Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit
Some governments moved to confirm chip supply commitments, while others are monitoring the impact on local projects or addressing ongoing investigations.
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Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang
The petition had attracted more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon.
Anthropic CEO Amodei admits "there's a huge uncertainty in what's going to happen next year" days before a record IPO
Days before what could be the largest IPO in history, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called buying compute 'the deepest business dilemma' his company faces. Anthropic's commitments now total nearly $901 billion, and it's still far from clear whether future revenue will justify those costs. The planned IPO is largely meant to serve as a financial buffer against that uncertainty.
Jensen Huang and the decline of the visionary showman founder CEO
On January 6th, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his rockstar moment at last.
Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say
Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.
Former OpenAI researcher says he found Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints hidden inside six Chinese AI models
Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says he has produced the first technical evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group are using Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs despite US export controls. His forensic method reads characteristic chip signatures directly from published model weights. He estimates the hardware behind the five training runs cost more than half a billion dollars.
Jensen Huang is out. What did China want from him?
Today, we’re talking about the Jensen Huang scandal at Nvidia, which is developing so quickly that we had to do an emergency update of this intro minutes before publishing this episode.
The Jensen Huang scandal is hardly over
I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang's second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn't he be? He's placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI industry and famously had no succession plan at Nvidia. In fact, he's the only CEO Nvidia has ever had. L'état c'est moi.
Read Nvidia’s internal emails about the ‘extraordinarily difficult period’ amid CEO shakeup
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.
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia — who is Colette Kress, his interim replacement?
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.
Grok-built apps exposed patient data, plaintext passwords, and SpaceXSI's own sales pipeline
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.
Anthropic says AI is eroding Nvidia's CUDA lead, cutting an AMD chip switch from months to three days
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.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline
The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
NVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Contribution and New AI Infrastructure
Kubernetes, the open source system that manages how applications run across thousands of AI factories, has become the foundation for AI, and the demands on it are only growing. To help meet them, NVIDIA is deepening its commitment to open source at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the flagship conference for the Kubernetes and cloud-native communities.
Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchers
Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down.