Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s criticism of the Nvidia spy scandal drew pushback from social media commenters who questioned her response to former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s ties to a suspected Chinese operative.
Speaking to TMZ, the New York Democrat argued that concentrating wealth and economic power among a handful of billionaires creates national security vulnerabilities.
“All you need to do is compromise one of them to suffocate our entire, you know, economy,” she said.Ocasio-Cortez also called for breaking up powerful companies.
“We need to check these guys’ power,” she said. “There’s a lot of companies that probably have too much power that need to be broken up and allow everyday people to have a shot.”
She called for an investigation into Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, describing it as a “tremendous national security and intelligence breach.” Nvidia’s board has said it has no reason to believe U.S. national security or company secrets were compromised.
Commenters responding to TMZ’s post pointed to Swalwell.
“It’s amazing how quickly she forgets Swalwell,” one wrote. Another asked what her views had been on his case.
Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, helped raise money for Swalwell’s campaign and placed an intern in his office. The House Ethics Committee closed its investigation in 2023 without taking further action.
Nvidia is expanding its open-source artificial intelligence security tools to help companies manage autonomous AI agents as the technology becomes increasingly capable of performing tasks and making decisions with limited human intervention.
The AI chipmaking giant announced Tuesday that it is contributing OpenShell, an open-source system designed to secure and govern autonomous AI agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a nonprofit organization within the Linux Foundation.
OpenShell allows businesses to establish rules governing what AI agents can do, including how they access tools, interact with other AI systems and carry out tasks. The technology is designed to help organizations maintain oversight as they deploy increasingly sophisticated AI applications.
“The cloud-native community has a new infrastructure challenge: giving agents secure environments in which to operate,” Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation, said in Nvidia’s announcement.
Nvidia is also working with Google on an open-source project designed to help businesses deploy and manage large numbers of AI agents while maintaining security controls
The company also unveiled additional open-source infrastructure tools designed to help developers deploy and manage large-scale AI computing systems.
The announcements, made during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference, reflect Nvidia’s growing focus on the software and security infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence as businesses increasingly explore AI agents capable of carrying out complex tasks.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is expanding its push into workplace productivity with new AI-powered spreadsheets, collaborative whiteboards and data analysis tools, stepping up competition with Microsoft and Google.
The company behind the Claude chatbot announced Tuesday the launch of Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data, designed to help users complete everyday business tasks using artificial intelligence.
Claude Sheets allows users to create and edit spreadsheets, including formulas, formatting and multiple tabs, while Claude Whiteboards provides a space for brainstorming, organizing ideas and collaborating on projects.
Claude Data, meanwhile, enables users to build dashboards and data visualizations using information from connected business systems.
The new tools are available through paid Claude plans, with some features still in beta, according to Anthropic.
The announcement comes as Anthropic prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering that could value the company at up to $1.02 trillion. The Claude maker plans to raise as much as $64.4 billion through share sales, plus another $26 billion through a private placement involving major technology companies.
{{#rendered}}More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning U.S. service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus, according to OpenAI, as the artificial intelligence company highlights efforts to help military personnel prepare for civilian careers this Veterans Day.
The initiative offers eligible veterans and service members access to OpenAI’s paid chatbot subscription at no cost for one year, providing tools to help with résumé writing, job searches, interview preparation and career planning.
OpenAI said the program originated with veterans working at the company who recognized the challenges military personnel can face when transitioning to civilian employment.
The company highlighted Air Force veteran Sadarian Bell, who used ChatGPT to translate nearly a decade of military healthcare experience into a civilian résumé and practiced job interviews using the chatbot’s voice mode.
“It has genuinely become my career coach,” Bell said in OpenAI’s announcement.
Beyond free subscriptions, OpenAI said its Academy program and community partners have hosted more than a dozen training sessions for nearly 1,000 members of the military community, with additional events scheduled through November.
The company is also working with organizations including Veterans Forge, NPower and the Wounded Warrior Project to help veterans and military families learn how to use artificial intelligence tools.
Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota is calling for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to resign amid concerns about potential national security risks stemming from the tech executive’s reported affair with a woman suspected of having ties to Chinese intelligence.
“The potential for extortion is so tremendous that something as sensitive as Nvidia chips, I just think he’s got to go,” Cramer told Politico on Tuesday.
“If the worst thing he did in real life is infidelity with this woman who may or may not be a Chinese spy — but she might be — that’s enough, because whatever else there is, we don’t know. And to me, that’s a security risk,” Cramer added.
The remarks come as Nvidia’s board investigates Huang following a New York Times report that he had an affair with a Chinese businesswoman suspected by U.S. security services of being a Chinese intelligence asset.
President Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI was also examining the matter, though he added that he believed Huang, who told him he did not know the woman was a spy.
Nvidia has said its board has no reason to believe U.S. national security or company secrets were compromised and that Huang is cooperating with the company’s internal review.
China’s foreign ministry has dismissed the spying allegations as “groundless” and “a smear.”
The controversy comes as Nvidia remains at the center of U.S.-China technology tensions over restrictions on the sale of advanced artificial intelligence chips to Beijing.
The United States and China are preparing to advance talks on artificial intelligence as the world’s two largest economies compete for technological dominance while seeking to manage the risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to progress a new bilateral dialogue on advanced AI during their meeting next week in Shenzhen, China, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
The dialogue is intended to address shared risks and “prevent a misunderstanding between our two systems,” Bessent said in prepared remarks to the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York, according to Reuters.
“We also expect to exchange best practices for evaluating and testing advanced models before their release, and for keeping human judgment firmly in command of this technology,” Bessent said.
The two countries have also agreed to establish a direct communication channel to alert each other to serious AI-related incidents, an arrangement reached during Trump’s previous meeting with Xi at the White House in September.
But Bessent cautioned that cooperation on AI risks does not erase the countries’ fundamental differences.
“As we do so, we should harbor no illusions about the differences between the United States and China,” he said.
The upcoming talks come amid broader tensions between Washington and Beijing over trade and technology, as both countries seek to balance economic competition with cooperation on shared risks.
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