Thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable hardware, find 40,000 pounds of sand instead
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Facepalm: If you were a thief with a penchant for stealing vehicles, a couple of trailers emblazoned with Nvidia logos are going to be tempting targets. Sadly for the criminals who did steal these two units, they never contained hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of GPUs; each one was filled with 20,000 pounds of sand.
The thieves' mistake was that the trailers had more than just Nvidia's logo on them: they also bore the name PlusAI, an autonomous truck startup that is working with Nvidia on its self-driving technology and AI software.
Rather than hauling around very expensive Nvidia equipment, PlusAI simulates how the cargo loads react to road conditions by packing its semi-trailers with sand. A lot of sand.
"PlusAI uses simulated loads in its trailers to assist with research and...
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