Taipei, Taiwan – China has launched an antitrust investigation into chip giant Nvidia in what appears to be Beijing's latest act of retaliation against Washington's sanctions on Chinese tech companies. Chinese state media said on Monday that the California-based chipmaker was being investigated by the State Administration for Market Regulation for potentially violating China's antimonopoly laws. Regulators will also review the company's 6.9bn acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, an Israeli-American supplier specialising in computer networking products, state media reports said, without providing further details. Chinese regulators approved the deal in 2020 with several restrictive conditions, including a provision that Nvidia would not discriminate against Chinese suppliers. Nvidia, which designs advanced chips used to power artificial intelligence (AI), is one of the world's most valuable companies, with a market capitalisation of more than 3.4 trillion.

Ever since ChatGPT captured our imaginations, people have been contemplating its pending impact on the business world. This week these thoughts became a reality, with Google and Microsoft embedding artificial reality (AI) features into their business productivity suites. Microsoft took another major step by releasing AI Copilot for Power Apps, Microsoft's low-code platform. Power Apps can connect far and beyond the Microsoft ecosystem, with almost 1,000 built-in connectors to everything from Salesforce to on-prem and Amazon Web Services. With one swift move, AI has been integrated into the day-to-day workflows of the world's largest organizations. This is an amazing achievement, and other low-code/no-code platforms will surely try to catch up quickly.

We're about halfway through season 2 of Mr. Robot, and we're starting to see some major story lines either resolve or get even more complicated. So let's dive right in to the latest episode and review security concepts that came up. This episode was much more plot-heavy than tech-heavy, so this episode review will be shorter than our previous ones. Rather early on in the episode, we see tech-savvy FBI agent Dom very quickly determine that ECorp has just been hacked, likely by Angela. It was a matter of seconds: she saw the ECorp employee panicking over archives suddenly showing as gone or corrupted, and she's ten steps ahead of it.