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TechCrunch’s timeline runs from October 2025 export investigations into Megaspeed to this week’s resignation. Laid end to end, it shows intelligence warnings, confident company denials and a fast collapse, and points to a deeper failure of export controls and attention.
The Verge’s smart home reviewer spent a week with Apple’s first smart display, in tabletop and wall-mounted forms. The hardware isn’t the hard part anymore. The question is whether an AI-upgraded Siri can make a shared kitchen screen useful for everyone in the house.
Nvidia’s weekly cloud gaming slate adds Dawn of War IV after its December 3 Steam launch, plus Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen and 10 more games. The bigger story is DLSS 5: War Thunder and Where Winds Meet adopt it, and Nvidia claims a tenfold speedup since March.
Nvidia’s board accepted Jensen Huang’s resignation after two reported relationships surfaced in a week. Colette Kress is interim CEO, and former Synopsys chief Harvey C. Jones becomes the company’s first-ever chair.
TechCrunch’s playful list named Lisa Su, Eric Schmidt, Lip-Bu Tan, Bret Taylor, Ian Buck, Andrew Bell and Lori Huang hours before Huang resigned. As a forecast it’s a parlor game; as a map of what Nvidia needs, it points to protecting the CUDA ecosystem.
In an OpenAI-published interview, the Australian law firm’s chief executive describes moving from chatbot use to agentic workflows on ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Work and Codex, with 87% of enabled users active and no mandates. The template is sound; the junior-training question is unresolved.
At the Paris Peace Forum, OpenAI signed a children’s AI safety charter and pledged $2 million to shared measurement tools. The sum is modest. The commitment that researchers control their conclusions, and negative results get published, is what to hold it to.
Shares dropped about 8% after the Wall Street Journal reported Nvidia’s board was meeting on whether to oust Jensen Huang, on top of an 11% five-day slide. Bloomberg reported an outside search firm was hunting replacements. The board accepted his resignation overnight.
The New York Times, citing five employees, reported Huang had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s VP of healthcare and his direct report. Unlike the murky spy story, a CEO dating a subordinate is a clear governance problem, and within hours the board was reportedly preparing to oust him.
AlphaGenome 2 moves DNA modeling from tissue averages to individual cell types, which is where many disease variants actually do their damage, but access stays hosted and non-commercial for now.
WIRED’s Will Knight used GPT-6 Sol, the Hermes agent harness, Isaac Sim and a DGX Spark to teach a virtual Microduck to walk and find his Bengal cat in a few hours. Behind the anecdote is real lab work, and a warning that “vibe robotics” could fail physically.
Bloomberg reports Congress is preparing to subpoena Nvidia’s CEO after he didn’t agree to a closed-door briefing about Megaspeed executive Alice Huang. Moolenaar set an end-of-day deadline on Fox Business, and Brian Mast said his committee is preparing one.