Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO of Nvidia following revelations that he had affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a company executive.
The discovery sparked investigations into whether the relationship with alleged spy Alice Huang compromised national security. Internal company pressure then mounted after revelations he had a second affair with an Nvidia executive, Kimberly Powell, who reported to him.
Huang transformed Nvidia from a gaming supplier into a $4 trillion behemoth at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom.
Federal and congressional investigations will examine whether China was able to both shape American policy by loosening export controls on advanced AI goods and gain important information about Huang and Nvidia. Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Jack Reed said he knows of reports that advanced AI Nvidia chips were diverted through intermediaries with ties to Chinese intelligence.
The Nvidia board said Colette Kress, an executive vice president and chief financial officer at the company, will serve as interim CEO.
A disgruntled doctor fatally shot a building manager with whom he had a long-running legal dispute at a gym in Washington, D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood, then opened fire on four bystanders from his penthouse balcony before taking his own life.
Metropolitan Police identified the gunman as 55-year-old Matt Lambert. Lambert fatally shot James Stuart inside a Vida Fitness gym in the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest, where both men were members, around 8 a.m.
Police said Lambert then wounded four additional people when he opened fire from his seventh-floor balcony onto the surrounding streets and alleys below.
According to police, the shooting stemmed from a dispute between Lambert and his building’s property management company. A social media account with the username OfMiceandMold shared pictures of building complaints and court documents filed by someone with Lambert’s name.
The Department of Justice has been mostly unsuccessful in trying to force states to turn over their complete voter lists.
The latest defeat was in Delaware, where U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews said the 1960 Civil Rights Act does not cover the registration lists, only documents that come into the possession of election officials.
Although the DOJ could likely request individual voter registration forms, it can’t demand state-compiled master lists because government officials created them.
The lists were supposed to serve as the core of the Trump administration’s effort to remove ineligible people from state rolls. Had the department secured them, officials planned to run the data against the Department of Homeland Security databases to identify noncitizens, cross-state duplicates or deceased voters.
And finally … The Army’s cooks — known officially since 1995 as 92G culinary specialists — have been redesignated as “tactical field feeding specialists.”
mike glenn reports The change became official with an October ceremony at Fort Lee, Virginia. It’s intended to reflect that military cooks are not just serving food to hungry troops in the field, but are also soldiers in their own right.
Army officials said their cooks must understand logistics, tactical operations and the dangers of carrying out a mission in a contested environment.
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