Nvidia's ousted CEO Jensen Huang's downfall isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire sex scandal. He was using his influence to push the AI industry in some very specific ways.
Huang, who was ousted as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, agreed to testify Wednesday after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.
SoftBank lost over $3 billion preordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here's what the loss means to power markets.
The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition.
Jensen Huang’s resignation raises questions about Nvidia’s commitment to open source AI, including its Hugging Face acquisition, open-weight models, and advocacy against restrictions, as the company navigates a leadership transition.
Jensen Huang resigned as CEO of Nvidia this morning, a company he co-founded in 1993. The decision came following the company's board opening an investigation into multiple extramarital affairs Huang had with a direct report and an alleged Chinese spy.
This is Fireworks' second data breach in as many months.
This is the investment firm's largest fund to date.
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump says only one man can take Jensen Huang's place as head of Nvidia: Tim Cook.
Jensen Huang resigned as CEO, president, and board member of Nvidia effective immediately, according to a statement on November 12, 2026.
Nvidia's board announced that Jensen Huang - its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO - has resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang.
The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine are looking to enter the US.
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
Australia's government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, wants to enshrine mandatory safety rules for frontier AI companies in law for the first time. A new regulator would enforce independent model audits and impose steep penalties for violations. With this move, Canberra is deliberately prioritizing domestic regulation before entering international talks.
OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children’s safety. The work supports shared tools to measure risks and opportunities for young people.
At AI Engineer Code Summit, lead Jev creator Diogo Almeida called on developers to automate everything. Also, Glean and others showed how they’re using Jev.
Nvidia has no succession plan and a CEO in hot water, so we’ve drafted a shortlist.
As soon as Wednesday evening, Nvidia's board could decide to remove its founder and CEO of 33 years.
The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
According to the Ramp AI Index, US corporate AI spending rose just 1.65 percent in October 2026. One percent of companies still drive 80 percent of revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. Customer support is emerging as a new growth driver, but it may bring lower margins than the coding business that has fueled spending so far.
AWS re:Invent 2026 includes more than 140 AI/ML track sessions. This attendee's guide helps you find the breakouts, chalk talks, workshops, and builders' sessions that fit your role and goals, spanning AI chips, models and inference, agents, agent trust, and sustainability, so you can build a smarter re:Invent schedule.
aws-emulator Finally, an official emulator from AWS to run tests against a local clone of their many different services without having to provision a paid API key to do so. It's written in Rust by a huge swarm of agents - 29,684 commits in the first three weeks of the project.
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings.
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place.
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal reports, in line with observations from other businesses like Doordash.
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place.
Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Independent Games Festival judges.
Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.
Helsing has unveiled Clarity, an AI platform that uses agents to distill sensor data into target recommendations for weapons systems, all under human oversight and European control. But experience from the Iran war, Gaza, and a near-miss involving China shows that the speed of automation and data fusion create risks that are hard to contain.
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on "Approach to compute" with co-founder Tom Brown is particularly interesting, describing how Anthropic train and serve Claude across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and AMD GPUs.
Sales of $10 billion represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.
“There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said.
OpenAI grew its quarterly revenue 50 percent to $10 billion but is still burning more cash than it brings in. Adjusted operating losses climbed to $10.9 billion, while rival Anthropic operates far more efficiently on $17 billion in revenue. To close the gap, OpenAI is now fueling a price war for enterprise customers.
Security firm Claroc found more than 35,000 Grok-built apps open to anyone without login, including patient data and confidential SpaceXSI documents. The cause: "Anyone with the link" was preselected as the default access setting. SpaceXSI took only its own 24 employee apps offline. The rest remain accessible.
US data brokers like Mercor, Surge AI, and AfterQuery are selling roughly half a billion dollars' worth of AI training data to Chinese labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. That includes the same RL environments previously built for OpenAI or Anthropic. At least nine firms are involved, and export controls barely apply.
Anthropic claims it used AI itself to breach Nvidia's CUDA moat. The company's in-house model Mythos reportedly ported Claude to AMD GPUs in just three days, with almost no human intervention. Anthropic now runs Claude on four chip families and aims to cut costs and reduce vendor dependencies.