AI Daily brief · 2026-11-13 · FridayAI Daily
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Jensen Huang Steps Down as Nvidia CEO, CFO Kress Named Interim CEO
Nvidia's board announced late Wednesday night that Jensen Huang has resigned from all positions as CEO, President, and Director over an extramarital affair and espionage scandal, with CFO Colette Kress appointed interim CEO. The fallout continues: Democratic lawmakers launched an investigation into Nvidia's China chip sales and demanded Huang testify, while Trump proposed Tim Cook as his successor.
Model Releases/Updates
Google DeepMindFirst-partyIntroducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Google DeepMind has released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, aimed at everyday coding and agent workflows, priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, with a flat rate across the full 1M token context window.
LLMON: An LLM-Native Markup Language, now in Granite 4.1 3B and 8B
IBM has released two experimental preview models based on Granite 4.1, granite-4.1-3b-LLMON-preview and granite-4.1-8b-LLMON-preview, trained to consume and generate LLMON (LLM Object Notation), a markup language that uses special reserved tokens as tags to explicitly mark the structure and binding of instructions, data, and constraints.
Product Launches/Updates
AWS Machine Learning BlogFirst-partyIntroducing the Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS has released the Web Search API for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, letting code search Amazon's proprietary web index directly through a single InvokeWebSearch call via the AWS SDK or CLI, with no need to create a Gateway resource first.
AI Stocks & Earnings Reports
The Verge · AINvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid spy, affair scandals
Nvidia's board announced after a late-night Wednesday meeting that co-founder Jensen Huang, who had long served as CEO, president and director, resigned from all roles effective immediately. Current CFO Colette Kress was appointed interim CEO, and former Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones was named the company's first-ever chairman.
TechCrunch · AIDemocrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump
Democratic lawmakers on Thursday opened an investigation into the Trump administration's handling of Nvidia's China chip sales, led by senior Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee, sending a letter to the Commerce Secretary demanding records be preserved and questioning whether the arrangement, under which H200 chips are taxed by the US and then re-exported, amounts to an unconstitutional export tax. Jensen Huang has stepped down and agreed to testify.
Industry News
TechCrunch · AITrump floats Apple chairman Tim Cook as Jensen Huang’s successor
After news broke that Jensen Huang would step down as Nvidia CEO, Trump posted on Truth Social that only Tim Cook could succeed Huang, calling it "a legend replacing a legend." Cook stepped down as Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, becoming executive chairman of Apple's board while still handling global policy communications and China relations; Yale School of Management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld also backed Cook as a candidate in a Time article.
TechCrunch · AIHugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang’s exit
After Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's departure, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said on X that it was a sad day and pledged to keep supporting open source AI with even greater force.
Tips & Opinions
The Verge · AIThe Jensen Huang scandal is hardly over
The author analyzes how, after Wednesday brought reports of Jensen Huang's extramarital affair with subordinate Kimberly Powell and board deliberations about removing him, Nvidia announced Huang's resignation on Thursday morning.
AWS Machine Learning BlogFirst-partyFour Amazon Bedrock inference choices that affect cost
An AWS blog explains how four request-level choices in Amazon Bedrock—cache TTL, service tier, reasoning effort, and maxTokens—affect inference cost, changing token processing volume and rates without altering the model or prompts.