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Nvidia's board of directors accepted founder and CEO Jensen Huang's resignation late Wednesday, with the announcement coming Thursday morning, ending his 33-year run at the helm of the world's dominant AI chipmaker. The move followed Huang's admission of an extramarital affair…
Nvidia's board accepted founder-CEO Jensen Huang's resignation Wednesday, ending his 33-year reign after he admitted to an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence officials deemed to be a Chinese spy and a second alleged affair with a subordinate emerged. Chief Financial Officer…
Nvidia's board of directors accepted the resignation of co‑founder and CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday, announcing it Thursday, ending a 33‑year reign that made the company the central supplier of chips for the AI boom. The move follows Huang's admission of an extramarital affair…
Nvidia's board of directors announced Thursday morning that co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang has resigned effective immediately, ending his 33-year run at the helm of the world's dominant AI chipmaker. The decision followed a board meeting Wednesday; the meeting's format and…
Nvidia's board of directors met Wednesday evening to decide the fate of founder and chief executive Jensen Huang, three days after he admitted to an extramarital affair and hours after The New York Times reported a second relationship with a direct report. The meeting follows a…
Nvidia's board of directors is meeting Wednesday to decide whether to remove founder and CEO Jensen Huang, following revelations of two extramarital affairs — one with a woman whom U.S. intelligence believed was a Chinese spy and who was involved in facilitating chip shipments…
Nvidia's board of directors is preparing to meet as soon as Wednesday to decide the future of co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The move follows a week of escalating revelations: Huang's admission…
Northwestern Polytechnical University, a Chinese institution with deep ties to the People's Liberation Army, purchased two Nvidia H200 AI chips in October 2026 despite being on the U.S. Entity List since 2001, according to procurement records reviewed by Reuters.
Documents filed with Beijing regulators reveal that Moonshot AI, one of China’s leading frontier model developers, secured access to Nvidia’s most advanced AI accelerators on Chinese soil this summer — an arrangement that appears to circumvent U.S. export controls.
A New York Times report published Monday says Nvidia's general counsel contacted Commerce Department investigators in August 2025 about an ongoing investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center operator suspected of diverting advanced Nvidia AI chips to China. The…
Nvidia has published four open-weight checkpoints under its new Cosmos 3 platform, targeting researchers building interactive world simulators for robotics and autonomous driving. The models—Cosmos3-Nano-Transfer-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Transfer, and…
Google announced two additions to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit lineup on Monday: TPU 8tx for confidential computing and TPU 8i Max for massive context windows. The systems join TPU 8t and TPU 8i, unveiled at Google Cloud Next in April, marking what the company…
At a government-hosted forum in Seoul on November 9, Nvidia announced a direct equity investment in one Korean startup and said it plans to invest in three others — moves that tie the chipmaker more closely to South Korea's push for "sovereign AI" across models, robotics and…
Nvidia has proposed turning more than 130 old telephone buildings into a network of small AI data centers, The Information reported on November 5. The buildings belong to Brightspeed, a broadband provider owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Together they have…
Nvidia’s board of directors announced Sunday it will conduct an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence believes was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security as a spy, and who developed a close relationship with Huang.…
Microsoft is winding down a 2023 agreement to rent AI computing capacity from Oracle after deciding not to renew the contract, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The software giant has spent recent months switching off the rented capacity because…
The U.S. Commerce Department cleared roughly two dozen Chinese companies to receive Nvidia H200 chips under a new case-by-case licensing policy, but New York Times reporters found little evidence of operations at the listed addresses of at least two licensees, according to a…
A global race to build AI infrastructure has turned advanced chip packaging from an afterthought into the primary choke point for the world's most powerful processors. Nvidia is providing billions of dollars in financing to expand CoWoS (chip-on-wafer-on-substrate) capacity at…
The New York Times reported Thursday that China's Ministry of State Security recruited Alice Huang, a top executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, to cultivate a close personal relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and gather intelligence on advanced American AI chips.
Nvidia is requiring cloud providers in Southeast Asia to enroll in its Fleet Intelligence monitoring system as a condition for official Cloud Partner status, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the requirements. The move links the chipmaker's public endorsement and…
About 600,000 Nvidia H200 AI processors are stored in Hong Kong warehouses awaiting Chinese import approvals that Beijing has not granted, according to a Reuters report citing two people familiar with the matter. The stockpile, which has not previously been reported, reflects…
Chinese tech giants have placed orders for roughly 6 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 workstation graphics cards valued at approximately $70 billion, but Nvidia expects to deliver only about 1% of that volume over the coming months, according to a Bloomberg report cited by multiple…
Nvidia has told cloud providers worldwide that at least 51% of their services must go to non-Chinese customers, the Financial Times reported, citing five people familiar with the matter. The requirement, communicated verbally by Nvidia sales and regional teams over recent…
Taiwan's Legislative Yuan is considering amendments to the Foreign Trade Act that would impose criminal penalties—including up to 10 years in prison—for unauthorized exports of advanced AI chips to China, according to Asia Times as reported by af.net. The move aims to close a…
Nvidia reported second-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year earlier, confirming the chipmaker remains the primary beneficiary of AI infrastructure spending. The results, released August 26, beat consensus estimates of $92 billion and were driven by…
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee several billion dollars of debt financing for Nscale, a UK-based AI cloud provider building a data-center campus in West Virginia that Anthropic plans to use, according to reports cited by KuCoin and MarketScreener. The arrangement would make the…
Canadian AI startup Cohere has completed the first close of a financing round that could total up to $5 billion, valuing the company at more than US$20 billion. The round includes strategic investments from Nvidia and the Canadian government, marking what would be the largest…
The US Department of Justice has opened a new line of questioning around Nvidia’s proposed $12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face, an open‑source AI platform, according to two people familiar with the matter. The inquiries run in parallel with a years‑long conduct investigation…