon Valley: Nvidia scandal highlights risks for big tech

Chinese economic espionage is in the spotlight after the downfall of Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, and former intelligence officials say the US is not doing enough to combat it.

Jensen Huang and the decline of the visionary showman founder CEO

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025. | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images On January 6th, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his rockstar moment at last. He strode triumphantly onstage, hand raised in the air, to the claps and…

OpenAI reassigns robotics researchers to other teams as general-purpose models might make specialized robotics AI unnecessary

OpenAI is dissolving its standalone robotics team for the second time, but not because it lacks data. General-purpose models like GPT-6 Astra can apparently control robots directly, making a dedicated unit unnecessary. The researchers are being redistributed across other teams…

Runway's open-source Praxis-1 turns video AI into a robot controller

Runway releases its robotics model Praxis-1 with open weights and source code under the Apache 2.0 license. The model uses knowledge from video training for robot control and leads the World Action Model category on Nvidia's RoboLab-120 benchmark. It can't yet plan complex…

Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs

Nvidia director sold nearly $1B in stock weeks before the Jensen Huang scandal

Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say

Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.

Faster Scientific Simulations with New FP64 Algorithms in NVIDIA cuBLAS

Many scientific simulations, from molecular chemistry to materials science, spend the majority of their execution time computing high-precision dense general... Many scientific simulations, from molecular chemistry to materials science, spend the majority of their execution time…

Run GPU-Powered Black Hole Interferometry with NVIDIA cuPhoton

Imaging black holes is challenging because they are distant and appear tiny in the sky—for example, M87*’s observed ring spans just 42 microarcseconds. The... Imaging black holes is challenging because they are distant and appear tiny in the sky—for example, M87*’s observed ring…

Jensen Huang's ouster likely traces back to Nvidia's risky business practices more than his personal life

Jensen Huang likely left Nvidia more because of risky business practices than anything else, a Wall Street Journal report suggests. At the very least, those practices made him enemies internally. The company offered cloud providers billions in financial guarantees for chip…

Pressure grows on Trump's Commerce Secretary Lutnick in fallout from Nvidia scandal

Scott Bessent told CNBC that several government agencies "were in favour of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months".

Nvidia scandal: US treasury chief blames Lutnick’s commerce department over alleged lack of action

US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen Huang US politics – live updates The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is facing growing pressure over his apparent lack of action over the…

Why the Nvidia scandal is far from over - The Latest

Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout is not over yet, with criticism mounting over the apparent…

Run Native DLA Inference in Python on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Using cuDLA

AI applications at the edge often need to run multiple neural networks within limited compute and power budgets. NVIDIA Deep Learning Accelerator (DLA)... AI applications at the edge often need to run multiple neural networks within limited compute and power budgets. NVIDIA Deep…

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

Build a Robot Pick-and-Place Simulation with SimReady Assets

OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots

When One GPU Isn’t Enough: Serving GLM-5.3 Across Two NVIDIA DGX Stations with vLLM

Running a frontier-scale model locally means keeping all its weights in GPU memory; the largest models no longer fit on one machine. Two NVIDIA DGX Stations... Running a frontier-scale model locally means keeping all its weights in GPU memory; the largest models no longer fit on…

Adapt Human Motion for Robots with NVIDIA SOMA Retargeter

Human motion offers roboticists a great starting point for teaching humanoid robots how to move. A human demonstration captures the coordination and timing... Human motion offers roboticists a great starting point for teaching humanoid robots how to move. A human demonstration…

The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.

What’s really at stake in the Jensen Huang saga

One part of the saga surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ended on Thursday, when Huang resigned from his position at the top of AI's most important company. But in the coming weeks and months, a much bigger story may be about to unfold. A story about Nvidia's dealings in China…

Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil

Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.