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November 15, 2026, 7:02 AM

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Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider:
A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO tops 100K signatures, including Elon Musk, Tim Sweeney, and Garry Tan; organizers say 5K+ Nvidia staff signed  —  Some people aren't ready to let former CEO Jensen Huang go.  —  A petition to reinstate Huang as Nvidia's CEO has some 97,000 signatures …
Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
Letter: Altimeter's Brad Gerstner and Atreides's Gavin Baker urge Nvidia's board to consider “the potential return of Jensen Huang”; they own $2.13B in Nvidia  —  Two major Nvidia shareholders are calling on the board of directors to weigh all options for the company's future leadership …
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI:
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Corbin Bolies / Variety:
Inside the first AI Music Awards in Los Angeles, featuring AI announcers, lip-syncing, and human stand-ins, as the ceremony was mired in technical issues  —  I knew things were a little off when the first thing I heard on my walk to the AI Music Awards was “the winner...” followed by the sweet voice of Kelly Clarkson.
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC plans to set up a new $500M fund to invest in chip startups, suppliers, and other upstream partners, saying “we also want to support the future's Nvidia”  —  TOKYO — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to use a new $500 million venture fund to support promising chip startups …
Bloomberg:
Source: Applied Digital has asked tenants like Oracle and Meta for billions in guarantees since at least last year to secure power before finalizing leases  —  Tech giants chasing the infinite promise of AI are finding themselves increasingly on the hook for something far earthier — the electrical grid.
Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal:
Sean Duffy blames Friday's FAA outage on copper-to-fiber wiring work at a remote facility, saying contractor L3Harris may have installed a “faulty router”  —  Work at a single remote location caused instability that led authorities to order nationwide groundstop; airlines continue to cancel flights as they rush to reset
Alex Fitzpatrick / Axios:
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