Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. Jeremy Kahn here. In this edition: Nvidia was built around one man. Now a spy scandal threatens that model. Before the scandal broke, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke to Fortune about China policy. Anthropic looks to price its IPO at a $1.4 trillion valuation. Anthropic debuts new Fable
No executive has pulled the strings in the artificial intelligence era quite like Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang. He parlayed the boom into incredible wealth, became a close confidant of President Donald Trump, and emerged as a prominent voice in US-China relations. That now all stands in the balance. Over the last few days, Huang’s status
The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn’t new, but what and how they’re tracking — and if we can stop it — is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University monitored 12 TVs from 10 manufacturers to test whether opting out of automatic content recognition (ACR) actually works. While opting out was
The Aurora Police Department, Downer’s Grove Police Department, and Kane County Sheriff did not respond to requests for comment. The HSI Chicago surveillance team logged 219 vehicles parked in the vicinity of Co-Prosperity. Several subjects already under investigation, including some of the speakers on the tour, were identified by ICE. Ryan Wasson, a Kane County
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who federal prosecutors describe as a 35-year-old Saudi Arabian national
Surveillance company Flock Safety, one of the most controversial technology companies in the US, is expanding its footprint beyond automated license plate readers and its vast AI-powered camera network. Facing growing backlash over its partnership with law enforcement and its tracking of activists and protesters, Flock is now betting on drones — flying cameras dispatched
