一 | The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida announced Thursday that it charged 17 employees of the Broward County Sheriff's Office with wire fraud after they allegedly tried to defraud the government in pandemic relief loans.The defendants, who were charged in separate cases, allegedly received $495,171 in assistance from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and used the proceeds "to unjustly enrich themselves.""No matter the amount, we will not allow limited federal tax dollars, which were intended to provide a lifeline to small businesses as they struggled to stay afloat during the economically devastating pandemic lockdown, to be swindled by those who were employed in a position of trust and cast aside their duty to uphold and abide by the law," Markenzy Lapointe, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said in a statement.The U.S. Attorney's Office charged the defendants in separate indictments that were issued between September 14 and Oct. 11. Their charges include wire fraud, which comes with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if convicted, the U.S.Attorney's Office said.In several of the indictments, the defendants allegedly lied about their income in the application for the assistance, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony said in a statement that his office received a tip that employees were participating "in fraudulent schemes to defraud the federal government," and immediately launched an internal investigation."BSO Public Corruption Unit detectives determined more than 100 employees had submitted applications for the PPP loans. Only the employees who did not obtain the loans legally were subject to criminal investigation," Tony said in a statement.The sheriff told reporters that all of the charged employees were in the process of being terminated.“We still have to follow proper protocols and since these are protected members with union rights and other different statutory obligations from the investigation practices that we have to follow, but I’m not going to sugarcoat or dance around this — at the end of the day, they will be gone," Tony told reporters at a news conference.Lapointe said there was no "conspiratorial component" among the 17 charged.Attorney information for the defendants, who the U.S. Attorney's Office said were all employed by the sheriff's office at the time of their alleged defrauding schemes, was not immediately available.Matt Cowart, president of IUPA Local 6020, the union representing BSO law enforcement deputies, said in a statement to ABC affiliate WPLG that the union was not "privy to all of the investigative facts.""Regardless, employees and all citizens are entitled to and shall receive due process through the court system. The Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) is a large agency and contains approximately 5,500 employees," he said in a statement.。
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三 | 美国媒体报道，NVIDIA要跟AI初创公司Poolside达成一项合作协议，会以120亿美元的估值向公司投资10亿美元，同时花费60亿美元购买该公司的技术产权及部分研发人员。这个合作模式跟NVIDIA去年底与LPU芯片公司Groq的合作相似，不是直接收购这家公司，而是重金获得技术授权及人才，公司还会继续独立运营。Poolside公司大约100多名员工将会加入NVIDIA公司，参与的则是NVIDIA自己开发与的大模型Nemotron，旨在帮助该系列大模型成为全球最强。
四 | 众所周知，NVIDIA是强烈支持开源大模型的，之前也对中国的DeepSeek、Kimi等开源大模型表示赞许，该公司自己的Nemotron大模型也是开源开放的，只不过性能不算出众，达不到DS V4、Kimi K3等中国开源大模型的水平。NVIDIA作为全球最大的AI GPU供应商，而且利润丰厚，在资金及算力资源上优势独特，现在又招揽了一堆人才，Nemotron未来的性能跻身一线是很有希望的。
五 | NVIDIA自己下场开发最强的AI大模型，对OpenAI、Anthropic等VIP客户来说不是好事，但老黄这也是以彼之道还施彼身罢了。因为OpenAI、Anthropic两家公司也在大笔购买NVIDIA GPU之外的AI算力，包括谷歌及亚马逊，并且还在开发自己的AI芯片，他们不想依赖NVIDIA的芯片，NVIDIA自然也不能把大模型的希望都放在他们身上。对NVIDIA来说，自己开发最强的开源AI还有别的好处，美国迟早要对中国的开源AI下黑手的，NVIDIA的大模型未来有机会抢这部分市场，他们是不希望DeepSeek、Qwen、Kimi、GLM等中国开源大模型成为美国公司使用的主要大模型。
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