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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia's board launches a probe into whether Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, saying it has no reason to believe Nvidia secrets were compromised — Nvidia Corp.'s board is launching an investigation into whether Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was targeted …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of a classified memo this spring warning Trump admin that Jensen Huang was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy — The secretary of state's role in drafting a secret memo highlights how top officials were concerned by last spring …
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X: @jason, @rwpusa, @danprimack, @jakehalloran1, @phl43, @joy, @hshaban, and @chrisrmcguire. Bluesky: @carlquintanilla
| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Email to staff: Jensen Huang admits an affair, takes “full responsibility”, and says he fell short of his duties to Nvidia's board, shareholders, and employees — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy in a message to his company.
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Bluesky: @newseye and @mgsiegler.com
Forums: r/technews, r/NvidiaStock, r/neoliberal, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after affair admission, saying he is a “fine person” and “I haven't heard he's done anything wrong” — President Donald Trump called Jensen Huang a “fine person” and said he should stay on as the chief executive officer … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities — The company wants to turn Siri into a true AI agent. … Apple's new CEO is pressing software chief Craig Federighi …
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @bryfitz, @markgurman, and @parkerortolani
Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com and @daniloc.xyz
Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4B, the largest known such purchase by an AI lab — AI lab bypasses traditional suppliers to secure scarce equipment as demand for energy surges — Anthropic has struck a massive deal …
More: Bloomberg, MadRobot, CNBC, Capital Brief, and TheEnergyMag
| Valerie Volcovici / Reuters: |
Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centers — Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife …
LinkedIn: Valerie Volcovici. Bluesky: @taumuyi, @neurograce, @ketanjoshi.co, and @glynmoody. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Financial Times: |
How Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Pat Grady erased Roelof Botha's legacy, halving GPs and unwinding his fund; sources say he joined SpaceX's board behind their backs — Closures of London office and permanent capital fund mark latest efforts to streamline Silicon Valley VC firm| Ian Hodgson / Wall Street Journal: |
US professional services added 70K jobs in October, the most since July 2022, as AI-exposed consulting, legal, and accounting all grew despite AI job-loss fears — Strong hiring at law offices, consulting firms staves off fears of job apocalypse — Consulting firms, law offices … | Garance Burke / Associated Press: |
Sources: officials at the Commerce Department's AI safety center CAISSI were asked to informally report to a White House office, raising independence concerns — With public anxiety growing over mounting reports about out-of-control artificial intelligence agents, the tiny U.S. government division charged …
More: Unite.AI and Political.org
| Wall Street Journal: |
THORChain, which handled ~$1B of stolen Bybit funds in 2025 for $12M+ in fees, began moving the Binance loot despite FBI pleas, saying it can't stop transfers — Some crypto developers say they can't stop North Korean hackers from laundering stolen funds through their platforms, frustrating law enforcement
More: Gulf News
| Alex Eichenstein / The Information: |
Excluding Anthropic's IPO, AI companies sold or priced $300B+ of stock in 2026, with ~$100B more on tap, raising questions about how much the market can absorb — Volatile trading in AI-related stocks this past week has put a spotlight on investors' appetite for additional share offerings …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek says its open-source agent app Harness hit 1.54M DAUs on November 4, less than three months after launch, and uses ~92T tokens a day, or ~60M per user — DeepSeek, the Chinese AI disruptor, released striking adoption numbers for its AI agent infrastructure as it continues …
More: RuntimeWire
| Nous Research: |
Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallow — We post-trained over Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to reinforce Western values on a Chinese-trained model. We call this new model Arete-27B.| Politico: |
How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms — For years, the policy debate over artificial intelligence belonged to those who counted progress in decades.
X: @americans4ri, @charlottealter, and @politico. LinkedIn: John Matheson
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Sources: officials at the Commerce Department's AI safety center CAISSI were asked to informally report to a White House office, raising independence concernsFind
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