Nvidia's board opens an inquiry into Jensen Huang; Suno sued again

Nvidia's board said on Sunday that a committee of independent directors, working with outside counsel, will investigate reporting that chief executive Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. The same day, Nvidia published an email Huang sent to employees admitting he was unfaithful to his wife and saying he had "fallen short" of his responsibility to the company. The email does not name the woman, but TechCrunch and The Verge identify her as Alice Huang, the Megaspeed executive whom a memo based on US intelligence describes as recruited by China's Ministry of State Security. The board says it has "no reason to believe" national security or company secrets were compromised, and that it has confidence in Huang. No one has been charged, and China's embassy has called the allegations smears. Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who studies chief executives, called Huang's chances of keeping his job roughly even.

Two more lawsuits landed against the AI music company Suno. A group of rights holders for Elvis Presley's music claims Suno violates Tennessee's ELVIS Act, a 2024 law that makes it illegal to clone a singer's voice with AI, and a publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records filed a separate suit over music and lyrics that mimic his work. They build on a September suit by the songwriter Jason Isbell and others that targeted imitation rather than copyright, but the Presley complaint goes further, and also claims direct copyright infringement. Suno says it blocks prompts naming specific artists and songs and screens uploaded audio and lyrics. The company is already fighting Sony and Universal, which sued again in September over its v6 model.

Nvidia, the Korean AI chip startup Rebellions and SK Telecom announced on Sunday that Rebellions will use NVLink Fusion, Nvidia's interconnect for linking other companies' custom chips into its rack-scale systems, to connect its Rebel R200 inference processors. SK Telecom plans to deploy the resulting systems in its AI data center to run its own models and public services, including Korea's "AI for All" project, with backing from Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT. The deal lets a national chip program build on Nvidia's hardware rather than compete with it, which is the bet behind NVLink Fusion.