Alleged Chinese Spy Got Close to Nvidia's CEO, NYT Says (Oct 30, 2026)

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The New York Times reports U.S. intelligence believes an executive at a major Nvidia customer was a Chinese asset close to Jensen Huang; nothing is proven and Nvidia calls it routine. Plus: Alphabet's worst day ever, and AI ends security by obscurity.

In this episode:

The Nvidia spy report: what the Times says about Megaspeed, every side's response, and what it could mean for GPU rentals in Southeast Asia.
Alphabet's worst day: down about 13%, roughly half a trillion dollars, as AI answers start to eat into Search; plus Microsoft's $25B bond and Amazon.
AI closes the gap: "unexploitable" bugs are now exploitable, a 30-minute patch window, and OpenAI and Anthropic using AI to watch their own AI.
Open models and Canada: Mistral's open trillion-parameter model, and up to $5B for Cohere with Ottawa investing.
Agents at work: owners, expiry dates and a bank's password warning.
Cert Corner: how do you limit the damage from a hijacked AI agent? Answer at the end.

Also today:

DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for $17B.
Binance loses $6.3B in the biggest crypto theft on record.
Reddit will require a login, citing AI scraping.
OpenAI reportedly delays GPT-6.1 Astra.

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