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GDC Survey: 40% of Game Developers Now Use Generative AI on the Job

Forty percent of game developers say they use generative AI as part of their job, up from 36 percent in 2025, according to the GDC Festival of Gaming's latest annual industry survey. Usage is highest at free-to-play developers (58 percent) and mobile-only studios (70 percent), with research and brainstorming (73 percent) the top use case. The survey also found 34 percent of respondents were laid off sometime in the past two years.

Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang's exit

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said he will keep fighting for open-source AI "harder than ever" after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's departure, calling it a "really sad day." Nvidia announced in September a $12.9 billion plan to acquire Hugging Face, a deal the U.S. Department of Justice has been inquiring about over competition concerns and which is still scheduled to close in the first half of 2027. Huang had been a prominent advocate for open-weight models, including a July policy letter signed by 25 companies urging the U.S. government not to over-restrict them.

The Jensen Huang scandal is hardly over

Elizabeth Lopatto argues that Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia CEO is unlikely to close the scandal, suggesting the second affair story served as a pretext tied to last week's report that Huang was honeypotted by an alleged Chinese spy. She links the case to chip-smuggling questions around Megaspeed, whose Singapore office The Straits Times found showed no signs of activity, and to Super Micro's alleged $2.5 billion passthrough of Nvidia chips to Alibaba, noting Nvidia reportedly intervened to halt a 2025 Commerce Department investigation of Megaspeed. Lopatto also points to incoming Democratic control of Congress and Elizabeth Warren's planned subpoenas as pressure that could keep the allegations alive.

Jensen Huang agrees to testify before Congress by Thanksgiving

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress by Thanksgiving, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast said Thursday, after senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him. The closed-door testimony follows a November 4 letter from Mast, John Moolenaar and Rick Crawford requesting his appearance before their committees, and Mast said he expects the briefing to be recorded on video and transcribed. Huang stepped down as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China.

Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia as China spy scandal unfolds

Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO after reports of his affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy, threatened to engulf the company, The Verge's Decoder reports. In an interview recorded two days before the resignation, Brookings fellow Kyle Chan said Beijing's likely aim was visibility into US policymaking and influence over export controls rather than chip designs, since Nvidia was already selling to intermediary Megaspeed. Chan said the controversy could weaken the camp arguing for looser chip export controls and strengthen calls in Congress for a full investigation.

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Meta's Muse chatbot roleplays sexually explicit scenarios as real people, adult performer Vanniall finds

Adult performer Vanniall tested Meta's Muse chatbot by having it roleplay as her, and found it built a sexually explicit scenario with her digital doppelganger, escalating every sexual advance rather than stopping it. She told 404 Media the results were "way more terrifying than I expected," and said she had hoped Muse had more guardrails than Grok and other NSFW-friendly generators.

404 Media tests Meta's Muse: chatbot sexts while roleplaying real people

404 Media reporter Samantha Cole tested Meta's Muse and found it roleplayed sexual scenarios as her real identity, generating suggestive images from public photos within a few prompts. Adult performer Vanniall ran a similar test posing as a fan and found Muse first refused to roleplay her as someone who never says no, then built a near-identical character named Vee that escalated a public sexual encounter at a convention booth. Muse later acknowledged the roleplay was in effect sexual roleplay as Vanniall, and Meta pointed to its earlier statement that Muse "doesn't block legal adult behavior."

Jensen Huang and the future of the AI boom

Azeem Azhar argues that Jensen Huang's resignation leaves Nvidia and the wider AI boom without their central figure, noting the company sold nearly 14 million flagship AI chips in the five years to 2026, holds 85% of the market, and has backed neoclouds and AI startups including close to $10 billion across Europe in the last year. He contrasts the situation with Apple after Steve Jobs, saying Huang was the linchpin of Nvidia just as Nvidia was the linchpin of the boom, and asks whether the ecosystem depending on it stays on the road. CFO Colette Kress steps in until a replacement is found.

What Huawei's Horinger data center reveals about China's compute gap

Epoch AI estimates Huawei's Horinger data center in Inner Mongolia holds about 105,000 operational Ascend 910C and 8,000 Ascend 910B chips, equal to roughly 81,000 H100-equivalents (90% CI: 36,000 to 141,000). The estimate comes from commercial satellite imagery and a cooling-equipment model that puts the four AI-focused buildings at up to 286 MW of IT power capacity. That leaves Horinger at about 7% of the AI compute in SpaceX's Colossus 2 in Tennessee, and a planned building could raise its capacity by over 70% by early 2028, still far behind Colossus 2's projected 1.8 million H100e.

Google's Gemini-powered smartglasses debut via Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, starting at $395

Google's Gemini-powered smartglasses are now available for preorder through Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, with prices starting at $395 for Warby Parker frames and $449 for Gentle Monster styles. The devices are a collaboration in which Samsung supplies the computing hardware inside the frames and Google provides the software, and Google is emphasizing privacy as it returns to intelligent eyewear after the Google Glass era. Warby Parker's three frames, Alden, Reid, and Wren, come in Pine, Saddle, and Jet Black with standard optical or sun lenses and are sold only in the US, while Gentle Monster offers six styles in dark red, pink, gray, and yellow with clear, tinted, blue, or brown lenses in the US and South Korea.

ChinaTalk investigation: US data brokers sell about $500M in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs

US data brokers including Mercor, Surge AI, AfterQuery and Turing are selling roughly $500 million worth of training data, some of it RL environments, to Chinese AI labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. The report identifies at least nine US firms involved and says Chinese labs deliberately buy products already sold to Anthropic or OpenAI to skip costly in-house development, savings that matter given China's chip memory bottlenecks. ChinaTalk notes RL environments are largely unregulated by export controls and argues the Bureau of Industry and Security should apply existing controls to dual-use coding and biology environments, while stressing Chinese labs still trail US peers by at least a few months.

Anthropic says AI cut its Claude port to AMD GPUs from months to three days

Anthropic says it ported Claude to AMD GPUs in three days with almost no human intervention, using its frontier model Mythos to write nearly 100 percent of the kernels itself. Co-founder Tom Brown says Anthropic now trains and runs Claude across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, Nvidia GPUs and AMD GPUs, treating them as one interchangeable compute pool. The figures come from an investor presentation and have not been independently verified; Anthropic cites three days versus the six to twelve months traditional engineering needs, measured on prompt processing with AMD MI355X GPUs.

OpenAI Acquires Odessia, AI Travel Agent Founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson

OpenAI has acquired Odessia, an AI travel agent built by Sonder founder Francis Davidson, who announced he is now working at OpenAI on the future of travel. Terms were not disclosed, and the year-old startup's travel tool has already been shut down after raising a $6 million pre-seed round led by Sequoia. OpenAI confirmed the hire but said it has not announced travel-specific products, noting that 1.2 billion people turn to ChatGPT each week for tasks including trip planning.

Plurai raises $13M seed to make AI agents more reliable via simulation

Plurai has raised $13 million in seed funding led by Team8 to make AI agents more reliable using simulation techniques borrowed from self-driving cars. The startup builds a digital twin of a company's systems, maps possible agent flows, and uses synthetic data to prepare models for edge cases, then post-trains small open-weight models tailored to each customer. Tests with Nvidia and Nebius showed its models outperforming midtier frontier models at lower cost.

OpenAI quarterly revenue reportedly tops $10B for the first time

OpenAI's quarterly revenue reportedly crossed $10 billion for the first time, up almost 50% from the $6.7 billion reported for the second quarter, according to Bloomberg, which cited anonymous sources. The report also said OpenAI's adjusted operating margin narrowed from -150% in Q2 to -109% in Q3, and that the company has reached a $50 billion annual revenue run rate. Rival Anthropic said its annual revenue run rate rose by $10 billion in a month to $81 billion as of the end of October, though the two companies calculate annualized revenue differently.

Is Jensen Huang’s Bad Behavior More Commonplace Than It Seems?

Heron Intelligence CEO Nate Singer says the Nvidia honeypot scandal involving Jensen Huang reflects a broader pattern of state-sponsored infiltration across the semiconductor industry. Singer told TechCrunch he has seen at least three reports of similar cases and suspects many more have gone unreported, with executives "effectively condoning" the threat.

Fractile raises $720M Series C to build AI chips with stacked DRAM

British AI chip startup Fractile has raised a $720 million Series C backed by the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, with the British government citing a valuation of over £5 billion, possibly around $7 billion. The round was led by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint. Fractile pairs its chips with a machine learning compiler and, after a pivot, stacks DRAM on top of each chip to try to bypass the usual memory-versus-capacity trade-off, which the company sees as increasingly costly for agentic AI. CEO Walter Goodwin said the funding will let the startup ship its first chips and systems next year.

CoreWeave leans on customer prepayments and shorter contracts to fund AI buildout

CoreWeave said in its third-quarter earnings that it is increasingly asking customers to pay up front, borrowing against specific contracts and signing shorter-term deals to finance its AI infrastructure growth. The company reported $3.66 billion in revenue, up 168% year over year, alongside a $709 million net loss and $846 million in quarterly interest expense, and it expects about $9 billion in customer prepayments and deposits over the next three months against a $132.5 billion backlog. CEO Michael Intrator said CoreWeave will not use the unsecured debt market at current yields, while short-term capacity is selling at more than $40 million per megawatt annually versus $20 million to $25 million for four- and five-year contracts.

Cyberattack on Fireworks AI exposed Notion customers' AI chat transcripts

Fireworks AI confirmed a cyberattack in which an attacker breached its cloud provider to reach a Fireworks development system, exposing some customer billing information and datasets. Notion said the incident affected about 1% of its customers and that hackers took chat transcripts from Notion AI users of its Insights feature; it disconnected from Fireworks on November 3. Fireworks believes the attackers were financially motivated and aimed to sell access to large language models, and this is its second breach in as many months after an October incident.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after board meeting, Colette Kress named interim CEO

Nvidia CEO, president and co-founder Jensen Huang resigned after a board meeting that followed reports of a second affair, with CFO Colette Kress installed as interim CEO. The New York Times reported evidence of an affair with an Nvidia executive who reported directly to him, after Huang had acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, whom US intelligence reports had identified as a spy for China's Ministry of State Security.

Norwest raises $4B fund to expand AI investing

Norwest has raised a $4 billion fund, its eighteenth and largest to date, to expand investments in AI. The Wells Fargo-backed firm plans to back AI startups across consumer, healthcare and technology, and to deepen bets on physical AI, voice AI, agentic cybersecurity and aerospace. Since its $3 billion seventeenth fund closed in 2024, Norwest has made more than 87 investments.

Nvidia board memo and interim CEO email follow Jensen Huang's resignation

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO and board member after the board opened an investigation into extramarital affairs with a direct report and an alleged Chinese spy, and CFO Colette Kress is now interim CEO. Board chair Harvey Jones announced the change in an internal memo, and Kress told employees in a follow-up email that the company had been through an extraordinarily difficult period, with a company meeting set for November 18 at 9am PT. The Verge republishes both messages in full.

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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO; CFO Colette Kress named interim replacement

Nvidia's board announced Thursday that co-founder and 33-year CEO Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO and board member, effective immediately, following reports of affairs with an alleged Chinese spy and a direct report. CFO and EVP Colette Kress, at Nvidia since September 2013 and previously CFO of Cisco's Business Technology Operations Finance and a 13-year Microsoft veteran, takes over as interim CEO while the company searches for a successor. Kress said Nvidia will continue advancing its work in accelerated computing and AI, and the company reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday.

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Gary Marcus on Jensen Huang resigning from Nvidia

Gary Marcus writes that Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia and been replaced for now by CFO Colette Kress, with the stock down 13% as of the opening bell. Marcus argues Huang's ties to Chinese AI and conflicts of interest left the company exposed to litigation and investigation, and warns that the circular financing he orchestrated across the AI industry could now collapse.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid alleged Chinese spy affair as board names CFO Colette Kress interim CEO

Nvidia confirmed in an SEC filing that its board accepted Jensen Huang's resignation on Wednesday, with CFO Colette Kress taking over as interim CEO while keeping her CFO duties. The move follows Huang's public admission of infidelity and reports that US officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, with whom he had a close relationship, is a Chinese spy; three Republican committee chairs had sought a closed-door briefing, and the New York Times reported a second affair with Nvidia VP Kimberly Powell, which Nvidia, Huang and Powell have not confirmed.

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO amid espionage scandal; $1.4 trillion in market value lost

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO, president and board member effective immediately on November 12, 2026, after the Wall Street Journal reported the board planned to fire him over two extramarital affairs, one with a suspected Chinese spy. Nvidia has lost roughly $1.4 trillion in market value since an October 29 New York Times report on possible ties to Chinese intelligence, and CFO Colette Kress is taking over on an interim basis. Harvey C. Jones becomes the first independent board chair, while Huang's departure leaves no clear succession plan and could unsettle the alliance and guarantee structure built around him.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid spy and affair scandals, Colette Kress named interim CEO

Nvidia's board accepted Jensen Huang's resignation as CEO, president and board member, effective immediately, after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an executive at Singapore-based cloud provider Megaspeed who was allegedly passing information to China's Ministry of State Security.

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NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition as Jensen Huang Resigns, Colette Kress Named Interim CEO

NVIDIA's board announced that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO and board member effective immediately, with Executive Vice President and CFO Colette Kress serving as Interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor. The board also appointed Harvey C. Jones, former CEO and Executive Chairman of Synopsys, as its first-ever Chair of the Board, and said it expects operations, customer commitments and product roadmap to continue without interruption. NVIDIA said it will report third-quarter fiscal 2027 results on November 17 as previously scheduled.

Nine Korean Startups Compete at DETO 2026 for Disrupt 2027 Startup Battlefield 200 Spot

Nine early-stage South Korean deep tech startups pitched at DETO 2026 in Seoul for a place in Disrupt 2027's Startup Battlefield 200, with all nine targeting U.S. expansion. Voinosis won with AI that analyzes speech patterns to screen brain health, claiming 88% accuracy in a 146-participant clinical study. The others span fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI, including Ternell's T-SRAM memory and Testbank's Solve app.

Meta Signs Long-Term Purchase Agreements for Lower Carbon Cement, Steel, Trucking and Recycled Plastics

Meta has signed a set of long-term purchase commitments covering cement, steel, trucking and recycled plastics to bring clean manufacturing to commercial scale in its data center supply chains. The deals include at least 180,000 tons of lower carbon cement from Sublime Systems, near-zero-emission steel from Sweden-based Stegra, an expanded zero-emission freight route with Nevoya along I-10 in California and Arizona, and 5,000 tons per year of recycled PET with MacroCycle Technologies.

ElevenLabs expands Impact Program with free ElevenMusic for people with voice loss

ElevenLabs announced at its New York Summit on November 11 that people living with permanent voice loss can now get free access to ElevenMusic, so artists who can no longer sing can keep composing and releasing music. The program launches with Songwriters of North America (SONA), which will verify eligibility and distribute access.

Australia proposes mandatory safety rules for frontier AI models, including independent audits

Australia's government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a law that would impose mandatory safety rules on frontier AI companies operating in the country for the first time. Frontier model makers would have to open their models to independent audits, maintain ongoing safety checks, publish safety frameworks and report security incidents to the government immediately, with a new oversight body working alongside the Australian AI Safety Institute to enforce compliance and issue steep penalties. The government said it is putting domestic guardrails in place before entering international negotiations, and more details will follow once consultations wrap up.

Holiday Extras uses Codex to turn customer expertise into better apps

Holiday Extras is using OpenAI's Codex to turn customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new growth opportunities. The travel add-ons company is rethinking what it can build with the coding model.

Google launches Gemini Decision 1 decision model and Decisions API

Google released Gemini Decision 1, a calibrated multimodal decision model served through a new Decisions API that scores closed-set choices in a single pass instead of generating text token by token. It handles yes/no, multiple-choice and rubric scoring with up to 255 options, accepts text, image, audio, video and PDF inputs, supports up to 1,000 questions per request and 256K context, returns answers in 150–250 ms, and is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no output charge. Artificial Analysis scored it 66 on its Decision Index, tying Elephant 9B and Jev 1.14 while costing $345 per 1M tasks versus $103 for Drex Max.

The Jev Revolution: How Engineers at Glean, UiPath and Workday Are Building With System One Models

At the AI Engineer Code Summit, TypeSafe AI CEO Diogo Almeida argued that system one models such as Jev, which return structured choices, scores or probabilities rather than generated text, should be called directly from application code to automate tasks more reliably. Glean's Chinmay Goyal said Jev suits zero-shot flexibility because changing decision taxonomies do not require repeated fine-tuning, while UiPath showed Jev ranking document chunks through a tournament of calls that finished in under a second. Workday's Scott Roberts demoed an interface that fills in a time-off card as the user types, which he described as moving from predicting what you want to say to predicting what you want to do.

Mariko Mori Uses Claude to Code Animation for "All That Shines" Retrospective

Artist Mariko Mori used Claude to write code for a computer-generated animation shown as a new video installation in her retrospective "Mariko Mori: All That Shines." The work plays on a seven-meter-wide screen in the final gallery, where a horizon parts onto a world of radiant light. The exhibition runs October 31, 2026–March 28, 2027 at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

OpenAI Commits $2 Million to Research on AI and Children's Safety

OpenAI is committing $2 million to research on AI and children's safety, funding work that supports shared tools for measuring risks and opportunities for young people. The commitment targets measurement of both the risks and the benefits AI presents to younger users.

Report: Nvidia reportedly preparing to fire Jensen Huang

The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia is about to fire Jensen Huang, according to Gary Marcus. Marcus writes that the stock is already down in after-hours trading and that Huang's exit could unsettle the circular financing deals he has orchestrated, raising the question of whether Nvidia would still honor the billions it promised Anthropic in the IPO.

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Nvidia stock falls as board reportedly prepares to remove CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia's board is reportedly preparing to remove co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who has led the company for 33 years, with a meeting as soon as Wednesday to decide his future, the Wall Street Journal reported. The report follows Huang's admission on Sunday of an extramarital affair with a woman described by U.S. intelligence as a Chinese spy, and a New York Times report on Wednesday that he also had an affair with an executive who reports to him. Nvidia shares fell about 8% in after-hours trading on Wednesday and are down about 11% over the past five days, while Bloomberg reported the company is working with an outside firm to identify potential CEO candidates.

What landed for AI builders on AWS in October 2026: Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6.1 Terra, AgentCore CLI 1.0

AWS's October 2026 roundup adds Claude Haiku 5.5, which Anthropic says costs around 75 percent less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks, plus OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra on Amazon Bedrock with up to 1 million input tokens and prices at least 50 percent lower than GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-5.6 Terra. AgentCore CLI reached version 1.0, and AgentCore Gateway added model fallback and Step Functions workflows as agent tools.