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A major leadership shake-up at Nvidia tonight. CFO Colette Kress is stepping in as interim CEO following the departure of Jensen Huang, who has led the chipmaker for more than three decades. Kress, a veteran finance executive, takes the helm at a pivotal moment as Nvidia navigates intense scrutiny and record-high stakes in the AI hardware race.
Shifting to Wall Street's blockchain ambitions, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation is expanding its tokenization roadmap to include Solana, targeting a two thousand twenty seven rollout. The plan would bring tokenized stocks, ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries onto the blockchain network, adding Solana alongside Stellar and Arc in what amounts to a serious institutional bet on crypto infrastructure.
And on the AI agent frontier, United Airlines is drawing a hard line against unauthorized bots booking travel on customers' behalf. The airline warns that third-party AI agents risk making unintended purchases, exposing personal data, and bypassing checks that require a human in the loop. It is a reminder that as AI agents grow more capable, the question of who is actually responsible for a transaction gets genuinely complicated.
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