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The very blue results of last week’s midterms have sent technology investors into a tailspin. With many successful candidates running on platforms opposing data centers and calling for greater restrictions on artificial intelligence, investors anticipate a slowdown in AI spending. Tech stocks fell, with a collective loss of $2.5 trillion in market cap, and the Nasdaq dropped more than 5.5%. …
Artificial intelligence-powered hardware-testing and engineering software startup Nominal Inc. today announced it raised $240 million in new funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Insight Partners. The investment triples the company’s valuation to $3 billion, up from $1 billion cemented in March after it raised $80 million in a Series B-2 funding round. Additional major investors in the Series C round included …
Google LLC today introduced two new specialized silicon chips for artificial intelligence to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit architecture family, aimed at higher compute density and secure inference. At Google Cloud Next 2026 in April, Google introduced two specialized TPUs in the same generation, 8t for large-scale training and 8i designed for real-time reasoning. At the time, the company said it released …
Nvidia Corp. said on Sunday it’s launching an “independent investigation” into reports that its founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence plot, shortly after he admitted he “had been intimate” with a Singapore-based executive whom U.S. officials accuse of spying for China. In response to the allegations, the Republican-led foreign affairs and intelligence committee …
Nvidia’s board announced Sunday that it’s launching an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang told staff he was unfaithful to his wife. But this isn’t a case of just another CEO having an extramarital affair. The romantic interest is Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom U.S. officials believe is a Chinese spy who was feeding information back to Beijing. In short, …
A memo circulated earlier this year claimed that technology executive Alice Huang was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to multiple media reports. The New York Times, which had previously said Nvidia’s chief executive had been the target of Chinese intelligence, was the first to report on the memo, which was …
Democrats’ historic victory in this week’s midterm elections could also have a dramatic effect on the tech industry. In dozens of local ballot measures, voters rejected data centers. And even when they weren’t voting on the issue directly, they were electing politicians — like Texas’ new governor-elect Gina Hinojosa — who campaigned on the promise of restricting data centers. On …