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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned, capping a spectacular downfall for a poster boy of the artificial intelligence boom. The resignation marks a major leadership shake-up at the chipmaker.

NVIDIA’s Board of Directors announced that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO, and a Board member, effective immediately. The resignation marks a major leadership change at the chipmaker.

Microsoft 365 is experiencing service degradation as affected servers fail automated health checks and become unresponsive, shifting load onto remaining infrastructure and causing capacity loss. Microsoft has paused deployments, restarted servers, and is testing targeted configuration and health-check bypass changes while investigating recent updates as potential contributors. The issue appears to affect users beyond the U.S., including Europe and Australia, and recovery efforts are ongoing.

Google has introduced Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast and cost-efficient model designed for reliable agentic workflows and everyday tasks. It is positioned for dependable performance across routine and agent-driven use cases.

Microsoft is investigating an Azure outage in which affected servers are failing automated health checks and becoming unavailable, possibly due to a recent component change. The company has paused deployments and configuration changes, shifted traffic away from affected infrastructure, and is restarting servers while testing a configuration fix. The incident has disrupted some organizations, and Microsoft’s status page has also had issues, though updates are being posted via RSS.

Anthropic has filed to become a public company, setting up an IPO for the AI developer. The company directed readers to a founders’ letter and other relevant information accompanying the filing.

Microsoft's Outlook is experiencing an outage, and Microsoft's status page is also failing to work reliably. Updates shared from Microsoft's RSS feed say affected servers are failing automated health checks—possibly tied to a recent change—which has taken them out of rotation and shifted load onto remaining infrastructure. Microsoft says it has paused deployments, moved traffic, and is restarting affected servers while testing a configuration change.

When we launched the Remote Labor Index a year ago, the best AI could fully automate 2.5% of real freelance projects. Fable 5.2 now automates 41.3%. The automation rate is doubling every ~3 months. AIs may soon be able to do all remote work faster and more cheaply than humans.

Humble Bundle’s apparent “vibe coding” revamp has users reporting broken security and login flows, including delayed email verification codes and repeated code requests at every login. Readers also cite frustrating access problems for purchased downloads and ebooks, apparent one-click payment concerns, and say the issues are pushing long-time subscribers to cancel.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is said to have had a relationship with an executive who reports to him, according to a report discussed online. Commenters speculated the situation could be broader, citing claims about security detaining someone filming and offering an NDA, while also noting that reports have not described sexual details and may involve only dating or kissing. The allegations remain unconfirmed.

Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO immediately, a move readers see as removing the leader who defined the company for over 30 years. Discussion focused on whether Nvidia will be revalued without him and on risks from fines, export controls, China revenue exposure, and AI-bubble sentiment, with some still viewing the underlying chip business as fundamentally strong.

A developer built a free, open-source embroidery app for Mac and Windows after their $300 embroidery machine required a subscription. The software converts SVG artwork into machine embroidery, lets users edit stitches visually, and supports creating designs with AI agents via MCP.

Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Hydrogen inside Google Antigravity. The update also adds an Orchestrator option to the model dropdown, pairing Hydrogen with additional capabilities.

A forensic analysis of publicly released AI models found evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group have gained access to NVIDIA’s export-controlled Blackwell GPUs and used them to build their models. The findings suggest Chinese frontier AI developers obtained the restricted chips despite export controls.

The Foundation Models framework offers a native Swift API for integrating any large language model into an app. It gives Swift developers a standardized way to add LLM capabilities directly into their applications.

Singapore said the U.S. has not been helpful in its investigation into a company linked to suspected spy Alice Huang. It disclosed that Huang’s passport was held for months after President Trump was briefed that she was a spy.

Jane Street has added a Socratic Tutor skill to its agent_skills GitHub repository. The repo is described as a collection of agent skills and is open for community contributions.

A critical RCE vulnerability, CVE-2026-119618, has been identified in Apache HTTP Server. Wiz data shows that 64% of cloud environments contain vulnerable resources, so immediate patching is advised to detect and mitigate the flaw.

Astronomers have spotted a dwarf planet candidate, ED138, in telescope images; it takes roughly 280 years to orbit the sun. Its size still needs to be determined before it can be properly classified.

A developer is working on smolmaxxing, a project aimed at maximizing the ability to run different LLMs on the smallest and oldest devices possible. The effort focuses on making local AI inference feasible on highly constrained hardware.

Libreagi is a private BitTorrent tracker where members keep copies of open-source AI models that are most likely to disappear. The project aims to preserve access to at-risk OSS models through distributed file sharing.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned after reports of a second affair deepened a scandal involving his earlier admitted affair with a woman allegedly a Chinese spy. Chief financial officer Colette Kress has been appointed interim CEO.

Nintendo has issued four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting the Switch emulators Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware. The notices are part of a broader enforcement sweep against software and firmware used to run or modify Switch games.

Former Nvidia CEO Huang reportedly had a relationship with a second employee, according to sources. Reader discussion around the report alleges multiple affairs, including one involving a spy, and suggests the disclosures are being released in a coordinated way. Commenters also claim the intelligence community knew since mid-2026 and that Huang has confessed.

The surge of AI and AI-generated apps is overwhelming Apple’s App Store review process, creating major headaches for developers. Legitimate synth app makers are getting caught in the crossfire as reviews bog down, with the report citing two examples.

A tinkerer automated a two-square-metre vegetable garden with eleven sensors, a camera, an old phone and an AI agent backed by a lakehouse, producing a lettuce that cost about €60. The stunt illustrates how IoT is shifting toward agentic automation and integrated data platforms, while showing the cost and complexity still involved in real-world deployments.

Fable52.games offers 30+ browser games built autonomously by Claude Fable 5.2, many shipped as single self-contained HTML files. Visitors can play the games, read the exact prompts, inspect the source, and download or remix them.

Relax is a new live compiler and JIT runtime for Rust, itself written in Rust, that runs a Cargo package directly from source without invoking rustc, LLVM, or a linker. It aims to cut Rust build times by removing those traditional compilation steps from the loop.

Astronomers at the Curtin University node of ICRAR have linked mysterious radio pulses to a rare star system that emits radio signals every eight minutes. The discovery ties the recurring signals to an unusual stellar system, offering new insight into the sources of periodic radio emissions.

A researcher discovered a 22-year-old zero-day in PostgreSQL core and turned it into a remote code execution exploit. The finding emerged from an investigation into using managed PostgreSQL, highlighting a long-standing security risk in the database.