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Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.

Delta Air Lines planes at the gate at LaGuardia Airport on June 3, 2026. | Photo: Getty Images Takeoffs from airports throughout the US paused on Friday after the FAA issued a national ground stop "due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety," while planes in the air will be allowed to land. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tweeted: The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports following a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Center

This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic party The election for Democratic Senate leader between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen must be understood for what it is. This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic party. It is a debate about whether the Democratic party remains a top-down party dominated by billionaire campaign contributors, inside-the-beltway consultants and 30-second TV ads, or whether we can

After launching its Dots AI agents platform earlier this year, OpenAI is launching a wallet for the agents. ChatGPT Wallet is rolling out starting today for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and older using a US billing address and "eligible US-issued American Express, Chase, Mastercard and Visa cards." After adding a card to the wallet, your Dots agents can use it to buy things in response to your prompts, but they'll check in with you each time before checking out. OpenAI's support pag

The CMF Speaker S comes in four colors: white, dark gray, orange, and turquoise. | Image: CMF by Nothing Bluetooth speakers are often boring boxes in plain colors, but not this one! As part of Nothing’s ongoing early Black Friday promo, you can grab its unique, milk carton-shaped CMF Speaker S from Amazon and Nothing for just $39. That’s a solid $20 discount and the lowest price we’ve seen on Nothing’s newfangled wireless speaker, which hit the market about a month ago. CMF by Nothing Speaker

US commerce secretary faces sack as questions emerge over senior Trump officials’ knowledge of alleged Chinese spy’s ties to Jensen Huang US politics – live updates The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is facing growing pressure over his apparent lack of action over the Nvidia spying scandal as other Trump administration officials publicly raise questions over his decisions. Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, blamed Lutnick’s commerce department for the fact the US had not imposed

LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.

Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout is not over yet, with criticism mounting over the apparent lack of action from the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter, Aisha Down Continue reading...

Lucia and Jason, the two main characters of GTA VI. | Image: Rockstar Games The long-awaited launch of GTA VI is around the corner, happening next Friday, November 19th. While discounts on the game itself will be rare for some time, there’s a clever workaround to save you a few bucks on your digital copy. We found discounts on gift cards for both Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox Series S/X owners to help shave some dollars off your upcoming trip to Vice City. You can pick up a $75 Sony gift

Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout is not over yet, with criticism mounting over the apparent lack of action from the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s global technology reporter, Aisha Down – watch on YouTube Continue reading...

New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.

The Nape Pro was Keychron's first trackball device that was introduced at CES 2026 with a slim and compact design allowing it to be positioned right up against a keyboard. The company's new T1 HE instead looks more like other trackball mice already available from companies like Logitech and Kensington with a 34mm ball positioned on the side to improve ergonomics. But since hands and fingers come in various sizes, the T1 HE allows the position of its trackball to be fine-tuned with minor position

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The End of Everything is a novel for our age of permacrisis. Genre boundaries belong to the past “Science fiction will never be Literature with a capital ‘L,’” began a New York Times review of Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake back in 2003. Now, the seemingly impossible has happened – M John Harrison’s The End of Everything is the first science fiction novel to win the Booker prize. Fans have hailed this as a victory for a long-marginalised genre. The author himself was not so sure. “Writin

An investigator writes that a human-written grievance at least gets to the heart of the issue immediately. Plus letters from Dexter Jandoo and Pete Bibby Re your article (‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints, 8 November), I’m a complaint investigator for a housing association. I’ve worked here for nine years, and the scope of my job has completely changed within a few months. I am well-versed in policy and legislation, and I love my job, but it can be unbe

Fighting for your country | Starbucks | Sparta | Itching powder Jason Okundaye addresses the issue of whether Britain’s youth would be willing to lay down their lives in defence of our country (Gen Z doesn‘t relish going to war – so what! You should worry more about the reckless generations that do, 10 November). A more likely scenario is that they will be asked to fight and die for the sake of a Nato ally on Russia’s border, such as Poland or Lithuania. Matthew J Smith New Malden, L

Jensen Huang gives a keynote address at the Berlin GPU Technology Conference on October 21st in Berlin. | Photo: Getty Images Under cofounder Jensen Huang, Nvidia has become the engine for the AI boom - and one of the tech industry's biggest environmental liabilities. Its sought-after chips have triggered a new wave of water- and chemical-intensive factories, drained power grids from inside massive data centers, and set the stage for a looming e-waste problem. Under Huang's leadership, Nvidia

Last week, Camp Snap launched a miniaturized version of its screen-free CS-8 video camera that was half the size of the original with a smaller grip designed to be easier for kids to hold. But it turns out the company wasn't done shrinking its hardware. Camp Snap's new CS-8 Micro is even smaller than the CS-8 Mini. It's around three inches long and weighs just 1.5 ounces so you can hang it from your keys and, like its larger predecessors, it can capture video using one of five built-in filters.

People who received the brand new Apple TV 4k today saw some strange error messages as soon as they opened the YouTube app. As the first units arrived, the app was initially only showing a black screen with a QR code and an error message saying "YouTube is not yet available on this device." In some cases the app was functional, but had a transparent red bar stuck at the bottom of the screen saying, "YouTube app is approved for device testing only and not for production use." Installing the new t

Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. His two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931, transformed mathematics and paved the way for the digital age. After his seminal results of the 1930s, Gödel published only a few papers. His unpublished work, however, runs to tens of thousands of pages, an

Service is recovering for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world. While some apps and features are still running in a degraded state on Friday morning, some people (including Verge staffers) reported that access to their emails had been restored, though the flow of Outlook mail might be delayed. Just before noon on Friday, Microsoft said it's seeing "broad recovery," and that the problem "was a technical issue not related to cyber or

The model you used today stopped learning months ago. Every fix on the table trades one kind of forgetting for another. Continue reading on Towards AI »

ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out on users' behalf, starting with a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.

Gone are the days when you could just buy your father a random tie or some leather-clad alcohol vessel or a shaving kit. Dads want - nay, deserve - something memorable. Luckily for you, it's not that hard to find something special that he'll approve of, and we're here to guide you. We've curated this year's gift list with the modern father in mind, whether he's a gamer, creator, chef, or simply a gadget lover. There's a lot in here we think he'll like, from noise-canceling headphones like the So

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Introducing ChatGPT Wallet, a secure way for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots to complete purchases with user approval and existing card protections.

ElevenAI is a new meeting notetaker and dictation app aimed at teams and enterprises.

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Big tech has used misdirection, disinformation and jargon to obscure the harm the facilities can cause to communities “Antifa”. “Commies”. “Chinese bots”. Everyone from tech leaders to the president has called datacenter resistance a “documented psyop” and a “Chinese PR thing”. But why do they make these claims? Our new research finds that the datacenter industry uses propaganda, disinformation, and information control to mold public opinion and undermine community opposition. Continue reading.

Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.

Huang described Kress as a "deer in the headlights" during a meeting in summer.

Pino noodles about making his own AI decisions. He has decided independently that he is into trains and cats. Aren’t we all Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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This Congressional investigation into Nvidia's China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.

Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses — but it's not free.

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Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The new model can break down your questions and address each part in its responses. It's available starting today in search, the Gemini app, all tiers of Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Gemini for business, and in Google Antigravity for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Robby Stein, VP of product at

Nvidia announced this morning that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO following reports of two affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with a direct report. The situation surrounding Huang has unfolded quickly, with The New York Times only reporting on Friday that Huang and the suspected spy were "close" before other dominoes started to fall, leading to a swift fall from grace for one of the biggest names in technology. (Hours after Huang's resignation was announced, Reuters rep

The previous-generation Oura Ring 4 is on sale for as low as $249 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, $100 off the retail price, and the first big discount on the device since July. The price varies a bit by size and color, with most silver and black models in stock at the lowest price between sizes 8 and 13. Best Buy also has an exclusive deep blue “midnight” color in stock for $279. If you’re not sure about your size, you can pick up an Oura Ring 4 sizing kit for $10 at Amazon or Target, which in

Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.

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The first 25 original Xbox on PC games. | Image: Microsoft For the 25th anniversary of Xbox, Microsoft is beginning to make good on its paid "next-gen game preservation" promise. Starting today, you can play 25 different original Xbox games on your Windows PC, as long as you have (or are willing to pay) for digital copies. In July, Microsoft originally launched the idea with just four Xbox games, so 25 is progress, and Microsoft says all these games are now playable with keyboard and mouse. P

Over the last hour or so, reports have come in from around the world that people can't access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue from its Microsoft 365 Status account, saying that "We've determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors." There were also some reports of problems with Teams, but some of the people reporting issues say Teams is