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Apple's first smart glasses bet on Siri, not screens, and Siri is running late
Apple's first smart glasses, reported for 2027, skip augmented reality displays entirely and run on Siri. The software they depend on is reportedly behind schedule.
Trump wants Tim Cook as Nvidia CEO hours after Jensen Huang's resignation
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's chief executive after reports of two affairs, one involving a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. Colette Kress is interim CEO, President Trump wants Tim Cook for the job, and the search for a permanent successor is open.
Nvidia courts Arm CEO Rene Haas as Huang's successor
Nvidia's succession crisis begins: Huang resigned after 33 years, Colette Kress is interim CEO, the board denies engaging candidates, and employees and investors want the founder back.
Perplexity's Teammates agents reach the Mac, at $200 a month
Perplexity's Teammates agents have arrived on the Mac app. The catch: they run only on the $200-a-month Max plan, in a field where rivals already ship similar tools.
Technology
THE OUTPOST INSIGHTAnthropic is betting it can outflank Microsoft and Google by embedding Claude everywhere simultaneously rather than defending a single productivity suite.
Anthropic Launches Claude Meetings and AI-Powered Office Tools to Challenge Microsoft and Google
Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen as its new everyday AI
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet so its AI agents can actually buy things
Samsung Smart Glasses With Google Gemini AI Open for Pre-Orders November 12th
AI Regulation
Jensen Huang's fall was personal. The fallout is about China.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after 33 years amid affair reports and a suspected Chinese intelligence link. The scandal has split the Trump administration over chip exports and left Nvidia searching for a successor.
Jensen Huang is gone, and Nvidia had no plan for it
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's chief executive after reports of extramarital affairs, one involving a suspected Chinese spy. The company he built for 33 years has no succession plan, and the fallout now reaches markets, Congress and AI financing.
Silicon Valley rallies behind Jensen Huang after his resignation
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia after reports of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Markets fell, Silicon Valley rallied behind him, and four investigations are now underway.
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia after a week of affair reports and spy allegations
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's CEO after reports of two affairs, one involving an alleged Chinese spy. The chipmaker he ran for 33 years has no obvious successor.
AI Hardware
Silicon Valley rallies behind Jensen Huang after his resignation
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia after reports of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Markets fell, Silicon Valley rallied behind him, and four investigations are now underway.
Jensen Huang quits Nvidia the morning after a second affair report
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO on November 12 after reports of a second affair. The stock fell hard, a $500 billion financing program is in question, and the chip-smuggling scandal underneath is still unfolding.
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia after a week of affair reports and spy allegations
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's CEO after reports of two affairs, one involving an alleged Chinese spy. The chipmaker he ran for 33 years has no obvious successor.
Jensen Huang resigns, ending more than three decades at Nvidia
Jensen Huang's 33-year run running Nvidia ended Thursday after revelations of affairs, one with a woman US officials believe was a Chinese intelligence asset. The stock's worst five-day drop since the company went public followed, and Congress wants testimony.
Business and Economy
Jensen Huang is gone, and Nvidia had no plan for it
Jensen Huang quits Nvidia the morning after a second affair report
Jensen Huang's fall was personal. The fallout is about China.
Nvidia's circular financing faces a test after Huang's exit
AI Chips
Jensen Huang's fall was personal. The fallout is about China.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after 33 years amid affair reports and a suspected Chinese intelligence link. The scandal has split the Trump administration over chip exports and left Nvidia searching for a successor.
Jensen Huang is gone, and Nvidia had no plan for it
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's chief executive after reports of extramarital affairs, one involving a suspected Chinese spy. The company he built for 33 years has no succession plan, and the fallout now reaches markets, Congress and AI financing.
Silicon Valley rallies behind Jensen Huang after his resignation
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia after reports of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Markets fell, Silicon Valley rallied behind him, and four investigations are now underway.
Musk and Nvidia staff push for Huang's return as the board courts a successor
A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang has passed 115,000 signatures, with Elon Musk and two big investors behind it. Nvidia's board has installed an interim CEO and begun a search that leaves him out.
Startups
THE OUTPOST INSIGHTFractile's $7 billion bet on memory-first chips reflects how AI infrastructure investment is fragmenting beyond GPUs into specialized bottlenecks like bandwidth, testing platforms, and power systems.
Fractile Secures $720M Series C at $7B Valuation With Memory-First AI Chips for Inference Tasks
SE3 Raises $30M to Power Military Drones with Spatial Intelligence and GPS-Free Navigation
SoftBank leads $500 million bet on German robot maker Agile Robots
Anthropic's IPO is a bet that growth outruns $900 billion in spending
AR/VR
THE OUTPOST INSIGHTA 73% accuracy rate for digitizing smell means the technology still fails to identify scents more often than facial recognition misidentifies faces, revealing how far behind chemical sensing lags visual AI despite decades of research.
Researchers Develop AI E-Nose Wearable That Digitizes Smell with 73% Accuracy
Ohio State University researchers created Scentronic, a wearable AI-powered e-nose device that uses machine learning algorithms to detect, analyze, and deliver odors in real time. The device achieved 73% accuracy identifying individual food scents and shows promise for medical applications and assistive technologies.
Apple's first smart glasses bet on Siri, not screens, and Siri is running late
Apple's first smart glasses, reported for 2027, skip augmented reality displays entirely and run on Siri. The software they depend on is reportedly behind schedule.
Apple's smart glasses leaked by its own supplier's earnings report
A Chinese equipment supplier's quarterly filing says it is working on Apple's AI glasses and smart earphones. The rumor record already describes the glasses in detail; Apple has confirmed nothing.
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang's fall was personal. The fallout is about China.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after 33 years amid affair reports and a suspected Chinese intelligence link. The scandal has split the Trump administration over chip exports and left Nvidia searching for a successor.
Jensen Huang is gone, and Nvidia had no plan for it
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's chief executive after reports of extramarital affairs, one involving a suspected Chinese spy. The company he built for 33 years has no succession plan, and the fallout now reaches markets, Congress and AI financing.
Jensen Huang quits Nvidia the morning after a second affair report
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO on November 12 after reports of a second affair. The stock fell hard, a $500 billion financing program is in question, and the chip-smuggling scandal underneath is still unfolding.
Nvidia's circular financing faces a test after Huang's exit
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after reports of two affairs, one with a woman US intelligence identifies as a possible Chinese spy. His exit shakes the AI startup funding machine, invites Washington's scrutiny and tests market confidence in the AI boom itself.
NVIDIA
Jensen Huang's fall was personal. The fallout is about China.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after 33 years amid affair reports and a suspected Chinese intelligence link. The scandal has split the Trump administration over chip exports and left Nvidia searching for a successor.
Jensen Huang is gone, and Nvidia had no plan for it
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's chief executive after reports of extramarital affairs, one involving a suspected Chinese spy. The company he built for 33 years has no succession plan, and the fallout now reaches markets, Congress and AI financing.
Silicon Valley rallies behind Jensen Huang after his resignation
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia after reports of an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Markets fell, Silicon Valley rallied behind him, and four investigations are now underway.
Musk and Nvidia staff push for Huang's return as the board courts a successor
A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang has passed 115,000 signatures, with Elon Musk and two big investors behind it. Nvidia's board has installed an interim CEO and begun a search that leaves him out.
AI Infrastructure
Jensen Huang's fall was personal. The fallout is about China.
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after 33 years amid affair reports and a suspected Chinese intelligence link. The scandal has split the Trump administration over chip exports and left Nvidia searching for a successor.
Jensen Huang is gone, and Nvidia had no plan for it
Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's chief executive after reports of extramarital affairs, one involving a suspected Chinese spy. The company he built for 33 years has no succession plan, and the fallout now reaches markets, Congress and AI financing.
Nvidia's circular financing faces a test after Huang's exit
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after reports of two affairs, one with a woman US intelligence identifies as a possible Chinese spy. His exit shakes the AI startup funding machine, invites Washington's scrutiny and tests market confidence in the AI boom itself.
Jensen Huang quits Nvidia, leaving a $124bn web of AI bets without its architect
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after an affair scandal, erasing more than $1 trillion in value and leaving the AI boom's biggest deal web without its architect.
AI Funding
Jensen Huang quits Nvidia, leaving a $124bn web of AI bets without its architect
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO after an affair scandal, erasing more than $1 trillion in value and leaving the AI boom's biggest deal web without its architect.
Anthropic's CEO pitched safety and no jerks ahead of its trillion-dollar debut
Anthropic set a $70 to $78 price range for its IPO, valuing the company near $1.4 trillion. Days before Thursday's expected debut, CEO Dario Amodei pitched investors on safety, growth and hiring culture.
AI tops the Fed's list of financial-system worries, and the worry has a number behind it
AI tops the Federal Reserve's list of financial system risks, named by 87% of survey respondents. The central bank's own data shows why: the debt behind the AI buildout has grown fivefold.
Report: NVIDIA bankrolled its own customers to soak up spare chips instead of cutting prices
NVIDIA reportedly financed its own customers to absorb excess TSMC-ordered chips rather than lower GPU prices. Interim CEO Colette Kress cut the OpenAI backstop and the unwind is in progress.
Videos
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Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen as its new everyday AI
Google's new everyday model, Gemini 4 Hydrogen, replaces the Flash line and takes over Search's AI Mode. Its benchmark gains are largely Google's own, and the outside checks are mixed.
THE OUTPOST INSIGHTAnthropic is betting it can outflank Microsoft and Google by embedding Claude everywhere simultaneously rather than defending a single productivity suite.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet so its AI agents can actually buy things
Did you know?
Hallucination
Hallucination is when a large, language model (LLM) generates false, misleading or nonsensical information while presenting it as fact. Hallucinations are a common challenge in generative AI and a key reason why human oversight is still crucial.
SE3 Raises $30M to Power Military Drones with Spatial Intelligence and GPS-Free Navigation
Munich-based SE3 has secured $30M in Series A funding led by Accel to advance its spatial intelligence software for military drones. The platform enables autonomous systems to create 3D battlefield maps, coordinate swarms, and navigate without GPS—technology already deployed in Ukraine and with Germany's Bundeswehr across thousands of systems.
THE OUTPOST INSIGHTFractile's $7 billion bet on memory-first chips reflects how AI infrastructure investment is fragmenting beyond GPUs into specialized bottlenecks like bandwidth, testing platforms, and power systems.
SoftBank leads $500 million bet on German robot maker Agile Robots
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