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Jensen Huang, billionaire and CEO of AI chip giant Nvidia, resigned his position on Thursday morning, the company’s board of directors announced, after reports of a second affair with a Nvidia employee days after he admitted to a relationship with another tech executive that intelligence officials believe may have been a Chinese spy.
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Now-former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s admission of an extramarital affair—and reports of two more with Nvidia employees—have sparked speculation he and his wife Lori Huang could be headed toward divorce, with Lori potentially walking away with tens of billions if they do, though the exact number remains uncertain.
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Jim Higdon is planning for the best Black Friday of his life. It may also be the last. Inside Cornbread Hemp’s 25,000-square-foot gummy factory in Louisville, Kentucky, the lines are running full and the warehouse is filling up for the biggest sales day of the year. Two weeks after that, on December 11, a federal ban on hemp-derived THC takes effect. If it holds, Cornbread’s record $65 million in revenue this year ends, and so does most of the $38.5 billion industry around it, a market that now outsells legal marijuana. Higdon has 106 employees, a personally guaranteed loan on the facility expansion, and a month to make as much money as possible.
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Murphy Door started as a side gig. Owner Jeremy Barker’s previous ventures ended in bankruptcy. But thanks to the home fix-up craze, this one took off.
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In 2025, when AI startup Spellbook signed a long-term deal with Anthropic to use its models to review legal contracts, CEO Scott Stevenson wasn’t worried about the AI giant coming for his lunch. Anthropic staffers told him explicitly they didn’t see the firm directly competing with Spellbook in the legal space, he recalls.

A year later, he was caught off guard when Anthropic informed him that it was launching Claude for Legal. The tool, tailored for law firms, has dozens of capabilities ranging from contract review to citation checking to tracking regulatory changes — many of which overlap with Spellbook. That made things, “a little bit awkward,” Stenvenson says. He decided to be more cautious sharing data and product roadmaps with the AI giant.

“Anthropic has been a great partner but it made us realize that they are a massive company and two parts of the org can have conflicting mandates,” he says. “Ultimately this is inevitable.” Up until recently, Spellbook used Claude to carry out over 500,000 monthly contract reviews for its customers, but it’s now moved a lot of its spend to OpenAI.

Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2026/11/02/inside-silicon-valleys-love-hate-relationship-with-anthropic/
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