NVIDIA’s board said Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO, president, and board member, effective immediately. Colette Kress, the longtime CFO, is stepping in as interim CEO while the board runs a search for a permanent replacement. She will keep the CFO title at the same time. Harvey C. Jones, a longtime director and former Synopsys CEO, has been named the company’s first board chair. Huang co-founded NVIDIA and ran it for 33 years as it became the central supplier in the AI boom. The company says operations, customer commitments, and the product roadmap will continue without interruption. The practical gap is that the person most identified with NVIDIA’s public direction is gone while the search is still open and earnings are still scheduled for next week. Continuity of the existing team is now the stated plan. Whether that is enough without Huang is the open question the board just created.

Eiichiro Oda has spent nearly 30 years drawing One Piece with a level of focus that is hard to separate from the results. He slept three hours a night for 15 years, hand-copied full Disney movies to study emotion in the lines, and told new editors they had to be willing to die for the series. He started the manga at 22. He is still drawing it at 51 and still does not consider himself successful. The same standard that produced the best-selling manga series in history also meant family events lost to deadlines and almost no one else allowed to touch the pages. That trade-off is the part that rarely gets discussed when people only talk about the sales numbers. The output is extraordinary. The cost is permanent.

Japan wants anime fans to learn Japanese by talking to the actual characters from their shows. The Japan Foundation is building the AI app at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Instead of the original characters it used in past tools to avoid copyright issues, it now plans to negotiate licenses for recognizable ones. The target is young people overseas. A 2024 survey found that more than 60 percent of Japanese learners abroad already cite anime or manga as a main reason they started studying. So the government is trying to turn an existing hobby into language practice rather than hoping people seek out formal lessons later. Completion is still aimed at 2028 and depends on the funding going through.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners showrunner Bartosz Sztybor says Season 2 deliberately mirrors Season 1. He explained that the new season retells how David acted and the forces that pushed him into the path he took. That same relationship is being echoed through other characters, not only D and Capri but also Weak and Avida. Sztybor said Weak stands in for what would have happened to David if he had survived. He noted that Weak and Avida are no longer together. Sztybor has ideas for a possible Season 3 but considers Seasons 1 and 2 a complete package.

A study estimates that hololive VTuber Juufuutei Raden’s audio guides for the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art generated around 36 million yen in regional spending. The museum paid 1.54 million yen for the guides covering its Rodin collection and other exhibitions. Hitotsubashi University associate professor Tetsuya Aoki and museum staff found about 34 percent of visitors came because of Raden. Most were from outside the prefecture, many were first-timers, and their lodging rate was more than double other visitors. Researchers linked roughly half of the 70 million yen in total local spending to those extra visitors. The gap between a modest fee and the estimated impact shows how the collab reached audiences the museum usually misses.

Watt Studio released new gameplay for Tsarevna, its ballet-inspired action game set in a dark Slavic folklore world. The footage shows protagonist Swan cutting down monsters while staying en pointe, chaining air combos and spinning attacks. Motion was captured from Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Alyona Kovalyova. Her sword can shift into a rain of daggers mid-fight, turning each encounter into a deadly performance. The game is currently set for 2027 on Steam.

A Japanese TV debate found that 70% of men in VR environments use anime girl avatars to socialize. The discussion on ABEMA noted that in VRChat the outfits have more variety and it makes forming friendships simpler. Some build romantic connections with other people also running female avatars. These are known as “osato.” One man in his late 30s has stuck with the same cute girl look for seven years, never swaps his male voice, and logs as many as 15 hours. He says he only wants to be the version of himself he prefers, yet seeing his real face in the mirror afterward is difficult. The drop from that avatar back to the mirror is a steep one.

Rika Matsumoto sang the Pokémon theme on pavement at LOCAL FOOD FIGHT in Tottori. The event had advertised 50,000 attendees. Attendees and vendors said the real crowd was a few hundred. There was no stage. The mic cut out and tracks failed. She kept performing and turned the problems into jokes. The organizer has deleted its accounts and stopped responding.

The PlayStation 3 turns 20 today. It launched in Japan on November 11, 2006. Sony gave it a Blu-ray drive, built-in HDD, and HDMI out, plus support for BD, DVD, CD, SACD, Memory Stick, SD cards, and more. It handled JPEG, TIFF, MP3, ATRAC, WMA, AVCHD, DivX, and a long list of other formats, so a lot of people used it as their main media player instead of just a game console. That broad support helped put Blu-ray in living rooms and let the PS3 handle most of a household’s digital content in one box.

Persona 4 Revival’s team actually debated how thick Chie Satonaka’s thighs should be. Director Daisuke Yajima said the 3D model used thicker thighs so her kung fu moves would look better in motion, while the illustrations stayed closer to the original slimmer design. That left a clear gap between the model and the art. They found a compromise, and the same level of scrutiny kept going on the bust-up illustrations.

An Umamusume fan used AI to replace every car in Need for Speed Underground 2 with horse girls. Creator CyberNekoYuki started with a simple idea. “The plan was to swap in two or three characters. Then my friends joined me for some offline LAN races, and I somehow ended up changing the whole roster.” He ended up with 36 characters racing around Bayview, including Oguri Cap and Haru Urara. The mod was never released publicly, just used for private sessions. Going from a couple of swaps to the full roster is exactly how these things go.

Yoshitaka Amano has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Concept Art Awards. He is only the third Japanese artist to receive it, after Hayao Miyazaki and Katsuhiro Otomo. Amano, known for the early Final Fantasy concept art and logos, was honored at the ceremony in Pasadena on October 24. He said the award recognizes “creativity and the people who create.” He appeared the next day for a talk at LightBox Expo.