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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, president, and board member; CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO as the board considers candidates; NVDA drops 4.34%  —  - 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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Hayden Field / The Verge:
Nvidia appoints ex-Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever board chair; the board's Jensen Huang exit press release does not include a quote from Huang
Reuters:
Sources: Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee; revelations about two other extramarital affairs led to his resignation  —  Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar with the matter, Reuters has learned.
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
Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google:
Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, calling it a major upgrade over Gemini 3.8 Flash, at $1.50/1M input and $7.50/1M output tokens across its 1M context window  —  Hydrogen brings cutting-edge intelligence to everyone.  —  SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google
@artificialanlys:
Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Gemini 4 Hydrogen nearly ties Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, at a third of Sonnet's cost but ~2.5x that of Sol
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
A profile of interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress, who joined in 2013 after working at Cisco and Microsoft; as CFO, Kress criticized US export controls on China  —  Ms. Kress, the company's chief financial officer, joined Nvidia in 2013.  —  Colette Kress, a longtime Nvidia executive …
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Users report being unable to access Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services; Microsoft says many of its servers became unexpectedly unavailable  —  Outlook and Teams are among the platforms impacted by “elevated load” issues.  —  Microsoft is experiencing an outage for several of its services this afternoon.
Will DePue / Unemployment Labs:
Analysis of open weights: six models from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax, and Ant Group released since April carry fingerprints of export-controlled Blackwell GPUs  —  Executive Summary  —  Our forensic analysis of publicly released AI models finds evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI …
Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Singapore says it held Alice Huang's passport from June 2025 to February 2026 and released her with a “stern warning” after the US provided very little help
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
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Google and Samsung open preorders for their Android XR “Intelligent Eyewear” smart glasses, for $395+ for Warby Parker's frames and $449+ for Gentle Monster's  —  The “Intelligent Eyewear” is a collaboration between the two tech companies, with Samsung providing its hardware expertise …
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
US officials: multiple US DOJ investigations threaten to sweep up Nvidia, including one focused on antitrust grounds and two focused on Megaspeed and Supermicro  —  Multiple US Justice Department probes threaten to sweep up Nvidia, according to two administration officials …
Reuters:
Sources: senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the Nvidia spy scandal
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
US House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast says Jensen Huang has agreed to testify under oath to Congress before Thanksgiving, likely behind closed doors
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Trump says Tim Cook is the “only one man” to replace Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO, adding “A Legend replaces a Legend!” and Huang “has done a fantastic job”  —  Jensen Huang is out as CEO of NVIDIA after reported love affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a high-ranking executive at the company.
Bloomberg:
A look at potential Nvidia CEO candidates, including CUDA inventor Ian Buck, Arm CEO Rene Haas, and Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji
Semafor:
Source: Nvidia's board is considering Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji as a CEO candidate
Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX and Tesla are progressing in their merger negotiations and could announce a deal as soon as December or early 2027  —  SpaceX and Tesla Inc. are progressing in their merger negotiations, setting the stage for a combination that could redefine the limits of global dealmaking.
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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 …
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
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

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