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US Supreme Court bails on NVIDIA case, allowing a shareholder lawsuit to proceed

The one-sentence decision essentially says the court never should have taken the case. In the November arguments, justices across the ideological spectrum sounded fed up with the case’s technical details.

The US Supreme Court dismissed an NVIDIA case it previously agreed to hear as “improvidently granted.” In other words: “Oops, we never should’ve taken this one.” The decision lets most of the lawsuit, brought by shareholders against the chip maker, proceed. An investment firm and a pension fund brought the case against NVIDIA, claiming the company misled investors about its reliance on the crypto-mining industry. As AI’s thorny and ultra-high-stakes legal and ethical questions loom, we can take comfort in the fact that the highest court in the world’s most powerful nation sounds… utterly uninterested in diving into Big Tech’s often head-spinning technical details.

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