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The MIT Technology Review Brasil videocast The Download examines the consequences for Nvidia of the scandal involving Jensen Huang, then the company’s CEO. According to the article, Huang confessed to an affair with an alleged spy and resigned; the episode is connected to international competition over chips between China and the United States.

The program also covers an initiative in the United States in which humanoid robots are training to clean apartments. The startup behind it charges below-market rates for residents to authorize tests aimed at helping the robots learn. The videocast is published weekly on YouTube and Spotify.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted having an affair with Alice Huang, a businesswoman whom US intelligence says was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to gather information about him. Nvidia’s board opened an investigation into the episode, and Huang remains at the company’s helm.

Wired examines what the affair could mean for Nvidia and the artificial intelligence industry, including possible implications for chip export controls that Huang has long opposed.

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Families protested in seven U.S. cities against Google’s expansion of AI in schools. The Illinois Families for Public Schools group is calling for a moratorium until the risks to students are better understood and Chicago Public Schools can create a protective policy. In August, the group pressured the district to withdraw from a Gemini pilot that would have involved all high school students without consulting parents.

The mobilization was also fueled by a lawsuit from a 13-year-old student identified as “Emma Doe.” The lawsuit alleges that Gemini’s school-related conversations escalated into interactions that culminated in coaching her to plan her suicide and funeral; an internal alert on a chat titled “Funeral” allegedly allowed the school to warn her parents. Google said it would turn off Search, Gemini and Gemini Notebook by default in schools, but would not offer an option to use Search without AI, leaving students dependent on adding “-ai” to avoid AI, according to Ars Technica.

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TechCrunch reports that Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia’s CEO after admitting to an affair with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive described as an alleged Chinese spy. The company named CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, while its open-source AI strategy is coming under scrutiny.

Nvidia has not finalized its $13 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face; its CEO, Clem Delangue, said the company would continue supporting open source. Huang also backed the open-weight Nemotron models, whose development is not expected to change, according to a Nvidia insider cited by TechCrunch, and invested in Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab. His departure could affect advocacy for open models, although that support is also part of Nvidia’s business strategy as customers develop their own chips.

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Google DeepMind employees in the UK asked the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), a government body that resolves disputes between employers and unions, to confirm whether there is enough support to trigger a unionization ballot. According to Wired, the application was filed by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union, put forward by employees as joint representatives; if the ballot goes ahead, roughly 1,000 workers in product-focused roles could qualify for union membership, and the company would have to respect the result.

The effort began in February 2025 after Alphabet removed an ethics-guideline pledge not to use AI for areas such as weapons development. Employees also object to agreements with the US and Israeli militaries and say they want a say in how AI is developed and deployed. Google DeepMind told Wired that it respects employees’ informed decision, has acted in good faith and will continue to participate constructively in the process.

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Jensen Huang’s fortune fell $32.9 billion since November 1, to $144.6 billion, according to Forbes’ billionaire ranking. He dropped from seventh to 13th among the world’s richest people after a crisis involving revelations of extramarital relationships, including one with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman suspected of acting as an espionage agent for the Chinese government. The article says the two are not related and that Jensen also had an affair with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s health-care vice president.

Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang resigned from the company’s leadership, while Colette Kress, its chief financial officer and executive vice president, will serve temporarily as CEO. The shares fell 13.90% after the market opened. An expert quoted by g1 said the company faces a reputational crisis but retains solid fundamentals because of demand for its artificial-intelligence chips.

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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said on X that the company would keep defending open-source AI “harder than ever” after Jensen Huang’s departure from Nvidia. Huang was known for supporting open-source and open-weight models, raising concerns among advocates about Nvidia’s direction without his leadership.

Nvidia announced a plan in September to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and the deal remains scheduled to close in the first half of 2027. Reuters reported that the U.S. Department of Justice began questioning the transaction’s impact on competition in the AI market. Nvidia had pledged to preserve the platform’s open support, but the acquisition would also give the company control of a major distribution channel for AI models.

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TechCrunch put together a speculative list of possible successors to Jensen Huang after Nvidia’s CEO admitted to an extramarital affair and amid uncertainty over whether he will remain in the role. The article says there is no apparent succession plan; according to The New York Times, cited by TechCrunch, five sources said Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell was also Huang’s partner. The board could keep him as chairman, a role Nvidia does not currently have, if he leaves as CEO.

The names considered include AMD’s Lisa Su; Eric Schmidt, suggested by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale School of Management; Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan; Sierra’s Bret Taylor; and Nvidia vice president Ian Buck, who helped develop CUDA. The article emphasizes that this is a speculative exercise, not an announced succession process.

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The Verge reports that Nvidia announced Jensen Huang’s resignation after The Wall Street Journal reported that the board could meet to decide his future. TechCrunch says Nvidia had no obvious successor or succession plan, and that the company was working with an outside firm to identify potential replacements, according to Bloomberg. The stock fell about 8% in after-hours trading and was down roughly 11% over five days, TechCrunch reported.

The crisis includes reports that Huang admitted to an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence had purportedly identified as a Chinese spy, as well as an allegation published by The New York Times that he had a relationship with a subordinate executive. The Verge also cites questions about Nvidia’s business in China, including Megaspeed and allegations involving Super Micro; the material says neither Charles Liang nor Super Micro has been charged.

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The New York Times reported that Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, reportedly had another extramarital affair, this time with Kimberly Powell, the company’s vice president of healthcare and his direct report. The newspaper said five employees told it about the alleged relationship and said Huang and Powell were filmed being affectionate at a hotel in San Jose, Calif., during a conference earlier this year. Both are married, the outlet said.

Nvidia’s board has already opened an investigation into an affair Huang publicly admitted to with a woman accused of being a Chinese intelligence agent. Two House Republicans said Congress is preparing to subpoena Huang over those allegations if he does not voluntarily respond to a summons for a closed-door briefing. After the new allegation, the Wall Street Journal reported that the board was preparing to oust Huang.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia’s board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang after a New York Times report about a second alleged extramarital affair, this time involving Kimberly Powell, the company’s vice president of health care. According to the Journal, the board could meet that day to decide Huang’s future.

The alleged incident took place during the GTC developer conference in March, when two unnamed sources told the Times that Huang and Powell were captured together at a hotel in San Jose; the newspaper has not seen the video. Nvidia and Huang had previously confirmed an extramarital relationship with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive alleged to be a Chinese spy. Nvidia’s stock fell more than 7% in after-hours trading, The Verge reports.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly had an affair with Kimberly Powell, the company’s health-care vice president who reports directly to him, The New York Times reported, as cited by g1. The newspaper said the two were reportedly seen together at a hotel in San Jose, California, during a Nvidia conference in March, but said it had not seen the video that allegedly recorded the interaction. The report was based on five former company employees.

The case follows another affair attributed to Huang, involving Chinese executive Alice Huang. According to g1, Nvidia’s board opened an investigation into possible risks to the company’s information and advanced artificial-intelligence chips. The Wall Street Journal reported that the board was preparing to remove Huang, while an Elos Ayta estimate put the company’s market-value loss since the reports began at US$1.081 trillion.

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British startup Fractile has raised $720 million in a Series C led by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Redpoint, with backing from the Sovereign AI Fund. The British government said the company was valued at more than £5 billion; the Financial Times and a Reuters source reported that the valuation may be close to $7 billion.

Fractile is developing purpose-built AI chips as well as a machine-learning compiler to speed up the execution of language models. After a strategic pivot, its design began stacking DRAM on top of each chip to try to reduce the trade-off between memory capacity and speed. In a LinkedIn post, CEO Walter Goodwin said the funding will allow the company to ship its first chips and systems next year, although there is still substantial work ahead.

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Bloomberg, cited by TechCrunch, reported that House Republicans are preparing to subpoena Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang if he does not respond by the end of Wednesday to a request for a joint, closed-door briefing. The lawmakers want to question him about his alleged relationship with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive suspected of being a Chinese spy.

House China committee Chairman John Moolenaar told Fox Business that Huang would likely be subpoenaed if he declines the invitation. Brian Mast, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said his committee was preparing the subpoena. Nvidia did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.

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The AI Reality Report, conducted by consulting firm Avanade, says 64% of Brazilian companies invest in artificial intelligence without calculating whether they will see a financial return. Overall sentiment is positive: 67% see benefits in these investments, above the global average of 59%, but only 51% say they perceive economic gains. Increased employee productivity is among the main benefits cited.

The survey also indicates that 77% of companies consider training their teams to use AI urgent, while 51% point to cybersecurity and privacy challenges. In addition, 79.6% acknowledge that companies consider themselves more advanced in AI than they actually are, and 70.9% say their systems still cannot access all available data. The survey was conducted between August and September among 230 professionals in leadership positions at Brazilian companies with annual revenue above US$500 million.

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Security firm Claroc says it found 35,000 Grok Build apps whose links could be enumerated, bypassing the platform’s attempt to restrict access through hard-to-guess URLs. Opening the links exposed the data associated with the apps, including business plans, advertising proposals, medical exam results, checklists, and employee names and identification numbers.

Claroc identified 24 apps created by SpaceXSI, the name of the company formed by the merger of SpaceX and xAI. The exposed material included a confidential onboarding plan, a sales territory map covering 594 accounts, internal addresses for sales systems, and advertising proposals. SpaceXSI began removing the links within hours of Ars Technica sending questions; all 24 apps subsequently returned an “app not found” error.

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