TechCrunch reported on November 8, 2026, that Yale leadership scholar Jeffrey Sonnenfeld put Jensen Huang’s chances of remaining NVIDIA CEO at “about a 50-50.” Sonnenfeld called his career salvageable, while warning that the conduct under review could still produce an irreversible loss of confidence. The immediate backdrop is NVIDIA’s November 8, 2026 announcement of an independent investigation into reporting that Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort. Independent directors…

Morning Bid: Fragile calm after AI whiplash    Reuters

MIT and New York University researchers have developed FLEX, a system that uses conversational corrections to revise the environmental features guiding a robot’s movements. MIT announced the work on November 9, 2026, ahead of its presentation at the Conference on Robot Learning in November 2026. FLEX addresses a failure mode in language-guided robotics: telling a coffee-carrying robot not to spill on a laptop can add that object to its obstacle list without capturing why it matters. The system…

NVIDIA announced on November 9, 2026 an expanded collaboration with Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT spanning AI chips, data centers, models, skills and agent security. The hardware project centers on Rebellions’ R200 processors and NVLink-based rack systems, which are expected to be ready for deployment in 2028. Under the joint announcement, Rebellions will connect its next-generation Rebel R200 neural processing units (NPUs) to NVIDIA’s platform through NVLink Fusion and use the MGX…

NVIDIA announced on November 8, 2026, a collaboration with Rebellions and SK Telecom to connect Rebellions’ next-generation R200 processors to NVLink Fusion for Korean sovereign AI infrastructure, with the resulting systems expected to be ready for deployment in 2028. Under the agreement, Rebellions will link its Rebel R200 neural processing units (NPUs) through NVLink Fusion and develop rack-scale systems around the NVIDIA MGX architecture. SK Telecom plans to deploy those systems in its AI…

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SolidUltra has secured €3 million to develop modular solid-state transformers for a new generation of AI data centers. The French company is targeting a particularly consequential part of the infrastructure stack: converting medium-voltage grid electricity into the 800-volt direct current that future high-density computing facilities are preparing to distribute. Founded in June 2026 and based in Massy, France, SolidUltra secured the funding within three months of incorporation, backed by its…

Even running a news website on AI, I ran into internal resistance from employees who were reluctant to adopt AI fully. While we used AI for market research, bullet-point summarization, and translations, there was hesitation about fully deploying agentic AI: research agents that would discover news and report on it autonomously. It was only by pushing ahead despite those objections, while working to mitigate their concerns, that we were able to deploy our fleet of autonomous AI agents. That…

Kakao Mobility announced on November 9, 2026, that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA to develop Level 4 autonomous-driving technology, initially combining their systems on Kia purpose-built vehicles (PBVs). The planned work pairs Kakao Mobility’s autonomous-driving AI and mobility platform with NVIDIA’s computing, sensing and safety technology. The stated goal is a Level 4 system aligned with global standards, building on urban driving that Kakao Mobility says has…