AINov 13, 2026The Verge
What’s really at stake in the Jensen Huang saga
The resignation closed one chapter, but the harder questions about Nvidia in China and what Washington knew are only starting, and they reach well past one company.
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AINov 13, 2026Hugging Face
llama.cpp v1.0.0 : A stronger foundation for the local AI ecosystem
A version number sounds boring, but llama.cpp promising stable interfaces is a quiet signal that local, private AI is becoming infrastructure people can build businesses on.
AINov 13, 2026The Verge
Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful
Anthropic's consumer agent shows its strongest use is catching what falls between email, Slack and docs, and its weakest is pretending to understand tone or do the creative work.
AINov 13, 2026NVIDIA Blog
How AI Is Helping Care Teams Get Patients the Right Care, Sooner
The most promising healthcare AI here isn't a chatbot but a chart reader that stays inside the hospital, leaves the decisions to clinicians and turns years of review into usable evidence.
AINov 13, 2026TechCrunch
Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil
Israel has more riding on Nvidia's leadership than almost anywhere outside the US, and its investors are making a sober bet that the opening for rival chipmakers is real but narrow.
AINov 13, 2026The Verge
Let’s talk about Jensen Huang’s many affairs!
The Verge is having fun with the tabloid side, and so is everyone, but the jokes land on a serious point: the real story is chips, China and what the White House was told.
AINov 12, 2026MarkTechPost
Liquid AI Releases LiquidCodec, a 74M-Parameter Streaming Audio Codec
Liquid AI's new speech codec is small enough to run on one CPU thread and fast enough to vanish from the latency budget, which is exactly where on-device voice AI needs help.
AINov 12, 2026TechCrunch
Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump
With the CEO gone, the Nvidia story is turning into a question about the government itself: who approved the China chip sales, who knew what, and what was paid along the way.
AINov 12, 2026WIRED
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.
AINov 12, 2026WIRED
Jensen Huang Is Out. Will Nvidia’s Rivals Cash In?
Nvidia's leadership crisis won't hand rivals its customers overnight, but it gives every company already building its own chips a reason to move faster.
AINov 12, 2026MarkTechPost
CopilotKit Releases OpenBot 1.0: An MIT-Licensed, Self-Hostable AI Coworker With Built-In Governance
A self-hosted AI coworker that checks a policy before every action is the right shape for workplace agents, though this launch write-up was paid for by the company behind it.
AINov 12, 2026Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #98
Microsoft's latest research roundup is mostly quiet incremental work, but one finding on coding agents shows where the real cost of AI assistance is hiding.