Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang has become a political liability following his recent confession of infidelity involving a woman identified by United States officials as a Chinese spy.
Initial reactions within the technology sector characterized Huang as irreplaceable to the chipmaker and the broader artificial intelligence industry, but subsequent developments shifted perceptions regarding his corporate future. More details are expected as the story develops.
Earlier reports and follow-ups on the same developing story.
That shift comes as Nvidia grapples with the fallout from Huang's resignation, following revelations about his multiple affairs.
Microsoft reports it is seeing some ‘positive results’ in its efforts to get its services back online for millions of customers around the world. Microsoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and Teams What happened and when will it be fixed? There are plenty of essential services that remain unaffected by the outage, which is largely impacting email systems. The Australian Medical Association said it has so far not received any reports that hospitals or clinics are impacted. Impact is largely restricted to the sending and receiving of email. Western Australia, along with jurisdictions around the world, is being impacted by a global Microsoft outage. We are receiving updates from the Commonwealth who are working with Microsoft at the most senior levels to resolve. Microsoft are prioritising life, safety and Government services. Continue reading...
Since just before 1PM ET on Thursday, reports have come in from around the world that people can't access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft quickly acknowledged the issue from its Microsoft 365 Status account, saying that "We've determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which […]
Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".
Singapore said it had barred Alice Huang from re-entering the country and that U.S. authorities had provided limited help with its yearlong investigations.
This live blog is now closed – you can read our latest report here Can the AI economy survive without its “central bank”? What does Jensen Huang’s fall mean for the world’s second-most valuable company, and what might a tremor in its fortunes mean for the world? Nvidia’s sky-high valuation is based on the fact that it designs and sells the advanced AI chips, called graphics processing units (GPUs), that underpin the AI economy. Without these, AI models such as ChatGPT and Claude could not be trained and would not run. Continue reading...