China's Ministry of State Security recruited a female technology executive to spy on Nvidia's chief executive, according to a memo circulated by American intelligence officials earlier this year. The document, which detailed the alleged recruitment effort, was part of broader concerns about foreign intelligence operations targeting Silicon Valley's most sensitive figures and operations. Source
The United States permitted Nvidia to sell H200 artificial-intelligence chips to New Matrix, a Chinese firm on the Commerce Department's approved vendor list, despite the company operating from what inspectors described as an empty office—"a hollow gray shell", according to The New York Times. The case raises questions about whether the Commerce Department and Nvidia are conducting adequate due diligence when vetting Chinese distributors cleared to handle advanced American semiconductors. Source
Anthropic is using artificial intelligence to develop more powerful artificial intelligence, with models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago and little sign of deceleration, according to a report published Thursday by METR, an AI safety research organisation. The finding emerged from an 11-week investigation and has alarmed safety researchers concerned about the pace of AI capability acceleration. Source
Jeffrey Wigand, the former tobacco industry executive who exposed wrongdoing at Big Tobacco, is now counselling corporate insiders considering whistleblowing over alleged misconduct. Mr Wigand, whose own disclosure decades ago prompted major litigation against the tobacco industry, reports receiving substantial numbers of calls from potential whistleblowers across sectors. Source