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Nvidia after Huang

A newsletter says Nvidia has no clear plan after Huang. Its own announcement names an interim chief, a chair and a search.

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Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO and from the board, effective immediately.

The reality check

Nvidia's release names Colette Kress interim CEO until a permanent successor is named, and Harvey C. Jones first-ever Chair. It says internal and external candidates will be considered.

Why care? Per The Guardian, Nvidia's value has fallen to about $4tn this week. The open question is who leads long term, not whether anyone is in charge.

Take this with youNo permanent CEO yet, but Nvidia's own announcement names an interim chief, a new chair and an open search.

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The claim we checked

Jensen Huang's resignation leaves Nvidia without its founder, and without a clear plan for what comes next.

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therundown.ai ↗
without its founder, and without a clear plan for what comes next
therundown.ai ↗
CFO Colette Kress has been named interim CEO
nvidianews.nvidia.com ↗
Kress will continue to serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer while serving as Interim Chief Executive Officer until a permanent successor has been named.
nvidianews.nvidia.com ↗
The Board of Directors appointed Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever Chair of the Board.
nvidianews.nvidia.com ↗
The Board is initiating a search for a permanent Chief Executive Officer and will consider internal and external candidates.
nvidianews.nvidia.com ↗
customer commitments and product roadmap to continue without interruption
theguardian.com ↗
fallen to about $4tn this week after allegations that Huang had conducted affairs with a Chinese spy and an Nvidia executive
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What Nvidia's announcement sets out

  1. Kress: interim CEO and CFO
  2. Jones: Chair of the Board
  3. Search: inside and outside candidates
Next: Gödel's notebooks

Gödel's notebooks

Gödel's 'hundreds of proved theorems' are 663 proofs, sketches and ideas. About 400 checked out as written.

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Logician Jan von Plato showed Claude his own transcriptions of Gödel's shorthand workbooks plus six of his books on Gödel, and asked it to list the results.

The reality check

Claude listed 663 results where Gödel had a proof, a sketch or an idea for one. By von Plato's Coq check, about 400 were verified as stated, about 200 repaired and about 50 false.

Why care? Cite about 400 of 663, by von Plato's own count. An outside logician quoted by the Guardian says how much is Claude and how much is Gödel is for historians.

Take this with youThe 663 results Claude listed include sketches and ideas; about 400 were verified as stated and about 50 were false.

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The claim we checked

Kurt Gödel's 1,009 pages of workbooks, read with help from the AI model Claude, are now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems.

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The Guardian ↗
which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems
The Guardian ↗
Gödel either had a proof, had sketched a proof or had an idea for a proof. Claude found 663.
The Guardian ↗
About 400 were verified as stated, about 200 were repaired
The Guardian ↗
About 50 were false, and this is no wonder.
The Guardian ↗
showing Claude his transcriptions of the workbooks, as well as six books he had previously written on Gödel
The Guardian ↗
Although how much is Claude and how much is Gödel is a job for the historians.
Hacker News ↗
said to contain hundreds of proved theorems
CORDIS (European Commission) ↗
an obsolete, forgotten old German stenographic script called Gabelsberger, a true enigma for those interested in the contents
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The idea, step by step

Proved, or proofs, sketches and ideas?

  1. 663 listed: proofs, sketches, ideas
  2. About 400 verified as stated
  3. About 50 false
Next: Did AI ground US flights?

Did AI ground US flights?

US flights were grounded three days after the FAA spread its AI tool. The stated cause is a telecoms outage.

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Days after the FAA expanded its SMART AI tool across US airspace, it grounded flights nationwide, citing a temporary telecommunications outage. DHS said it is checking whether the AI tool contributed.

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The FAA's new AI air traffic tool, SMART, may have caused the 13 November nationwide ground stop.

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Futurism ↗
Entire US Airspace Shut Down Days After the FAA Rolled Out an AI Air Traffic Tool. Was It a Coincidence?
KPRC Click2Houston ↗
However, officials have not established that the AI system caused the problem.
Futurism ↗
The current ground stop is not based on or a result of the SMART system,
Scientific American ↗
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) cited a “temporary telecommunications outage,”
Ars Technica ↗
Local air traffic controllers can decide whether or not to accept the SMART system recommendations.
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    Next: Blackwell fingerprint

    Blackwell fingerprint

    Six Chinese AI models carry a Blackwell fingerprint. The report says it marks how training started, not where it ran.

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    A forensic report matched the starting weights of six models from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group to Blackwell-class chips. The method agreed with all 24 models whose hardware was publicly disclosed.

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    The claim we checked

    Top Chinese Frontier AI Models Carry the Fingerprint of Export-Controlled NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs; several leading Chinese AI developers have begun using Blackwell to train their newest models.

    These are quoted receipts, not a count of independent investigations. Several reports may rely on the same original source.

    Unemployment Labs ↗
    Six models released by these companies since April 2026 contain numerical patterns matching Blackwell hardware
    Unemployment Labs ↗
    For 24 specific models, the developer has publicly said what hardware was used. In every case, our method agrees with the public announcement.
    Unemployment Labs ↗
    The method identifies the hardware that generated the starting weights, not every chip that later helped train the model.
    Unemployment Labs ↗
    do not establish where the chips were located, how access was obtained, or whether export controls were violated
    Hacker News ↗
    it only proves access to a single Blackwell GPU, which would have been sufficient for initializing an LLM with random values
    Hacker News ↗
    It's perfectly legal for Chinese companies to train models on GPUs that they rent outside of China.
    Tom's Hardware ↗
    DeepSeek trained its earlier V3 model on 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs
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