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Sources: Nvidia's board is preparing to oust Jensen Huang and is meeting on Wednesday to determine his future; NVDA drops 7%+ after hours — Move follows company investigation into an affair with a Chinese woman alleged to be a spy — Nvidia's board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Jensen Huang had an extramarital relationship with Nvidia's VP of healthcare, Kimberly Powell, who reports to him; it was discussed inside the company — Mr. Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, is already facing scrutiny over an affair with a Chinese businesswoman who U.S. intelligence determined was a Chinese spy.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Nvidia's board is working with an outside firm to identify possible replacements for Jensen Huang and weighs naming a temporary CEO during the search — Nvidia Corp.'s board has been working with an outside firm to identify potential replacements for Chief Executive Officer Jensen … | Axios: |
Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Dept. not adding Megaspeed to the Entity List; Commerce denies the confrontation — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over a failure to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed …
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| Axios: |
Sources: Howard Lutnick has stalled curbs on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia chips to China; Trump approved them for the third time this year on Nov. 5 — President Trump on Thursday authorized a crack down on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China …
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| Google: |
Google launches Gemini Decisions API, powered by its new Gemini Decision 1 model, to return predefined answers with confidence scores, at $0.10/1M input tokens — Introducing the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our new Gemini Decision 1 model. Evaluate up to 1,000 yes/no, choice …
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic's IPO draws multiple times the orders for the shares available; a source says Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon have a livestream event on Friday — Anthropic PBC's initial public offering has drawn multiple times the orders for the shares available, according to people familiar … | @firesidealpha: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates 200+ of its services locally, saying AI agents wrote it and its team hasn't written or reviewed any code — AWS says its engineers didn't write or review a single line of code in its newest developer tool, and the company is touting that as a selling point.
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| Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: |
United Airlines says it will prevent personal AI assistants from booking tickets, citing data privacy risks and possible FAA and DOT rule violations — The carrier says automated assistants present data-privacy risks; 'I don't want to create another middleman' — United Airlines doesn't want to deal with your AI agent.| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles across 68 tissues to predict the effects of genetic variants, for non-commercial research — DeepMind's new DNA model better predicts how mutations affect different cells, potentially opening paths to treatment.
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Forums: r/singularity and r/accelerate
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan plans to leave in early 2027 and Dave Brown will become head of infrastructure — Meta Platforms Inc.'s longtime infrastructure chief will leave the company in early 2027, a major leadership change as it continues …
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| Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: |
OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE plans to launch a US tokenized stock venue on November 23 and list 70+ assets; 56 of the 62 companies it targeted objected — Crypto's race to grab a slice of the US stock market is picking up speed even as many of the companies whose shares are being targeted for tokenized trading are pushing back.| Politico: |
After the US midterms, Palantir CEO Alex Karp pivots toward Democrats, describing his philosophy as “progressive” and praising Trump for saying ICE went too far — With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner — Good Wednesday morning — and a special note of gratitude and thanks to all the vets on Veterans Day.
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| Nick Clegg / The Atlantic: |
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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
IBM unveils the Quantum Nighthawk r3, its next-gen processor designed to execute 10,000 quantum operations across 520 qubits to tackle more complex computations — IBM Corp. today announced the Quantum Nighthawk r3, its next-generation processor designed to tackle larger … | Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Roku says it will wind down sales of smart home hardware to focus on streaming, days after Fox closed its acquisition; it will keep supporting existing devices — No more cheap cameras and light bulbs … Roku is done with light bulbs and smart switches: The streaming device maker …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition is in talks to raise at least $1.5B led by General Catalyst at a ~$30B pre-money valuation — Applied Intuition Inc., a defense contractor developing technology for autonomous vehicles, is in talks to raise at least $1.5 billion … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: co-founder Zhang Yiming says ByteDance plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and rival Anthropic and OpenAI by 2029 or 2030 — ByteDance Ltd. plans the release of a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks to augment its lead in AI video …
More: Engadget and PYMNTS.com
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Records: China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has deep PLA ties, bought access to Nvidia's H200 AI chips despite being on a US export blacklist — A Chinese university with deep ties to the People's Liberation Army bought Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips last month despite …
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| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR teardown: 5/10 repairability, a point above the M5 MBP, and Touch ID works with a new logic board; the backlit logo uses four LEDs — “Fancy new display” makes our screwdrivers nervous, and Apple's latest MacBook has the fanciest display yet.
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| Jeannine Amodeo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: CoreWeave plans to raise $4B+ via an investment-grade loan as soon as next week; CoreWeave says it may yield 7%-7.5%, about half its junk bonds' yield — CoreWeave Inc. plans to raise at least $4 billion through an investment-grade loan offering after the AI computing supplier boosted …
More: Barron's Online
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says its Apple Support Community forum will permanently close on November 20 and as of November 10 the site is read-only and no longer accepting new posts — Users visiting the Apple Support Community tonight were greeted with a message informing them that the platform will permanently shut down on November 20.
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| Tim Keary / Forbes: |
Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform designed for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across a Series A and a seed — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … Big data analytics is being reimagined for AI agents.
More: CTech, SiliconANGLE, WOWTALE, and Sequoia Capital
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The EU introduces the Digital Fairness Act, which aims to curb addictive design features on social media platforms and manipulative “dark patterns” — The European Union is debuting a new plan designed to curb practices that manipulate people into spending more time and money online.
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