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A forensic report by a former OpenAI engineer says Blackwell-generation Nvidia hardware left traces in models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group, despite U.S. export controls. The claims come from a single report, so they have not been independently verified in the details provided. If confirmed, the findings would suggest that chip restrictions are not fully preventing access to the most advanced Nvidia hardware.
Two Nvidia shareholders holding about $2.13 billion in stock as of June 30 are asking the board to run a deliberate leadership search following Jensen Huang's resignation. They also want the board to consider whether Huang could return. The report does not detail the circumstances of his departure or the board's response.
According to TechCrunch, venture capitalists and founders say Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's departure has left a significant hole in AI startup financing. Nvidia invested tens of billions of dollars in AI startups under Huang, and the sources expect smaller checks and lower valuations without his leadership. The report is thin on details about the departure itself and what Nvidia's investment strategy will be going forward.
Fortune reports that OpenAI has disbanded its dedicated robotics team as its general-purpose models begin running robots. The move suggests OpenAI is betting that large language models, rather than purpose-built robotics software, will serve as the control layer for physical machines. Details beyond the headline were not available in the source post.
Italian regulators fined Meta €805 million for accessing photos belonging to about 20 million users without informing them. The penalty targets how the company obtained and used personal image data without disclosure. The case adds to European scrutiny of how platforms gather user content.
Thinking Machines Lab made the weights of its 594B-parameter Inkling 2 Small Mixture-of-Experts model (17B active parameters) downloadable on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, about a week after its closed-weights launch on Tinker. The company says the delay let external safety testing and red-teaming finish first, and it reports an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 31 with strength in agentic coding, vision, and 3D design. The model also tops the open-weights ranking on DesignArena and is available through SGLang, vLLM, Unsloth, and several API providers.
Mirendil Inc., which makes software that speeds up AI model development, raised $1 billion in a Series A round. Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital co-led the round, joined by more than a half-dozen other investors including Google. The company was founded last year.
Several Asian governments moved to confirm chip supply commitments following news of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's exit. Others are monitoring the effect on local AI and infrastructure projects or addressing ongoing investigations. The source does not detail the nature or terms of the exit.
The FAA halted flights nationwide on Friday, its first full ground stop since January 2023, days after expanding its SMART AI air traffic tool across the country. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed a communication issue at all Air Route Traffic Control Centers, while Homeland Security's Markwayne Mullin said of SMART, "We're looking at that." The tool's maker, Air Space Intelligence, says the stop "is not based on or a result of the SMART system."
Google has open-sourced AQuA, a reference implementation that analyzes production AI agent sessions, verifies recurring failure patterns, and investigates root causes against deployed source snapshots. In a 32-session replay, developers cut seat selection bypasses from 15 sessions to two and dietary preference omissions from seven to zero by changing prompts. The tool targets the operational problem of diagnosing agent failures after deployment.
A scandal involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has put Singapore's role as a major semiconductor hub under scrutiny. Alleged illicit trade in chips routed through the city-state is also drawing attention. The source article is brief, so the specific allegations and any official responses are not covered here.
