Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia, Google ships Gemini 4 Hydrogen, and SpaceX puts $74B behind two AI supercomputing campuses
Friday, November 13, 2026 · 11 min
Nvidia's founder resigned Thursday with CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, while Google rolled out its cheaper Gemini 4 Hydrogen model everywhere at once. SpaceX outlined more than $74 billion for Texas and Arizona supercomputing campuses, and ex-Anthropic lab Mirendil raised a $1 billion Series A on company-run tests.
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Nvidia's founder resigned Thursday with CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, while Google rolled out its cheaper Gemini 4 Hydrogen model everywhere at once. SpaceX outlined more than $74 billion for Texas and Arizona supercomputing campuses, and ex-Anthropic lab Mirendil raised a $1 billion Series A on company-run tests.
In this episode
- Jensen is OUT!? Fable 5.2 and the Anthropic IPO, Gemini 4 Carbon and Hydrogen, live from AI Engineer — Alex Volkov
“This morning Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO and member of the board, effective immediately. He founded the company 33 years ago and turned it into the most important company in AI. CFO Colette Kress is now the interim CEO and keeps the CFO job,…”
- Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash — Ars Technica
“Google claims that Hydrogen represents a major improvement versus the previous Flash model. It runs in one of four thinking levels (low, medium, high, and the new xhigh), and even in high mode, it's 2.5 times faster than Flash 3.8. Plus, it reduces "fabricated claims" by more…”
- SpaceX announces over $74 billion investment in Texas, Arizona supercomputing campuses - The HinduBusinessLine — PTI
“In a statement issued on Thursday, SpaceX outlined an investment of over $24 billion for a supercomputing facility in Texas's Rio Grande Valley and roughly $50 billion for a separate campus in Cochise County, Arizona.”
- AI Lab Mirendil Raises $1B Series A: Release Names No Valuation, Cites Only Company Tests — Mark Rutherford
“Mirendil, an AI lab founded by former Anthropic researchers, announced a $1 billion Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital on Thursday, Nov. 12, but the release names no valuation. The training bill the company cites, less than $10 million in compute, covers only…”