Jensen Huang spent years courting China, but he struggled to reach the officials who decided Nvidia’s fate there, the Financial Times reported. The paper cited people familiar with the matter. Huang resigned as Nvidia’s chief executive on Thursday. He had admitted an affair with Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive whom US officials suspect of spying for […]

Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante, has fined Meta €805m, or about $887m. It says the Facebook app for Android accessed photos, videos and their metadata on Italian users’ phones without specific consent or proper notice. The decision, first reported in English by Reuters, targets a gallery suggestions feature available since 2023. While users scroll Facebook, […]

Update | 14 November 2026 Microsoft said on Saturday that it had restored service to its remaining customers and regions, about two days after the outage began, the Associated Press reported. The company said the problem was caused by an issue during an earlier upgrade to its network capacity, which surfaced after a recent network change. […]

SpaceX launched Starship on its 15th test flight on Friday, but called off its first attempt to catch both stages of the rocket. The Super Heavy booster aborted its return to the launch tower and came down in the Gulf of Mexico instead. The upper stage, Ship 42, reached orbit and released 26 Starlink satellites, Spaceflight […]

he FBI is looking at whether a software update caused Friday’s outage that grounded flights across the US, Bloomberg reported. The bureau does not believe a cyberattack or crime was behind it, Bloomberg said, citing one person familiar with the matter. The Federal Aviation Administration stopped all flights from taking off on Friday after a […]

Dyania Health’s Synapsis AI reviewed the records of more than 7,800 Cleveland Clinic heart-valve patients, running on the hospital’s own Nvidia servers. The data was used to build a model predicting when replacement valves fail. Doctors still make every decision. An AI system has read up to 16 years of records for more than 7,800 […]

Anthropic has published advice on building AI safety tests. It shows Claude Fable 5.1 behaved appropriately in only 60% of self-harm test conversations via its API, against 94% in the Claude app after a fix, and warns that many headline safety scores hide wide uncertainty. Anthropic has published advice on how to build reliable AI […]

Sierra has released version 1.0 of Personal Agent Protocol, or Poppy, a standard for how personal AI agents deal with companies. Shopify has turned it on for every store, Meta’s Muse agent now looks for it on every site, and more than 100 companies have signed up. Sierra has released version 1.0 of Personal Agent […]

Thirty years ago, Europe’s GDP was roughly on par with the US, Alexander Rinke told TNW. Today it is dramatically less. The Celonis co-founder and co-CEO does not want AI to make that gap wider. Rinke spoke to Cristian Dina for the TNW Podcast at HumanX in Amsterdam on 23 September. Earlier that day he […]

Cornelis, which Intel spun out in 2020, has launched CN6000, a family of 800G network cards and switches for AI and supercomputers. It claims lower latency than Nvidia’s InfiniBand, based on its own tests. Partner systems arrive in early 2027. Cornelis, a networking company spun out of Intel, has launched CN6000, a family of 800G […]