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Power over AI companies is shifting from trust in one founder to scrutiny by boards and markets
Nvidia is searching for a new CEO while 5,965 current employees and 63,063 shareholders have signed a petition to bring Jensen Huang back. Colette Kress, the CFO now serving as interim CEO, is the person who pushed back on the financing guarantees Huang had championed for customers. The petition asks for the founder's return, while the person now running the company is the one who argued for tighter limits on that spending.
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Anthropic is days from its November 19 . About $901 billion in commitments, mostly for computing and chips, sit on its books, and CEO Dario Amodei admitted there is huge uncertainty about next year. The offering is oversubscribed about six times, yet some banks say they will turn away, or make allocation difficult for, orders from investors in mainland China and Hong Kong. The bank limits trace back to a US arms-export rule, not to any clause in Anthropic's prospectus.
Helen Toner of CSET, a Georgetown policy research center, said we are in trouble if our AI safety plan rests on any one person being trustworthy. She is the former OpenAI board member who voted to fire Sam Altman. She spoke before Huang resigned; this week's Nvidia petition puts the same question to a chipmaker rather than an AI lab.
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Watch how interim CEO Kress explains Nvidia's customer financing at the November 17 quarterly earnings report.
Elon Musk, Replit CEO Amjad Masad and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney are among those who signed a petition asking Nvidia's board to reinstate CEO Jensen Huang. The petition site said that by Saturday afternoon it had more than 115,000 signatures, including 5,965 current Nvidia employees, 1,108 former employees and 63,063 shareholders. Huang stepped down on November 12, four days after admitting a relationship with a chip executive whom US intelligence suspects of being a Chinese spy. The petition objects that he was removed without meaningful due process and asks for an independent investigation. Nvidia has named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO and is searching for a successor; its stock fell 2% on Friday.
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What gives the petition weight is how many signers are employees and shareholders. Backers cite due process, but the board is already running an independent investigation and a successor search, and the petition has no formal say in either. Reports this week also say the CFO now serving as interim CEO had repeatedly clashed with Huang over how much Nvidia should invest in its customers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told a JPMorgan Chase investor event in New York that "there's a huge uncertainty in what's going to happen next year." He called computing capacity "the deepest business dilemma that the company faces," because compute must be bought one to two years ahead, before anyone knows whether revenue will cover it. According to Bloomberg, Anthropic's total commitments are about $901 billion, with about $71 billion due by September 2027. The is scheduled for November 19 and aims to raise up to $64.4 billion in what would be the largest IPO ever, and is reportedly about six times oversubscribed. Annualized revenue reached $81 billion at the end of October, up $10 billion from a month earlier.
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Annualized revenue is $81 billion; commitments are $901 billion. By Amodei's own account, closing that gap depends on demand forecasts made a year or two before the revenue arrives. As a public company, Anthropic will be measured against those forecasts every quarter, and Amodei raised the uncertainty himself days before the listing.
$64.4BAnthropic IPO, maximum raise
The IPO, set for November 19 and possibly the largest ever, carries $901 billion in commitments.
Helen Toner, executive director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), says we are in big trouble if our AI safety plan rests on any one person being trustworthy. She said it on The Verge's Decoder podcast, drawing on having been one of four OpenAI board members who voted to fire Sam Altman. That episode ended with Altman back as CEO and Toner resigning, and OpenAI has since restructured entirely. Host Nilay Patel noted that OpenAI's nonprofit board existed to stop profit and growth from overriding safety, and that when it tried to pull the lever, the accountability mechanism broke. The interview was recorded before Nvidia's Jensen Huang resigned.
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The point comes from someone who watched an internal check fail the one time it was tested. This week thousands of Nvidia employees and shareholders signed a petition asking the board to bring back a CEO who had resigned, much as OpenAI staff pushed for Altman's return.
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Anthropic is telling Claude Opus 5.5 users to drop prompting habits from earlier models. Phrases like "think hard" or "think carefully" should go, because the model always reasons on its own; in Anthropic's tests, responses without them started faster with no measured loss in quality. It recommends starting at the default Medium setting, noting that in internal tests Opus 5.5 at Medium matched the previous model Opus 5 at High. It also advises putting the goal and output format in a single message instead of splitting instructions, and asking for a finished document rather than a draft.
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Prompting tricks go stale each time the model changes. Phrases that helped in the early reasoning-model era about a year and a half ago now just slow responses. Teams with long-lived prompt templates should audit them whenever they switch models.
What to do now
If your saved prompts include "think hard," remove it and compare results with Effort left on Medium in the model menu.
OpenAI has moved its robotics researchers onto other teams, Fortune reported on November 13. Researchers go to the main research team under Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, while the applied robotics and hardware teams join Greg Brockman's Applied group. The decision was so abrupt that OpenAI left an already-booked booth empty at the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin. OpenAI later said robotics work continues and the team was reorganized to work more closely with research and product. The reasoning appears to be that general-purpose models like GPT-6 Astra can control robots directly. In a simulated Nvidia study, an Astra-based agent succeeded 74.8% of the time versus 51% for the best specialized model.
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The 74.8% versus 51% comes from simulation, not real robots; in a physical test on robot arms, Astra fully completed 7 of 100 tasks. The Decoder notes that specialized models may still win on cost and reliability, as well as speed and energy use, even if they generalize less well. OpenAI's reorganization rests on evidence that so far is only partial.
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A longtime Nvidia engineer posted in an internal suggestion box asking the board to weigh employee views before deciding, and the post drew more than 1,600 comments, many backing Jensen Huang's return. Wired reported on it on November 12 after obtaining internal documents. One employee emailed the entire company demanding a transparent account of how Huang's exit happened. Huang resigned as CEO and director on November 12, and the board named CFO Colette Kress interim CEO and Harvey Jones the new chair. There is no confirmation that the board is considering reinstating Huang or that Huang himself has said he wants to return.
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Sam Altman returned to OpenAI five days after his 2023 firing amid an employee revolt. Huang, by contrast, resigned before the board's independent investigation was finished, while some employees had expected the board to decide only after reviewing its findings. The board is searching inside and outside the company for a successor, and nothing confirms it is considering bringing Huang back.
The Wall Street Journal and Reuters reported on November 13 that Nvidia interim CEO Colette Kress repeatedly clashed with Jensen Huang over large AI investments and financial support for customers. At an August finance meeting, Huang cut off Kress's presentation and called her a "deer in the headlights." Kress said there were no clear standards for choosing who gets guarantees, valuing them, or calculating returns. For OpenAI's Ohio data center, Nvidia considered financial guarantees of up to $250 billion, but after Kress reworked the terms the initial plan fell to $120 billion, and the contractual cap Nvidia disclosed is $105 billion. Nvidia reports quarterly earnings on November 17, its first as led by an interim CEO.
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The drop from $250 billion to $105 billion followed Kress's review, though the reports say Huang himself later moved to scale back customer financing too. A venture investor quoted in the reports said no one but Huang would invest so aggressively in his own customers, the AI companies and cloud operators that used Nvidia's backing to buy its chips. The November 17 earnings call is the first chance to hear how Kress will handle customer financing.
What to do now
Nvidia reports on the 17th. Check the section of its investor materials on customer financing support.
Bloomberg reported on November 13 that some investment banks told clients they will turn away, or make allocation difficult for, mainland Chinese and Hong Kong institutional orders for Anthropic's . The US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) was cited as one basis for the limits. Anthropic's prospectus has no explicit clause barring these investors, and not every bank blocked order submission. Some investors are exploring participation through offshore trusts or special purpose vehicles. Similar guidance was given in SpaceX's IPO in June, though investors in those regions could buy shares on the market after listing. Anthropic and the lead underwriters declined to comment.
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Limits on IPO allocation are separate from limits on trading after listing; after SpaceX listed, investors from those regions could buy its shares on the market. Anthropic already offers no Claude service in China or Hong Kong and has blocked access for visitors there. Now the same line reaches its share offering.
Researchers say about 3,000 attacks were claimed on leak sites over the summer, a 20 to 40 percent increase from spring. Fully AI-driven ransomware has not emerged yet, but attackers are using AI for parts such as phishing emails and negotiations. Halcyon counted around 111 ransomware groups claiming attacks between July and September. A new group called Storm listed 71 victims in 20 days, and ReliaQuest traced one group to an inexperienced teenager who made more than $800,000 in under two weeks. Recorded Future's Allan Liska said this year's attack count already exceeds all of 2025, though attacks involving encryption may actually decrease.
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AI is lowering the barrier to entry more than it is raising attack quality: a lone newcomer can now claim dozens of victims within weeks. Wired notes that attackers inflate their victim counts, and Halcyon's Cynthia Kaiser suspects many of these upstarts will surge and then burn out.
According to Reuters, Amazon is planning a "World Product Graph," a store of data on every product sold anywhere online, including items Amazon does not sell. The aim is to keep shoppers from leaving for Reddit or Google to research products, and to make AI shopping agents rely on Amazon's product index. An internal document says many answers from its AI shopping assistant, Rufus, are factually wrong or incomplete, and that more data should improve accuracy and let cheaper models run it. The document lists an October 1, 2027 release date. Amazon said draft documents often paint an incomplete picture and do not necessarily reflect current plans.
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If realized, Amazon would hold the reference data AI agents use to pick products. The bet is that when agents rather than people shop, whoever owns the product index behind the search box controls the gateway. Even so, Reuters said whether or when it ships is unclear.
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