An A.I. Titan Resigns

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTJensen Huang resigned today as chief executive of Nvidia, the chip-making colossus he has led almost single-handedly for decades. Nvidia’s board had been leaning toward removing him after revelations of extramarital affairs with two women: an executive who reported to him, and a woman who U.S. intelligence determined was a Chinese spy.Huang’s departure reverberated across the tech world. He was something of a hero in Silicon Valley; a former Denny’s worker who had wagered the success of his company on A.I. before just about anyone else, and emerged as one of the industry’s most powerful figures. Nvidia currently controls an estimated 90 percent of the market for advanced chips used for A.I. systems; shares in the company plummeted after news of Huang’s departure.Huang’s departure is also a potential challenge to the A.I. boom. Under Huang, Nvidia has been the “central bank of A.I.,” helping to finance major projects. And in Asia, Huang created an intricate web of suppliers, all held together by his personal relationships.Colette Kress, Nvidia’s chief financial officer, will serve as interim chief executive. Here’s what to know about her.For more:President Trump praised Huang, a close ally, for doing a “fantastic job.” Some tech leaders have rallied behind Huang, and Elon Musk said it would be “an honor” to hire him.China has for decades used romantic entanglements to compromise prominent people.Huang is the latest member of a growing club of C.E.O.s brought down by affairs.From Opinion: “Nvidia without Jensen Huang is like the Bulls without Michael Jordan,” Huang’s biographer writes. Here’s what led to his downfall.ImageCredit...Bing Guan for The New York TimesBrooklyn building collapse kills 8, including 2 childrenScores of emergency workers spent this morning sifting through the rubble of a collapsed Brooklyn apartment building, searching for survivors as hard rain pelted the site. A large portion of the building suddenly fell yesterday into a gaping hole created by ongoing excavation at an adjacent construction site. See an image of the aftermath. The collapse killed eight people, including two children, and injured at least 18 others, officials said. They included immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and elsewhere. (Here’s what we know about the victims.)“There are no words for a loss of this magnitude,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, pledging “a full and thorough” investigation. Mamdani noted that he was troubled by reports that construction continued at the site even though an inspection report showed there were cracks in the north facade of the collapsed building.ImageCredit...Lee Klafczynski for The New York TimesHospitals are bracing for millions to lose their insuranceHospitals across the U.S. have launched a major mobilization effort to guide millions of low-income Americans through new work requirements that could knock them off their Medicaid coverage. Under the rules — passed by Republicans last year, and set to go into effect in January — many Medicaid recipients will need paperwork proving that they are employed or in school. Many health leaders expect millions to lose their coverage, and the effects could be far-ranging: Uninsured patients could suffer, emergency room visits could swell and hospitals could shift higher costs to other patients.In other health news: The American Cancer Society recommended that all men ages 50 to 69 undergo prostate cancer screening every two years, reversing past guidance.More top newsWhite House: Saying “we don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump said he was pulling Vice President JD Vance off talks with Tehran to investigate fraud in Democratic-run jurisdictions.Politics: In a rare midterm win for Republicans, Paul LePage, the bombastic former Maine governor, defeated his progressive opponent and flipped a House seat.Congress: Democrats alerted dozens of potential targets of investigations into the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific research and climate protections.Gaza: Local health officials said that an Israeli strike on a hospital killed at least 6 and injured 28 more.Washington: After a shooting killed one and wounded four in the Logan Circle neighborhood, authorities said it may have stemmed from a conflict between the suspect and a homeowners association.Weather: Across the developing world, countries are trying to prepare for this year’s extraordinarily powerful El Niño. We went to Malawi to see what they are doing.Iran: The authorities are pursuing diaspora dissidents and journalists, seizing their assets to silence them.Air travel: Is air travel becoming less safe under the Trump administration? Read an investigation by journalist and pilot James Fallows, and his takeaways.Animals: The early history of man has been challenged by new findings about killer female apes.Your pick: The most-clicked link in the last edition of The Evening was about Toyota’s tiny trucks.TIME TO UNWINDAdam Driver and Miles Teller star in a richly textured thriller“Paper Tiger,” a film by James Gray that arrives in theaters tomorrow, opens on a sweeping view of New York in 1986, then narrows in on two brothers. There’s Adam Driver’s character, a flashy police officer-turned-security consultant; and the naïve, financially-strapped younger brother, played by Miles Teller, flanked by a no-nonsense wife (Scarlett Johansson).The movie follows the family as it is caught up in gangland violence. It is, our critic Manohla Dargis writes, “a familiar story of how ambition can bleed into avarice, desperation into violence, dreams into nightmares.” Read her review.ImageCredit...via Gary O’ConnorHe gives a new meaning to ‘dressing up for the opera’Gary O’Connor is an opera superfan. For the last decade or so, he has attended dozens of productions across the country dressed as something related to the show onstage. For “I Puritani,” he dressed as a Puritan, and for an opera by Handel, he wore a handle-themed outfit.For the ongoing production of “Lincoln in the Bardo” at the Met, O’Connor dressed up as the 16th president himself, growing a beard and completing the look with a top hat. Opera, he said, is “something you should get very excited about.”ImageCredit...Matthew Abbott for The New York TimesDinner table topicsFollow along on a trek through a Papua New Guinea jungle to a famous World War II wreck.The dazzling music of Fernande Decruck is getting a second look. Listen for yourself.A Mexican singer is rewriting her country’s ballads, one woman’s story at a time.Should I get eyelid surgery? It has become increasingly common.WHAT TO DO TONIGHTImageCredit...Rachel Vanni for The New York TimesONE LAST THINGImageCredit...Mohamed Sadek for The New York TimesA dance to the rhythm of table tennisCherrie Yu, the daughter of a champion table tennis player, trained in the sport as a child. When she happened upon a game in New York in 2021, her muscle memory for it immediately came back, as did memories of family and the country she had left behind to go to college.Table tennis became part of her daily practice, along with the dance technique of Merce Cunningham. Now, the 31-year-old choreographer has a new work that juxtaposes table tennis and postmodern dance, set only to the sound of plastic balls and wooden panels. Have a diverting evening. — MatthewWe welcome your feedback. Reach us at evening@nytimes.com.Eli Cohen was our photo editor.Matthew Cullen is the lead writer of The Evening, a Times newsletter covering the day’s top stories every weekday.Related ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT