Today's Hallucination HQJensen Huang's Eventful Calendar: Board Meetings, Chip Sales, Alleged EspionageNvidia has announced it will investigate CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with a person reportedly linked to Chinese intelligence, after Huang disclosed in a company memo that he had been having an affair with her. To his credit, Huang told the board himself — which is either admirable transparency or a very uncomfortable Monday morning. The world's most valuable chipmaker is now simultaneously managing a geopolitical security concern and what appears to be the most expensive relationship in Silicon Valley history. Source: TechCrunch
AI Will Save the Planet, Says the Industry That Drinks More Power Than PortugalAt this week's UN climate conference in Antalya, Turkey, AI is expected to dominate discussions — which is rich, given that AI is also dominating electricity consumption. The host nation is pushing for global commitments to ensure AI is designed and deployed in climate-friendly ways. A worthy goal, though somewhat undercut by the fact that nobody has yet demonstrated this is actually possible at scale. The climate case for AI, as MIT Technology Review plainly puts it, has not been made. Source: MIT Technology Review
Siri's Big Moment Is Being Scheduled for Sometime After the Last OneApple CEO John Ternus is reportedly leaning on AI chief Craig Federighi to speed up Siri's transformation into a proper AI agent — one capable of competing with OpenAI's and Meta's offerings. Federighi has, by all accounts, delivered a functional Siri upgrade on a genuinely tight timeline, which is Apple's version of praise. The pressure now is to go further, faster. For a product that couldn't set two timers simultaneously until roughly last Tuesday, the ambitions are admirably large. Source: The Verge
Goldman Sachs Discovers That Giving Traders an AI Code Assistant Was, Perhaps, BoldGoldman Sachs is withdrawing access to Claude Code — Anthropic's AI coding tool — from its bankers and traders, according to reports. The firm had rolled out the tool, then apparently reconsidered what happens when people whose job is to find financial edges are handed a powerful autonomous coding agent. No specific incident has been cited. Sometimes the most telling detail is simply that a decision was made very quietly and very quickly. Source: Hacker News / The State of AI
Elvis Has Left the Building; His Lawyers Have Very Much NotSuno, the AI music generation startup, is facing two new lawsuits — one from rights holders of Elvis Presley's catalogue, another from the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records. Both allege that Suno generates music and lyrics that unlawfully mimic these artists. This adds to Suno's existing legal collection, which is growing faster than its song library. Training AI on the King of Rock and Roll and then being surprised by the legal consequences does suggest a certain optimism about how intellectual property works. Source: The Verge
Stay curious, stay sceptical, and remember: if your CEO is in the news for three separate reasons, it's probably not a good week.
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