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Lutnick faces questions over Nvidia spy scandal. His sons' firm has deep ties to the chipmaker

Jensen Huang’s resignation as Nvidia CEO has brought renewed scrutiny to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his family's financial ties to the chipmaker.

CNBC
Startups

NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

TechPowerUp
Markets

AMD and other chip stocks slide as Wall Street rethinks the AI trade without Jensen Huang

At first, it looked like Nvidia’s pain might be the rest of the chip sector’s gain. But now, investors aren’t so sure.

MarketWatch
Markets

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 Decoder
Policy

Lutnick agrees to testify before Congress amid bipartisan concerns

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has agreed to testify before Congress amid bipartisan concerns about the Nvidia spy scandal and the agency's enforcement of chip export controls. Lutnick has…

The Hill
Policy

Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen!

New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.

TechCrunch
Tech

Jensen Huang was reckless with the environment, too

Under cofounder Jensen Huang, Nvidia has become the engine for the AI boom - and one of the tech industry's biggest environmental liabilities. Its sought-after chips have triggered a new wave of…

The Verge
Markets

Nvidia scandal draws in Commerce Secretary Lutnick, who reportedly agrees to testify about China chip sales

Commerce Secretary Lutnick will testify before the Senate Banking Committee following revelations about Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy.

CNBC
Policy

Former OpenAI researcher says he found Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints hidden inside six Chinese AI models

Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says he has produced the first technical evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group are using Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs despite US export…

The Decoder
Tech

Bloomberg details web of Chinese AI companies with smuggled NVIDIA chips linked to Alice Huang

Bloomberg found evidence of a network of Chinese companies smuggling NVIDIA chips with Alice Huang at the center.

Engadget
Policy

How Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia is threatening AI-powered economy

Jensen Huang’s departure from Nvidia threatens the stability of the AI industry and the market as a whole, as experts express differing outlooks on the chipmaker’s future. Huang resigned as CEO of…

The Hill
Markets

Nvidia’s turmoil is prompting a rotation across chip stocks. Here's what we know

That shift comes as Nvidia grapples with the fallout from Huang's resignation, following revelations about his multiple affairs.

CNBC
Markets

Nvidia without Jensen Huang. What lies ahead for Asian chipmakers?

Nvidia's leadership shake-up raises questions for Asian chipmakers, though analysts expect limited near-term disruption.

CNBC
Markets

Why Singapore keeps turning up in the fight over Nvidia chips and China

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.

CNBC
AI

Silicon Valley Is Still Defending Jensen Huang

Nvidia employees and tech insiders never thought the chip king would lose his job. Despite his sudden resignation, many of them are still in denial.

WIRED
Policy

Top trade committee Democrats launch probe into Trump administration approving Nvidia's chip sales to China

The top Democrats on the House and Senate's trade committees are requesting the Commerce Department preserve its records on President Trump's decision late last year to allow Nvidia to sell its H200…

The Hill
Policy

Mesa 26.3 arrives with Vulkan 1.4, Anti-AI policy, and Intel improvements

Desde Linux
Research

Nvidia privately confirmed it could track chips to fight smuggling, even as industry publicly questioned feasibility

Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told…

MIT Technology Review
Startups

Nine Korean startups vie for a spot in Disrupt 2027’s Startup Battlefield 200 competition

The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine are looking to enter the U.S.

TechCrunch
AI

Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI

Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.

Ars Technica