Nvidia Spy Scandal Threatens the Gulf’s AI Ambitions

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Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict A car bomb killed the chief navigator of Russia’s St. Petersburg-based 6th Guards Air and Air Defence Forces Army on Thursday morning, a day after…

A car bomb killed the chief navigator of Russia’s St. Petersburg-based 6th Guards Air and Air Defence Forces Army on Thursday morning, a day after Ukrainian drones set an oil terminal at Ust-Luga on fire and forced flight restrictions at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport. The colonel’s car exploded about 300 meters from his apartment in Shushary, the same suburb where a car bomb killed a helicopter regiment officer in August. Investigators believe a 31-year-old local planted the device overnight and was on his way to Moldova by way of Istanbul by the time it went off; Moldova does not extradite to Russia.

The Nvidia honey pot scandal will slow the Gulf’s AI buildout. Saudi and Emirati AI ambitions depend on American chips that Washington licenses one tranche at a time, and the two Americans who mattered most to that access are now gone or under fire. Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s chief executive this week after admitting an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence describes as a Chinese Ministry of State Security asset. The U.S. official…

A car bomb killed the chief navigator of Russia’s St. Petersburg-based 6th Guards Air and Air Defence Forces Army on Thursday morning, a day after Ukrainian drones set an oil terminal at Ust-Luga on fire and forced flight restrictions at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport. The colonel’s car exploded about 300 meters from his apartment in Shushary, the same suburb where a car bomb killed a helicopter regiment officer in August. Investigators believe a 31-year-old local planted the device overnight and was on his way to Moldova by way of Istanbul by the time it went off; Moldova does not extradite to Russia.

The Nvidia honey pot scandal will slow the Gulf’s AI buildout. Saudi and Emirati AI ambitions depend on American chips that Washington licenses one tranche at a time, and the two Americans who mattered most to that access are now gone or under fire.

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