The earthquake at Nvidia
The news reshaping the technology week comes from the chipmaker: according to Bloomberg and as reported by IT之家, Huang Renxun has left his role as CEO of Nvidia after pressure from the board of directors. Sources close to the company describe a tired man who had begun repeating phrases such as “as you wish” and “I don't care,” far from the determination that had distinguished him over more than thirty years at the helm of the company.
The transition also had immediate effects on official communications: the founder's institutional profile was updated to state that Huang founded Nvidia in 1993 and that he previously served as president and CEO, as well as a board member. The leadership vacuum was temporarily filled by Colette Kress, formerly the chief financial officer, described by The Information as the figure who in the past had curbed some of the riskiest bets promoted by the former number one, including a $250 billion mega-deal with OpenAI.
Making the picture more complex is the internal reaction: according to IT之家, a spontaneous consultation among employees reportedly gathered more than 97% support for Huang's return, with emails and posts on the corporate network urging the board to reconsider the decision. According to the outlet's account, the episode was accompanied by a loss in market capitalization estimated at $1 trillion. These are figures reported by the source and not independently verified, just as the actual outcome of the employee mobilization remains unclear.
Open issues remain in the background: the management of chip inventories, a cause for alarm according to the cited press, the ongoing investigations mentioned in the material, and the future of the roughly $90 billion philanthropic foundation linked to Huang and his wife Lori, whose stability is being called into question by The New York Times. None of this information was confirmed by Nvidia in the available text.
The Microsoft outage halts offices
On the digital services front, Microsoft 365 suffered a prolonged outage lasting more than ten hours, with a peak of about 130,000 reports related to Outlook and disruptions affecting companies and administrations in several countries; in Japan, some public offices reportedly temporarily reverted to the telephone to maintain operations. The company confirmed an improvement in the situation with a statement issued at 9 a.m. New York time on November 13, corresponding to 22:00 in Italy, reporting a sharp drop in backlogged emails, while warning that more than twenty products and services could still present errors. The stated cause is a chain of server failures, and no date for full restoration has been announced.
On the same day, outages were also reported for Claude, with Anthropic saying it was investigating authentication issues on Claude.ai and Claude Code, without providing details on the causes. The overlap between the two incidents is not linked in the available material and should be treated as a temporal coincidence, not as a common effect.
Chips and devices: the Chinese game
On the product side, Huawei unveiled new details about the Kirin 9050 series with the next-generation Lingxi CPU, described as a 9-core, 16-thread unit with support for memory compression, and announced the first dynamic glucose sensor, the Weigan G1, a Class III medical device to be applied to the skin and connectable to smartphones and watches. The company also presented the new M8 from the AITO brand with Huawei and Seres, with prices ranging from 379,800 to 469,800 yuan.
In parallel, DeepSeek opened the API of its full application, allowing developers to replicate search, file input and voice capabilities such as OCR, ASR and TTS. Also worth noting is DJI's move, as it announced an adjustment to recommended retail prices starting November 18 due to rising semiconductor and memory costs, and the report, attributed to an unofficial source, of more than one million activations for Huawei's Pura X View model in 66 days. The latter figure, as well as the rumors about the Mate X8 foldable, remains to be confirmed.
