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A guilty plea is adding new detail to one of the more serious chip smuggling cases in recent memory. Ting-Wei Sun, a broker caught up in an alleged scheme to divert Nvidia AI chips to China, has pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy. Two co-defendants, including a Super Micro co-founder, still face charges.
From legal trouble to financial ambition — SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is reportedly seeking up to one hundred billion dollars from Gulf investors to build a new fund focused on acquiring companies and improving them using artificial intelligence and robotics. The move comes as SoftBank navigates real pressure around its sixty-five billion dollar bet on OpenAI and a delayed public offering.
And on the lighter end of the spectrum, PlayStation five owners with a jailbroken console now have something genuinely interesting to explore. A modder called Sword has released software that brings native PlayStation two disc support to Sony's latest hardware, complete with four K upscaling — something Sony itself never offered. The developer says PlayStation three disc support is already next on the list.
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