The World’s Most Consequential AI CEO Is Out. And Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Era Is Over

The world’s most consequential AI CEO is out. And Nvidia’s Jensen Huang era is over. The company whose chips power the AI boom faces an uncertain future. However, the AI era will keep running on the engine he built. The question is who would take the wheel now? Elon Musk? Jensen Huang, the 63-year-old co-founder and longtime Chief Executive of Nvidia, resigned after having two extramarital affairs (at least two known), including one with a suspected Chinese spy and another with an employee. The company said Thursday that it was starting a search for his successor and that finance chief Colette Kress would serve as interim CEO. Huang’s inglorious ending came after 33 years at the company he founded at a Denny’s with two friends, aiming to make graphics chips for personal computing and gaming. Later, he nurtured a software-developer ecosystem and designed high-performing AI graphics processing units to handle massive computations. Along the way, it became the world’s most valuable company. Huang, who owns about 3.6% of the company, has become one of the world's richest people as the company has grown. As Nvidia became the leading chip designer for top tech companies, Huang was lauded by other tech CEOs and frequently held court at massive Nvidia conferences around the world for developers using the company’s products and software. With its dominant market position, Nvidia became a financial benchmark for the growing AI industry. By funding and extending credit to companies that use its products, it built a web of relationships, seeding the AI landscape with startups that built on Nvidia’s technology. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1963 as Jen-Hsun, Huang grew up in Thailand before moving to the U.S., where he began going by Jensen because it was easier to pronounce. He remains a hero in Taiwan, the global hub of semiconductor manufacturing, and frequently returns to meet with industry executives like Morris Chang, TSMC's founder, who manufactures Nvidia chips. As Nvidia’s CEO, he was known for his relentless work ethic and competitive drive. He often told employees, “The company is always 30 days away from going out of business.” Chronography 1993: Huang started Nvidia with two colleagues and $40,000. The plan was graphics chips for video games. 1999: Nvidia shipped the GeForce 256 and called it the world’s first GPU. It was built to draw pixels, but it could also run thousands of calculations at once. 2006: Huang bet the company on that side effect. Nvidia released CUDA, software that lets researchers use a GPU for any kind of math. Wall Street asked why a gaming company was building tools for physicists. 2012: A neural network called AlexNet won an image recognition contest running on two Nvidia gaming cards. 2016: Huang hand-delivered Nvidia’s first AI supercomputer to a young lab called OpenAI. 2023: After ChatGPT took off, every AI company wanted Nvidia’s chips. Nvidia became a $1 trillion company. 2025: Nvidia passed $4 trillion in value. 2026: Huang steps down after 33 years.

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Anthropic released FlashProve, an open-source prototype that cryptographically verifies which AI model produced an output, the San Francisco company announced this week. The system provides what researchers call “provable inference” — a cryptographic proof, essentially a mathematical guarantee, similar to cryptographic email signatures. It lets users confirm that the answer they received really came from the model they think they’re using. FlashProve would be robust against impostors attempting to disguise one model as another. Researchers note that the system could prevent an AI company from secretly swapping in a cheaper model to cut costs. To work, the system requires AI labs to publish a “fingerprint” for each model they release, which can later be matched to specific outputs and cryptographically verified.  

Canadian Cohere Raises Another $715.5 To Build a Frontier AI Company Outside the U.S. and China

Cohere announced the initial close of its Series E funding round, targeting up to $715.5 million, led by Schwarz Group, with participation from new and returning investors, including Bell Ventures, Bullhound Capital, Inovia Capital, NVIDIA, Prosperity7 Ventures, and the Government of Canada. The Canadian company plans to use the funds to build a frontier company outside the U.S. and China, as “we don’t have to accept a future of AI run by just a few.” Experts believe that AI is becoming part of the operating infrastructure of economies, public services, and national defense. They also highlighted that the market is already choosing: earlier this year, more than 70 percent of the open-model tokens served through OpenRouter came from Chinese models. Cohere believes that "many organizations face an uncomfortable choice: cheap models from China or powerful ones you can’t fully see into or control.” “Businesses should be able to choose world-class systems built under laws they trust, using technology they can inspect and adapt, deploy inside their own environments, and on platforms they can depend on to remain available when it matters most.”

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Google Will Make It Easier to Restrict Its AI Tools for K-12 Students

Google announced yesterday that it plans to make it easier to restrict its AI tools for K-12 students in early 2027. But it said that schools that block AI entirely will lose student access to its search engine. AI features are now a standard part of Google’s commercially available search engine. And the tech giant dominates K-12 classrooms. Its suite of education apps, including Gmail, Docs, and the LMS platform Classroom, is ubiquitous. Chromebooks, low-cost laptops, are the most widely issued student devices in U.S. schools. Chris Phillips, Vice President for Education at Google, explained, “Search and A.I. are deeply integrated. If a school bans AI, students will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.” The company said it wanted to respond to educators and parents who had asked for more control over how children interact with artificial intelligence. Lina Khan, a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said in a statement that Google was using its “search monopoly to coerce schools” into adopting its A.I. She added that multiple courts had found the tech giant liable for violating antitrust laws. This year, Google has been promoting its Gemini chatbot as a key educational tool, along with a feature within Gemini, Guided Learning, designed to make it harder for students to use AI to cheat by guiding them through a topic step by step without providing answers that could short-circuit learning. In August, Google made AI features the default option in its Classroom app for K-12 schools, a move that upset school leaders, who felt schools should decide how and when students use Google’s AI. Google will now reverse its August change. Richard Culatta, CEO of nonprofit ISTE+ASCD, applauded Google’s plan to turn off its AI services for students by default in K-12 schools.

Google Announces Its New Frontier Model 'Gemini 4 Carbon' Focused on Cybersecurity

Google announced last week its new frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, calling it "our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities." Gemini 4 Carbon will launch at the same introductory price as Argon at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens priced at 95% off the input token price. The search giant disclosed that during the pre-release testing period, it is engaging with the U.S. government’s voluntary checking process and will make the model available to a subset of cyber defenders, gradually expanding access to additional trusted partners through its Fairwind Program. According to Google, Carbon sets a new state of the art on popular exploitation benchmarks.

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The World’s Most Consequential AI CEO Is Out. And Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Era Is Over

Jensen Huang Resigns and CFO Colette Kress Is Appointed Interim CEO

Nvidia’s Board is Expecting to Oust CEO Jensen Huang

Anthropic's IPO Can Give the Company a $1.405T Valuation

Anthropic Open-Sources 'FlashProve', a System That Verifies Which Model Produced an AI Output

Canadian Cohere Raises Another $715.5 To Build a Frontier AI Company Outside the U.S. and China

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang Said He Had "Absolutely No Idea" His Mistress Was a Chinese Spy

Catholic Leaders Discussed in Rome How They Can Shape AI Before This Technology Shapes the World

DeepSeek Open-Sourced a Prototype Coding Agent Rivaling Claude Code

Google Will Make It Easier to Restrict Its AI Tools for K-12 Students

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