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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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New York Times:
Sources: President Trump urged Jensen Huang to keep fighting for his job in a Tuesday call; aides say Trump saw the company as essentially too big to fail  —  The president called the Nvidia chief on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of supporting him even as the spy scandal was intensifying.
Bloomberg:
Sources close to Jensen Huang say he has taken a penitent turn, castigated himself as a “piece of shit”, and claims to not care what happens to himself  —  At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted.  After weeks spent denying the allegations …
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.
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  —  Google's new Gemini 4 Hydrogen has Intelligence just below Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, at a third of Sonnet's cost but ~2.5x that of GPT-6.1 Sol @GoogleDeepMind has released their third new model in six weeks. Gemini 4 Hydrogen introduces an xhigh reasoning level and scores 54 on the Artifi...
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.
CNN:
Sources: US officials disagree on whether Alice Huang spied on Jensen Huang for China; some at ODNI and CIA say intelligence collected so far doesn't prove it  —  The US intelligence community is still working to understand the relationship between a Chinese businesswoman who had an affair …
The Information:
Sources: firms tied to Alice Huang recently invested in DeepSeek, to forge closer ties and supply Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which are banned from sale to China
Reuters:
US AG Todd Blanche says the DOJ has not yet reached a conclusion on whether Alice Huang was a Chinese spy and “of course” the FBI is investigating
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
Jasper Goodman / Politico:
Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott asks Jensen Huang and Howard Lutnick to testify at separate hearings in December over the Nvidia saga; Lutnick agrees to appear  —  Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott on Thursday called on fallen Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify …
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
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
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 …
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
Myles Miller / Bloomberg:
The DOJ says it got court authorization to seize or restrain $1.2B of the $2.7B frozen by Tether and Circle after North Korea's $6.3B Binance hack on October 29  —  The Justice Department says it's joined with the two biggest stablecoin issuers in efforts to secure almost half the money stolen …
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 …
Anirban Sen / Reuters:
Kalshi ends the advisory contract it signed with Donald Trump Jr. in January 2025, after his VC firm 1789 Capital increased its stake in Polymarket  —  Prediction markets startup Kalshi has ended its advisory contract with Donald Trump Jr, after his venture capital firm 1789 Capital increased …
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.
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

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