NVIDIA announces CEO Huang Renxun's resignation, CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO; President Trump suggests Cook for the position; Tencent denies 50% layoffs; Godiva's operational partner fined 800,000 for promoting incorrect views on marriage and relationships.
TechCrunch · AINvidia CEO Huang Renxun resigned after admitting to an extramarital affair with a Chinese spy, raising U.S. national security concerns, and the motivations behind his support for softer chip export controls against China are also questioned. Huang had firmly supported open-source AI, viewing it as a guarantee of security, innovation, diffusion, and sovereignty, and pushed Nvidia to develop the open-source AI model Nemotron, investing in startups like Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. open-source models.
Chengdu Embodied Brain Company Qilinbo recently completed tens of millions of RMB in Angel Round funding, with investors including Chengdu Fangcun Engine Technology Co., Ltd. and Angel Investors. Qilinbo was established in December 2025, focusing on core software for embodied intelligence, with core directions being robot autonomous action and multi-machine cooperation. Its embodied robots can be equipped with the OpenHarmony system, and its technological differentiation lies in OpenHarmony, domestic computing platform adaptation, and local model deployment.
The Decoder6565Anthropic reached its first authorization collaboration with AP ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, allowing Claude to display real-time election results with source attribution on election night. Previously, Anthropic had refused such collaborations on the grounds of fair use, while competitor OpenAI has reached over a dozen similar agreements with media outlets. Due to the inability to access real-time data, Claude is limited in handling time-sensitive queries, and media outlets like AP had previously deliberately blocked its crawlers.
404 Media6565World of Warcraft: Forever Released on Wednesday, Aiming to Recapture the Wonder of Players First Exploring the Game World in 2004. But by 2026, the Game-related Subreddit had been Flooded with AI Extensions Spreading Developer Achievements. Due to the Extensive Commercial Abuse of Warcraft Logs' API, Management Needs to Be Strengthened to Maintain Service Terms and Scalability.
The 36Kr Research Institute released the '2026 China Autonomous Driving Industry Development Research Report', showing that the Chinese autonomous driving market size reached 450.2 billion yuan in 2025, and is expected to reach 529.3 billion yuan in 2026. The penetration rate of L2 and above for passenger vehicles rapidly increased to 70.5%, L3 autonomous driving completed the key leap from testing to market entry, and Robotaxi have preliminarily established monthly per-unit economic models in some core cities.
DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed the registration of AI models for overseas markets, successfully navigating the process of open-sourcing large models and overseas licensing compliance; the UK has committed to funding a £100 million AI biosecurity lab, with support from OpenAI and Anthropic.
SpaceX launches Super Intelligence Partner Network early program, with over 130 companies including NVIDIA participating, aimed at helping businesses build, integrate, and scale applications using the Grok AI platform, Grok Bot's weekly paid user count has risen to over 800,000.
NVIDIA BlogNVIDIA Announces New Investments in French Startups such as Doctolib, Entalpic, Genesis AI, and Pigment, which are using AI to address challenges in areas such as healthcare, material discovery, physical AI, and business planning.
Recode China AIDeepSeek has open-sourced a complete software toolkit built specifically for Huawei Ascend chips, directly challenging NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in effect; Manus has restarted as Manus 2.0 with a valuation of $4 billion, launching an always-on personal agent Cue, directly challenging Meta's Muse product, highlighting that the competition for personal agents has become a key battleground in Chinese AI this year.
