by The Associated Press | Nov 9, 2026 | Business, News, World
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nvidia is opening an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort,” the company’s board of directors said Sunday.
The announcement came after Huang acknowledged to the board that he had been intimate with a business executive whom U.S. intelligence determined was gathering information for Beijing, The New York Times reported.
Huang apologized in a message to the company, according to the Times. “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he said. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”
Nvidia’s board said in a statement it has “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised,” but that its inquiry would examine all available information. Huang “fully supports the review and has committed to cooperating with it,” the board said.
Huang, 63, will remain CEO during the investigation.
The Times reported last month that U.S. intelligence agencies had discovered that Huang had developed a close relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen and chip buyer, and determined that she was feeding information directly to Beijing. The two are not related, according to the Times.
Alice Huang was previously a television reporter in China before becoming a top executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed, which has become one of Nvidia’s biggest customers in Southeast Asia. Megaspeed bought more than $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia chips over the past two years, according to the Times.
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by Clarissa-Jan Lim | Oct 3, 2026 | Business, culture, News, World
The FlyDubai pilot who allegedly attacked his captain on a flight to Israel earlier this week used a crash ax and tried to seize control of the aircraft in an attempted terrorist act, a United Arab Emirates official said.
The pilot, who has been identified as an Omani national, used a crash ax to attack the flight’s captain and then tried to take control of the plane, UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi said in a statement reported by Emirates News Agency. A crash ax is a tool to break windows during an emergency.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he spoke by phone on Saturday with Captain Smit Machchhar, who described taking blows “one after the other” during the call.
The Israeli ambassador to the UAE, Yossi Shelley, previously told MS NOW that the pilot had been employed by FlyDubai for a year.
The plane was traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday when the incident happened. As it closed in on the Israeli border, the aircraft plunged more than 14,000 feet in 30 seconds, according to FlightRadar data.
Most of the passengers on the flight were Israeli, according to Netanyahu. Four were Americans. Machchhar, an Indian national, despite having been bludgeoned, described fighting back and opened the cockpit door so that others could intervene and subdue the alleged attacker.
Netanyahu called him a “hero.”
An investigation into the incident is underway. FlyDubai, an Emirati government-owned airline that has operated commercial flights from Dubai to Tel Aviv since 2020, has since temporarily suspended service to the Israeli city.
Inzamam Rashid contributed reporting.
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by Sydney Carruth | Oct 2, 2026 | Business, culture, News, White House
A bottle of Trump fragrance, commemorative Trump posters and trading cards, an 18-karat gold Trump watch and “the most exclusive dinner in the world,” featuring President Donald Trump himself.
Those are just some of the luxury prizes promised to crypto traders who enter the latest competition hosted by the membership-only arm of the crypto company that owns Trump’s meme coin.
The competition appears to be the latest attempt by the Trump organization, which includes Fight Fight Fight LLC, the crypto firm behind the $TRUMP Coin Club, to cash in on his presidency by offering donors exclusive access to the president.
It could take up to $1 million worth of $TRUMP coin to guarantee an invitation to the dinner, judging by data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The event, which promises to feature three mystery “legends” alongside the president, is scheduled to be held on Nov. 22 at the Trump National Golf Club just outside the nation’s capital in northern Virginia, according to a new event page launched on the coin’s website Wednesday.
The winners will be determined based on a leaderboard formula that appears to be designed to encourage sales of the coin.
When the contest ends on Nov. 12, the top 185 Trump coin investors will receive invitations to the dinner. The top 29 purchasers will get access to a “VIP Reception with YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT.” The four largest $TRUMP holders will also be gifted a “TRUMP 18K Gold Watch,” which retails for around $899 on the Trump retail website.
The dinner has further inflamed ethics concerns over the large sums of money Trump has made from his cryptocurrency ventures in his second term. The
by The Associated Press | Oct 1, 2026 | Business, News, Science
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies over dangers their technology may pose to consumers, the agency said Wednesday.
The AI giants and other tech companies in recent months have disclosed examples of their AI agents going beyond human instructions, finding their way onto the internet and hacking external websites.
An FTC spokesperson confirmed the investigation but declined further comment. The investigation was first reported by the New York Post, which said it has been underway for months.
Representatives for Anthropic and OpenAI did not immediately respond to messages for comment on Wednesday.
Concerns around the dangers powerful AI models may pose to humanity have led some of the top AI developers to call for a slowdown. The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said this month that the industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet.
OpenAI, meanwhile, recently delayed the launch of its newest model this week over safety concerns.
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by Ebony Davis | Sep 24, 2026 | Business, News, White House, World
The United States and China have agreed to extend their trade truce through Jan. 10, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday.
The extension provides a short-term reprieve from economic tensions as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington earlier Wednesday for a high-profile state visit hosted by President Donald Trump.
Bessent announced the extension on Fox News after meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, his second meeting with China’s top economic official in four days.
“We met today to see if we could do a bigger deal as opposed to just a series of smaller things,” Bessent said. “We have agreed today that we will extend what we call the Busan Agreement.”
The agreement extends a nearly yearlong trade truce reached by Trump and Xi in Busan, South Korea, last October that de-escalated a tariff fight between the world’s two largest economies. Under that agreement, Washington lowered some tariffs on Chinese goods, while Beijing agreed to pause new restrictions on rare earth minerals, resume purchases of U.S. soybeans and take steps to curb the flow of fentanyl precursor chemicals.
The truce had been scheduled to expire Nov. 10. The extension also removes a looming source of uncertainty ahead of Thursday’s meeting between Trump and Xi and gives negotiators more time to work toward a broader trade agreement.
Xi’s visit marks his first state visit to the U.S. in more than a decade as the two countries navigate disputes over trade, technology and national security. Trump is set to welcome Xi to the White House on Thursday for talks expected to focus on those issues.
Earlier Wednesday, Bessent said China had raised the possibility of pursuing a
by Zeeshan Aleem | Sep 22, 2026 | Business, culture, Opinion, World
In the wake of spooky incidents of artificial intelligence agents defying their creators’ commands and rules, the great fear of the day is the prospect of rogue superintelligence that turns on humankind — and extinguishes it. But a recent incident in which the United States reportedly almost sparked a war with China based on false intelligence generated by AI reveals that there is a far more immediate threat to worry about: the fallibility of humans.
CNN, citing four sources familiar with the episode, reported that this spring a special operations command analyst put together an urgent intelligence report claiming that “a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.” The implications of the report pushed the U.S. to serious action — members of the U.S. military were “preparing to board the ship” and “military planes were in the air.” But at the last minute officials dug a little further into the report and found that a chatbot the analyst had used had “inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.” (U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific and the Pentagon did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.)
The U.S. was astonishingly close to a military confrontation with the world’s second most powerful country based on what appears to have been an AI hallucination. That we got so close to accidentally triggering a global war should drive home the point that the imminent threat surrounding AI isn’t some runaway malevolent superintelligent entity like Skynet from the “Terminator” franchise. It’s humans misusing AI.
CNN reported that “across the U.S. military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI
