12 November 2026 · NVIDIA

Jensen Huang resigns as NVIDIA CEO; CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim

NVIDIA's board accepted the resignation of founder Jensen Huang as president, chief executive and board member on 11 November, the company filed with the SEC. CFO Colette Kress becomes interim CEO. The exit follows Huang's admission of an extramarital affair with a businesswoman whom US intelligence agencies allege is a Chinese spy, and a board investigation into whether he was targeted by foreign intelligence.

By Mara Masaeva · maramasaeva.comUpdated 13 November 2026

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November 2026
NVIDIA
Jensen Huang resigns as NVIDIA CEO after an affair investigation; CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim.
12 NovemberSource ↗
Politics · Confirmed
What it does
NVIDIA's board accepted the resignation of founder Jensen Huang as president, chief executive and board member on 11 November, the company filed with the SEC. CFO Colette Kress becomes interim CEO.
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NVIDIA, Harvey Jones, Colette Kress
Politics and lawWhat the labs sayDecisions
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AI Futures
AI Futures shortens its forecast: a superhuman AI researcher is likely in 2027, five months ahead of earlier timelines.
10 NovemberSource ↗
Argument · Confirmed
What it does
Forecasting group AI Futures sharply shortened its timelines on 10 November, predicting that a superhuman AI researcher will likely arrive in 2027.
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AI Futures, METR
The debateCalls and protestWhat the labs say
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA open-sources OpenShell to govern AI agents, and Snapshot to restore GPU workloads in seconds.
10 NovemberSource ↗
Capability · Confirmed
What it does
At KubeCon on 10 November, NVIDIA contributed OpenShell, an open-source runtime for securing and governing autonomous agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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NVIDIA
What the labs sayAgent swarmsWild findings
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October 2026
Anthropic
Anthropic puts 5 percent of its shares in a public benefit fund. With earlier pledges, it says about 20 percent goes to the public good.
18 OctoberSource ↗
Argument · Confirmed
What it does
Anthropic announced on 18 October that it is setting up the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. Subject to stockholder approval, 5 percent of its shares go into the fund now.
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Anthropic
What the labs sayDecisions
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Goodfire · Nick Cammarata
Goodfire researcher argues AI is easier to understand than expected
17 OctoberSource ↗
Argument · My reading
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Goodfire's Nick Cammarata argues that units inside AI models often have recognizable jobs. That could help explain how a model produces its answers.
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Goodfire · Nick Cammarata
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Anthropic
Claude traces the numbers behind digital signatures
16 OctoberSource ↗
Capability · Confirmed
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Anthropic says an internal Claude model traced the starting numbers behind digital signatures within half an hour. Their origins had remained unexplained for decades.
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Anthropic
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12 October 2026 · Franse ketens / Ahold Delhaize

French supermarket fridges hit 50 degrees, Albert Heijn and Delhaize go offline

On the night of Sunday to Monday, attackers set the fridges and freezers of hundreds of French supermarkets to defrost. In some stores the temperature reached 50 degrees. Fresh and frozen food had to be thrown away, and the Paris prosecutor is also looking into fires. Over the same days Ahold Delhaize took systems offline. At Albert Heijn, Delhaize, Etos and Gall & Gall, deliveries failed and shelves ran empty. Ahold sees no link with France. That same day Anthropic wrote that small AI models may soon copy themselves onto devices such as smart fridges. None of these reports says a model carried out the attacks.

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12 November 2026 · NVIDIA