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☀️ TRENDING AI NEWS 🚨 Nvidia Crisis: The board is reportedly preparing to remove CEO Jensen Huang after a second alleged affair surfaced, this time with an executive who reports to him. 🏢 OpenAI Revenue: Quarterly sales reportedly crossed $10B for the first time, up almost 50% from $6.7B in Q2. 🤖 IBM Quantum: Nighthawk r3 packs 520 programmable qubits and targets 10,000 quantum operations. 🛠️ Google API: The Gemini Decisions API returns calibrated probabilities at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. |
Quick question before we start: what happens when the person steering the most important chip company on Earth becomes the story? We'll get to that, because Nvidia's week got a lot worse overnight.
Also in today's issue: a record quarter for OpenAI, a quantum chip with 520 qubits, a Google API that hands you probabilities instead of prose, and a coding-adjacent sponsor note you'll want to bookmark.
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Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2.5 and reports a 96% pick-and-pack success rate in a Mercedes-Benz line pilot with Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid. Read more →
Anthropic launched its IPO roadshow, offering 825 million shares at an expected $70 to $78 each under the symbol ANT. Read more →
Anthropic added Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data, plus interactive connectors that let partners embed their apps in Claude. Read more →
| 🤓 AI Trivia | |
IBM's new Quantum Nighthawk r3 processor has 520 qubits. How many qubits will two linked r3 chips give IBM in the system it's planning for 2027?
The answer is hiding near the bottom of today's newsletter... keep scrolling. 👇
| 🚨 Nvidia's Board Reportedly Moves Against Jensen Huang | |
A second affair report changed the math
Days after Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese intelligence agent, a New York Times report alleged a second one, this time with an executive who reports to him. The Wall Street Journal says Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss him, possibly as soon as Wednesday evening. Huang has run the company for 33 years and is worth roughly $150B. The stock has been sliding as the story built. See our Nvidia coverage and Jensen Huang tag for the running thread.
Washington is circling too. House Republicans demanded a closed-door briefing, giving Huang until the end of Wednesday to respond. Reporting also notes that Nvidia has no clear succession plan, and corporate governance experts say they have never seen anything like this unfold at a company this size.
The bottom line
Nvidia sits at the center of the AI buildout, so a leadership vacuum is not just a corporate drama. Watch whether customers and partners treat this as noise or as a reason to hedge their chip supply.
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| 💰 OpenAI Posts Its First $10B Quarter | |
Revenue jumps almost 50% in one quarter
Revenue at OpenAI reportedly crossed $10 billion in a single quarter for the first time, up almost 50% from the $6.7 billion it recorded in the second quarter. That is a steep climb in just three months.
The company is also expanding what ChatGPT does for businesses. It is rolling out verified "Business Agents" that represent a brand and help with tasks like comparison shopping, available first to eligible e-commerce and online service businesses in the US. OpenAI also acquired Odessia, a travel startup created by Sonder founder Francis Davidson, though it has not said what it plans to do in travel.
The bottom line
Fast revenue growth is the strongest counterargument to the 'AI bubble' worry. The next question is whether business-facing features like Business Agents can keep that curve steep.
| ⚛️ IBM Unveils Quantum Nighthawk r3 | |
520 qubits, with a 1,040-qubit plan
IBM announced Quantum Nighthawk r3, a processor with 520 programmable qubits designed to support 10,000 quantum operations. Two r3 chips will be linked into a larger system in 2027. IBM also says the earlier Nighthawk r2 already shows speedups of up to 19x over its Heron processor.
The bottom line
Quantum hardware keeps scaling in qubit count and operation depth. For most readers this is still a watch-this-space story, but the roadmap to 2027 is now concrete.
| 🛠️ Google's Gemini Decisions API Returns Probabilities, Not Paragraphs | |
Calibrated answers across text, video, and PDFs
Google launched the Gemini Decisions API, powered by Gemini Decision 1. It returns calibrated probabilities for up to 1,000 yes/no, multiple-choice, and rubric questions at once, working over text, images, audio, video, and PDFs. Pricing starts at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. Not sure what that costs for your workload? Try our Token Calculator. More on the model family is on our Google Gemini page.
Think of it as turning a model into a classifier you can wire straight into moderation, triage, or screening pipelines, with a confidence number attached instead of a wall of text.
The bottom line
If you run high-volume review or screening, this is worth a test. Structured probabilities are far easier to threshold and audit than free-form answers.
| ✈️ United Says No to Your AI Booking Agent | |
Privacy and regulation drive the ban
United says it will not let personal AI agents book tickets on its airline, citing privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it has not seen many people try it yet, but worries agents could expose customer information or make purchases without authorization.
It's the latest speed bump in the agent race. A separate report suggests eBay has also shut the door on third-party agents, including Meta's Muse, which one user had been using to curate daily watch listings.
The bottom line
Platforms are drawing lines around who gets to act on a customer's behalf. Expect more walled gardens before agent standards settle.
| 🧑💼 Australia Tells Employers to Prepare for AI | |
Fewer hours or more surveillance
Australia's workplace relations minister, Amanda Rishworth, launched a best practice guide on AI adoption after job cuts at Qantas and Canva. The government's view is that entry-level jobs will be the first to be automated, and that outcomes could swing either way: fewer hours and higher wages, or more burnout and workplace surveillance.
The bottom line
The outcome isn't predetermined. How employers deploy AI, and what governments require of them, will decide which version workers get. Follow the broader thread under our job automation tag.
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| 🌎 Trivia Reveal | |
The answer is 1,040 qubits! IBM plans to link two Nighthawk r3 chips, each with 520 qubits, into a single system in 2027.
| 💬 Quick Question | |
Would you let an AI agent book flights or make purchases for you, or does United's caution sound right? Hit reply and tell me where you draw the line. I read every response!
That's it for today. See you tomorrow with more!
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