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Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump
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12 Nov 2026
This Congressional investigation into Nvidia's China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.
Muse can now place calls to U.S. businesses — if you pay
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12 Nov 2026
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses — but it's not free.
The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline
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12 Nov 2026
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
Nebius tests the neocloud playbook with $40 billion in planned spending
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12 Nov 2026
Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.
Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports
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12 Nov 2026
Reuters is withholding the name of the new employee linked to Huang, but says she is an employee of Nvidia.
Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions
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12 Nov 2026
Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.
Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands
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12 Nov 2026
Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.
Microsoft’s Outlook email hit by new outage
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12 Nov 2026
Microsoft hasn't yet given a cause for the outage, which is affecting Outlook email users.
Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question
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12 Nov 2026
Jensen Huang’s resignation raises questions about Nvidia’s commitment to open-source AI, including its Hugging Face acquisition, open-weight models, and advocacy against restrictions, as the
Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open-source AI after Jensen Huang’s exit
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12 Nov 2026
Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open-source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12.9B acquisition.
United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, citing cybersecurity risks
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12 Nov 2026
The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.
SoftBank’s billion-dollar loss may have put a cap on AI’s natural gas ambitions
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12 Nov 2026
SoftBank lost over $3 billion pre-ordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here's what the loss means to power markets.
Phota Labs uses AI to turn everyday photos into professional-looking shots
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12 Nov 2026
Rather than giving consumers yet another photo-editing tool, Phota Labs aims to use advances in AI to automate the editing process so it’s easier for anyone to turn everyday moments into better
Jensen Huang agrees to testify before Congress
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12 Nov 2026
Huang, who was ousted as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, agreed to testify Wednesday after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.
Five ways Jensen Huang’s ouster from Nvidia could damage the AI industry
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12 Nov 2026
Nvidia's ousted CEO Jensen Huang's downfall isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire sex scandal. He was using his influence to push the AI industry in some very specific ways.
Trump floats Apple chairman Tim Cook as Jensen Huang’s successor
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12 Nov 2026
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump says only one man can take Jensen Huang's place as head of Nvidia: Tim Cook.
Whoop just launched a social network
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12 Nov 2026
Whoop is launching a social network that lets members share their sleep, recovery and workout data, but the bigger bet is on becoming more of a personal health brand, with CEO Will Ahmed hinting at
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia — who is Colette Kress, his interim replacement?
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12 Nov 2026
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over for as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.
Norwest pushes deeper into AI with new $4B fund
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12 Nov 2026
This is the investment firm's largest fund to date.
Cyberattack on Fireworks AI allowed hackers to access Notion customers’ chat transcripts
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12 Nov 2026
This is Fireworks' second data breach in as many months.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang resigns, chipmaker names CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO
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12 Nov 2026
Nvidia gets a new chief executive, days after former CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a romantic affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
Nine Korean startups vie for a spot in Disrupt 2027’s Startup Battlefield 200 competition
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12 Nov 2026
The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine are looking to enter the US.
Who could replace Jensen Huang? A highly unscientific list of possible successors
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12 Nov 2026
Nvidia has no succession plan and a CEO in hot water, so we’ve drafted a shortlist.
Nvidia’s stock drops as board reportedly preps to oust CEO Jensen Huang
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11 Nov 2026
As soon as Wednesday evening, Nvidia's board could decide to remove its founder and CEO of 33 years.
Jensen Huang accused of having another affair — with an Nvidia exec
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11 Nov 2026
Jensen Huang, who has come under fire for admitting to an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese intelligence agent, has been accused of having a separate affair with an Nvidia subordinate.
Why the data center you dread might never even be built
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11 Nov 2026
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play,
Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure
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11 Nov 2026
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
Olaf Sakkers is betting he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze
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11 Nov 2026
Entering into the world of venture capital has never been easy, especially as a first-time fund manager. But it's especially daunting right now. Olaf Sakkers has spent the past five years proving
CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth
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11 Nov 2026
CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s
With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips
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11 Nov 2026
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
Congress to call Jensen Huang in to answer for alleged Chinese spy affair
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11 Nov 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until the end of the day Wednesday to answer a call from House Republicans for a closed-door briefing on his affair with alleged Chinese spy.
Is Jensen Huang’s bad behavior more commonplace than it seems?
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11 Nov 2026
“There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said.
OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time
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11 Nov 2026
Sales of $10B represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.
Siri co-founder backs Helix for its voice ID tech
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11 Nov 2026
Helix said that its voice ID tech can run on an iPhone 13
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
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11 Nov 2026
At 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses
Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads
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11 Nov 2026
Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.
Nvidia’s crisis has corporate governance experts reaching for the popcorn
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11 Nov 2026
The governance experts we talked to say nobody has seen anything like what's unfolding right now.
X launches its own clipping feature to spur influencer engagement
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11 Nov 2026
X is jumping into clipping, the popular practice of cutting long videos into short, shareable clips that can go viral.
OpenAI Acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder
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10 Nov 2026
OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry.
OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect
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10 Nov 2026
New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines.
Proximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development
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10 Nov 2026
Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof raises $27.5M for new fund targeting AI in pharma
X-energy gets green light to build its first small modular nuclear reactors
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10 Nov 2026
X-energy received a construction permit from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build four reactors in Texas.
All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPO
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10 Nov 2026
Each of the seven co-founders plans to sell exactly the same number of shares in the IPO, which would bring each of them about $250 million in cash at the midpoint of the price range while leaving
Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M
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10 Nov 2026
The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”
PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery
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10 Nov 2026
PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades.
OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google
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10 Nov 2026
OpenAI is looking to make ChatGPT a more robust consumer discovery engine, and a host of new features seek to empower businesses to help it do that.
Pixel Tag, Google’s $30 Android-ready answer to Apple’s AirTag, is now available
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10 Nov 2026
Google's Pixel Tag lets you track lost items with your Android device, similar to Apple's AirTag.
Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks
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10 Nov 2026
As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such