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Huang affair: suspicions of espionage at Nvidia, king of AI chips

The espionage scandal surrounding Jensen Huang worries the entire artificial intelligence (AI) industry. The future of the big boss, suspected of having been spied on by Beijing thanks to an extramarital affair, should be decided in Washington. Details from Michel Levy Provençal, tech entrepreneur, founder of Qapten.com and AI specialist.

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Sports

War has upended Russian-Nordic friendships forged on Arctic ice hockey rinks. Can they ever recover?

Ban on Russian teams competing internationally has been lifted but days of friendly relations between Norwegian, Finnish and Russia players are a distant – if fond – memory For years, playing ice hockey against teams from Russia was a central part of Janne Tervahauta’s social life. Through his team, Tunturi-Kiekko, based in Ivalo, a rural Arctic town close to Finland’s most northerly border crossing with Russia, he would travel around the Arctic with his teammates. But the Barents Hockey League went on hold during the pandemic, and after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, all contact with Rus

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Military

ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need | Robin Kirman

What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it’s a reliable sense of their own minds In August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode – a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled – a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine. For years, the tech industry has contested any causal link between its products and the harms named in a wave of similar lawsuits, each alleging that the companies had not merely failed to protect children but had deliberately designed products to exploit them. C

The Guardian
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International

China touts tech, AI cred at world Web Summit

China is flexing its technological muscles at the global Web Summit in Lisbon from Tuesday, showcasing dancing robots and low-cost artificial intelligence models as Beijing weathers claims that it spied…

France 24
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