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Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation after Huang admitted infidelity with a Megaspeed executive US officials reportedly believe passed information to Beijing. Nobody has been charged, but a flat org, a central balance sheet and no successor make the governance problem real either way.
Nvidia’s Korea roundup covers Samsung’s GPU and AI-physics chip design work, Kakao Mobility’s level 4 driving plans and LG’s CLOiD factory robot. The Samsung numbers are the strongest; the speedup partly trades fidelity for speed, and Kakao’s effort is still a plan.
Korea’s agent news is about containment: Hyundai is exploring NemoClaw blueprints and the OpenShell runtime, AIM Intelligence is wiring its Starfort controls into OpenShell, and LG opened K-EXAONE-2.5 API access. Runtime limits plus detection is the right shape; red-team results are missing.
Nvidia and Korea’s science ministry widened their partnership to chips, data centers, talent, startups, models, agents and security, and invited Korean NPU and XPU makers into NVLink Fusion. Good for developers today; an open bet for Korean chip independence tomorrow.
Ready-made serving recipes for SK Telecom’s A.X K2, LG’s K-EXAONE 2.0, Upstage’s Solar Open 2 and Motif-3 cut multi-GPU trial and error. The up-to-2x claim lacks a baseline, and the know-how concentrates on Nvidia’s newest hardware.
The Verge published Nvidia’s CEO’s staff memo acknowledging an affair with a woman alleged to work for the Chinese government. The personal apology is direct; the national-security section is brief, legally careful and leaves the most important public question least answered.
Independent directors with outside counsel are investigating after Huang admitted an affair with former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom a policymaker memo alleged was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security. The shift from “not unusual” to formal probe is notable; disclosure will decide credibility.
Per Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, CEO John Ternus is pressing Craig Federighi to speed Siri’s roadmap against agents like OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse. Deeper Apple-app control may arrive with iOS 27.3 and third-party actions in spring. Distribution is Apple’s edge; reliability and permissions are the risk.
Google shipped a process, not a model: coding agents must draft a spec and face zero-context reviewers before they write code — a real fix for slop, if isolation holds.
The open MoE field agrees on token-choice routing and almost nothing else — and names like “17B active” hide routers that size, score, and balance experts in incompatible ways.
WIRED explains the shift from predicting words to predicting physical outcomes, with Niantic Spatial, Wayve, Odyssey, World Labs and Yann LeCun’s new lab in the race. Simulated practice is a real safety gain; underpaid footage of homes and repurposed game scans are the quiet cost.
TechCrunch relayed reports that a memo, reportedly based on US intelligence, claimed China’s Ministry of State Security recruited Alice Huang to target Nvidia’s CEO, and the FT said it also alleged a romantic relationship. Almost nothing here is confirmed, and that discipline matters.