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Nvidia Newsroom:
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, president, and board member; CFO Colette Kress will be interim CEO, as the board considers candidates; NVDA drops 10%+  —  - Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Appointed Interim CEO  — Harvey C. Jones Appointed First-Ever Chair of the Board
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New York Times:
Sources: Jensen Huang had an extramarital relationship with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell, who reports to him; the affair was discussed inside Nvidia  —  Mr. Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, is already facing scrutiny over an affair with a Chinese businesswoman who U.S. intelligence determined was a Chinese spy.
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Semafor:
Sources: some Nvidia board members favor naming CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO; a source says Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji is under consideration  —  THE SCOOP  —  Some members of Nvidia's board favor appointing Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO …
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Alice Huang's business partner and husband Kang Wei spoke openly of her Jensen Huang relationship; Wei, who knew Jensen for a decade, introduced them  —  Kang Wei appeared to accept that his wife Alice Huang was in a romantic relationship and spoke openly of her closeness to the Nvidia chief
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Sources: Nvidia employees, known for their fierce loyalty to Jensen Huang, have been left stunned and some are angry at the news of his extramarital affairs
Reuters:
Sources: Chinese AI companies rush to rent Nvidia cloud capacity overseas amid fears of tighter US export control enforcement after the Jensen Huang spy scandal  —  Chinese artificial intelligence companies are trying to rent Nvidia-powered computing capacity at data centres outside China …
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia stopped reporting Singapore revenue after its Q2 2025 ended on July 27, when it accounted for 22% of its revenue, after placing Megaspeed on a block list  —  Last year, just as scrutiny of Megaspeed was rising, Nvidia stopped reporting Singapore revenue
Axios:
Sources: Howard Lutnick has stalled curbs on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia chips to China; Trump approved curbs for a third time in 2026 on November 5  —  President Trump on Thursday authorized a crack down on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China …
Leo Schwartz / The Information:
Sources: the US Commerce Department is finalizing a semiconductor control update that would prevent remote access and chip smuggling into China via data centers
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: even before Jensen Huang's Alice Huang affair became public, some Trump officials questioned Jensen's aggressive lobbying for more chip sales to China
Axios:
Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Department not adding Megaspeed to its entity list; the agency denies it occurred
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google launches Tabletop, an experimental AI platform to build customizable, collaborative personal planning and coordination hubs, in beta via a waitlist  —  Tabletop provides customizable, collaborative spaces for all your personal planning needs.
Financial Times:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Starshield faced “systematic speed restrictions” for several days; Ukrainian officials believe it is to pressure Kyiv amid peace talks  —  Army struggles to intercept Russian jet-powered drones, just as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Vladimir Putin
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates 200+ services locally, saying AI agents wrote it and its team hasn't written or reviewed any of its code  —  AWS says its engineers didn't write or review a single line of code in its newest developer tool, and the company is touting that as a selling point.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Russian pranksters tricked three OpenAI natsec and policy executives into a video meeting by posing as Ukrainian officials; OpenAI says it “acted internally”  —  A Russian internet comedy duo tricked three of OpenAI's highest ranking military and national security staff into a candid conversation about arming Ukraine.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Apple HomeView review: fast home controls, helpful Siri AI, gorgeous customizable faces, great sound for its size, but Siri can be slow and pricey wall mount  —  The HomeView nails everything I want from a smart display.  It's superb at controlling my smart home; it's an excellent hands …
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Australian quantum software startup Q-Ctrl, which builds sensors that help ships and aircraft navigate when GPS is unavailable, raised $290M at a $1B+ valuation  —  Salesforce Ventures led a $290 million round in Q-Ctrl that values the Australian quantum software company at more than $1 billion.
More: Quartz and Axios
Google:
Google launches Gemini Decisions API, powered by its new Gemini Decision 1 model, to return predefined answers with confidence scores, at $0.10/1M input tokens  —  Introducing the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our new Gemini Decision 1 model.  Evaluate up to 1,000 yes/no, choice …
Ruxandra Teslo / Ruxandra's Substack:
A look at the AI community's “handoverism” ideas, which envision humanity entrusting “the direction of its future to AI”, and what it may look like in practice  —  Even the optimistic visions of a post-AGI future leave little room for human self-determination
Bloomberg:
Sources: Megaspeed founder Alice Huang has returned to China; a source says she is currently living in Beijing with the knowledge of security officials  —  The suspected Chinese spy at the center of a scandal that threatens to take down Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang …

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