If you care about privacy, don’t feed your own personal information into a chatbot, which—among other concerns—could use it to train AI tools. Employees, though, mostly don’t have a choice. A new, multibillion-dollar industry is dedicated to selling and buying work files and emails to companies seeking fresh sources of…
The Polar Vortex Is About to Make Weather Weird From the UK to the US
A critical blockade against some of nature’s coldest air has temporarily broken down—and much earlier in the year than normal. Disruptions in this circulation, known as the polar vortex, often push intensely cold air out of the Arctic toward lower latitudes. Experts still aren’t entirely sure how the current collapse…
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
Databricks on Wednesday unveiled an updated version of its AI agent Genie, which can now perform multistep jobs that take extended work to finish. It does this through an ontology that Databricks built to give Genie the context it needs from the information that customers store on the Databricks platform.…
Congress to call Jensen Huang in to answer for alleged Chinese spy affair
Congress is gearing up to subpoena Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to answer their questions about his affair with an alleged Chinese spy, Bloomberg reports, citing two House Republicans. The report comes a week after House Republicans Brian Mast, John Moolenaar, and Rick Crawford sent a letter to Huang asking him…
CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth
CoreWeave is rewriting how it pays for the AI boom, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings, reported on Tuesday. CoreWeave, a neocloud that rents out the computing power behind AI, said it’s increasingly asking customers to pay up front, borrowing against specific contracts, and even pursuing short-term deals that could…
Olaf Sakkers is betting he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze
Entering into the world of venture capital has never been easy, especially as a first-time fund manager. But it’s especially daunting right now. According to PitchBook data, firms raising their fourth fund “or later” captured a whopping 88.2% of U.S. VC fundraising dollars through the first three quarters of this…
Who could replace Jensen Huang? A highly unscientific list of possible successors
It’s almost inconceivable that Nvidia would fire its rock star CEO. Yet here we are, on the precipice of this happening. Over at Kalshi, Jensen Huang’s odds of surviving the week are sitting at a lowly 30%. Even though he built one of the world’s most valuable — and, many…
Jensen Huang accused of having another affair — with an Nvidia exec
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is already under investigation after having admitted to having an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese spy. Now the New York Times is reporting that Huang is also suspected of having another extramarital affair, with a direct report of his at the company…
The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline
Nvidia co-founder CEO Jensen Huang has never been as flashy or controversy-prone as AI leaders like OpenAI’s Sam Altman or SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk. Now, the 63-year-old industry kingpin has admitted that he cheated on his wife of 40 years in an affair that could have ramifications beyond Huang’s personal life…
The movie format that refuses to die despite streaming taking over
Hollywood has never been afraid to embrace new technology. For decades, filmmakers used practical effects to transport audiences to alien worlds or shock them with horrific frights. Movies like John Carpenter’s The Thing will stand as a testament to the artistic power and craftsmanship that go into creating production value…