Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy at the heart of an Nvidia scandal, has been barred from Singapore after local authorities determined she had provided inaccurate information during an investigati…

Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy at the heart of an Nvidia scandal, has been barred from Singapore after local authorities determined she had provided inaccurate information during an investigation they conducted into data center company Megaspeed. Huang was probed for her suspected ...

The network of companies tied to Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy in a romantic relationship with Nvidia’s former CEO Jensen Huang, recently invested in Chinese AI star DeepSeek, according to thr…

The network of companies tied to Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy in a romantic relationship with Nvidia’s former CEO Jensen Huang, recently invested in Chinese AI star DeepSeek, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter. The investments were meant to forge closer ties with DeepSeek so Alice Huang’s companies could supply a steady stream of Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chips, which are banned from sale to China, according to one of the three people. The investments, which haven’t previously been reported, illustrate the hidden yet important role Alice Huang and her companies have played in China’s AI industry.

As companies grow, they necessarily adopt more complex processes to align teams and manage increased volume. But over time, these processes can become cumbersome and unwieldy, creating hidden bottlen…

As companies grow, they necessarily adopt more complex processes to align teams and manage increased volume. But over time, these processes can become cumbersome and unwieldy, creating hidden bottlenecks that slow organizations down and incentivize employees to devise manual workarounds. And often, no one person in the enterprise has the visibility needed to figure out where things are breaking down. A process improvement analysis can root out waste and identify solutions, but this often requires hours spent poring over dense standard operating procedures (SOPs) and unstructured stakeholder interview notes. Google Gemini can accelerate this synthesis, organizing information in a way that lets human reviewers apply their own expertise to the problem more quickly. Imagine you’re a consultant leading an operations engagement, for example, and your client says that its employee onboarding process is slowing down entire departments like HR and IT. Follow these steps using Google Gemini to help transform SOPs and meeting notes into a prioritized, executive-ready roadmap for improvement. Step 1: Break Down the Existing Process The client’s SOP and your own notes from stakeholder interviews give you plenty of information to get started. Upload your materials to Gemini and type a brief prompt: Summarize the current steps, organizational roles, and key systems involved in my client’s workflow, as outlined in the attached SOP document. Answer as a process analyst, and provide your response in the form of a numbered list. Gemini will take a lengthy client SOP and deconstruct it into a list of simple steps, helping you to more clearly see inefficiencies and potential sources of friction. For an employee onboarding process, for example, these steps might include talent acquisition and background screening, entry into the HR information system, ticket generation, hardware procurement; and Day 1 setup. Step 2: Identify the Most Pressing Problems The next step is to analyze what peo

The company’s founder stepped down after reports of multiple affairs.

Nvidia’s longtime chief financial officer helped transform the company into an AI powerhouse. Now she’s taking the reins following Jensen Huang’s resignation on Thursday.

Bricklink, a popular online marketplace that Lego bought in 2019 where fans can buy and sell parts and sets, has been down for a week and the company doesn't know when it will return. The team who ru…

Bricklink, a popular online marketplace that Lego bought in 2019 where fans can buy and sell parts and sets, has been down for a week and the company doesn't know when it will return. The team who runs the site has been sharing updates over the past week including estimates of when it will be […]

Nvidia gets a new chief executive, days after former CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a romantic affair with an alleged Chinese spy.

Hi! I'm Jen Tuohy, The Verge's senior smart home reviewer. I've tested every smart display Amazon and Google have ever made, and for the past week I've been testing Apple's first: The $299 HomeView. …

Hi! I'm Jen Tuohy, The Verge's senior smart home reviewer. I've tested every smart display Amazon and Google have ever made, and for the past week I've been testing Apple's first: The $299 HomeView. I put the tabletop and wall-mounted versions through their paces, on my kitchen counter, bedside table, in my office, and on […]

He has held the position since the company's founding.

Eager to separate its glasses from Meta’s offerings, Google is positioning its frames as the more privacy-minded option.

Apple’s FaceID has long provided robust authentication. But for its smart home device, HomeView, the company is betting on new “person recognition” technology that has yet to be challenged in the wil…

Apple’s FaceID has long provided robust authentication. But for its smart home device, HomeView, the company is betting on new “person recognition” technology that has yet to be challenged in the wild.

The Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames cost $395 and $449, respectively, and come in a handful of styles.

The HomeView nails everything I want from a smart display. It's superb at controlling my smart home; it's an excellent hands-free kitchen companion, a good speaker, and a gorgeous digital photo frame…

The HomeView nails everything I want from a smart display. It's superb at controlling my smart home; it's an excellent hands-free kitchen companion, a good speaker, and a gorgeous digital photo frame. It's also the first Apple smart speaker with Siri AI, which is an improvement, if still slow at times. But Apple has fallen […]

It's a weird time to launch a new pair of smart glasses. These last few years, Meta has been the dominant player in pushing a fragile smart glasses resurgence. Unfortunately, its privacy reputation l…

It's a weird time to launch a new pair of smart glasses. These last few years, Meta has been the dominant player in pushing a fragile smart glasses resurgence. Unfortunately, its privacy reputation led to the "pervert glasses" moniker. Smart glasses have never been more unpopular. But in the past week, I've been demoing some […]

I'm sitting in front of my TV, puppy nuzzled up next to me, with four HomePods spread around my living room - two flanking my TV and one at either end of my couch - connected to the brand new Apple T…

I'm sitting in front of my TV, puppy nuzzled up next to me, with four HomePods spread around my living room - two flanking my TV and one at either end of my couch - connected to the brand new Apple TV 4K. Young Anakin Skywalker hits the throttle and flies through the room. There […]

The Apple TV 4K remains the best premium streaming box you can buy, but the higher price makes it harder to recommend.

With its first smart display, Apple provides a lot of convenience for a variety of tasks in your home.

Google's first run of intelligent eyewear has a lot to offer.

Yes, it's a bit attention-seeking, but some of these policies are genuinely good.

Warby Parker and Gentle Monster’s Google and Samsung-created smart glasses have cameras like Meta’s, but these have some subtle differences when it comes to AI.

Corsair puts the internals of a CWT-built, Cybenetics Platinum 1000W platform on display behind three clear panels, adding side-mounted connectors, iCUE LINK integration and per-pin 12V-2x6 protectio…

Corsair puts the internals of a CWT-built, Cybenetics Platinum 1000W platform on display behind three clear panels, adding side-mounted connectors, iCUE LINK integration and per-pin 12V-2x6 protection.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) Board of Directors announced today that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board, effective immediately.

Nvidia CEO and co-founder, Jensen Huang, resigned on Thursday in a stunning turn of events that upends the world’s second-most-valuable company and rattles one of the foundations of the AI economy. F…

Nvidia CEO and co-founder, Jensen Huang, resigned on Thursday in a stunning turn of events that upends the world’s second-most-valuable company and rattles one of the foundations of the AI economy. Finance chief Colette Kress will become interim CEO, Nvidia said in a statement. The move came three days after the board announced an independent investigation into reports that Huang was the target of a “foreign intelligence effort.” U.S. intelligence agencies reportedly concluded earlier this year that Huang had developed a close relationship with a woman they believed was spying for Beijing. Huang on Sunday also apologized to Nvidia employees for having an extramarital affair.

Nvidia’s cofounder and chief executive resigned on Thursday after the company opened an investigation into his affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset.

Nvidia's board announced that Jensen Huang - its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO - has resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with an Nvid…

Nvidia's board announced that Jensen Huang - its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO - has resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang. Following a late Wednesday night meeting, the board accepted Huang's letter of resignation as CEO, president, and […]

Deleting old games isn’t the only option you have to make space for GTA 6.

The sustainable phone maker is teaming up with its first US carrier to sell wireless plans alongside its fully repairable smartphone.

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

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What to know about this year’s UN climate talks Thousands of …

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What to know about this year’s UN climate talks Thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists have gathered in Antalya, Turkey, for COP31, the annual UN climate talks. But this year’s negotiations…

Noctua says the NT-CP1 uses carbon nanotubes originally developed for aerospace applications, with the material gradually adapting to microscopic surface imperfections to improve heat transfer over r…

Noctua says the NT-CP1 uses carbon nanotubes originally developed for aerospace applications, with the material gradually adapting to microscopic surface imperfections to improve heat transfer over repeated heating and cooling cycles.

There are multiple speculations about Alice Huang's s history and how she built her relationship with Jensen Huang.

The slew of port and plug options is great, and the built-in display is just as useful.

For the next time you need Cobra Commander to crash a Teams meeting.

A new report finds that a digital community obsessed with Columbine and similar attacks is promoting apparel modeled after clothing worn by the perpetrators.

You'll soon no longer be able to use Google and Apple log-ins to access Nintendo.

When (or if) Ring's security camera drone flies into our homes in January, you won't get the option to pilot it yourself. The Ring Drone Cam relies entirely on an "AI Pilot" system to follow pre-prog…

When (or if) Ring's security camera drone flies into our homes in January, you won't get the option to pilot it yourself. The Ring Drone Cam relies entirely on an "AI Pilot" system to follow pre-programmed routes and navigate autonomously around obstacles, with no manual control option available - and an embarrassing demonstration with CBS […]

Grab a CyberPowerPC machine with an RX 9070, 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD for $2,199.

Google’s TPU 8i Max and TPU 8tx reuse TPU 8i and TPU 8t silicon to target long-context agents and confidential inference.

The Palantir CEO touted his “progressive” worldview in a recent interview. Let’s see how that lines up with his comments during the company’s earnings call two weeks ago.

A techie turned a $2,500 CMP-170HX 8GB mining card into a full-fat $20,000 A100 80GB by carefully blowing onboard fuses to unlock entire VRAM and shader modules.

The union representing flight attendants for the defunct airline struck a deal with Google to scrub sensitive employee records from a $10 million data sale.

Some of this beverage fridge’s smart features could be better, but let’s be real—you’re probably buying it for the aesthetic.

One expert says that it still depends on the perfect confluence of cheap power, favorable regulation, and reliable connectivity.

These Arctic currents have never broken down so early in the season. Combined with an unprecedented El Niño, the outcomes aren’t easy to predict.

Nvidia has no succession plan and a CEO in hot water, so we’ve drafted a shortlist.

The Commerce Department is finalizing a long-awaited rule that will prevent Chinese AI firms from remotely accessing advanced AI chips through data centers in other countries, according to two people…

The Commerce Department is finalizing a long-awaited rule that will prevent Chinese AI firms from remotely accessing advanced AI chips through data centers in other countries, according to two people familiar with the process. The move could help the department push back on criticism that it has acted too slowly to create policies to limit China’s access to advanced AI technologies—rules that have been opposed by influential companies such as Nvidia. The rule, which could be announced as soon as this month, will expand existing semiconductor-related controls from the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security and extend them to seven additional countries, including Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, in an effort to prevent remote access and chip smuggling into China, the people said. Commerce is currently consulting with other government agencies on the rule before it can be finalized, they added.

The holiday is still two weeks out, but this MacBook Air discount may be the must-buy laptop deal of the season.

Don’t let cold weather stop you from getting your steps in. These under-desk treadmills are already marked down.

Even if the site was no longer very useful, it’s still sad to lose free peer support.

AMD says it’s working on a software fix for a bug causing excessive writing to drives.

Well, that didn’t take long. Jensen Huang’s time as CEO of Nvidia appears to be coming to an end, according to multiple reports that the board was meeting Wednesday night to consider his future. Just…

Well, that didn’t take long. Jensen Huang’s time as CEO of Nvidia appears to be coming to an end, according to multiple reports that the board was meeting Wednesday night to consider his future. Just three days ago, it announced an inquiry into whether he was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort,” but at the time the board said it had “confidence in Jensen.” It seems likely that confidence was undermined by a New York Times story on Wednesday that said Huang had had an affair with a company executive in addition to an industry executive who may also be a Chinese spy. If the board dumps Huang, it will demonstrate that no CEO is indispensable, no matter how vital their role is. Many observers had insisted the opposite in recent days, perhaps understandably. After all, Huang co-founded the company and still owned 3.6% of the stock, making him one of the biggest shareholders. As we wrote in this piece, he “has a hand in nearly every aspect of the company’s day-to-day operations.” Along with Sam Altman, he’s been probably the most articulate advocate for AI. Most importantly, his vision of the future has positioned Nvidia to benefit more than any other company from the AI boom, driving its market capitalization to a high of $5.8 trillion in early October, according to Koyfin.

Nvidia Board reportedly moves to expel Jensen Huang as stock tumbles on latest scandals and lack of succession plans at Nvidia.

United Airlines said Wednesday it will ban AI agents and assistants from booking its flights, following similar bans by banks and retailers that cited privacy concerns. The ban covers bookings made d…

United Airlines said Wednesday it will ban AI agents and assistants from booking its flights, following similar bans by banks and retailers that cited privacy concerns. The ban covers bookings made directly on United’s app and website as well as through travel agencies and aggregators. The ...

As soon as Wednesday evening, Nvidia's board could decide to remove its founder and CEO of 33 years.

Jensen Huang, who has come under fire for admitting to an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese intelligence agent, has been accused of having a separate affair with an Nvidia subordinate.

Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The board has been investigating Huang’s romantic relationship with a woman whose Chinese firm…

Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The board has been investigating Huang’s romantic relationship with a woman whose Chinese firm that obtained banned Nvidia chips, and which the U.S. suspected was providing information to ...

The company was throttling speeds for plans offered under the Affordable Broadband Act.

At least three other organizations are also giving employees time off to play the new game.

Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from the New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair, just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a …

Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from the New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair, just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, The Wall Street Journal reports. The second alleged affair was with an executive who […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly had an extramarital affair with a direct report, following a separate affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy.

House Democrats are already planning to make their impeachment case against the defense secretary as airtight—and appealing to Republicans—as possible.

Nabu Casa - the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation, which runs Home Assistant - just launched the Home Assistant Connect Aux-2, a multi-function box designed to help you bring more devices i…

Nabu Casa - the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation, which runs Home Assistant - just launched the Home Assistant Connect Aux-2, a multi-function box designed to help you bring more devices into your smart home. It's part of Home Assistant's ongoing efforts to become more user-friendly. And it's working. I've been testing the […]

United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book …

United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports, in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash. But United is concerned […]

AMD's Venice-X CPUs launch in the second half of 2027, bringing 3D V-Cache back to the data center after four years on the sidelines.

Sequoia Capital is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Sequence Holding, a one-year-old business that just announced a $7.7 billion insurance acquisition co-led by Michael Dell’s family of…

Sequoia Capital is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Sequence Holding, a one-year-old business that just announced a $7.7 billion insurance acquisition co-led by Michael Dell’s family office, say people familiar with the matter. This will be Sequoia’s second known investment in a new category of holding companies. These aim to buy businesses in established industries such as accounting, insurance and HOA management and then replace or complement some human work with AI. The new money raised from Sequoia is likely to allow Sequence, which has been scouting for targets, to make more acquisitions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Prusament PETG ESD is the cheapest ESD filament on the market, while being carbon-fiber reinforced, something the competition doesn't have.

Meta Platforms is changing the leadership of its massive data-center operation, with longtime executive Santosh Janardhan telling employees that he is stepping down as head of global infrastructure a…

Meta Platforms is changing the leadership of its massive data-center operation, with longtime executive Santosh Janardhan telling employees that he is stepping down as head of global infrastructure and will leave the company early next year. Dave Brown, a veteran of Amazon Web Services whom ...

The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, t…

The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in AI infrastructure […]

Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.

The airline believes AI poses security risks and may violate DOT and FAA rules.

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. Olaf Sakkers has spent the past five years proving tha…

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. Olaf Sakkers has spent the past five years proving that difficult doesn't mean impossible.

An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler.

The chatbot was already available through the Google Maps app.

CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s thir…

CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings.

The Chinese company wants to compete with Meta's Muse.

Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.

Thanks to SpaceX's unique approach to testing, the answer isn't so clear-cut.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until the end of the day Wednesday to answer a call from House Republicans for a closed-door briefing on his affair with alleged Chinese spy.

Bob Lee died from multiple stab wounds in 2023.

This is an attempt to "win another hour per user, per month."

Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make "your online experience fairer." The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA)…

Gaming, social media, and e-commerce platforms are facing a fresh wave of sweeping European Union rules that aim to make "your online experience fairer." The newly proposed Digital Fairness Act (DFA) published by the EU Commission on Wednesday is designed to tackle practices that exploit consumers into spending more of their time and money online, […]

The company will stop selling video doorbells, its home monitoring system and other products.

Toyota is dusting off the Scion badge for a radically different mission. Rather than targeting youth-market hatchbacks, "Scion by Toyota" is being positioned as an experimental mobility incubator - a…

Toyota is dusting off the Scion badge for a radically different mission. Rather than targeting youth-market hatchbacks, "Scion by Toyota" is being positioned as an experimental mobility incubator - and its first vehicle is an authentic Japanese-style kei truck built in Indiana. Kei vehicles, which are built to satisfy Japan's light vehicle regulations, are enjoying […]

Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection.

It’s that time of year again: Thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists are gathered for the annual UN climate talks, taking place this time in Antalya, Turkey. COP31 officially kicked off o…

It’s that time of year again: Thousands of delegates, lobbyists, and journalists are gathered for the annual UN climate talks, taking place this time in Antalya, Turkey. COP31 officially kicked off on November 8, marking the beginning of negotiations on one of the biggest stages of the climate world. Turkey and Australia are cohosting this…

The plaintiffs alleged that the parties committed fraud and concealment through NDAs and misleading public statements.

The fast-growing crop of startups that lease computing capacity from cloud firms and then resell it, without spending a nickel on their own AI chips, are at a crossroads. Finding it harder to line up…

The fast-growing crop of startups that lease computing capacity from cloud firms and then resell it, without spending a nickel on their own AI chips, are at a crossroads. Finding it harder to line up enough computing capacity to serve their customers, some are starting to buy their own chips, which is likely to drastically change the economics of their business. The difficulty in getting enough compute also has pushed some of these startups to look for computational resources from dozens of smaller neoclouds, which tend to have more available capacity than larger hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. News this week of a hack of Fireworks, one of the best known of these startups, highlights the risk of that approach.

“There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said.

Sales of $10B represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.

“It has left a sour taste in my mouth,” says a Heated Rivalry fanfic author who found her work uploaded to AO3 mirror sites without her consent.

Private equity firms and AI labs are sorting out how to charge clients and hire enough engineers for joint ventures they’ve launched to build custom AI tools for businesses. That comes as private equ…

Private equity firms and AI labs are sorting out how to charge clients and hire enough engineers for joint ventures they’ve launched to build custom AI tools for businesses. That comes as private equity firms are looking to the technology to boost profits, including at companies they’ve struggled to sell. One such team-up is Ode with Anthropic, which launched in July with $1.5 billion in capital commitments from investors including Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman. Ode currently charges most of the several dozen businesses it works with a fixed fee to develop and launch custom AI products, people familiar with the partnership say. The company lets clients retain ownership of the AI software it builds, the people said, allowing them to keep using or even sell the tools once completed without paying Ode ongoing fees. Those terms help Ode attract customers that balked at the terms offered by the team of engineers at Anthropic that embeds with enterprises, which seeks to retain ownership of the custom software it builds and license it back to customers, one of the people said. But Ode has been looking at other ways to earn more on AI projects. Some Ode executives initially proposed coinvesting in companies that were also its customers, but Blackstone’s team pushed back on the idea, one of the people said. Instead, Ode decided to charge performance-based bonus fees on top of the fixed project fees, allowing it to earn more if clients hit specific financial targets. Less than 10% of Ode’s clients are paying those performance-based fees, one of the people said, though Ode is aiming to grow that share. Setting the fees can be difficult because the company and its customers both need to agree on how to measure any AI-driven gains, including setting a baseline and financial or product-related goals. The fees may be negotiated once a contract is signed and Ode then does some early exploratory work and collects data, giving both sides enough information to set terms before mov

Google has cooked up a new experimental AI tool called Tabletop that generates customized collaborative hubs to help you coordinate with family, and friends. The Tabletop platform shares some visual …

Google has cooked up a new experimental AI tool called Tabletop that generates customized collaborative hubs to help you coordinate with family, and friends. The Tabletop platform shares some visual similarities with workplace management apps like Asana and Monday, but with a built-in AI feature that allows you to vibecode personalized interactive tools by describing […]

Accessory maker Logitech has a new "Logi Game Day" initiative that allows employees to take a day off from now until this time next year to play a game of their choice — including the one everyone is…

Accessory maker Logitech has a new "Logi Game Day" initiative that allows employees to take a day off from now until this time next year to play a game of their choice — including the one everyone is talking about.