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Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang is facing scrutiny beyond the boardroom. The company's board has launched an investigation after reports that Huang was targeted by Chinese intelligence, with The New York Times alleging an affair with an executive believed to be gathering information for Beijing. Huang remains in his role and says he'll cooperate fully.
Staying with Nvidia, the chipmaker is taking an unconventional approach to AI infrastructure by converting more than one hundred thirty old telephone and telecom buildings owned by Brightspeed into compact regional data centers. The proposed network could stretch across as many as twenty states, turning legacy telecom real estate into the backbone of next-generation computing.
And on the research side, Princeton scientists are training an AI model to acquire language the way children do, through gradual exposure and experience rather than massive curated datasets. If it works at scale, it could reshape how we think about building language systems from the ground up, trading brute-force data for something closer to natural learning.
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