CNBC reports new details about the relationship of alleged Chinese spy with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

Huang told Nvidia staff in a email on Sunday that he had an affair with the woman and that Nvidia's board of directors had opened an independent investigation into the spying allegations. "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did," Huang wrote in the message. "I am deeply sorry."

Nvidia's board "said an independent committee, assisted by outside counsel, will investigate the matter," reports Axios:

The board said it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised and expressed confidence in Huang's leadership... Huang has been a key voice in Washington pushing to loosen restrictions on AI chip sales to China. He argued that keeping American technology in the Chinese market strengthens U.S. competitiveness and prevented China from developing their own potentially more advanced chips.

The board's statement added that their inquiry "will examine all available information," CNBC reports. But "An Nvidia spokesperson said that Huang was committed to continuing as CEO of Nvidia without interruption."

"I love our country and our company," Jensen Huang wrote in his letter to Nvidia's staff (as reported by Axios), "and I am committed to protecting NVIDIA and supporting America's national security. I am proud and grateful to be an American."


But while U.S. lawmakers have requested Huang appear for closed-door committee briefing, Jensen has not confirmed he'll appear, notes CNBC:



When asked by the New York Times whether Huang would appear before lawmakers to discuss the matter, Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo declined to comment. "Our chief executive has an outstanding security team that accompanies him where needed," Mr. Rizzo said in a statement to the Times...

Rizzo said [Thursday] the Nvidia CEO's interactions with [alleged Chinese spy Alice] Huang were consistent with meetings he has had with any of Nvidia's customers.

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The New York Times reports:


After chatting for months with Google's artificial intelligence on a school-issued Chromebook laptop, a 13-year-old student made plans to end her life, according to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court on Monday, the latest in a wave of litigation over Big Tech's effects on young people. The lawsuit, which refers to the girl as Emma, said that her parents first learned she had access to Google's AI in mid-March after their daughter's school sent a message warning them that she was in "imminent danger" of self-harm. Emma's mother logged into the teen's school Google account and found her daughter composing a suicide note on Google Docs, the complaint said. Her parents, named as John and Jane Doe in the lawsuit, immediately took Emma for an emergency psychiatric evaluation, and she now goes to therapy every week.

Emma, a seventh grader in Charlotte, North Carolina, had grown convinced that she had multiple mental health disorders following interactions with AI Mode, a chatbotlike feature on Google Search, the complaint said. She also searched for "what is a suicide note" and made comments like "I am planning my own funeral" to the AI, the complaint said. The lawsuit is likely the first to claim that Google "hastily integrated" AI features into company apps used on K-12 Chromebooks, Google-powered laptops provided to millions of children by U.S. school districts, while failing to notify their parents of the potential risks...

The case underscores how public school districts have come to depend on classroom laptops, tablets and apps from companies like Google and Microsoft for teaching and learning. In recent years, some Big Tech companies have used their own infrastructure in schools to promote their AI chatbots for teachers and students. The new lawsuit argues that Google's "sprawling digital ecosystem" of laptops and apps has enabled the tech giant to spread its Gemini AI chatbot across public schools — as well as turn on some students' access to AI features by default — without parents' awareness or permission. While school administrators can toggle company apps like YouTube and Gemini on or off for students in different grades, school administrators have complained that Google's system has not allowed them to disable AI Mode and AI Overview, features that are embedded in Google Search...

The new lawsuit against Google is part of a wave of litigation this year over Big Tech's effect on young users... Several parents have also sued AI companies over allegations that their children died by suicide following interactions with chatbots.


In a possibly-related development, Google announced a new policy of disabling its AI tools by default for schools this week. And schools that re-enable searches will have a new choice, the New York Times points out: "to enable student access to the AI features that the company has already embedded in search or to a new AI feature intended to assist students with schoolwork."

But Google still isn't offering schools an option to turn off AI altogether in search, a company executive told the New York Times, because "search and AI are deeply integrated."


Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the article.

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Max Verstappen admits he "overtook a lot of cars" in a wet Sao Paulo Grand Prix, the Dutchman storming to the podium from the back of the grid as Red Bull claimed a double rostrum.

George Russell admits he has "no idea what happened on that pit exit" after suffering a spin in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, but has hailed Mercedes' performance this year after the team secured the Constructors' Championship.

Charles Leclerc has lost his finishing position of P7 in Sao Paulo after receiving a penalty from the stewards.

F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne on Mercedes' return as Constructors' Champions.

Lando Norris bounced back from a challenging start to triumph at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, taking McLaren back to the top for the first time since Round 12.

John from Brisbane has added a photo to the pool:

Last week, we had seven days of pretend holiday touring. We were constrained this year by relatives visiting from the US and then my operation which took longer to get to and longer to get through than expected. So our much preferred August/September time frame was a bust.

So all we did last week was travel between bird feedings to places in South East Queensland we hadn't been to ever or for a long time and visit Jenny's brother in his new rural retreat. We enjoyed ourselves and only had one bad weather day.

One place that had long been on our radar was the Kooroomba Vineyard and Lavender Farm at Mt. Alford near Boonah in the Scenic Rim south west of Brisbane. What a wonderful place, as well as superb views, it also has a chapel and specialises in weddings as well as wine and lavender product sales. It also has a restaurant with this overlook to the west. We had a Devonshire tea with lavender scones and lashings of cream and jam.

The scene takes in both lavender (not in flower sadly) and the grape vines over the southern Fassifern Valley looking towards the Main Range which in these parts is actually the Great Dividing Range.

I have decided to do these series of photos first.

braart has added a photo to the pool:

Swan today

De ‘Atlantische route’ is een van de gevaarlijkste migratieroutes ter wereld. Dat bleek ook dit weekeinde; bij een schipbreuk kwamen ten minste 34 mensen om het leven. De lokale overheid van de Canarische Eilanden waarschuwt ondertussen dat de regio het aantal gearriveerde migranten niet aan kan.