Megaspeed International, a Singapore-registered company and major foreign customer of Nvidia, is under investigation in several countries over suspected diversion of advanced AI chips. Authorities have taken action against its former director Alice Huang, while company filings and visits to listed addresses have produced conflicting accounts of its operations.
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Megaspeed has registered affiliates in the United States, Australia, and other parts of Asia.
Company filings in Delaware and Australia list Shanghai-born Kai Kang as the sole officer of the affiliates created in 2024.
An Australian filing lists the Singapore-based Megaspeed International as the affiliate’s stockholder.
People contacted at listed Australian addresses said they did not know about Megaspeed or its local affiliate.
The article says Megaspeed purchased nearly $5 billion in AI chips from Nvidia over the past three years.
Singapore police said they were investigating Megaspeed over suspected breaches of domestic laws after a U.S. senator requested an inquiry into possible chip diversion.
Singapore said it held Alice Huang’s passport from June 2025 to February over potential false declarations related to Megaspeed, then released her with a warning.
Malaysia said it was investigating a Megaspeed subsidiary over possible diversion of advanced AI chips.
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A global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted Outlook email and online services in Australia on Friday, affecting schools, courts, government agencies and some health facilities. Microsoft said it had no indication of a cyberattack and pointed to a possible server configuration change; the company said its efforts to fix the problem were not going as expected.
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Australians began reporting Microsoft 365 problems shortly before 5 a.m. AEST on Friday.
Outage reports peaked at more than 5,500 at 9:22 a.m., with users reporting trouble opening and sending emails.
Service NSW urged customers to delay non-urgent service-centre visits and set up priority callbacks for urgent transactions.
Australian federal agencies, including the Australian Federal Police and ASIO, said some of their systems were affected.
The Australian Medical Association reported clerical problems at some hospitals and clinics but said patient care was not affected.
Some health facilities returned to paper prescriptions because staff could not access email-based identity checks for prescribing software.
Schools using the Schoolbytes platform and courts in South Australia and Victoria reported email disruptions.
Coles and Woolworths stores continued operating normally.
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North Korean state-backed hackers stole more than $400 million in cryptocurrency through a scheme the FBI calls FaceStealer, which targeted more than 900 people in 18 months. They used fake video calls and malware to steal identities, access victims’ accounts and contacts, and record calls for use in further scams.
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The FBI says more than 900 people were targeted by FaceStealer in the last 18 months.
The scheme stole more than $400 million in cryptocurrency, according to U.S. authorities.
Hackers targeted people in cryptocurrency and web3, especially those who develop or maintain open-source software.
They used fake or hijacked social media accounts to invite targets to video calls on imitation versions of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet.
During calls, hackers played prerecorded videos of people the target knew and made it seem that the audio was malfunctioning.
A prompt told targets to click a link to fix the audio; the link downloaded malware that could access contacts and apps.
Hackers secretly recorded the calls and reused the recordings to deceive more victims.
U.S. law enforcement agencies attributed a separate $6.3 billion Binance hack to North Korea-linked actors; Pyongyang denied the allegation.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned after reports of two alleged extramarital relationships, including one with a company executive. The allegations have prompted scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers over national security concerns, while Nvidia investigates whether foreign intelligence efforts targeted Huang.
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Huang led Nvidia as chief executive from 1993 until his resignation.
Huang said he had been unfaithful to his wife after reports of an alleged relationship with Alice Huang, who is not related to him.
Alice Huang worked for Singapore-based Megaspeed and has been suspected of being a Chinese intelligence asset; China rejected the allegation.
U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department had reached no conclusion about whether Alice Huang engaged in espionage for China.
Democratic lawmakers demanded that Huang brief Congress about the allegations and said he could face a subpoena if he refuses a committee request.
U.S. media reported a second alleged relationship, with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell, who reportedly reported directly to Huang.
Nvidia said it had no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised and said an independent inquiry would review available information.
Nvidia shares lost $550 billion in market value over five days, according to the report.
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Vlad and Kelly discuss honey traps, in which spies use romantic or sexual relationships to gain access to influential people. Former intelligence officer and historian Mark Jacobson and investigative journalist Neil Strauss join the discussion, which raises an allegation involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the Chinese government.
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The segment focuses on honey traps and other forms of sex-based espionage.
Mark Jacobson joins as a former intelligence officer and historian.
Neil Strauss joins as an investigative journalist and author of “The Game.”
The discussion examines how spies may use attraction, ego, and emotions to approach powerful people.
The segment raises an allegation involving Jensen Huang and the Chinese government.
The segment runs for 43 minutes and 6 seconds.
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The FAA has expanded its SMART system, an AI tool that advises air traffic controllers, to airspace served by all 22 air route traffic control centers in the United States. The system makes route and scheduling recommendations, which FAA specialists review and local controllers can accept or reject.
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The FAA said SMART cost $875 million.
SMART began operating in airspace over Washington, DC, on September 21.
The FAA said the system had helped reroute 180 flights and saved an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight.
SMART combines weather, flight paths, traffic flow and controller staffing information to predict air traffic patterns.
FAA specialists review SMART recommendations before sending them to air traffic facilities.
The FAA says SMART cannot control aircraft or replace air traffic controllers.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said it was not involved in SMART's design, testing or implementation.
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Four nonprofit groups sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX Super Intelligence in San Francisco Superior Court, seeking to block their development of AI models. The groups allege the companies know their systems may pose catastrophic risks and cannot reliably control them, especially as AI systems help develop future AI.
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The Alliance for Secure AI, Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen and the Heat Initiative filed the lawsuit.
The lawsuit names Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX Super Intelligence.
The groups argue that AI systems may not consistently act as their developers intend.
The lawsuit identifies recursive self-improvement as a risk, meaning AI systems help develop more advanced AI systems.
The groups cite past statements by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about potential harms from AI.
In October, Altman, Amodei and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk supported an industrywide slowdown in AI development.
The companies named in the suit did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and other Microsoft 365 services on Thursday. Microsoft said some servers were unavailable and that it was testing changes and restarting affected services, without giving an estimated restoration time.
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Downdetector recorded about 130,000 Outlook problem reports shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
The number of Outlook reports had fallen to about 77,000 shortly before 3 p.m. Eastern Time.
Some users could not send or receive email or open their inboxes.
Users also reported problems with Teams, Copilot, and other Microsoft 365 services.
Microsoft said the outage could affect users in any region.
Microsoft said some servers were unavailable and failing automatic health checks.
Microsoft was testing a configuration change to redistribute traffic and restarting affected services.
Microsoft did not give an estimated time for full service restoration.
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Microsoft reported connectivity problems affecting users worldwide on Thursday, including users of Teams, Outlook and Copilot. The company said unexpectedly unavailable servers strained the remaining infrastructure and that it was testing a configuration change to address the issue.
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Microsoft said the connectivity problems could affect users in any region.
Teams, Outlook and Copilot were among the affected services.
Microsoft said part of its infrastructure was experiencing elevated load.
The company said the elevated load was not caused by increased traffic.
Microsoft said some servers had become unexpectedly unavailable, straining the remaining infrastructure.
Downdetector showed more than 131,000 U.S. reports of Outlook problems at 18:15 GMT.
Microsoft said it was testing a configuration change after servers failed automated health checks.
Microsoft said it had restarted all affected servers.
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Drone and missile strikes have damaged data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East in 2026, disrupting cloud services and permanently deleting some AWS customer data. A live discussion on November 17 will examine data center security, cloud resilience during war, and the choices facing governments and cloud providers.
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Strikes in Eastern Europe and the Middle East have damaged data centers this year.
The damage disrupted cloud services for millions of people.
Some Amazon Web Services customer data was permanently lost after strikes on data centers in the Middle East.
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged strikes targeting data centers, including facilities used by governments and companies.
The November 17 discussion is scheduled for 1 pm Eastern Time and will stream on YouTube.
Joseph Jarnecki, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, will join the discussion.
The discussion will address protecting data centers from drones and missiles and improving cloud resilience during wartime.
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Nvidia designs graphics processing units (GPUs) used to train and run many AI systems. Jensen Huang’s departure was followed by a 13% drop in Nvidia shares in early trading, while the company’s role in AI also rests on its investments, customer ties and access to manufacturing by Taiwan’s TSMC.
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Nvidia sells GPUs that support the training and operation of AI models such as ChatGPT and Claude.
Microsoft, Meta and Google are among the companies developing their own AI chips.
Nvidia has invested in AI startups and offered companies such as OpenAI money to buy its chips.
Nvidia has financed neocloud companies that install its chips in data centers and rent computing capacity to AI companies.
In 2025, Huang met with leaders including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss sovereign AI.
Nvidia announced chip supply arrangements with governments after some of Huang’s meetings.
Taiwan’s TSMC manufactures most of the world’s AI chips, using a costly and technically demanding process.
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Researchers created Lumina, a computer simulation that models the evolution of the early universe from about 45 million years after the Big Bang through its first 2 billion years. The model tracks dark matter, gas, stars, and radiation, and scientists can compare its predictions with telescope observations.
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Lumina models a region of space about 1.6 billion light-years wide.
The simulation contains around half a trillion computational elements, including dark matter particles and gas cells.
Researchers ran Lumina on the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
The model is about 100 times larger in volume than earlier simulations, according to MIT.
Lumina indicates that radiation from early stars and galaxies drove most hydrogen reionization, when radiation stripped electrons from hydrogen atoms.
Astronomers can compare the simulation's predictions with observations from the James Webb Space Telescope.
The MIT team plans to make Lumina available to other scientists for further comparisons with telescope data.
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Jensen Huang's stated resignation as Nvidia CEO raises questions about succession at a company central to the artificial intelligence industry. The change also prompts debate about how much influence technology executives hold over economic policy and national security, especially amid U.S.-China competition.
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Nvidia founder Jensen Huang is described as resigning from the company.
The resignation is described as creating a leadership crisis at Nvidia.
Nvidia holds a central position in the growing artificial intelligence industry.
Competition between the United States and China is intensifying in the AI industry.
Nvidia's leadership transition raises questions about corporate succession.
The debate focuses on the economic power and political influence of technology company leaders.
Trade and economic policy reporter Gavin Bade is identified as a guest in the discussion.
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Jensen Huang stepped down as Nvidia’s CEO, and the company appointed an interim CEO. The program also covered Scott Colom’s Senate victory in Mississippi, a deadly shooting in Washington, D.C., and other national and international news.
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Jensen Huang stepped down as Nvidia’s CEO.
Nvidia appointed an interim CEO after Huang’s departure.
Donald Trump called for Apple CEO Tim Cook to replace Huang at Nvidia.
Scott Colom won a Senate race in Mississippi.
Authorities identified the suspected Washington, D.C., shooter as a doctor.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth honored a soldier who had reprimanded a group.
The United States could limit chip exports to China.
Pope Leo delivered an emotional speech in Peru.
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Shadowkey: Reforged is a free fan-made port of the 2004 mobile game The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey. It runs natively on PC, Mac, and Android, with upgraded graphics and options for either a more faithful or modernized version of the game.
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The original Shadowkey was released for Nokia’s N-Gage in 2004.
Reforged uses the original game files and scripts with a rewritten PC graphics engine.
The port supports widescreen display and up to 120 frames per second, while the game logic remains at 25 frames per second.
The updated graphics include retextured characters and environments, bloom lighting, and rippling water.
Modern mode adds features such as smarter enemy AI, fall damage, searchable containers, and fast travel.
Classic mode preserves more of the original game’s rules and features.
Creator Dan Whelan said he used AI to help with coding, debugging, and creating most of the higher-resolution artwork.
A release build became available for Windows, Mac, and Android on Wednesday.
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China is building a large network of AI data centers in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, where abundant energy, cold weather, and lower land and labor costs support construction. The projects are bringing jobs to the region as China seeks to expand its AI capabilities.
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Dozens of data centers are under construction in Inner Mongolia, more than in any other region of China.
Ulanqab has wind and solar power as well as fossil-fuel energy, and its cold climate can reduce data-center cooling costs.
Up to 30,000 workers from across China have been brought in to help build the Ulanqab AI hub.
Data centers in China cost about one-fifth as much to build as those in the United States, according to experts cited in the passage.
A local farmer said the construction had not affected his farmland and viewed the changes positively.
Chinese officials hope the region’s data-center expansion will help China surpass the United States in artificial intelligence.
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Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang has left the company after its board acted amid allegations about relationships with colleagues, including a woman accused of being a Chinese spy. Colette Kress has taken over for now, as Nvidia faces questions about leadership continuity and its ability to retain talent and sustain its chip development.
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Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia and led the company as its CEO.
Nvidia's board decided Huang had to leave after rumors of a second relationship with a colleague surfaced.
One woman connected to the allegations has been accused of being a Chinese spy.
Colette Kress has taken over as Nvidia's leader for now.
Kress has worked at Nvidia for 13 years and is a frequent participant in the company's earnings calls.
Nvidia's chips power many of the most advanced AI models.
The account says an investigation into Huang's relationship with the woman will continue.
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Researchers at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian found elevated blood levels of an RNA molecule called Tu-stroma in women with an early fallopian-tube lesion or high-grade serous ovarian cancer. The finding may help detect early disease that standard imaging can miss, but the study describes a potential detection approach rather than an established screening test.
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Tu-stroma is a long non-coding RNA molecule identified by the researchers.
The study found elevated Tu-stroma levels in the blood of women with serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma or high-grade serous ovarian cancer.
Serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma is a microscopic lesion in the lining of the fallopian tube.
The lesion can exist without a visible tumor or symptoms, according to study author Esha Madan.
The researchers said cancer cells can send Tu-stroma to nearby cells in membrane-enclosed particles called extracellular vesicles.
The study was published in Nature Medicine on November 10.
About 20 percent of ovarian cancers are found at an early stage, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Google has replaced Gemini 3.8 Flash with Gemini 4 Hydrogen across its products. The model is available to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and through Google Search, while free and AI Plus users still have access to the older 3.5 Flash-Lite model in the Gemini app and AI Studio.
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Hydrogen offers four thinking levels: low, medium, high, and xhigh.
Google says Hydrogen runs 2.5 times faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash in high mode and reduces fabricated claims by more than five times.
Hydrogen scored more than three times as high as Gemini 3.8 Flash on Terminal-Bench, a coding benchmark.
Hydrogen scored 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index in xhigh mode, compared with 50 for Argon.
Google is adding Hydrogen to Search to handle longer, multipart questions and to provide more visual responses in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Developers can access Hydrogen through the API for $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens.
Google positions Argon and Carbon for long-running tasks and security, while Hydrogen targets faster code generation and testing.
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Oakland’s city government and a union reached a tentative three-year agreement that would require the city to retrain or reassign workers displaced by artificial intelligence rather than fire them. The union had authorized a strike, which it put on hold after reaching the tentative deal, as public-sector unions elsewhere seek protections against AI and workplace automation.
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Members of International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21 voted 94.1% in favor of authorizing a strike on 22 October.
The Oakland union sought protections against AI-related layoffs, discipline, surveillance and inaccurate performance evaluations.
The tentative agreement between Oakland and the union would last three years.
The proposed agreement requires the city to retrain or reassign workers displaced by AI instead of firing them.
The union put its planned 5 November strike on hold after reaching the tentative agreement.
A survey conducted from July to August 2026 found that nearly 70% of state and local government agencies had adopted or were implementing generative AI.
Some workplace monitoring systems use AI to track employee location and activity, assess productivity, and inform hiring, firing or promotion decisions.
The Communications Workers of America recommended AI protections in 2023 and won some protections for California workers in October 2026.
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