Sources: Saudi Arabia bought 3,000+ Nvidia H100 GPUs and the UAE purchased thousands of Nvidia GPUs; Nvidia expects to ship ~550K H100 GPUs globally in 2023
it's the $40,000 chip that has sparked a frenzied spending spree Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Saudi Arabia and UAE invest in thousands of Nvidia chips, aiming to become global AI powerhouses Alex Heath / ...
As Saudi Arabia spends $38B to become the “ultimate global hub” for gaming and esports by 2030, critics point to its anti-LGBTQ laws and question its intentions
Nick El Hajj / Associated Press : Bluesky: @paul.bsky.social . Twitter: @staniselsborg and @staniselsborg Bluesky: @paul.bsky.social : KSA is literally spending money on everything to see what sticks...
Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker
why didn't Apple warn us? Wall Street Journal : New Spyware Firm Said to Have Helped Hack iPhones Around the Globe Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity : New Zero-Click iOS Exploit Deploys Israeli Spyware Ed...
DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015
but spying on private citizens by gaining access to their social media account information, if proven true, is illegal and completely unacceptable. https://twitter.com/... Molly McKew / @mollymckew : ...
Sources: Saudis groomed a Twitter employee to spy on accounts of dissidents; he was investigated and fired in Dec. 2015 after Western intelligence warnings
Some years ago an investor I met at a TechCrunch … Jordyn Holman / Bloomberg : McKinsey Is ‘Horrified’ That Saudi Arabia Report May Have Been Misused CNET : Twitter employee may have spied on users fo...