Nvidia CEO Out, Cancer Screening Update & Drunk Raccoon's Payoff - Friday, November 13, 2026

Erica Mandy (0:00)

Today is Friday, November 13th. We'll tell you what's next for Nvidia without the CEO who helped turn it from a niche graphics company into a global tech giant, and what's behind a system-wide meltdown at another one of the world's biggest companies. Also a new fight over Democrats' leadership and a change of assignment for Vice President JD Vance. Plus the first snow of the season for parts of the US, an honor for the soldier who scolded the Defense Secretary, and one raccoon's wild night that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a good cause. Those stories and even more news coming up.

Welcome to The NewsWorthy, all the day's news in less than 15 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. Let's do this.

One of the most powerful people in the artificial intelligence industry is out of a job, and it's sending shockwaves through the tech world. Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong resigned from the company he co-founded more than three decades ago in the face of reports that now say, he had three extramarital affairs, one with a woman US intelligence agencies believe was spying for China, and two others with women who worked for him. The company's long-time finance chief is now taking over as interim CEO, while the board looks for a permanent replacement. And that could be a big challenge. Wong has been Nvidia's only CEO and was deeply involved in just about every part of the business. He helped transform it from a company known for computer graphics into the world's biggest seller of AI chips. In fact, it controls an estimated 90% of the market for the advanced chips that are an essential component of AI projects. Nvidia's stock fell more than 4% yesterday, wiping out more than $180 billion in market value. And the fallout extended to other tech companies, including chip makers and cloud computing firms that have built their businesses around Nvidia. Meanwhile, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are now calling for a wider investigation into the CEO's conduct. To be continued.

If you rely on Microsoft for work, you may still run into some issues today, as the company works to get its services back up and running. At last check, it was still recovering from a major global outage that impacted a wide range of Microsoft's workplace tools yesterday. Those include Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and its copilot AI Assistant. Those are tools used by hundreds of millions of users. So it meant people, businesses, schools and government agencies around the world had trouble with everything from messages and meetings to accessing documents and other online services. Microsoft says the problem stemmed from some of its servers that became unavailable, putting extra strain on the rest of its systems. The company has been restarting servers and redirecting traffic to try to restore service, but the recovery has taken longer than expected. And it hasn't yet figured out what caused the servers to fail in the first place.

President Trump is giving a surprise compliment to a Democrat who just pulled off a historic upset by winning a US. Senate seat in Mississippi. Trump praised Scott Colom for showing up at one of his rallies and trying to win over MAGA supporters. Colom walked along the line of people waiting to see Trump speak, introducing himself and asking about their concerns. Once people got inside, they heard Trump call Colom a Marxist radical and a fake moderate, as the president campaigned for Republican Senator Cindy Hidesmith. But Colom's actions that day seemed to reflect his broader strategy to focus on issues affecting voters without attacking Trump or his supporters personally. Now Trump says he gives Colom a lot of credit for that. Meanwhile, even more midterm races have been called. For example, Democrat Cindy Holscher has been elected the next governor of Kansas. That means at least 29 states, representing roughly three quarters of all Americans, will have Democratic governors. Democrats also gained hundreds of seats in state legislatures around the country. Though one newly called race represents a rare instance of a Republican in the midterms flipping a Democratic seat that wasn't redrawn. Former governor of Maine, Paul LePage, defeated his progressive challenger to win a seat in the US. House. Now it's just 11 more House races that still need to be called. If Democrats can pick up three of them as expected, they'll have the largest majority that any party has had this century.

Despite overwhelming success in the midterms, some Senate Democrats are looking for new leadership. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is now officially challenging Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority Leader. He explained saying American people called for change in the midterm elections not from just red to blue, but from the overall status quo. Schumer has faced growing criticism from progressives who say he hasn't been fighting hard enough against President Trump. But the leader isn't backing down. He says he has the votes to keep the job and points to Democrats' big midterm wins as evidence of his leadership. The Senate Democratic Caucus is expected to vote on December 1st, with the winner taking over when Democrats regained control of Congress in January.