Nvidia pushed back on a New York Times report claiming US intelligence agencies surveilled a woman, Alice Huang, linked to Singapore-based cloud firm Megaspeed, over concerns she could be a Chinese intelligence asset close to CEO Jensen Huang. Nvidia said Megaspeed is simply a regional cloud customer and that prior allegations it helped evade US export controls on Nvidia chips were investigated and found baseless last year. The company also said customers do not get access to trade secrets or national security information.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-29
According to a report, the US intelligence community identified a Chinese individual connected to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as having ties to Chinese spying operations. Huang has been pushing the US government to loosen restrictions on selling advanced AI chips to China.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-29
Retail listings show the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, launched at $999, now selling for $1,999 to nearly $3,000 at retailers including Best Buy, Newegg, Micro Center and MemoryC. Stock is scarce, with many listings limited to local pickup or third-party Amazon sellers, and even the cheapest widely available reputable listing matches the RTX 5090's original $1,999 launch price.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-29
Tom's Hardware reviewed the HyperX Omen 35L gaming desktop in a top-spec configuration priced at $6,211, featuring an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics card, and 64GB of DDR5 memory. The review praises its black-and-white design, quiet operation, and 4K gaming performance, while noting that entry-level configurations offer weaker value.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-29
The New York Times reports that U.S. intelligence has identified Alice Huang, managing director of Singapore-based Nvidia cloud partner Megaspeed, as a suspected Chinese intelligence asset, and has known of her activities for over a year. The report says intelligence officials briefed President Trump on the matter, but he reportedly declined to act. Megaspeed has previously been accused of helping smuggle $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips, and photos show Alice Huang with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at events in 2024 and 2025.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-29
Reuters reports the Department of Justice has asked about how Nvidia's roughly $13 billion purchase of Hugging Face, agreed in September, could affect competitors in the AI market. Hugging Face runs an open-source platform for hosting and testing AI models and also sells AI infrastructure, which appears to be the focus of the DOJ's inquiry.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-29
YouTuber RandomGaminginHD tested an 8GB version of Nvidia's decade-old GTX 750 Ti, sold by lesser-known brand Xynsviu for around £160, and found it manages roughly 32fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p on lowest settings with FSR upscaling. The card uses the same GM107 die and 640 CUDA cores as the original 2GB model, with memory chips clocked slightly below stock speeds, and overall performance closely mirrors the 2014 card despite the larger VRAM pool.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-29
Jim Cramer said on CNBC's Mad Money that companies including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI have grown so dominant and profitable that they resemble 'nation states.' He pointed to Microsoft's latest earnings as evidence, noting revenue grew 19%, Azure cloud revenue jumped 48%, and capital spending came in below Wall Street forecasts, sending shares up 4% after hours.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-28
Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight ASR model combining transcription, speaker diarization, translation and audio Q&A in one checkpoint, now available on Hugging Face and ModelScope. It transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 to or from English, identifies up to eight speakers across 13 languages, and handles recordings up to an hour long. Nvidia also released the Granary v2 training dataset and fine-tuning recipes via NeMo Speech tools to help developers adapt the model.
huggingface.co
· 2026-10-28
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight transcription model supporting up to 40 languages, alongside version 2 of its open-source Granary speech dataset. The company says the 30-billion-parameter model can translate 31 languages to and from English, process recordings up to an hour long, distinguish up to eight speakers, and run on a single chip ranging from Jetson AGX Thor to Blackwell datacenter hardware. Nvidia claims it outperforms rivals on benchmarks including Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard, though it only works on recorded audio rather than live streams.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
Palit issued a statement rejecting claims that its Galax factory, which produces Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs, had closed due to insufficient chip supply. The company said operations continue as normal, no facilities have been shut down, and Galax products remain available through domestic and international retailers. The denial follows a report from a Spanish outlet alleging Palit could no longer supply enough Nvidia chips to sustain Galax production.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-28
Alphabet announced that Oracle will offer Google's tensor processing units through its own data centers, marking the first time the custom AI chips are available outside Google's own infrastructure. The move extends a shift that began last quarter when Google opened TPUs to outside data centers, and comes a day before Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-28
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