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Jensen Huang built Nvidia into one of the most powerful companies on earth, but a sex scandal is now putting pressure well beyond Silicon Valley. Reports suggest Huang described his own potential successor as a quote deer in the headlights, raising serious questions about leadership continuity at the company — and according to the BBC, the fallout has reached into the White House itself.
Staying with Nvidia's chief, that succession concern is compounded by a broader conversation happening across the AI industry right now. DeepMind has published an essay asking what work actually means for human wellbeing in the age of artificial general intelligence — a question that feels considerably more urgent when the people building AGI can't agree on who should lead the company doing it.
And in a quieter corner of the tech conversation, a piece circulating under the title The Myth of Neutral Code is challenging a foundational assumption many engineers hold dear — that software is simply a tool, free of values or bias. The argument is that every line of code reflects a choice, and those choices carry consequences for real people.
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