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Nvidia is facing a deepening governance crisis after its board opened a formal investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a figure suspected of ties to Chinese intelligence. The company's stock dropped more than four percent, and securities lawyers are now circling, suggesting Nvidia's earlier dismissal of the relationship as quote normal could prove costly in court.
That story connects to something Culper Research flagged fully six months ago. The short seller had already raised pointed questions about Huang's unusually close ties to the same Chinese executive, long before any official scrutiny began. It's a reminder that short sellers, often dismissed as noise, sometimes see the signal first.
Shifting to the roads, Waymo is back in the federal spotlight over a problem that was supposed to be solved. The autonomous vehicle company issued a software recall last year after its cars repeatedly failed to stop for school buses, as required by law. Federal regulators say the fix didn't hold, and they want answers — a significant moment for a technology still asking the public to trust it with their lives.
That's your tech briefing for today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
