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November 10, 2026, 4:35 PM
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New York Times:
Nvidia hires former acting US attorney Joon H. Kim and his law firm Wachtell Lipton to conduct a probe into Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy  —  Wachtell partner Joon H. Kim, a former acting U.S. attorney, is leading the inquiry into the chip maker's chief executive.
The Information:
Sources: Jensen Huang and Alice Huang's relationship dates back to at least 2023, facilitating $7.5B+ in Nvidia chip shipments via Chinese companies since then  —  The relationship between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, the woman that the U.S. government reportedly identified …
New York Times:
Sources: despite Trump's denial, he was told at least twice in seven months about Huang's affair with an alleged spy, including by Rubio en route to China  —  Before Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One en route to Beijing, the president was reminded of intelligence showing that he was in a relationship …
Financial Times:
How Alice Huang built her career with romantic partner and Hexi Capital founder Kang Wei, who faced stock market probes; sources believe she is back in China  —  Executive alleged to be Chinese spy who had affair with Nvidia chief had already built career alongside a man with a history of crossing regulators
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Nvidia's 2025 figures to the US government undercounted chips sold to Megaspeed via partners by 50,000; Nvidia did not give Bloomberg an exact figure
New York Times:
Sources: Nvidia internally discussed a succession plan over the years for Jensen Huang, who resisted; many of the 10 board members have a long history with him
Anthropic:
Anthropic launches its IPO roadshow, saying the company and shareholders plan to sell 825M Class A shares at $70 to $78 each, listing on the Nasdaq under ANT  —  Today Anthropic, PBC launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.
CNBC:
Filing: Anthropic's IPO could give it an up to $1.405T valuation on a fully diluted basis, up from the $965B valuation during its $65B Series H announced in May  —  Anthropic said it will offer 825 million shares in its upcoming IPO at a price range between $70 to $78 per share …
Echo Wang / Reuters:
IPO prospectus: Anthropic and its investors are set to raise up to $64.4B, and it will also raise $26B via cornerstone investors like Google, AMD, and Nvidia  —  Anthropic is targeting a valuation of up to $1.02 trillion in its landmark U.S. IPO, its filing showed on Tuesday …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Rockstar plans to make GTA VI available on Xbox Cloud Gaming at launch next week, likely restricting streaming to consoles, and confirms GTA VI runs at 30fps  —  Rockstar Games confirms GTA VI will run at 30fps across all consoles. … Rockstar Games is making Grand Theft Auto VI available …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Anthropic unveils office tools, including a video call assistant, a data dashboard, and spreadsheet service Claude Sheets, competing with Microsoft and Google  —  Anthropic PBC is releasing a suite of tools that weave the company's artificial intelligence capabilities into more everyday office work …
Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google:
Google rolls out Gemini 4 Carbon to paid API and AI Ultra users two weeks after releasing it to cyber defenders, and previews a swarm feature in Antigravity  —  Developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers can now try our latest frontier model.  —  SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google
Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET:
Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Drone Cam and the $999 Ring Rover Cam, both using its AI Pilot to navigate interior spaces, under new subbrand Ring Robotics  —  Alongside the Ring Drone Cam, Ring introduced the Rover Cam for businesses.  It investigates disturbances and streams 4K footage.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI framework AlphaProof Code to verify the Signal protocol's cryptographic guarantees, in a four-week proof-of-concept  —  DeepMind researchers were able to formally verify that the widely used encryption protocol works as intended.  Their stretch goal?
AI Futures Project:
The AI Futures Project updates its timelines after METR's report on Anthropic R&D progress, saying it now expects a Superhuman AI Researcher to arrive in 2027  —  We want to get this post out quickly given the urgency of the topic.  It's possible that there are some errors in the modeling …
Sam Rutherford / Engadget:
Google Fi launches “super network” for automatic carrier switching and Wi-Fi Auto-Connect+ to improve indoor connectivity in places like malls and airports  —  It's rolling out first on Pixel phones before wider availability arrives in 2027.  —  Getting the fastest mobile data speeds …
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
SoftBank reports a Q2 net loss of ~$7B, down from a ~$15.8B profit in Q2 2025, and ~$14B revenue, above ~$12.8B est., as the tech selloff weighs on its results  —  SoftBank reported a fiscal second-quarter net loss of 1.12 trillion yen ($7 billion) on Tuesday, as losses tied …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, including Business Agents for companies to interact with users and a hub where companies can claim their profiles  —  ChatGPT's new AI agents represent companies and can help with things like comparison shopping.
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Anthropic's Fable 5.2 represents “Jagged AGI”, which matches human experts on most computer tasks like game design but lacks self-directed judgment and taste  —  General, often expert, and sometimes jagged … I have had the chance to use the new Claude Fable 5.2 quite a bit …
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Bloomberg:
Lawsuit filing: Point72's quant unit Cubist claims its fired lead research analyst used Claude and Codex to steal source code before leaving for a competitor  —  Point72 Asset Management's quantitative trading unit accused a former research analyst of using Anthropic PBC's Claude and OpenAI's Codex …
The Information:
Source: OpenAI told investors on Tuesday that its revenue jumped 50% to around $10B in Q3, up from 17% growth in Q2  —  OpenAI has told investors that revenue jumped nearly 50% to $10 billion in the third quarter, rebounding from a period of slower growth as demand for its more recent models …

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Financial Times:
Sources: the US Commerce Dept. delayed new Entity List additions for two months, leaving off Megaspeed despite four other US agencies pushing for its inclusionFind
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Source: OpenAI told investors on Tuesday that its revenue jumped 50% to around $10B in Q3, up from 17% growth in Q2Find
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Cory Weinberg / New York Times:
S-1: Nvidia plans to invest about $10B in Anthropic after its IPO, or ~10% of the new cash Anthropic is expected to raise this month, including in the IPOFind
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Shubhangi Goel / Business Insider:
Graphon, which wants to resolve AI agent memory limitations by mapping connections across docs, videos, and images, raised a $35M Series A led by RRE VenturesFind
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Bloomberg:
Lawsuit filing: Point72's quant unit Cubist claims its fired lead research analyst used Claude and Codex to steal source code before leaving for a competitorFind
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Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
SpaceX announces Starlink Mini 2 with a swappable battery that it says can operate for over four hours without an external power source, reportedly for $999Find
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The Guardian:
The Guardian and ITV publish an investigation into TV presenter David Walliams, who lost a court bid to stop them from publishing sexual misconduct allegations

The Hollywood Reporter:
Sources detail James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC ouster, including tensions with Skydance Motion Picture Group co-chairs Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg

Suzanne Monyak / Bloomberg Law:
A federal appeals court upholds an August 2025 ruling that Trump officials can't fire VOA director Michael Abramowitz without approval from an independent board

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Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder:
Scale Labs and CAIS' Remote Labor Index: Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects at professional quality, above Opus 5.5's 21.3% and GPT-6 Astra's 20.8%

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Andy Lin / Bloomberg:
Filings: Moonshot signed a deal in August to rent 32 China-based Super Micro servers with Nvidia B300, the most powerful AI chip, possibly in breach of US rules
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple begins offering additional AI access via one-time $50 “intelligence usage packs” for when users hit monthly limits, starting in its Creator Studio apps
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