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Jensen Huang is navigating more than chip export politics this week. The Nvidia CEO is at the center of a suspected spy affair scandal, even as he continues lobbying the Trump administration to loosen restrictions on selling Nvidia chips to China. The intersection of personal conduct and geopolitical stakes makes this one worth watching closely.
Shifting to the crypto world, the Ethereum Foundation is facing a lawsuit from a former employee alleging disability discrimination and retaliation. At the heart of it is a thirty-eight page internal document called The Ethereum Foundation Mandate, a vision for the next one thousand years, which apparently included a clause on page eleven describing something called Source Seppuku. Whatever the founders intended philosophically, the legal consequences are very much grounded in the present.
And from the physical infrastructure that underpins all of this, a new photography book is documenting the staggering scale of Northern Virginia's data center hub, the largest in the world. Forests cleared, fields replaced by enormous buildings. Photographer Stephen Voss is capturing what the digital economy actually looks like on the ground, and the images raise real questions about land, power, and the true footprint of the cloud.
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