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.
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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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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AI can accelerate all three of gaming's core archetypes — indie developers, prophetic toolmakers and world-building studios — rather than displacing them, according to a16z's Anish, Jon and the author. Coding agents now help solo developers bridge skill gaps: one agent built a Habbo Hotel-inspired record shop in Blender and an engine, then added pet-adoption mechanics and kept the codebase backward-compatible. Jon used ChatGPT and Codex to build a Minecraft mod inspired by Ghost of Tsushima for his eight-year-old son.
Databricks has made its Genie app for Slack generally available, letting users ask data questions via DM or @mention and get answers in the thread, grounded in Unity Catalog permissions. Every answer cites its sources, and through MCP connectors Genie can draft document, ticket and record changes for approval before running them.
Block built Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace where employees and AI agents work together in group discussions, focused conversations and one-on-one exchanges, and uses Databricks Unity Gateway as the model access layer. Employees can create agents, pick the model or coding harness behind each one, and select Databricks as their inference provider to reach frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google plus select open-weight models through a single integration. Block engineers are also experimenting with multi-agent setups where a more capable model coordinates agents running smaller, more efficient models, and have built an internal approach to benchmarking these agent teams.
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 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.
Why it matters: A reverse-chronological timeline shows how a personal scandal involving Jensen Huang escalated into a board succession, a congressional inquiry and a national security probe of Nvidia chip flows.
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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The Verge senior smart home reviewer Jen Tuohy spent a week testing Apple's first smart display, the $299 HomeView, in both tabletop and wall-mounted versions across her kitchen, bedside table, office, coffee table, and entryway. She cooked with it, ran her smart home from it, took calls on it, and tested its new Siri AI capabilities, while her tech-averse husband became a big fan and her teenage daughter less so. Verge subscribers can submit questions in the comments, with answers starting today at 2PM ET / 11AM PT.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV, developed by KING Art Games and published by Deep Silver, is coming to GeForce NOW when it launches on Steam Thursday, Dec. 3. The real-time strategy game features more than 70 campaign missions playable solo or in co-op, plus The Last Stand, Skirmish and multiplayer modes. NVIDIA DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering is also coming to War Thunder in mid-November and Where Winds Meet on Monday, Nov. 23.
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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ElevenLabs released two speech-to-text models, Scribe v3 for pre-recorded audio and Scribe v3 Live for low-latency real-time use, both available through the ElevenAPI developer interface and the ElevenAgents platform. The company says Scribe v3 cuts word errors by about 25 percent versus its predecessor across 102 languages, and Scribe v3 Live uses conversational context to tell when a speaker has actually finished instead of relying on pause timers. Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis place Scribe v3 among the most accurate transcription models, trailing only an Alibaba preview model, but show it lagging on speed and priced at $3.33 per 1,000 minutes.
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.
Why it matters: NVIDIA's board names CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO after Jensen Huang's immediate resignation, with Harvey Jones becoming first board chair.
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.
Eli Lilly Chairman and CEO Dave Ricks has joined experts criticizing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's medical overpromises, made in a video tied to Anthropic's IPO launch. Amodei claimed AI could rapidly cure cancer and mental illness, drawing comparisons to Elizabeth Holmes; critics say the field lacks the data and cannot expedite clinical trials on that timeline.
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome 2, a genomics model that predicts how DNA variants affect specific human cell types and finds nearly twice as many relevant gene changes as its predecessor. Trained on more than 107 million individual cell profiles from 68 tissues in humans and mice, it takes a cell's biological state as an extra input instead of predicting broadly across many tissues at once.
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 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'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 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.
OpenAI researchers describe how automated red-teaming, using a GPT-5.6 Sol family reasoning model as attacker against GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 defenders, generated synthetic jailbreaks that were used as RL training data for GPT-6 Astra and Sol. On fixed jailbreaks from prior attacks against GPT-5.4 and 5.5, GPT-6 Astra answered 91.5% safely on cyber versus 59% for GPT-5.6 Sol, and it stayed more robust across all attacker budgets in an adaptive multiturn eval. OpenAI reports the robustness training did not raise refusals of benign tasks, citing a Pareto improvement on safety and helpfulness in the GPT-6 Astra system card.
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.
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.
A developer used Gemini 4 Carbon in Google's Antigravity platform to remake the 1987 roguelike NetHack as a modern 3D action RPG, porting it to web technology and wasm. The build relied on the /swarm feature, which spawns subagents with separate contexts to review each other's output, plus a Blender MCP server for 3D asset generation. Gemini 4 Carbon is available through the Google AI Ultra plan.
LangChain's internal GTM Agent generated 1,540 sales artifacts over 12 weeks, saving reps 337 hours on documents like account plans and proposal decks. 47% of deals with a sent artifact advanced to a later stage, versus 16% of matched deals without one, and 46% of artifacts were followed by a customer call within 14 days. The agent runs on the Deep Agents harness, whose sandbox, skills, memory, and scheduled runs are available in Managed Deep Agents.
With Jensen Huang's Kalshi odds of surviving the week at just 30%, speculation has turned to who could run Nvidia, which has no apparent succession plan. The parlor-game list includes AMD CEO Lisa Su, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Sierra's Bret Taylor, Nvidia's CUDA developer Ian Buck, and hardware engineering SVP Andrew Bell.
AWS shows Java teams how to build autonomous AI agents using Spring AI and Amazon Bedrock's AgentCore, with a spring-ai-agentcore integration. Two reference systems are detailed: a single-agent travel assistant with tool calling and memory, and a multi-agent intelligent document processing platform with five specialist agents, a rules engine, and alerting. The stack requires JDK 21, Spring Boot 4.1 with Spring AI 2.0, and deploys via AgentCore runtime on ARM64 containers.
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.
Gilbert + Tobin Partner and CEO Sam Nickless discusses how the law firm is rethinking the business of law with AI in a conversation published by OpenAI. The interview centers on the firm's approach to applying AI across legal work and its business model.
LiveKit released the LiveKit Cloud API in open beta, letting coding agents create and configure projects, manage members and webhooks, and pull transcripts, logs, traces and recordings from agent calls. The API is a REST API that runs signed in as the user, with short-lived tokens checked against project roles and sensitive actions limited to project admins. In a test on LiveKit's docs assistant, a coding agent read 4,321 sessions from the past week and returned a ranked list of 8 issues after about 30 minutes. Session data requires Agent Observability, which is off by default for projects created through the API, and API requests are free but rate limited by plan.
OpenRouter published a break-even analysis showing when self-hosting an open-weight LLM costs less than calling it through an API, using per-provider prices as of October 8, 2026. At those prices, Qwen3.8 27B on one rented RTX 3090 at $0.50 an hour breaks even at 6 to 12% load, while DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on four H200s never beats the cheapest zero-data-retention endpoint. The post also notes that provider.zdr and the EU and US domains cover most privacy needs without self-hosting, and recommends running a steady base load locally while sending peaks to the API.
vLLM supports Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small on day 0, a multimodal text-and-vision MoE with 594B total and 17B active parameters and up to 1M tokens of context. The integration adds kernel fusion with PDL, sequence parallelism for prefill that cuts an 8K-token prefill step by 22% at TP4 and 26% at TP8, and a Gluon relative attention decode kernel that drops a batch-1 decode step at 100K context from 15.1 ms to 4.8 ms. vLLM reports up to 630 TPS/user at TP4 on GB200 with acceptance length 3.5, and also supports LoRA and RL via SkyRL.
Why it matters: vLLM 在发布当天即支持 Inkling 2 Small，并给出内核融合、序列并行和 Gluon 解码内核的具体优化数据，可供部署大 MoE 模型的团队参考。
OpenRouter launched beta localization in Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Japanese and Korean, and detailed the self-correcting pipeline that keeps 16,918 English strings translated. The daily loop sends changed strings to GPT-6.1 Sol in batches of up to 40, has code reject broken placeholders and glossary violations, then uses a second call to the same model as a verifier that returns errors by severity for retries. OpenRouter says a full retranslation of the catalog into 7 languages costs about $460, versus about $7,200 at Smartling's published machine translation rate.
OpenRouter published a guide on stopping AI agents that get stuck retrying a failing tool, using four guards tested on six current models. With doomLoop detection enabled, all six models were blocked on their third identical tool call, and across 18 runs tool calls fell from 314 to 64 while spend dropped from $0.29 to $0.05. The guide adds a loopKey to normalize arguments, stopWhen caps on steps and cost, and a credit limit on the API key that returns a 402 with limit_source openrouter_key_limit.
OpenRouter published a guide for benchmarking LLMs on your own application's inputs, grading outputs with code and comparing accuracy, billed cost and request time. On its 60 synthetic tasks, GPT-6.1 Sol passed 180/180 trials across three repeats, while DeepSeek had the lowest response cost at 157/180 passes. Agreement with the public ranking was weak, with a Spearman correlation of 0.109.
vLLM-Omni brought MiniMax H3-Image to NVIDIA Vera Rubin and measured 0.87-second median latency for native 4096×4096 text-to-image on four GPUs, plus 6,115 images/hour in a separate throughput configuration. H3-Image is an open-weight text-to-image and editing model that pairs a Qwen3-VL encoder with a 33.1B dense DiT and an image VAE, handling both tasks in six sampling steps with up to 16 reference images. The team reports MXFP8 DiT GEMMs, Ulysses SP4, AdaLN caching and a VAE decoding change that cut decode time from 2.635s to 0.213s, and lists recipes for AMD, Intel, Huawei Ascend and Moore Threads hardware.
Why it matters: vLLM-Omni's benchmark shows MiniMax H3-Image running on Vera Rubin at subsecond 4K latency, with per-hardware configurations and a cost model for serving economics.
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.
vLLM reports serving DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on a single NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at 1.7M tokens/s per GPU with 387 tokens/s per user, 58x the GB300 NVL72, peaking at 2.52M tokens/s and 1,810 tokens/s for a single user. The gains come from kernels rebuilt for Rubin's split memory domains and FP4 tensor cores, a specialized TP8 decode path, and rack-wide KV and Engram pools shared over NVLink. With prefixes pooled across the rack and Dynamo workload-aware routing, the prefix hit rate holds at 96.5-97% even at high concurrency.
Why it matters: vLLM's third DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash post details how Rubin-specific kernels and rack-wide memory pooling lift throughput 58x over GB300 NVL72, offering a concrete reference for large-scale serving optimization.
Researchers from Apple Machine Learning Research derive the information-theoretic limits of KL-regularized language model alignment, giving a closed-form expression for maximum expected reward gain under a fixed KL budget that is governed by a Jeffreys divergence term rather than the √KL used in prior analyses. They show the gap between ideal and proxy alignment (reward hacking) grows with reward error and shrinking KL penalties, and prove reward ensembling mitigates it. On safety and summarization tasks, best-of-N closely approaches the theoretical limit while PPO and GRPO remain substantially suboptimal.