This edition contains 22 AI stories. Its highest-ranked story is “Jensen Huang Steps Down as NVIDIA CEO”. The most represented story angles are Company, Models, Open Source.
NVIDIA announces that Jensen Huang has stepped down from his roles as president, CEO, and board director, with immediate effect. Colette Kress has been appointed as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor.
According to Google DeepMind: Google is introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a new model designed for rapid execution and everyday agentic workflows. Available across Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, and the Gemini app, Hydrogen offers flat pricing at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens while delivering significant speed and efficiency upgrades over its predecessor.
Hugging Face Transformers version 5.23.0 introduces a variety of new multi-modal and language models, including Inkling2, Liquid AI's LFM3, and InternLM3. It also overhauls the model exporters, allowing users to seamlessly export and run models on optimized runtimes like ONNX Runtime and OpenVINO with significant speed improvements.
US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick is facing intense pressure and potential dismissal following reports that he delayed blacklisting a Singapore-based firm linked to an alleged Chinese spy. The scandal erupted after Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO amid revelations of personal conduct and national security concerns.
US lawmakers have summoned Nvidia's former CEO to face questions in December following his resignation over extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. The scandal has wiped nearly half a trillion dollars off Nvidia's market value and triggered national security concerns.
