Silicon Valley Is Still Defending Jensen Huang
The industry's instinct to protect its founder-heroes is still on display after Nvidia's resignation, and we think that reflex is part of how this scandal got so big.
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The industry's instinct to protect its founder-heroes is still on display after Nvidia's resignation, and we think that reflex is part of how this scandal got so big.

Meta's TLX is a quiet but meaningful bet that GPU performance shouldn't belong only to CUDA specialists, and it's already running Meta's largest training jobs.

Google and Adobe are wiring their products into each other, a sensible convenience win that also shows how AI assistants are becoming the new storefront for software.

Singapore Airlines is showing what sensible enterprise AI looks like, with chatbots that hand off cleanly to humans, though the real test is when Kris starts changing bookings.

The question isn't only whether Jensen Huang keeps his job; it's whether an AI economy wired through one company and one founder's judgment can absorb a crisis at its center.

The agent story out of Korea this weekend is about containment: Hyundai and AIM Intelligence are testing sandboxes and policy controls before letting agents touch real enterprise systems.

Perplexity’s new Teammates are persistent agents that take on several roles, keep memory and report into Slack. They join OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet, at a much higher price, and with a CEO vision of hundreds of agents per employee.

UNSW, Sydney, La Trobe, and Adelaide are rolling ChatGPT Edu and agent tools campus-wide while a student survey shows 81% already using AI several times a week.

NVIDIA opens DSX OS — AICR, NVCRE, and NVSentinel — so GPU Kubernetes clusters get reproducible recipes, workload certification, and continuous health loops instead of hope-based handovers.

OpenAI is wrapping its next compute campuses in a National Community Compact — pay-your-own-way energy, public reporting, and a policy blueprint asking lawmakers to make the rules stick industry-wide.

NVIDIA wants the 3 a.m. restart of a failed training job to stop being a human's job, and it ships with a sensible default: watch first, act later.

Microsoft is putting voluntary buyouts in front of roughly a quarter of its workforce, and we think it's the clearest look yet at what an AI-first company is planning for headcount.