Thieves Mistake Sand-filled Trucks for Nvidia Chip Haul
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Thieves in California targeted trucks bearing Nvidia logos, expecting to find valuable computing equipment or graphics cards. Instead, they discovered 20 tons of sand used for testing autonomous driving systems. The trucks belonged to PlusAI, which uses the sand as artificial mass for its autonomous vehicle tests.
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