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Nvidia CEO Targeted in Chinese Spy Plot; Canada Invests in Cohere AI

US officials allege a Chinese spy plot involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, monitored for a year. Mistral releases a 1 trillion-parameter AI model for cybersecurity and coding, reducing cloud reliance. Canada plans a significant investment in Cohere to boost sovereign AI, creating over 1,000 jobs by 2030.

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Last 24 hours · 5 mins · 28 stories · 156 sources in 16 languages

Top stories

  1. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Targeted in Chinese Spy Plot, US Officials Say theguardian.com and 18 more
  2. Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) opens weights for on‑prem cyber defense and coding theverge.com and 19 more
  3. Canada to invest up to 1.6 billion CAD in Cohere to boost sovereign AI yahoo.com and 10 more
  4. Cohere raises CAD 7 billion Series E to expand sovereign AI for regulated sectors prnewswire.com and 8 more
  5. Hugging Face crypto-mining malware returns after takedowns, spawning 31 malicious repos across multiple accounts bleepingcomputer.com and 2 more
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Question of the day

How did a CEO-targeted “spy plot” allegation turn into an export-control evasion case via Malaysia? “Spy plot” claims become export cases when investigators can tie influence to a physical logistics chain—GPU shipments rerouted via Malaysia/Singapore to reach China indirectly.

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