Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s confession that he had an affair (and reports of another one with a direct report) that led the board to oust him on Thursday isn’t just your run-of-the-mill salacious billionaire CEO sex scandal.
In this case, one of his lovers is suspected by the U.S. government of being a spy for China. She’s also an executive of a Singapore-based neocloud that is…
The Nvidia Board of Directors announced on Thursday morning that the company’s co-founder and CEO of 33 years, Jensen Huang, has resigned as president, CEO, and member of the board, effective immediately.
This is a shocking twist for one of the most valuable companies…
Nine Korean startups vie for a spot in Disrupt 2027’s Startup Battlefield 200 competition
November 13, 2026
TechCrunch’s yearly Startup Battlefield 200 competition sees hundreds of companies from across the world trying every year to get a chance to pitch in front of VCs and the international tech community at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
This week, nine early-stage…
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
November 12, 2026
Databricks on Wednesday unveiled an updated version of its AI agent Genie, which can now perform multistep jobs that take extended work to finish. It does this through an ontology that Databricks built to give Genie the context it needs from the information that customers store on the Databricks platform.
Corporate leaders can now assign the agent a wide range of tasks, and it will complete them…
Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads
November 12, 2026
AI agents are all the rage, but they’re not quite as capable as their purveyors would have you believe.
Efforts to benchmark agents doing complex tasks show that they aren’t typically reliable enough to function without close supervision. LiveBench 2.0 shows…
Nvidia’s stock sank 5.47% on Tuesday, following a 4% drop on Monday, a loss of about 9.5% in two days, even though there wasn’t much news out of the company. CEO Jensen Huang has reportedly been trying to conduct business as usual after admitting to an…
After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era
November 11, 2026
Almost a decade after Cyanogen shut down its Android operating-system business following a years-long, unsuccessful effort to loosen Google’s dominance, its co-founder, Kirt McMaster, is now targeting Microsoft’s Windows with a new operating system designed for people who rely heavily on artificial intelligence in their everyday work.
McMaster’s company, Kora Systems, on Tuesday…
Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot
November 11, 2026
Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, is launching its own robotics division, with an eye toward automating security at both the home and the office. The company announced Ring Robotics on Tuesday, debuting two new devices that are sure to stir more than a little bit…
Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns
November 11, 2026
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The very qualities that make open AI platforms valuable, like open doors and rich data, might also make them vulnerable to more hacks, Irene Solaiman, chief policy officer and SVP of strategy at Hugging Face, said on a recent episode of the Equity…
Online publishing platform Medium on Monday launched a new app, called TK, which aims to bring AI technology deeper into the writing process. The idea behind TK is to make it easier to turn ideas into written words by incorporating an AI assistant into the editor itself, allowing users to ask for help by typing “@TK” followed by their request or prompt.
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