Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia's President, CEO and board member. Huang had long been considered the face of the AI revolution. According to the supplied material, scandals over his romantic affairs wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from the company's market value in a matter of days.

US lawmakers have signalled that they will likely push for tighter export restrictions for AI chips.

Separately, the rapid buildout of AI data centres is sparking anger and worries among French communities.