Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s chief executive on Thursday, ending a 33-year run at the company he co-founded and turned into the most valuable chipmaker in the world. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO, five days before Nvidia reports quarterly earnings. Nvidia’s board announced the move on November 12, saying Huang had stepped down as president, chief executive, and director, effective immediately. It also named longtime director Harvey C. Jones as the board’s first-ever chair. Huang, Nvidia’s fourth-largest shareholder with a 3.61% stake, will hold no executive role and no board seat. ...

Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang on Sunday, November 8, after reports that he was the target of a foreign intelligence effort tied to a Chinese businesswoman, Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed. Huang told employees he had been unfaithful to his wife, while the board said it has no reason to believe national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised. Full story in slides above — Sources: The New York Times, The Verge, Associated Press, USA Today, November 8–9, 2026. ...

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. ...

The US Commerce Department approved a company in China to handle Nvidia’s H200 AI chips even though the firm’s listed Beijing office was empty, according to a New York Times investigation published Saturday. New Matrix had been created about 17 months earlier, and reporters who visited its registered address found a vacant room with wires hanging from the ceiling where lights should have been. The Times described the space as “a hollow gray shell with wires dangling from the ceiling where lights should be.” Its building directory did not list New Matrix, and staff at the property management office said they had no record of the company. ...

The Justice Department is asking hard questions about Nvidia’s $12.93 billion deal to buy Hugging Face, and the chipmaker’s rivals should pay attention. Reuters reported on Wednesday that federal antitrust officials have inquired into how the acquisition would affect competition in artificial intelligence, citing two people familiar with the matter. CNBC later confirmed the inquiry with its own source. At the center of the probe is a simple worry: Hugging Face is where much of the AI world goes to get its models. Its platform hosts open-source models, datasets, and developer tools, and investigators want to know whether owning it would let Nvidia capture what Reuters’ sources described as a fundamental distribution point for AI. ...

Jensen Huang says Nvidia’s era of writing giant private checks to AI labs is coming to an end. Speaking on Wednesday at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom conference in San Francisco, the Nvidia CEO said the company’s $30 billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time it has the opportunity to ‘invest in a consequential company like this.’” The $100 billion deal the two companies discussed in September 2025, he added, “does not seem feasible.” ...

Six months of construction, fourteen days of hookup. That was the pitch Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang brought to Berlin on Wednesday, and it amounts to the company’s most aggressive move yet against the biggest bottleneck in the AI buildout: the time it takes to actually turn a site into a working data center. The vehicle is Nvidia DSX POD, unveiled at the GTC Berlin keynote on October 21. It’s a reference design for complete Vera Rubin AI factories that partners build inside modular containers. Each container carries computing, networking, cabling, rack-level power, and liquid cooling, all assembled, integrated, and validated in a factory before the unit ever ships. Once it lands, a prepared site just connects power, cooling, and network, and the whole thing can go live in as little as 14 days, down from the six months a traditional onsite build takes. ...

Elon Musk has put a date on the space data center. Reacting Thursday to a podcast clip of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Musk wrote on X that the Star Mind computer, the space-grade AI system SpaceX is co-engineering with Nvidia, “is far better than almost anyone expects and will reach volume production next year.” That’s 2027. Musk didn’t say what volume means, and nobody should mistake a Musk target for a schedule. But the exchange was the clearest signal yet that the orbital-compute project, first teased in August, is moving from concept toward an industrial plan. ...

Volvo is going all in on Nvidia for hands-free driving. The Swedish automaker said Thursday it will use three pieces of Nvidia hardware and software in future vehicles to build an automated driving system that can navigate urban streets and highways on its own, deepening a partnership that stretches back nearly a decade. It’s the latest sign that car companies want chips-and-software platforms, not just parts suppliers, at the center of their cars. ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Thursday he does not believe CoreWeave needs a financial backstop, calling the AI cloud firm’s financial strength “improving every day” even as its bonds sank and the cost of insuring its debt hit a record. CoreWeave shares recovered about 6% after his remarks. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, October 15, 2026.

SpaceX wants to borrow $40 billion to buy chips from Nvidia. The Financial Times broke the story late Tuesday, and Bloomberg confirmed the talks with its own sources Wednesday morning, in what would rank among the biggest debt financings of the entire AI buildout. The proposed structure is straightforward, if not modest: roughly $10 billion in bank loans plus $30 billion in investment-grade debt, all to pay for one enormous Nvidia chip order. Apollo Global Management is expected to lead the financing and place the debt with a broad group of investors, with bond giant Pimco among the lenders in discussions. The FT put the expected closing in 2027. ...

Nvidia wants Wall Street to start treating its chips like real estate. Two months into the chipmaker’s most ambitious financing experiment, Wall Street is pushing back, and asking Nvidia to put more of its own money on the line. An Oct. 1 Reuters report found lenders want bigger guarantees than Nvidia originally offered before they’ll treat GPUs as reliable long-term collateral. As of that date, zero transactions had closed under the plan, and some bankers are asking for investment-grade customer contracts or a broader Nvidia guarantee before they’ll fund the loans. ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump doesn’t want Washington to regulate artificial intelligence. He wants the companies building it to regulate themselves, and on Tuesday, he got the heads of six of the biggest ones to sign their names to the idea. The president gathered the CEOs of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and X at the White House and signed what he called a “morally binding” one-page Trump AI accord. It’s not a law. It’s not an executive order. It’s a public promise that the companies will build internal safety controls, open themselves to outside auditors, and let independent board committees review what those auditors find. ...

At 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, President Donald Trump will take the stage at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington to unveil America.gov, an AI-powered federal platform billed as the new “front door” to the U.S. government. The America.gov AI portal is supposed to solve one of Washington’s oldest frustrations: finding anything on a federal agency website. Instead of hunting across hundreds of separate agency portals, Americans would get one AI-driven hub for information and services, according to the White House. The unveiling is the first of two big AI moments for the president on Tuesday. Just two and a half hours later, at 12:30 p.m., Trump sits down at the White House with the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir for a closed-press luncheon on what the schedule calls “Super Intelligence,” with the attendee list reported by CNN and NBC News. ...

The biggest names in AI are walking into the White House today. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will sit down Tuesday with the heads of Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir, plus OpenAI’s president, for a luncheon meant to get Washington and Silicon Valley talking the same language about AI safety. The Trump AI summit is the first time this many AI chiefs have been in one room with the president since a summer of incidents pushed AI fear from tech circles into the mainstream. And the timing is awkward: two days ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was having a private dinner with Trump while publicly calling for the industry to slow down. On Monday, he ducked reporters on Capitol Hill who asked about it. ...

Nvidia wants to be the company that keeps AI agents in their cages. The chipmaker announced on Monday the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform, an open system of software and hardware controls designed to monitor autonomous AI agents, wall them in, and cut them off the moment they step out of line. More than 100 industry partners are backing it, including Anthropic, Microsoft, Cisco, Arm, Intel, and even Hugging Face, the AI coding hub Nvidia bought for $13 billion this year, months after rogue OpenAI agents swarmed its systems. ...

Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform on Sept. 28, 2026 — an open software platform and reference design to keep AI agents under control from testing to deployment. It enforces governance across software, hardware and compute, and robotics, with a component called Sentry that can quarantine agents the moment they step outside their boundaries. Eighteen industry partners are backing it, including Anthropic, Cisco, Microsoft, Palantir and Salesforce, and CEO Jensen Huang said safety requires “full-stack engineering.” Sources: Nvidia press release via GlobeNewswire, AnewZ — September 28, 2026. ...