Members of Congress call on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to resign after he admits an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence concluded was a Chinese spy. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., says Huang is vulnerable to blackmail. Three House committees set a Nov. 18 testimony deadline and hold subpoena power. Lawmakers also weigh tighter AI chip export controls.
OpenAI's Finances in ChatGPT lets users link bank, card and investment accounts through Plaid, with read-only access and no ability to move money, says Ethan Bloch, OpenAI's product lead for personal finance. Bloch says millions of accounts have connected in a few months and users are finding duplicate charges and forgotten subscriptions.
Google releases the Gemini Decisions API, powered by its Gemini Decision 1 model, which scores up to 1,000 yes/no, choice and rubric questions in one pass over text, images, audio, video and PDFs. Google says it returns confidence scores in 150 to 250 ms and charges $0.10 per 1M input tokens.
NVIDIA introduces GR00T 2, a world-action model that predicts future video and robot actions together, pretrained on 402,730 hours of human egocentric video plus 23,500 hours of robot teleoperation. NVIDIA reports 40% zero-shot success on 50 unseen tasks, rising to 95% after a 30-minute fine-tune with five demonstrations. Code is due in December.
MiniMax releases H3-Image, an open-weight image model that generates a 4096 x 4096 image in under 10 seconds and handles up to 16 reference images. Weights are public. MiniMax says pricing runs 50 to 70% of comparable offerings, with launch week 50% off for 4K requests.
Anthropic adds Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Claude Data, letting teams build spreadsheets, boards, and dashboards together inside Claude. Interactive connectors let partners such as Adobe, Atlassian, Salesforce, and NetSuite embed apps directly in Claude. Anthropic says its marketplace lists more than 9,000 connectors and plugins, and Claude Meetings is coming soon.
OpenAI acquires Odessia, an AI travel agent built by Sonder founder Francis Davidson, who says he now works for OpenAI on the future of travel. Terms were not disclosed, and Odessia's tool is already shut down. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the hire but announced no travel products.
The /swarm command in Google Antigravity runs named agents that split a task, work in parallel, and coordinate on one shared message board, with a verifier checking diffs and tests. Google limits the preview to AI Pro and AI Ultra plans and says every worker is its own agent, so a swarm burns quota far faster than a single conversation.
SandboxAQ's Switch AI puts team members and their agents into shared rooms where every agent reads the same history and resources. Xinyi Zhao, a principal product manager, says the open-source platform lets an engineer's agent diagnose a VM connectivity failure in seconds and ship a fix within an hour. She says isolated agents drop context at every handoff.
Google Cloud releases Gemini for healthcare in U.S. preview, a product it says coordinates clinical and administrative workflows across EHR, claims and care management systems. CEO Thomas Kurian says connectors give read-only access to Epic and Oracle Health records, and the platform is built to support HIPAA compliance.