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Super Micro says co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw has resigned from its board after US prosecutors indicted him on allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/super-micro-co-founder-leaves-board.html
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Super Micro co-founder indicted on Nvidia smuggling charges leaves board
Super Micro said Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, a co-founder, has resigned from the server maker's board after he was indicted in the U.S.

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/879623/openclaw-founder-peter-steinberger-joins-openai

The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others
were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to China,
in violation of US laws barring exports to that country without a license.
Yih-Shyan Liaw, known as Wally;
Ruei-Tsang Chang, known as Steven;
and Ting-Wei Sun, known as Willy,
were charged with conspiring to violate export control laws,
smuggling goods from the US and conspiring to defra…

Co-founder of tech company charged with diverting $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of export laws
The co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two others were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of servers with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to China, in violation of US laws barring exports to that country without a license.

I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
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Pardoned Binance Founder Hobnobs With Trump Sons, Administration Officials at Mar-a-Lago Crypto Fest (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pardoned-binance-founder-hobnobs-with-trump-sons-administration-officials-at-mar-a-lago-crypto-fest-c1f99b64
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p83#a260219p83

Atlassian's founders lost ~$7.2B in wealth in 2026, behind AppLovin's three founders, amid an SaaS rout; TEAM dropped ~48% YTD, the Nasdaq 100's worst performer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/xai-co-founder-yang-leaves-musk-s…

Google co-founder Sergey Brin increases his total contribution to $45M for the Building a Better California Super PAC that opposes a proposed 5% billionaire tax (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/google-serge…

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thinking-mach…

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...

Code Metal, which uses AI to let engineers translate legacy code into modern languages, raised a $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/vibe-coding-startup-code-metal-raises-seri…

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI
The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.