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Trump Floats Tim Cook as Nvidia's Next CEO After Jensen Huang's Exit
Trump endorses Apple's Tim Cook to replace Jensen Huang at Nvidia, while Colette Kress steps in as interim CEO and the reported allegations remain unc...
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Musk Says Hiring Jensen Huang Would Be an Honor, and Terafab Explains Why
Elon Musk replied that hiring former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would be "an honor." Huang's chip expertise maps neatly onto Musk's Terafab fab project.
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Luminal Raises $23M to Take On Nvidia's CUDA Software Lock-In
Luminal raised a $23M Series A to run AI models across non-Nvidia chips without weeks of manual rewrites, a bet on the software layer behind Nvidia's...
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Maersk Breach Traces to Legacy System at Acquired Logistics Unit
Maersk says a legacy system at its acquired LF Logistics unit was breached. Core operations are unaffected, but a group is demanding $5 million.
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Nvidia Names CFO Colette Kress Interim CEO After Jensen Huang Exits
Nvidia's CFO Colette Kress becomes interim CEO after Jensen Huang's resignation. Her finance background and deep knowledge of the business shaped the...
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US Data Center Power Demand Is Outrunning the Grid
Howden estimates US data center power demand is outpacing grid supply roughly tenfold, pushing AI operators toward onsite gas turbines and restarted r...
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Jensen Huang Steps Down at Nvidia Amid Espionage and Personal Conduct Allegations
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's CEO. Colette Kress is interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor.
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Early Black Friday Deals Worth Buying Now, and the Ones Worth Waiting On
Early Black Friday prices on the LG C6 OLED, HP OmniBook 3, Sony WH-1000XM6 and Ninja appliances, plus which ones may drop further.
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Jensen Huang's Exit Puts Nvidia's Leadership and AI Chip Supply in Question
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO amid reported ties to a woman under FBI scrutiny. With Nvidia chips in most data centers, the fallout reaches...
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Noctua's NT-CP1 Brings Self-Conforming Carbon Nanotube Pads to AM4 and AM5
Noctua's NT-CP1 carbon nanotube pad for AM4 and AM5 CPUs is on sale for $24.95 or €24.95, aimed at replacing paste that degrades over time.
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Alice Huang Resurfaces in Beijing as Nvidia Chip Smuggling Probe Widens
Suspected spy Alice Huang has reportedly been seen in Beijing, as U.S. scrutiny of $7.5 billion in banned Nvidia chip imports through Megaspeed intens...
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Google's TPU 8tx and 8i Max Split the Eighth-Gen Line by Workload
Google adds TPU 8tx for confidential inference and 8i Max for long-context agents. Specs are partial, and pricing and availability are still unannounc...
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Voltage Glitching Turns a CMP-170HX Mining Card Into an A100-Class Accelerator
A hobbyist used voltage glitching to unlock fused-off hardware on Nvidia CMP-170HX cards, reporting 80GB VRAM and 20% more FP16 FMA throughput than a...
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Idle Cannabis Grow Rooms Eye a Second Life as AI Data Center Sites
Falling cannabis prices are pushing some growers to repurpose power-rich facilities as small AI data center nodes. The economics are promising but far...
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USB-C Hub Firmware Patch Lets a $45 Adapter Pass as a Switch 2 Dock
A hobbyist patched a $45 Cable Matters USB-C hub with about 540 bytes of firmware, making it pass as Nintendo's Switch 2 dock with working TV mode and...
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Nvidia's Board Weighs a CEO Succession as Allegations Against Jensen Huang Mount
Nvidia's board may meet November 11 to discuss Jensen Huang's future after reported relationships. A change would be the company's first CEO transitio...
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Edelbyte Raises $70M for a Data Platform Built for AI Agent Queries
Tel Aviv startup Edelbyte raised $70M at a reported $500M valuation for a platform that stores records and vectors and claims sub-100ms queries on mul...
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Fractile's $720M Round Bets on Stacked DRAM to Break the AI Memory Bottleneck
Fractile raised $720M at a $7B valuation for inference chips that stack DRAM directly on logic to cut data movement. Its performance claims are still...
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AI Agents Are Taking Over the Slow Part of Robot Simulation Training
AI models can now build robot simulations and train basic walking behavior in hours. A virtual Microduck and Berkeley lab work show the reach and the...
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Enterprise AI Buyers Want a Cloud, Not Just GPUs
Enterprise AI buyers need networking, shared inference caching and open-source-friendly stacks, not just accelerators, according to Vultr's CMO.
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Georgia Residents Sue Over OpenAI's Effingham County Data Center Under RICO
Residents allege county leaders and OpenAI conspired to advance a 3.2 GW data center in secret. The case tests how far civil racketeering law can reac...
