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CEO Jensen Huang sends a company-wide email
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an extramarital affair involving Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed whom U.S. intelligence officials suspect of working for China. The confession has triggered an independent investigation by Nvidia's board.
U.S. intelligence identified Alice Huang as a potential Chinese intelligence asset targeting Nvidia's business and AI chip strategy.
Megaspeed reportedly purchased more than $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips over 2 years and has faced scrutiny over possible export-control violations.
Nvidia's board appointed independent directors and outside legal counsel to investigate potential national security risks.
Nvidia says it currently has no reason to believe company secrets or U.S. national security were compromised. Republican lawmakers have requested a private briefing with Huang on November 18, citing national security concerns.
Nvidia's board continues to support his leadership, with no announced plans to replace him. Investigators are concerned that Alice Huang may have gained insights into Nvidia's business strategy and negotiations with the Trump administration.
However, there is currently no public proof that Huang disclosed sensitive information or knowingly assisted Chinese intelligence.
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AI BREAKTHROUGH
Nous Research released Arete-27B, an open-source AI model built from Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B, fine-tuned to reduce Chinese government-aligned responses and reinforce Western values.
The team trained it on 53 million tokens and tested it across 803 prompts covering freedom of speech, democracy, privacy, and other political topics. The results:
Propaganda rate dropped from 22% to 0.9%.
Factual accuracy score improved from 2.32 to 2.98 out of 5.
On freedom of expression, propaganda-related responses fell from 60% to 1%.
General AI performance remained nearly unchanged, scoring 65.60% vs. 65.77% on Hermes Bench.
The model is available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing developers to download and modify it.
AI models' political framing can be significantly changed through relatively small amounts of additional training. However, the results come from Nous Research's own evaluation, using an AI judge, and have not been independently verified.
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