| 4 | Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit |
| 5 | Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say |
| 6 | AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation |
| 7 | Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen! |
| 8 | ChatGPT’s new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you |
| 9 | The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline |
| 10 | ElevenLabs’ new app combines meeting note-taking and dictation for teams |
| 11 | Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil |
| 12 | Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says |
| 13 | Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump |
| 14 | Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay |
| 15 | Nebius tests the neocloud playbook with $40 billion in planned spending |
| 16 | Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports |
| 17 | Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions |
| 18 | Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands |
| 19 | Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question |
| 20 | Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang’s exit |
Last month, chatbot platform Character.ai filed for bankruptcy just five years after launching. More recently, privacy-focused AI assistant Ollie announced its shutdown a few weeks ago. Aside from Character.ai and Ollie, plenty of AI bets never even survive inside the companies that build them. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, about 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their corporate parents. The reasons vary: insufficient funding, technical challenges, competition, difficulty scaling, or just weak user demand. The result is a growing AI graveyard. Below is a look at some of the most notable AI products, startups, launches, and bets that have shut down, pivoted, or significantly missed expectations. Think of it less as a scorecard of flops than as a record of what these attempts can (hopefully) teach the rest of the industry.
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