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Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang on Sunday, November 8, hours after the chipmaker’s chief admitted to an affair with a woman accused of working for Chinese intelligence. The Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang investigation lands at the worst possible moment for the world’s most valuable company: its chips sit at the center of the AI boom, its sales to China are already under a microscope in Washington, and its stock just lost $450 billion in market value in a single trading day last week. ...

Anthropic wants to be regulated. Just not by anyone’s rules but its own. The company has been quietly pitching Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft federal bill to regulate frontier AI safety, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the effort. The draft would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages — or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. ...

Bill Gates told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that artificial intelligence needs federal legislation because “no one thinks self-regulation is enough.” Full story in the slides above — Sources: Reuters, The Straits Times, GMA News Online, September 27–28, 2026.