[10/29 15:00 UTC] US intelligence concluded a Chinese executive close to Nvidia's Jensen Huan…

AI News Flash for October 29, 2026 at 15:00 UTC. Topics: 1. US intelligence concluded a Chinese executive close to Nvidia's Jensen Huang was an asset for Beijing, and Trump took no action, NYT reports https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/policy/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-may-have-been-the-target-of-a-spy-plot-through-chinese-intelligence-asset-report-claims-exec-from-firm-under-investigation-for-smuggling-banned-ai-chips-to-china-accused-of-being-a-spy-was-also-feeding-information-to-beijing https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-seen-as-target-of-china-spy-plot-trump-briefed-but-took-no-action-report/articleshow/135314838.cms 2. France's Mistral releases the open weights of its one-trillion-parameter Large 4, and Orange Cyberdefense signs on https://fortune.com/2026/10/29/mistral-releases-new-model-large-4-and-claims-top-open-model-for-agentic-coding-and-cyber-defense/ https://www.aol.com/articles/orange-unit-signs-deal-mistrals-143202000.html 3. Microsoft launches its first U.S. bond sale since 2017, seeking at least 25 billion dollars as AI spending climbs https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/microsoft-looks-raise-least-25-120029209.html https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-25-billion-bond-sale-first-since-2017 4. China's Iluvatar CoreX shows its Tiangai 300 GPU running live and claims it matches Nvidia's H200 https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3372598/ai-chipmaker-iluvatar-corex-says-new-gpu-matches-nvidias-h200-home-grown-push-accelerates https://pandaily.com/iluvatar-corex-tiangai-300-gpu-first-live-demo-1-05x-h200-claim-afd-heterogeneous-inference 5. Pew finds Americans are open to AI in healthcare paperwork, but want humans making the final calls https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2026/10/29/americans-are-open-to-ai-in-healthcare-but-want-humans-making-final-calls/