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The Week Jensen Huang Fell: How a Spy Scandal Toppled Nvidia’s CEO
In the span of a few days, the most powerful executive in artificial intelligence went from untouchable to unemployed. Jensen Huang, who built Nvidia from a graphics-card maker into the roughly $4 trillion engine of the AI boom, resigned Thursday after 33 years, felled not by a bad earnings report but by a scandal with the texture of a spy thriller. Here’s how a defining week for AI, and by extension crypto, unfolded. The crisis began with reports that Huang had grown close to Alice Huang (no...
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Other AI Giants Face Lawsuit Demanding Development Freeze
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Wallet to Let AI Agents Shop—Without Crypto
Artificial Intelligence
Could a Former Nvidia Executive Replace Jensen Huang? Arm’s Rene Haas Emerges as Candidate
Nov 13, 2026
Coins
Dormant Bitcoin Wallets Wake Up After 16 Years, Moving $6.9 Million
Two Bitcoin addresses that had been dormant since 2010 suddenly moved $6.9 million worth of BTC on Friday, bringing two early mining rewards back into circulation after more than 16 years. Blockchain tracking service Whale Alert flagged the first transfer at 4:08 a.m. UTC on November 13, when 50 BTC worth approximately $3.44 million moved from an address that had not spent its original mining reward since September 2010. Just over two minutes later, another 50 BTC moved from a separate wallet wi...
Nov 13, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Fed Chair Warsh Wants Answers on AI Inflation—and Bitcoin May Feel the Impact
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will convene a public forum Monday to examine whether artificial intelligence will bring down inflation, drive prices higher, or replace American workers. The November 16 conference in San Francisco will bring together technology executives, economists, and employers to examine how AI is reshaping the economy. The findings could influence how the Fed approaches interest rates, a major factor in Bitcoin's price movements as investors weigh whether to put money in...
Nov 13, 2026
Law and Order
Trump’s First Democratic Picks for SEC and CFTC Could Reshape Crypto’s Regulators
President Donald Trump has nominated four people to fill vacant seats at the two federal agencies writing the rules for crypto, in a bipartisan slate that could reshape the commissions that have increasingly taken the lead on digital-asset policy after Congress stalled. The White House said Thursday it sent the nominations to the Senate: Nathan Anonick and Matthew Rowland for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Kristin Johnson and Steven Levine for the Securities and Exchange Commissio...
Nov 13, 2026
Markets
Bitcoin Hits 12-Week Low as Fed Rate Fears Undo Most of Summer Rally
Bitcoin fell to roughly $68,500 on Friday, hitting its lowest price in 12 weeks as renewed U.S. inflation worries and investor withdrawals pushed the cryptocurrency further into the red. BTC was down about 4.5% over 24 hours and 9.5% for the week, according to Friday market data. Ethereum traded near $1,925, while Solana slipped below $80 as selling spread across major cryptocurrencies. The latest slide has erased most of Bitcoin's late-summer recovery. But not all of it: BTC remains approxima...
Nov 13, 2026
Coins
Crypto Laundering a 'Material Risk' for UK Ahead of FATF Review: RUSI
Britain's new crypto rules will still be in transition when global anti-money laundering assessors arrive next year, and the country will be judged on whether it can enforce against crypto laundering, a taskforce convened by the Royal United Services Institute has warned. The report, published on Friday, sets out the issues the London-based defense and security think tank's taskforce expects to dominate the UK's 2027 evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The Paris-based body sets...