AI Daily: Huang resigns, Anthropic IPO at up to $1.4T, Gemini 4 Carbon opens

xiaohu · x · 2026-11-13

Daily AI digest highlights:

Jensen Huang resigns: NVIDIA's board announced Huang stepped down as CEO and left the board, effective immediately; CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO, and the board set up a chair role for the first time while searching for a successor. Trigger: two reported relationships and closed-door testimony demanded by three House committees on the 18th. NVIDIA fell as much as 14% at open, briefly below $4T market cap.
Anthropic IPO pricing: Nasdaq, ticker ANT, $70–78/share, $1.4T valuation at the top of the range including all options. The prospectus claims the "AI materially accelerates AI research" line of its safety policy has been reached, judged against next-gen models.
Google: Gemini 4 Carbon is generally available, ranking first on three third-party leaderboards; DeepMind used AI to produce mathematical proofs for Signal's core code—5 people, 4 weeks, 6M+ lines of proofs, with the checked security properties holding.
Humanoids in factories: Gemini Robotics 2.5 fits parts on a Mercedes line at 96% success (proof of concept); NVIDIA GR00T 2 hits 95% success on new tasks after watching 5 demos totaling under 3 minutes.
Claude: tables and whiteboard in beta for all paid users; Pro/Max/Ultra/Team users can claim one free usage reset before Dec 10.
Also: Baidu ERNIE 5.5 Flash and Kunlun chips, Doubao Office integrating Kimi/GLM/DeepSeek, United Airlines bans AI-placed orders, NY AI safety law effective next year.

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