[AINews] Jensen Huang resigns after 33 years leading NVIDIA

Congrats to Gemini 4 Hydrogen on their launch and it seems Anthropic’s IPO is well under way, but today’s headline was only ever going to be about one thing, the most earthshaking leadership change in AI (after Demis/Jeff/et al at Google DeepMind).

Yesterday we covered reports that NVIDIA’s board was preparing to replace Jensen Huang following an NYT report of an affair with an accused Chinese spy. Following news of a second affair, today NVIDIA announced his resignation (correlation/causation is debatable here), presumably forced by the board:

There is also some discussion of the extent that Chinese models can demonstrably be shown to be trained on Blackwell GPUs that they should not have access to… though the scale is debated.

After 33 years, Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO, president and boardmember. Colette Kress, NVIDIA’s CFO since 2013, will keep that job while serving as interim CEO… leading into what will presumably the best attended earnings call in the history of $NVDA next week.

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