The Download: empty AI climate claims, and an Nvidia investigation
Shares in world’s most valuable company hit seven-month low after CEO Huang admits to affair, after allegations of relationship with Chinese spy Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy Who is Alice Huang, the woman linked to Nvidia’s CEO?
Key points
- There are concerns Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort following a media report that he had a close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who allegedly passed information to Beijing.
- China, meanwhile, has slammed the spying allegations as a "smear campaign".
- Nvidia shares tumbled this Monday after the AI chipmaking giant said it would investigate its CEO's affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
Musk commented “I agree” on a post by Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire that said Huang “did something incredibly dumb” that was “bad for America” but that “Jensen is irreplaceable for America’s AI leadership”.
Additional details
- Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, is part of an international network of researchers working to decipher the networks of animal and plant interactions that enable some forests to recover after destruction.
- For over a decade, her research has helped show that these large “monocrop” programs could be expensive mistakes—and that more resilient forests can rebound naturally in just a few decades, re-creating ecosystems that suck up vast quantities of carbon dioxide.
- Meet the ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests Tropical forests are our planet’s biggest terrestrial carbon sink, accounting for around 40% of carbon stored on land.
- 1 Nvidia is investigating its own boss Jensen Huang has admitted to intimacy with a suspected Chinese spy.
- But so far, industries around the world aren’t doing nearly enough to harness the technology to actually drive down the greenhouse-gas emissions heating up the planet.
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