Nvidia's board said on 12 November that Jensen Huang has resigned as president, CEO and board member, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent one, five days before Nvidia reports its quarterly results.
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO
Kress will stay on as CFO while she serves as interim CEO, and the board will consider internal and external candidates, Nvidia's announcement says. Harvey C. Jones becomes the board's first-ever chair. The release gives no reason for the resignation. Chair Harvey Jones said the board expects "the company's operations, customer commitments and product roadmap to continue without interruption." Nvidia reports third-quarter fiscal 2027 results on 17 November (US time), as previously scheduled.
Why it matters: if your AI tools run on cloud GPUs, the board's line is that customer commitments and the roadmap carry on. The 17 November results are the next public update.
A Microsoft 365 outage takes down Copilot along with Outlook and Teams
A global Microsoft 365 outage began at about 3:15am Australian time on 13 November (9:45pm IST on 12 November), ABC News reports. Microsoft's service notice said users "may be unable to load Copilot Chat or receive responses," and that Copilot "may be unable to access work data such as email, calendar, and files", alongside Outlook mailbox problems. Microsoft says there is "no indication this is the result of malicious activity." As of ABC's 11:06pm AEDT update on 13 November (5:36pm IST), Microsoft reported some services recovering in Asia-Pacific, "encouraging recovery progress in Europe" and the US "also improving" with intermittent issues, and said reducing email queues remained a priority. It will publish a Post-Incident Report.
Why it matters: when email goes down, an AI assistant that works from your email goes with it. List which daily tasks depend on one provider, and agree how the team works for a day without it.
Four nonprofits sue five AI companies to halt new models
The Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and the Alliance for Secure AI sued on 12 November in San Francisco Superior Court, AP reports. The filing asks a judge to stop Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI from developing or deploying new AI models, alleging they violated a California unfair competition law. The companies didn't immediately respond to AP's requests for comment.
Why it matters: the filing asks a judge to act, and no judge has ruled on it yet. Nothing changes for the tools you use unless one does.
Databricks' new Genie takes on long-running work and asks before acting
Databricks describes the new Genie (11 November) as "an autonomous AI coworker that proactively handles long-running enterprise work for you." Its examples include monitoring incoming insurance claims for fraud patterns and assembling a case file for underwriters, and managing campaigns and proposing weekly budget changes for approval. Genie acts with the user's identity, every action is "traced and auditable", and admins can set spending caps. The post gives no price or release stage.
Why it matters: Databricks says admins set the approval rules, and users choose what Genie may do on its own within them. Ask for that setting in any agent that touches money or customers.
ServiceNow launches an engine that reads Salesforce setups
ServiceNow's new Autonomous CRM Engine uses AI to analyse existing CRM environments and recommend business process improvements, SiliconANGLE reports. Business leaders review the proposed changes in a visual workspace before they are deployed into ServiceNow's CRM. The first rollout supports only Salesforce, with others planned. ServiceNow says it can cut CRM implementations "from months to weeks", though it hasn't run comparative productivity studies against competing platforms.
Why it matters: before any move between systems, ask the vendor to show you what it found in your current setup, and check it against how your team actually works.
Report: India may steer critical departments towards Indian-built AI models
The central government is likely to push for Indian-built AI models in critical sectors, including defence and aerospace, and could ask central and state departments to avoid frontier AI models from non-Indian companies, MediaNama reports, citing Business Standard. Senior officials reportedly told Business Standard that departments are being asked to review how indigenous AI systems can be deployed in these sectors. One unnamed official said some domestic models have reached "up to 80 per cent of the capacity of leading frontier AI models." The report cites no order or notification.
Why it matters: if you sell to government or defence buyers, find out which model sits under your AI tools and whether it can be swapped.
Worth watching: Nvidia's results on 17 November, and Microsoft's Post-Incident Report on the outage.
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