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| • A post-Jensen Nvidia must reshuffle its leadership, reset its DC ties, and recognize that even the US' most valuable company cannot dictate US foreign policy (Chris Miller/Financial Times)
• Nidus, which is developing AI-powered tech for manufacturing robots used by US defense industrial companies, raised $30M across a pre-seed and a seed (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
• TSMC plans to set up a new $500M fund to invest in chip startups, suppliers, and other upstream partners, saying "we also want to support the future's Nvidia" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
• Nebuly, whose tech helps enterprises measure the business value of AI agents by analyzing their impact on productivity and revenue, raised a $21M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
• Nvidia insiders say Jensen Huang was prone to wild office tantrums, which a source says some employees were surprised hadn't leaked before his public downfall (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
• How Jensen Huang built a multibillion-dollar business to let Chinese companies access Nvidia AI chips in SE Asian data centers, exploiting a gap in US sanctions (Wall Street Journal)
• The Nvidia scandal presents a political challenge for the White House by tying together data centers, China, and corruption, all key voter issues in midterms (Washington Post)
• 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki, formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, says Jensen Huang's affair shows what happens when CEOs think they are "untouchable" (Bloomberg)
• Source: Applied Digital has asked tenants like Oracle and Meta for billions in guarantees since at least last year to secure power before finalizing leases (Bloomberg)
• Unlike other larger-than-life tech founders, Jensen Huang lacked super-voting shares in Nvidia, making it easier for him to lose control of the company (Forbes)
• USD-pegged stablecoins are taking a growing share of Latin America's crypto activity, serving as a store of value and an efficient cross-border payment system (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
• Letter: Altimeter's Brad Gerstner and Atreides's Gavin Baker urge Nvidia's board to consider "the potential return of Jensen Huang"; they own $2.13B in Nvidia (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
• A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO tops 100K signatures, including Elon Musk, Tim Sweeney, and Garry Tan; organizers say 5K+ Nvidia staff signed (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
• Databento, which offers market data APIs and says it has contracts with five of the six largest frontier AI labs, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.1B valuation (FinTech Global)
• Jensen Huang's resignation is a setback for US open models, as his funding gave open-source developers time to find their footing and will very likely dry up (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
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