Evening Edition No. 14
Nvidia's CEO Steps Down, a Mars Rover Drills Its 49th Hole, and Zipline Plans 130,000 Drone Deliveries a Day
Covers Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 6:00 PM ET to Thursday, November 12, 2026, 6:00 PM ET
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia's CEO and finance chief Colette Kress takes over for now, OpenAI launches Daybreak tools that find and patch security holes, a Falcon 9 flies a secret Space Force mission, NASA's Curiosity drills its 49th hole on Mars, Zipline asks the FAA to fly up to 130,000 deliveries a day in Arizona, the FDA approves a new neck artery stent, the Navy says its first Columbia-class submarine can arrive in 2028, nonprofits sue five AI labs to pause their most powerful models, BlackRock's tokenized fund gets a round-the-clock cash window, and Agile Robots raises $500 million.
In 60 Seconds
- Jensen Huang, who led Nvidia as its chips became the engine of the AI boom, resigned as CEO, and finance chief Colette Kress is running the company while the board looks for a permanent leader.
- NASA's Curiosity rover drilled its 49th hole on Mars to study strange crystals shaped like potato chips.
- Zipline asked the FAA to let its drones make up to 130,000 deliveries a day across Phoenix and Tucson, a ceiling, not a forecast.
- Four nonprofits sued five big AI companies in San Francisco, asking a judge to pause their most powerful new models.
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Lead Signal
Jensen Huang steps down as Nvidia's CEO, and its finance chief takes over for now
Nvidia said on Thursday that Jensen Huang has resigned as its president, chief executive and board member, effective immediately, in a filing with the SEC, the agency that oversees the stock market. Colette Kress, the chief financial officer who manages the company's money, is now A temporary chief executive who runs a company while its board looks for a permanent one. In the Glossary, which means she runs Nvidia for the time being while also keeping her finance job. The board says it will look at people both inside and outside the company for a permanent CEO. Harvey C. Jones, a former chief executive of the A tiny slice of material, usually silicon, carved with billions of switches that let a device compute and store information. Chips run everything from phones to AI data centers. In the Glossary design software company Synopsys, becomes the company's first-ever The person who leads a company's board of directors, the group that oversees the CEO. In the Glossary, the person who leads the board of directors. The filing did not give a reason for Huang leaving. It came a day after three House committee chairs said they were preparing a A legal order that forces someone to testify or hand over documents. In the Glossary if Huang would not join a closed briefing on Nov. 18, TechCrunch reported. Kress joined Nvidia in 2013 after working at Cisco and Microsoft, Fortune reports, and Nvidia reports its quarterly results on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at about 4:20 PM ET. Nvidia's stock closed down 4.3% at $166.19 on Thursday, after falling as much as 13% during the day, The Motley Fool reports. Not investment advice. Lawmakers from both parties are also pushing four bills to tighten A government rule that requires a license before certain goods or technology can be shipped to another country. In the Glossary on AI chips and the tools that make them, and this Congress ends on Jan. 3, VOA reports. Jones said the board "has full confidence in Colette and the leadership team."
The Desks
[AI] AI Models
OpenAI launches Daybreak, AI tools that find software holes and draft the fixes
OpenAI on Thursday launched Daybreak, a set of security products built on its AI, at an event called Cyber at the Frontier, The Register reports. OpenAI president Greg Brockman gave the keynote at 1:00 PM ET. Daybreak A practice break-in, done with permission, to find a system's security holes before criminals do. In the Glossary, now in early access, attacks a company's web apps on purpose to find weak spots, the way a hired "red team" of friendly hackers would, and checks bug reports and patches. Daybreak Defense Factory runs agents, AI helpers that carry out tasks on their own, powered by GPT-6 Cyber. They look for flaws in a company's code and write fixes ready to be merged, and human engineers approve each one before it goes in. Nancy Wang, who leads OpenAI's applied AI work for security, described the goal as a "superhuman pen-test at the scale of automated continuous scanning." A pen test, short for penetration test, is a practice break-in that companies usually run once or twice a year. OpenAI did not share prices.
[LAUNCH] Launches
A Falcon 9 flies a secret Space Force mission from California, the second in six days
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:36 PM ET on Wednesday with the USSF-627 mission for the U.S. Space Force, Space.com reports. Launch Library 2, a public database of launches, lists it as a success. The The first and largest stage of a rocket, which gives the push for liftoff. SpaceX and others now land their boosters and fly them again. In the Glossary, the reusable first stage, was flying for the 7th time and landed on the A floating platform at sea, with no crew aboard, where a rocket booster lands so it can fly again. In the Glossary Of Course I Still Love You, a robot landing barge in the Pacific Ocean, about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. The government has not said what the rocket carried. Space.com says some experts guess it carried SpaceX's military version of its Starlink satellites, built for government customers. In the Glossary satellites, SpaceX's line of military satellites, but that is a guess. It was the second secret Space Force launch from Vandenberg in six days, after USSF-432 on Nov. 6, the 120th Falcon 9 flight of 2026 and the 15th for national security this year. It was the only orbital launch in the world in the last 24 hours, and the 263rd of 2026.
[ORBIT] Satellites and Orbit
NASA's Curiosity rover drills its 49th hole on Mars to study crystals shaped like potato chips
NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Gale Crater on Mars since 2012, finished its 49th drill hole, a target the team named "Nazca," NASA's mission blog reports. The rocks there hold thin crystals shaped a bit like potato chips, and the team wanted to learn what they are made of. Curiosity dropped powder from the hole into SAM, a small onboard laboratory that heats samples and sniffs the gases that come off. It also fired its A laser instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover that zaps rocks from a distance to read what they are made of. In the Glossary laser, which zaps rocks from a distance to read what elements they contain, at targets named "Ahi Veremos," "Colca" and "Bermejo." At night, its close-up camera, called MAHLI, used its own lights to photograph the crystals. The team also caught Phobos, one of Mars's two small moons, passing in front of the Sun, and a large A spinning column of dust lifted by warm air rising from the ground, seen on Earth and on Mars. In the Glossary, a spinning column of dust. Planetary scientist William Farrand wrote that "a key objective has been to better characterize these chip-shaped features." Next, Curiosity drives away to rejoin its route to the south.
[AIR] Air Mobility
Zipline asks to fly up to 130,000 drone deliveries a day across Phoenix and Tucson
Zipline, which delivers packages by drone, wants to expand across Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, and the FAA has published a A review a U.S. agency must publish before approving a project, so the public can comment on its effects. In the Glossary of the plan, DroneLife reports. An environmental assessment is a review U.S. agencies must do before approving a big project, to check its effects on noise, wildlife and neighbors. The plan would allow up to 130,000 drone deliveries a day, but the FAA document says that number is the most the system could handle, not how many deliveries are expected. It includes 130 charging sites and 2,600 drop boxes, the spots where packages are lowered. Zipline asked to fly around the clock, with about 95% of flights between 7:00 AM and 10:00 PM. The public can send comments to the FAA until early December; the draft says Dec. 7 and the FAA's web page says Dec. 9. The FAA has not decided yet.
[MED] Medicine
The FDA approves a new stent that keeps neck arteries open to help prevent strokes
The FDA approved InspireMD's CGuard Prime A small mesh tube that holds a narrowed blood vessel open. In the Glossary system for a procedure called A way to place a stent in a neck artery through a small cut, while blood flow is briefly reversed to protect the brain. In the Glossary, or TCAR, the company announced at 4:01 PM ET on Thursday. The One of the two large blood vessels in the neck that carry blood to the brain. In the Glossary are the two big blood vessels in the neck that feed the brain, and when fatty buildup narrows them, bits can break off and cause a stroke. A stent is a small mesh tube that holds the artery open. In TCAR, doctors place it through a small cut at the base of the neck, and they briefly reverse the blood flow so loose bits are carried away from the brain instead of into it. The approval covers patients at high risk from the older surgery that scrapes the artery clean. In the CGUARDIANS II trial of 50 patients at 11 hospitals, the device worked as intended every time, and in the first 30 days no patient died, had a stroke or a heart attack, or got a clot in the stent. CEO Marvin Slosman said the company is "providing patients and physicians with this next-generation stent."
[DEF] Defense
The Navy says its first Columbia-class submarine can be delivered in 2028
The first of the Navy's new Columbia-class submarines, the District of Columbia, can be delivered in 2028, Vice Adm. Rob Gaucher said on Thursday at the Naval Submarine League's symposium, Breaking Defense reports. The A nuclear-powered submarine that carries long-range nuclear missiles. In the Glossary are ballistic missile submarines, nuclear-powered boats that carry long-range nuclear missiles and will replace the Ohio-class subs that do this job now. Gaucher is the Pentagon's first official put in charge of all submarine building, a job sometimes called the sub czar. The first boat was once due in 2027, and in 2025 the Navy warned it could slip to 2029. By February 2026 it was about 65% built, and the second boat, the future Wisconsin, about 35%. In April, Gaucher had called the 2028 goal a heavy lift; on Thursday he called it "absolutely achievable."
[POLICY] Law and Policy
Nonprofits sue five AI companies to pause their most powerful new models
Four nonprofit groups sued Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX's AI business, which the suit calls SpaceXSI, on Thursday in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, Public Citizen announced. The groups are the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and The Alliance for Secure AI, and their lawyer is Matthew Platkin, a former attorney general of New Jersey. They are asking for an A court order telling someone to do something or to stop doing it. An emergency one can come before a full trial. In the Glossary, a court order given before a full trial, to stop the companies from building models more capable than the ones they have now, until the companies can show the technology is under human control. The suit leans on California's A California law that lets courts stop business practices that are unlawful, unfair or fraudulent. In the Glossary, which lets courts stop business practices that are unlawful or unfair, and says the most advanced models raise the risk of bioweapons and cyberattacks, the Washington Examiner reports. These are the groups' claims, and a judge has not ruled on them. The companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment, CBS News reported. Phil Aroneanu of the Irreplaceable Education Fund said "we must freeze frontier AI development." Disclosure: Singularity Nightly is drafted with help from Anthropic's Claude. We cover Anthropic like any other company.
[TOKEN] Tokenized Assets
BlackRock's tokenized fund gets a window to swap for digital dollars at any hour
Securitize and Ethena opened a facility that lets eligible investors in BUIDL, a BlackRock fund whose shares live on a A shared digital record book copied across many computers, so entries are hard to change or fake. It keeps track of who owns which tokens. In the Glossary, swap them for A digital token designed to stay worth a fixed amount, usually one U.S. dollar, backed by cash and safe assets such as Treasury bills. In the Glossary at any hour, Securitize announced on Thursday. A stablecoin is a digital token meant to stay worth one dollar, such as USDC. BUIDL holds safe, short-term investments, and The Block describes it as a $2.4 billion fund. The facility, called a A pool of cash or stablecoins kept ready so holders of an asset can swap it quickly, even when markets are closed. In the Glossary because it keeps cash ready for quick swaps, starts with $50 million, half in USDC and half in BUIDL. Up to $50 million more can be added within about an hour, for a top of $100 million, though the company says the full amount is not always sitting there. Investors can also swap back. Guy Young of Ethena said "institutional liquidity needs to keep pace" with markets that never close. Not investment advice.
[WILD] Wildcard
Agile Robots raises $500 million to build humanoid robots in Germany
Agile Robots, a robotics company based in Munich, Germany, raised $500 million in a A company's sixth big round of outside money, usually raised to grow production. In the Glossary, a company's sixth big round of outside money, at a value of $8.5 billion, Humanoids Daily reports. SoftBank led the round, with Nvidia, Hitachi and T.Capital joining, Reuters reports. The company has now raised $2 billion in all, has more than 3,500 workers and more than 20,000 robot systems installed. Its factory in Fürstenfeldbruck, near Munich, can build up to 10,000 A robot built in roughly human shape, with arms, hands and often legs, so it can work in places and with tools designed for people. In the Glossary a year, robots shaped roughly like people, some with legs and some on wheels. Its humanoid for factories is called Agile ONE. CEO Zhaopeng Chen said: "See you on the factory floor and in your home." Not investment advice.
Watch
Play video: Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, No. 310 (Nov. 11): the hosts talk about Nvidia's leadership, Anthropic's IPO week and Elon Musk's plan for a robot workforce (opinion).
Play video: Boston Dynamics (Nov. 9), in case you missed it: the Atlas humanoid rolls and balances, and the team explains how it was trained.Voices
- Elon Musk, asked whether Tesla would hire Jensen Huang, replied "That would be an honor." source (opinion)
By the Numbers
- 49: holes Curiosity has drilled on Mars. NASA
- 1: orbital launches worldwide in the window; 263 in 2026. Launch Library 2
- 130,000: the most drone deliveries a day Zipline's Arizona plan would allow. DroneLife
- 50: patients in the trial behind the CGuard Prime approval, at 11 hospitals. InspireMD
- 65%: how complete the first Columbia-class submarine was in February. Breaking Defense
- 571%: Nebius's revenue growth from a year earlier. Stock Titan Not investment advice.
- $18.5 billion: Cisco's quarterly revenue, up 24%. Cisco Not investment advice.
- $8.5 billion: Agile Robots' value after its new round. Humanoids Daily Not investment advice.
- $100 million: the most the new BUIDL swap window can hold. Securitize Not investment advice.
- $39.84 billion: tokenized In blockchain finance, a traditional asset that exists outside the blockchain, such as a Treasury bill, a loan or a building, represented by a token on one. Often shortened to RWA. In the Glossary, excluding stablecoins. RWA.xyz Not investment advice.
Tomorrow's Watchlist
- Fri Nov. 13: ULA's Vulcan returns to flight with 40 Amazon Leo satellites, 12:54 PM ET; Starship Flight 15 tries to catch both its booster and its ship, window 5:45 to 7:00 PM ET, pending its FAA license; a Russian Soyuz launches the Kinosputnik satellite, about 7:50 PM ET.
- Sat Nov. 14: Rocket Lab's Electron launches a radar satellite for iQPS, 12:30 AM ET; FDA decision due on Summit's lung cancer drug ivonescimab; ObesityWeek opens; a Falcon 9 launches USSF-317 from Vandenberg, 10:55 PM ET.
- Sun Nov. 15: China's comment period on export controls for A computer program trained on large amounts of data to recognize patterns and produce answers, text, images or actions. Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude run on AI models. In the Glossary closes.
- Tue Nov. 17: Nvidia reports quarterly results at about 4:20 PM ET, its first under interim CEO Colette Kress.
- Wed Nov. 18: Senate committee vote on FDA nominee Heidi Overton; Anthropic's The first time a private company sells its shares to the public on a stock exchange. After it, anyone with a brokerage account can buy a piece of the company. In the Glossary is expected to price; Voyager 1 reaches one The distance light travels in one day, about 16 billion miles. In the Glossary from Earth.