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Jensen Huang's position at Nvidia is under serious scrutiny tonight, with a new analysis comparing his potential ouster to the governance collapse that brought down Hank Greenberg at AIG. The piece raises pointed questions about board oversight and whether the company's financial foundations are as solid as its market valuation suggests.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the UK's Online Safety Act is generating friction between Parliament and the biggest names in tech. A panel of online safety experts told the Communications and Digital Committee that Google, Meta, Microsoft, and ByteDance are doing just enough to avoid penalties while falling well short of actually protecting young and vulnerable users. It's a familiar tension between compliance and genuine accountability.
And on a different note, scientists are reporting a significant leap forward in genetic testing for the most common form of glaucoma, the kind that steals sight gradually and often without warning. A team from Flinders University and international partners say the test could identify risk far earlier, potentially catching damage before it becomes irreversible. Early detection, as ever, is where the real intervention happens.
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