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Nvidia CEO: Senior executives don’t need pampering, career guidance

Huang says that he has so many direct reports — most executives only have 10 or so — because it keeps Nvidia from developing unnecessary layers of management.

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Nvidia CEO: U.S. chipmakers at least a decade away from China supply chain independence

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks the U.S. is still at least a decade away from China chip supply chain independence, adding that it was “absolutely” needed.

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Google Maps changed colors and some people are upset, including a former designer

Google Maps now has grey roads, teal water, and mint-green parks. The change happened some time ago, but was widely noticed over Thanksgiving travel season.

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Okta hackers stole data on all customer support users in major breach

The hack was worse than initially believed, with every client having some data stolen in the breach, the cybersecurity company warned.

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Apple is trying to unwind its Goldman Sachs credit card partnership

The move would end one of the highest-profile partnerships between giants in the tech and banking sectors.

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Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses

The product, announced at Amazon Web Services’ Reinvent conference, is Amazon’s latest effort to challenge Microsoft and Google in productivity software.

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Amazon announces new AI chip as it deepens Nvidia relationship

AWS will host a computing cluster for Nvidia to use. Simultaneously, AWS announced a new chip for training AI models, an Nvidia GPU alternative.

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Amazon touts ‘record-breaking’ sales in kickoff to holiday shopping season

The company said the period of Nov. 17 to Cyber Monday marked its “biggest ever” holiday shopping event compared to the same 11-day stretch last year.

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UK regulators say Adobe’s $20 billion Figma acquisition could harm competition

The Competition and Markets Authority said Adobe’s proposed acquisition of Figma could harm the U.K.’s digital design sector.

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Activist fund Anson takes Twilio stake, urges board to sell

Activist investor Anson Funds is pushing for a sale or business divestiture at Twilio after building a stake in the enterprise software company.

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