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November 13, 2026, 3:55 PM
 

November 13, 2026

3:40 PM  •
@microsoft:  Microsoft apologizes for the outage, calling it a “technical issue” from a “network capacity upgrade”, and says it was “not related to cyber or AI/agents”
3:35 PM  •
CNBC:  Nvidia board says it is “in the process of selecting a search firm” for the CEO role and it has “not formally engaged any potential candidates”
3:05 PM  •
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Meta staffers are testing a prediction-market app called Takes, letting users wager on the outcome of questions or events using “cred”, not real money
2:20 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Dario Amodei says figuring out how much computing is needed in a year or two is Anthropic's “deepest business dilemma” due to the unpredictability of revenue
2:10 PM  •
New York Times:  Some investors and founders say they lost an ally in Jensen Huang; Nvidia held $48B in 229 private companies as of July and offered $165B in cloud backstops
1:55 PM  •
Allison Johnson / The Verge:  Claude Duet review: user-friendly, sends a helpful morning brief, and spots scheduling conflicts, but can feel like a neurotic personal assistant that nags
1:15 PM  •
Mithil Aggarwal / NBC News:  Some in China question the timing of reports on the relationship between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang; Trump is set to meet Xi Jinping in Shenzhen next week
12:50 PM  •
Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:  Microsoft says Microsoft 365 availability is improving as the outage stretches into a second day, disrupting governments, hospitals, and businesses globally
12:30 PM  •
New York Times:  Wall Street fears Jensen Huang's ouster will slow Nvidia's AI dealmaking; sources: its $500B lending consortium is in flux and at least one lender may exit
12:25 PM  •
Wen Shao / Fortune:  OpenAI disbands its standalone robotics team, moving its staff to research and Applied units, saying models like GPT-6 Astra can be directly applied to robotics
12:10 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Anthropic's IPO, like SpaceX's, is closed to institutional investors in mainland China and Hong Kong, partly due to US arms export rules
12:03 PM  •
Michael Acton / Financial Times:  Sources: Nvidia's board has approached Arm CEO Rene Haas in its search for a potential successor to Jensen Huang; Haas worked at Nvidia more than a decade ago
11:25 AM  •
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:  Paytm gets tentative approval to revive its digital wallet, which effectively died after India's central bank canceled Paytm Payments Bank's license in April
10:35 AM  •
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:  OpenAI announces ChatGPT Wallet, which lets its dots AI agents make purchases on behalf of users, available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US who are over 18
10:15 AM  •
The Information:  Sources: SpaceX laid off ~60 Grok Imagine staffers in the past week, leaving a handful to keep the product alive, as it prioritizes AI coding tools and Grok Bot
9:50 AM  •
CNBC:  Scott Bessent says the departments of Treasury, Defense, and State were in favor of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months, but Commerce is in charge
9:40 AM  •
Stephen Witt / New York Times:  Jensen Huang's biographer says Nvidia had a culture of omertà and deference toward Huang, who was quite arrogant, that enabled him to “be his worst self”
9:25 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Amended S-1: Nscale had $5.5B in debt in September, up from $137.4M in June; Nvidia committed $2B of its $3B+ convertible financing; it previously disclosed $1B
8:10 AM  •
Financial Times:  Jensen Huang's downfall exposes Nvidia's internal politics; source: Huang ran Nvidia as a “feudal system” with his daughter and son-in-law in powerful positions
7:50 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Source: at an August 2026 finance meeting, Jensen Huang interrupted Colette Kress' presentation, calling her “a deer in the headlights” and a “reporting CFO”
7:15 AM  •
Sally Ward-Foxton / EE Times:  South Korea-based DeepX tapes out DX-M2, an edge AI chip to run inference of 100B-parameter LLMs on robots and drones, targeting fall 2027 for mass production
5:50 AM  •
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:  A review of Chinese contracts, disclosures, and other documents identifies $3.2B+ in compute projects built or planned around Nvidia GPUs restricted by the US
4:35 AM  •
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg:  AI server maker xFusion gets approval from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange for a ChiNext IPO; filing: xFusion aims to raise ~$1.2B by issuing up to 220.08M shares
2:25 AM  •
Jessica Lyons / The Register:  OpenAI launches Daybreak Red Team in early access to test web apps for flaws and Daybreak Defense Factory to automate finding, validating, and fixing them
1:30 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Samsung is in talks to acquire Modine Manufacturing, a US maker of cooling systems for data centers, as soon as in the coming weeks; MOD jumps 30%+
1:01 AM  •
Financial Times:  Filing: Nscale says it needs more funding for its 2027 commitments after ordering Nvidia chips for a $45B Anthropic deal, casting doubt on its planned $35B IPO
12:50 AM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  Nscale's updated IPO prospectus shows Q3 revenue up 1,344% YoY to $307.5M, up from $140.6M in Q2, and net loss widened to $1.69B, up from $1.02B in Q2
12:05 AM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Meta launches an outbound calling feature for Muse, such as to businesses, available for paid US subscribers; Gemini and startup Instinct offer a similar option

November 12, 2026

11:45 PM  •
Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal:  Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build tools for accelerating AI R&D, raised a $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital
11:15 PM  •
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg:  Sources: social media companies' payouts in teen addiction suits mostly ranged from $2M-$2.5M; Meta agreed to pay two teens a combined $7M in the past two weeks
10:40 PM  •
CNN:  Sources: US officials disagree on whether China had Alice Huang spy on Jensen Huang; some at the ODNI and the CIA say the intelligence to date doesn't prove it
10:20 PM  •
The Information:  Letter: ByteDance plans to buy back up to $6B worth of shares from existing investors at a ~$400B valuation, a 20% increase in valuation from its 2025 buyback
10:01 PM  •
Jasper Goodman / Politico:  Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott asks Jensen Huang and Howard Lutnick to testify at separate hearings in December over the Nvidia saga; Lutnick agrees to appear
9:11 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Nvidia faced pressure to boost its 25% residual value support backstop on a planned $500B AI financing vehicle with asset managers before Huang's exit
8:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources close to Jensen Huang say he has taken a penitent turn, castigated himself as a “piece of shit”, and he has claimed to not care what happens to himself
8:35 PM  •
New York Times:  Sources: President Trump's and Howard Lutnick's close relationship with Jensen Huang made officials wary of taking aggressive steps to rein in Nvidia chip sales
7:35 PM  •
New York Times:  Sources: during a Tuesday call, President Trump urged Jensen Huang to keep fighting for his job; aides say Trump sees Nvidia as essentially too big to fail
7:30 PM  •
CJ Fairfield / CRN:  NYC-based Hatz AI, which makes tools for managed services providers to help small businesses adopt AI, raised a $24M Series A
6:50 PM  •
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:  Cisco reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $18.5B, above $18.14B est., adjusted EPS above estimates, and raises its FY 2027 revenue forecast; CSCO drops 5%+
6:35 PM  •
A.J. Vicens / Reuters:  The FBI says North Korean hackers have stolen $400M+ in crypto over the past 18 months using “FaceStealer”, a scheme involving fake video calls and AI deepfakes
5:30 PM  •
Will DePue / Unemployment Labs:  Analysis of open weights: six models from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax, and Ant Group released since April carry fingerprints of export-controlled Blackwell GPUs
5:20 PM  •
Myles Miller / Bloomberg:  The DOJ says it got court authorization to seize or restrain $1.2B of the $2.7B frozen by Tether and Circle after North Korea's $6.3B Binance hack on October 29
5:15 PM  •
@artificialanlys:  Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Gemini 4 Hydrogen nearly ties Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, at a third of Sonnet's cost but ~2.5x that of Sol
5:05 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: OpenAI confirmed to lawmakers this week that it would support a bipartisan effort in Congress to curb China's access to AI chips and chipmaking tools
4:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise funding at a $65B valuation, weeks after closing a round at a $40B valuation; its annual run rate recently surpassed $5B
4:35 PM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  Cerebras reports Q3 core revenue up 70% YoY to $230.9M, vs. $214.7M est., issues strong guidance, and unveils a Microsoft deal signed in October; CBRS jumps 5%+
4:25 PM  •
Reuters:  US Attorney General Todd Blanche says the DOJ has not yet reached a conclusion on whether Alice Huang was a Chinese spy and “of course” the FBI is investigating
4:20 PM  •
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:  Sources: Anthropic's IPO is about six times oversubscribed, and bankers have told prospective investors that Anthropic will prioritize existing backers
4:15 PM  •
Grace Kay / New York Times:  SpaceX plans to invest $50B in an Arizona data center campus and $24B in a Texas data center campus; in October, it said its AI business was 50%+ of its revenue
3:28 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: SpaceX and Tesla are progressing in their merger negotiations and could announce a deal as soon as in December or early 2027, but obstacles remain
2:46 PM  •
Reuters:  Sources: Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee; revelations about two other extramarital affairs led to his resignation as Nvidia CEO
2:45 PM  •
Anna Washenko / Engadget:  Microsoft says it is “seeing encouraging recovery progress” after confirming users may be unable to access Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook and Teams
2:35 PM  •
Anirban Sen / Reuters:  Kalshi ends its Donald Trump Jr. advisory contract from January 2025, after his VC firm 1789 Capital increased its stake in Polymarket and led its latest round
2:30 PM  •
Google Antigravity:  Google updates Antigravity with Orchestrator, which dynamically switches between models like Carbon and Hydrogen within a session, for AI Ultra subscribers
2:20 PM  •
Reuters:  Sources: senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out amid the spy scandal surrounding Nvidia
1:55 PM  •
Abner Li / 9to5Google:  Google says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is available across Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Gemini for business, Search, and paid AI Pro and Ultra tiers in Antigravity
1:40 PM  •
Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google:  Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, calling it a major upgrade over Gemini 3.8 Flash, at $1.50/1M input and $7.50/1M output tokens across its 1M context window
1:00 PM  •
Teresa Xie / Bloomberg:  Binance says it has covered all of the $6.3B in cryptoassets stolen on October 29, using its profits and emergency funds to replace common and obscure tokens
12:01 PM  •
Victoria Song / The Verge:  Samsung's Android XR smart glasses hands-on: stylish with good privacy protections like local face redaction and nice Gemini features like real-time translation
11:45 AM  •
Phoebe Liu / The Information:  Colette Kress may take a more conservative approach than Jensen Huang; sources say she sometimes pushed back on his riskier deals like backstopping OpenAI
11:40 AM  •
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:  US officials: multiple US DOJ investigations threaten to sweep up Nvidia, including one focused on antitrust grounds and two focused on Megaspeed and Supermicro
11:35 AM  •
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:  US House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast says Jensen Huang has agreed to testify under oath to Congress before Thanksgiving, likely behind closed doors
11:20 AM  •
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:  Whoop launches Whoop Humans, a free opt-in social network in its app that allows members at every tier to share health data with approved followers
11:15 AM  •
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:  Staff email: interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress cites “an extraordinarily difficult period” and promises “more from leadership” and a company November 18 meeting
11:05 AM  •
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:  Trump says Tim Cook is the “only one man” to replace Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO, adding “A Legend replaces a Legend!” and Huang “has done a fantastic job”
10:35 AM  •
The Information:  Sources: firms tied to Alice Huang recently invested in DeepSeek, to forge closer ties and supply Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which are banned from sale to China
10:30 AM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  Neocloud Nebius' stock falls 16%+ after it reported Q3 revenue up 571% YoY to $980.8M, above $907.5M est., increased 2026 capex spend, and issued a weak outlook
10:25 AM  •
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:  LangChain, which aims to help large companies build and deploy their own AI agents, raised $300M led by CapitalG at a $3B valuation, up from $1.25B in 2025
10:00 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Nvidia dropped 14% at Thursday's open after Jensen Huang resigned, erasing $600B+ in value and taking its market cap below $4T for the first time since 2025
9:50 AM  •
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:  Jensen Huang's resignation caps a 33-year career, growing Nvidia from a GPU maker to an AI giant; born in Taiwan, he moved to the US at 10 and has a ~3.6% stake
9:40 AM  •
Financial Times:  Under Jensen Huang, Nvidia plowed its vast profits into bankrolling AI startups, suppliers, and chip customers, a web of dependencies that could now unravel
9:30 AM  •
Adam Satariano / New York Times:  A profile of interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress, who joined in 2013 after working at Cisco and Microsoft; as CFO, Kress criticized US export controls on China
9:25 AM  •
Hayden Field / The Verge:  Nvidia appoints ex-Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever board chair; the board's Jensen Huang exit press release does not include a quote from Huang
9:25 AM  •
Paul Mozur / New York Times:  Singapore says it held Alice Huang's passport from June 2025 to February 2026 and released her with a “stern warning” after the US provided very little help
9:10 AM  •
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:  Google and Samsung open preorders for their Android XR “Intelligent Eyewear” smart glasses, for $395+ for Warby Parker's frames and $449+ for Gentle Monster's
9:05 AM  •
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:  Apple HomeView review: fast home controls, helpful Siri AI, gorgeous customizable faces, great sound for its size, but Siri can be slow and pricey wall mount
8:53 AM  •
Nvidia Newsroom:  Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, president, and board member; CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO as the board considers candidates; NVDA drops 4.34%
7:45 AM  •
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:  Munich-based SE3, which is developing “spatial intelligence” software to combine feeds into a queryable 3D battlefield map, raised a $30M Series A led by Accel
7:35 AM  •
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:  Australian quantum software startup Q-Ctrl, which builds sensors that help ships and aircraft navigate when GPS is unavailable, raised $290M at a $1B+ valuation
7:20 AM  •
New York Times:  How CFTC Chairman Michael Selig reversed years of agency policy to authorize perpetual crypto and stock trades on Kalshi and others, despite SEC staff concerns
7:10 AM  •
Financial Times:  Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Starshield faced “systematic speed restrictions” for several days; Ukrainian officials believe it is to pressure Kyiv amid peace talks
7:05 AM  •
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:  Google launches Tabletop, an experimental AI platform to build customizable, collaborative personal planning and coordination hubs, in beta via a US waitlist
7:00 AM  •
Michael Acton / Financial Times:  Sources: Nvidia employees, known for their fierce loyalty to Jensen Huang, have been left stunned and some are angry at the news of his extramarital affairs
6:50 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Beijing says “the US should stop fabricating the so-called Chinese spy narrative as a pretext for imposing technology restrictions”; Trump and Xi meet next week
6:35 AM  •
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:  Russian pranksters tricked three OpenAI natsec and policy executives into a video meeting by posing as Ukrainian officials; OpenAI says it “acted internally”
6:25 AM  •
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:  A look at Russian ransomware-as-a-service group Qilin, which has become the world's most active gang, likely run by 36-year-old Aleksey Mikhailovich Yakovtsev
6:20 AM  •
Bloomberg:  A look at Nvidia's 10-person board, many of whom have known Jensen Huang for decades, including attorney Stephen Neal, VC Tench Coxe, and academic John Dabiri
6:10 AM  •
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Alice Huang's business partner and husband Kang Wei spoke openly of her Jensen Huang relationship; Wei, who knew Jensen for a decade, introduced them
6:00 AM  •
Bloomberg:  A look at potential Nvidia CEO candidates, including CUDA inventor Ian Buck, Arm CEO Rene Haas, and Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji
5:55 AM  •
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal:  SMIC reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to ~$3.19B, net profit up 123% to ~$428.4M, above ~$396.8M est., and a gross margin of 29.9%, above its 26% to 28% guidance
5:45 AM  •
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:  London-based Uforce, which makes unmanned air, sea, and land vehicles, raised $700M co-led by the UK National Wealth Fund and Valor Equity at a $6B valuation
5:35 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Tencent founder Pony Ma says in his annual speech that he is willing to deploy half of the company's 100,000-strong workforce to AI-native businesses
5:30 AM  •
Ruxandra Teslo / Ruxandra's Substack:  A look at the AI community's “handoverism” ideas, which envision humanity entrusting “the direction of its future to AI”, and what it may look like in practice
5:20 AM  •
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg:  Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 47% YoY to ~$95.4B, net income up 34% to ~$2.4B, above est., driven by AI and iPhone Duo demand, and forecasts strong 2027 sales
5:03 AM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Lumbra, which is developing tech to orchestrate AI agents in ultra-secure computing environments for the intelligence community, raised a $25M Series A
2:30 AM  •
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:  A growing number of young victims whose photos and videos Grok sexualized are seeking to hold xAI legally accountable for letting users generate such content
2:10 AM  •
Marilen Martin / Bloomberg:  Munich-based Agile Robots, which builds humanoids, mobile robots, robotic arms, and software to control them, raised $500M led by SoftBank at an $8.5B valuation
1:55 AM  •
Emily Mullin / Wired:  Radical Numerics unveils Omnii Defense, an edge AI model it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens with a USB gene sequencer and no internet
1:05 AM  •
Reuters:  Sources: Chinese AI companies rush to rent Nvidia cloud capacity overseas amid fears of tighter US export control enforcement after the Jensen Huang spy scandal
12:45 AM  •
Joe Miller / Financial Times:  China hawks and Big Tech critics on Capitol Hill are building bipartisan support for tighter export controls, as Jensen Huang loses favor despite Trump's praise
12:35 AM  •
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:  Nvidia stopped reporting Singapore revenue after its Q2 2025 ended on July 27, when it accounted for 22% of its revenue, after placing Megaspeed on a block list
12:25 AM  •
Financial Times:  AMD's shares rose 4%+ pre-market, after closing up 7.3%, and Broadcom gained 2.4% pre-market, following a 4% gain, as Nvidia's board weighs ousting Jensen Huang

November 11, 2026

11:00 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: even before Jensen Huang's Alice Huang affair became public, some Trump officials questioned Jensen's aggressive lobbying for more chip sales to China
10:25 PM  •
Leo Schwartz / The Information:  Sources: the US Commerce Department is finalizing a semiconductor control expansion that would prevent remote data center access and chip smuggling into China
9:45 PM  •
Semafor:  Source: Nvidia's board is considering Apple Chief Hardware Officer Johny Srouji as a CEO candidate
9:35 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Letter: Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chris Coons ask the Trump administration to preserve all documents tied to Nvidia's chip exports to China and Huang's affair
8:45 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Megaspeed founder Alice Huang has returned to China; a source says she is currently living in Beijing with the knowledge of security officials
7:45 PM  •
Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:  Roku says it will wind down sales of smart home hardware to focus on streaming, days after Fox closed its acquisition, but will keep supporting existing devices
7:15 PM  •
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
6:50 PM  •
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
6:20 PM  •
Axios:  Sources: Howard Lutnick has stalled curbs on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia chips to China; Trump approved curbs for a third time in 2026 on November 5
5:45 PM  •
Axios:  Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Department not adding Megaspeed to its entity list; the agency denies it occurred
5:32 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Nvidia's board is preparing to oust Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs, one with a suspected Chinese spy; NVDA drops 5%+ pre-market
5:03 PM  •
New York Times:  Sources: Jensen Huang had an extramarital relationship with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell, who reports to him; the affair was discussed inside Nvidia
4:00 PM  •
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
3:25 PM  •
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:  AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates 200+ services locally, saying AI agents wrote it and its team hasn't written or reviewed any of its code
2:05 PM  •
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
1:40 PM  •
Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:  United Airlines says it will block third-party AI assistants from booking tickets to protect its customers' data, citing potential FAA and DOT rule violations
1:30 PM  •
Nick Clegg / The Atlantic:  Silicon Valley's herd mentality in cozying up to Trump backfired as Democrats may seek retribution, China closes the AI gap, and anti-Big Tech sentiment grows
12:40 PM  •
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
12:00 PM  •
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
11:35 AM  •
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
11:30 AM  •
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:  NYC-based Imprint, which helps companies offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $130M led by Khosla Ventures at a ~$1.9B valuation
10:21 AM  •
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
10:10 AM  •
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
10:05 AM  •
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:  Plurai, founded by ex-Nexar employees to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed led by Team8
9:40 AM  •
Morgan Chittum / Fortune:  Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B led by General Catalyst and March Capital at a $1.3B valuation
9:20 AM  •
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
9:01 AM  •
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:  An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules
8:40 AM  •
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
8:25 AM  •
Mark Chediak / Bloomberg:  Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes
8:20 AM  •
George Hammond / Financial Times:  London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May
8:00 AM  •
Loreben Tuquero / Poynter:  Wesleyan Media Project: political campaigns spent ~$187M on ~300 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads in the midterms; ~90% of tracked AI ads were for GOP candidates
7:50 AM  •
@firesidealpha:  Anthropic's IPO roadshow video: Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be “relics of the past” in “less than a decade”
7:40 AM  •
Luke Plunkett / Aftermath:  Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors
7:30 AM  •
Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:  German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice
7:21 AM  •
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
7:05 AM  •
Karen Weise / New York Times:  As Anthropic prepares to IPO, Amazon and Google collectively own 25%+; Amazon's $18B investment could reach $250B+ in value and Google's $33B could hit $140B
6:50 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  SoftBank takes a $3.7B earnings hit, due largely to canceled reservations on power generation equipment; sources: it had reserved 13GW+ of turbines to power AI
6:45 AM  •
Andrew Silver / Reuters:  After China's anti-corruption crackdown on hospital visits and pharma reps, drugmakers turn to AI assistants from Alibaba, JD, and others to reach physicians
6:35 AM  •
Alexander Gladstone / Wall Street Journal:  Filing: Alphabet agrees to additional privacy protections to salvage its $10M acquisition of bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data, resolving objections from unions
6:25 AM  •
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”
6:20 AM  •
Desmond Shum:  Rather than being a spy, Alice Huang is likely primarily a commercial fixer or “white glove” for businesses, leveraging a career in China's capital markets
6:10 AM  •
Jessica Elgot / The Guardian:  Sources: the UK's proposed under-16 social media ban is expanding to target recommender systems and user content, including YouTube Kids, Lego Play, and Spotify
6:01 AM  •
Reuters:  Analysis: AI-driven e-commerce adoption has surged during China's month-long Singles Day festival; Syntun: event sales rose 2.4% from October 7 to October 31
5:50 AM  •
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
5:38 AM  •
Richard Adams / The Guardian:  England's university regulator says AI makes grading coursework “close to impossible” and recommends a return to “AI-free assessment” methods like written exams
2:50 AM  •
Jaron Lanier / New York Times:  VR pioneer Jaron Lanier says Silicon Valley is sabotaging itself by poorly pitching AI and callously treating areas for building data centers as sacrifice zones
2:40 AM  •
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:  Nintendo sold 5.2M copies of its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake in just four days, giving the Switch 2 the blockbuster hit it had been waiting for
2:10 AM  •
Owen Walker / Financial Times:  The Nvidia spy scandal exposes the network of intermediaries operating through Singapore to help Chinese tech companies gain access to advanced US chips for AI
1:40 AM  •
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:  Sources: Rapidus has yet to produce functioning SRAM, a critical step it needed to complete by summer 2026 to meet its March 2028 deadline for making 2nm chips
1:20 AM  •
New York Times:  A profile of Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed with her business partner Kang Wei, who sources say was often introduced as her husband
1:15 AM  •
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
1:05 AM  •
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:  Researchers find that Grok Build is leaking the data of over 35,000 apps via shareable links, including proprietary business info, some belonging to SpaceXSI
12:40 AM  •
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
12:05 AM  •
Politico:  Sources: Jensen Huang's affair has significantly raised the chances of Congress enacting chip export limits in 2026 via the National Defense Authorization Act

November 10, 2026

11:45 PM  •
April Roach / CNBC:  Nvidia's stock closed down 5.47% on Tuesday, following a 4.27% drop on Monday, after Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy
11:15 PM  •
Declan Harty / Politico:  Source: the CFTC warned Kalshi of possible imminent charges over failure to notify the regulator of certain products; Kalshi says it is “addressing the issue”
10:20 PM  •
Heather Knight / New York Times:  A US judge sentences tech consultant Nima Momeni to 16 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in April 2023
9:30 PM  •
Jenny Lee / CNBC:  Anthropic opens its Australian retail IPO, giving individual investors access to Class A shares ahead of the company's planned Nasdaq listing
9:15 PM  •
Bloomberg:  How US-based game publishers are losing ground in the $121B mobile gaming market to Chinese rivals, which can make games quicker, cheaper, and more profitably
8:10 PM  •
Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter:  An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting the most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more
7:45 PM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Anthropic's bankers are weighing plans to raise its IPO price after receiving heavy demand, which could increase the valuation target to $1.5T or more
7:25 PM  •
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:  A deep dive into AMD's Zen 6 EPYC Venice: uses TSMC's N2P, the 9686F often beats Nvidia's Vera, a dual 9996 is up to 93% faster than a dual Zen 5 9965, and more
7:00 PM  •
Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal:  NYC-based Daylight, which provides AI-powered managed security, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, sources say at a ~$400M valuation
6:40 PM  •
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:  Incident report: Railway says it believes the October hack targeted AI provider keys for resale and estimates unauthorized spend using the stolen keys at ~$740K
6:20 PM  •
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:  Leaked docs: OpenAI's adjusted operating margin improved from -150% in Q2 to -109% in Q3; its estimated Q3 adjusted operating losses rose from $10.1B to $10.9B
5:45 PM  •
Ben Bergman / Business Insider:  Coframe, which uses AI to make websites that test and personalize themselves for each visitor, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $35M
5:15 PM  •
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:  Sources and records: 11+ NSA and US Cyber Command personnel died by suicide over the 12 months to September, prompting White House and congressional questions
4:40 PM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 168% YoY to $3.66B, above $3.55B est., a $132.5B revenue backlog, and lifts its 2026 earnings guidance; CRWV jumps 24.71%
4:35 PM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: the US Commerce Department delayed Entity List additions like Megaspeed for two months, despite at least four other US agencies pushing to include it
4:22 PM  •
The Information:  Source: OpenAI has told investors on Tuesday that its Q3 revenue jumped nearly 50% to $10B, up from 17% growth in Q2 and up 2.6x from Q3 2025
3:55 PM  •
Cory Weinberg / New York Times:  S-1: Nvidia plans to invest ~$10B in Anthropic after its IPO, or ~10% of the total new cash Anthropic is expected to raise in November, including in its IPO
3:25 PM  •
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 Ventures
3:05 PM  •
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
3:02 PM  •
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 $999
2:55 PM  •
Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg:  São Paulo-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised $105M, as a $65M Series C and $40M in renewed growth financing
2:50 PM  •
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 Beijing
2:35 PM  •
Sam Rutherford / Engadget:  Google Fi debuts a “super network” feature for automatic carrier switching and Wi-Fi Auto-Connect+ to improve indoor connectivity in malls, airports, and more
2:25 PM  •
New York Times:  Nvidia hires former acting US attorney Joon H. Kim and his law firm Wachtell Lipton to investigate Jensen Huang's affair with alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang
2:16 PM  •
Aaron Holmes / The Information:  Updated S-1: Anthropic commits ~$10B more to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud by 2033; it can cancel a $34.9B Lambda deal over a delay but doesn't yet plan to
1:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and others in a 21-bank consortium have committed ~$270M to fund five years of a stablecoin venture announced in September
1:35 PM  •
Kyle Baird / The Block:  Alta, which is building blockchain infrastructure for banks and payment companies, raised a $47.5M Series A led by Index, bringing its total funding to $80M
1:25 PM  •
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
1:02 PM  •
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
12:55 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Oura agrees to acquire AI and on-demand doctor tool Counsel Health for $625M, and says Q4 revenue grew 153% YoY to $533M and FY 2026 revenue grew 92% to ~$1.75B
12:50 PM  •
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
12:35 PM  •
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
12:20 PM  •
Calder McHugh / Politico:  New York Governor Kathy Hochul launches the US' first effort to independently test AI systems and train a new generation of AI safety experts via a new center
12:10 PM  •
CTech:  Dreeze, launched by Zerto founders to help companies recover from cyberattacks by restoring entire cloud applications, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed
12:02 PM  •
Dylan Sloan / Bloomberg:  Updated S-1: Anthropic's seven co-founders will sell $1.75B of stock in next week's IPO, each offering shares worth ~$250M at the midpoint of its IPO range
11:55 AM  •
Martin Peers / The Information:  SoftBank wrote off $3.7B in non-refundable data center equipment advances after reviewing its data center plans in Q2 and spending $9.5B on advance payments
11:25 AM  •
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
11:20 AM  •
Reuters:  AI training startup Mercor raised a $750M Series D from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Nvidia, and others at a $20B valuation, up from $10B in October 2025
11:16 AM  •
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:  IBM ends H-1B and green card sponsorships for most of the sponsored roles in IBM Consulting; source: workers can still work with IBM outside the US or leave IBM
11:02 AM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Goldman Sachs expects Anthropic to hit ~$52B revenue in 2026 and $600B+ by 2030, an operating profit in 2029, and be free cash flow positive from 2030
10:25 AM  •
Mia Sato / The Verge:  Reddit launches Reddit Reviews, a built-in hub using AI to turn subreddit comments into product pages with pros, cons, and sentiment, starting with 10K items
9:55 AM  •
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
9:46 AM  •
Reuters:  TSMC plans to invest up to $500M in Anthropic at its IPO price and up to $500M in OpenAI to acquire preferred stock
9:40 AM  •
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%
9:35 AM  •
Reece Rogers / Wired:  Cyanogen's co-founder and two others debut Kora, a Linux desktop OS that integrates AI models at a system level, set for a 2027 launch on Snapdragon and x86 PCs
9:25 AM  •
Chris Metinko / Axios:  Tel Aviv-based Bay, which helps companies find AI agents and set guardrails, emerges from stealth with a $37M Series A led by Battery Ventures and a $13M seed
9:20 AM  •
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:  Path Robotics, which develops software for autonomous manufacturing robots, raised a $300M Series E at a $2.45B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$610M
9:10 AM  •
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:  At Adobe Max, Adobe unveils Creative Cloud and Firefly AI updates that aim to make designing and editing easier, including Premiere's new Generative Remove tool
8:40 AM  •
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
8:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Filing: Alibaba says its chip design unit T-Head filed on September 11 for a Hong Kong listing after the SEHK cleared it; T-Head is set to remain a subsidiary
7:25 AM  •
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:  Sources: Microsoft and other companies are lobbying the Trump administration to halt the FCC's plan to ban US imports of new Chinese optical transceiver models
7:07 AM  •
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
6:55 AM  •
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
6:45 AM  •
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
6:40 AM  •
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
6:35 AM  •
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:  BT CEO Allison Kirkby says a Starlink deal is “ready to launch” but BT is “cautious on how Starlink might be viewed” after Elon Musk cut Starshield to Ukraine
6:20 AM  •
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
6:10 AM  •
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
5:55 AM  •
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
5:40 AM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Nvidia board member and ex-Cooley CEO Stephen C Neal will probably lead the probe; Nvidia's corporate docs make no reference to “succession planning”
4:15 AM  •
Reuters:  China's trade surplus hit $1.04T in the first 10 months of 2026, topping $1T for a second year in a row, as AI-driven tech exports offset weak domestic demand
3:50 AM  •
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:  Meituan releases the weights for LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model for long-horizon agentic tasks, under the MIT license, after unveiling it on November 2
2:25 AM  •
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
1:45 AM  •
Ryan Lawler / Axios:  GeniosAI, which develops AI software for financial analysis and modeling, raised $19.1M across a seed and a Series A from FactSet, Zoom, and General Catalyst
1:30 AM  •
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
12:40 AM  •
Reuters:  The White House picks Palantir CISO Michael LoSapio to lead the DHS' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, replacing Acting Director Nick Andersen

November 9, 2026

11:40 PM  •
James Mayger / Bloomberg:  Australia is drafting legislation for an AI safety regulator that can impose “significant penalties” after an OpenAI model hacked a government site in September
11:25 PM  •
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
11:10 PM  •
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:  The US DOJ sues Lyft for allegedly discriminating against riders with disabilities, seeking $53M in compensation; Lyft disputes the allegations
11:00 PM  •
Associated Press:  California voters reject Proposition 40, which would have imposed a one-time 5% tax on residents with a net worth above $1B to mostly help fund health care
10:00 PM  •
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:  Trump Media reports $409.7M in Q3 profit fueled by digital asset gains, vs. a $54.8M loss in Q3 2025, and $3M in sales, $1.8M from subscriptions like Truth API
8:41 PM  •
Echo Wang / Reuters:  Emails: Anthropic sent bankers a copy of its IPO filing showing plans to raise up to $69.3B, then followed up saying that the pricing details were inaccurate
7:05 PM  •
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:  Take-Two reiterates its FY 2027 outlook and reports Q2 total net bookings down 18% YoY to $1.6B, below $1.65B est.; NBA 2K27 missed sales forecast due to GTA VI
6:35 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Short seller Culper Research's May 13 report, which flagged Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang as “uncomfortably close”, resurfaces on social media
6:05 PM  •
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
5:40 PM  •
Associated Press:  Trump says the FBI is “looking into” Jensen Huang's affair, and the Nvidia CEO told him that he “had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy”
5:00 PM  •
Semafor:  Jensen Huang's spy affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's thin corporate governance and opaque succession planning at the world's most important company
4:15 PM  •
Anna Tong / Forbes:  AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some of its customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information in late October
4:00 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Public hearing notice: SpaceX plans to build a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, Texas, with ~$24B of investment for the first phase
3:00 PM  •
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:  Anthropic prices Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at $8/1M input and $40/1M output tokens, down 20% from 5.1; fast mode costs $16/1M input and $80/1M output tokens
2:15 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  Anthropic says during testing Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours and solved two open black hole physics problems
2:02 PM  •
Anthropic:  Anthropic releases Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2, saying they are “best for the most ambitious, open-ended technical work”, with outputs up to 30% faster than 5.1
1:50 PM  •
Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal:  Mavria, which aims to build modular data centers that can be shipped by trucks, raised $130M across pre-seed and seed rounds at a $1B valuation led by Paradigm
1:35 PM  •
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:  Elliptic: the hackers behind the $6.3B Binance heist created at least six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain within days to launder ~$430,000 of the stolen funds
1:15 PM  •
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:  Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna
12:15 PM  •
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:  Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco
12:05 PM  •
Reuters:  French officials say Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France in October
11:20 AM  •
New York Times:  Sources: a US Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China was transferred to the DOJ after Nvidia intervened
11:10 AM  •
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:  In a 60 Minutes interview, Trump says the DOJ threatened a top exec at “one of the big” AI companies over “bad” activities and this “person totally changed”
11:01 AM  •
Patrick Jenkins / Financial Times:  An interview with ex-Shein Executive Chair Donald Tang who insists it was his decision to step down ahead of the troubled IPO, Shein's valuation rout, and more
10:50 AM  •
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:  Disney and Adobe sign a multiyear deal to build proprietary “artist-led” generative AI models with Adobe Firefly Foundry to support Disney's production pipeline
10:40 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Draft law: the EU's Digital Fairness Act would require companies to let adults disable addictive features and will target AI systems that simulate relationships
10:15 AM  •
David Pierce / The Verge:  Medium launches TK, an AI-powered, minimalist note-taking, journaling, and private social networking app with daily prompts, its first major launch since 2017
9:50 AM  •
Lauren Goode / Wired:  Sources: Jensen Huang hired crisis communications firm Heller as early as October 2025; an NYT report in October 2025 on his Megaspeed ties caused tensions
9:30 AM  •
Assaf Gilead / Globes:  Spines, which uses AI agents to edit and proofread amateur authors' books, design their covers, and handle their layout, raised $29M in equity and $35M in debt
9:01 AM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Alice Huang and her partner pitched a Southeast Asia data center project to China-based investors in 2025, saying they had “no problem securing GPUs”
8:25 AM  •
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:  Nominal, which builds software to make hardware manufacturing more efficient, raised $240M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B after an $80M Series B in March
7:50 AM  •
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:  Google unveils two specialized TPUs launching in 2027: the 8tx, to be paired with an AMD CPU, and the 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks
7:35 AM  •
Bill Bishop / @niubi:  Jensen Huang's affair raises questions about Alice Huang's access to his devices and Trump conversations, and represents “another successful op” for China's MSS
7:25 AM  •
Mark R. Long / Wall Street Journal:  Alphabet's Wing plans to invest up to $125M over two years to build a 15,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce tens of thousands of drones
7:15 AM  •
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:  Meta expands its AI age estimation tech globally to apply Instagram's Teen Account protections for millions of users from 13 to 17 who misrepresented their age
7:05 AM  •
Mark Anderson / Bloomberg:  A profile of Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed in 2023 and spent years in Jensen Huang's orbit; Megaspeed's Nvidia imports top $4.6B
6:50 AM  •
Miriam Waldvogel / Washington Post:  US voters in Harwood, North Dakota rejected a ballot measure that opposed Applied Digital's $3B data center, set to open in 2027, bucking a nationwide backlash
6:40 AM  •
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:  The US OCC fully approves Coinbase to become a chartered trust bank; sources say it could expand Coinbase's stablecoin business by letting it issue stablecoins
6:25 AM  •
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware:  Amsterdam police arrested between 150 and 200 protesters for trespassing and violence at a Microsoft data center construction site owned by Pure Data Centers
6:10 AM  •
Reuters:  Internal EU assessment: Russia's “Operation Overload” opportunistically exploited recent French riots by spreading fabricated videos impersonating Western media
6:00 AM  •
New York Times:  Jensen Huang maintains deep control over Nvidia, managing 60+ direct reports and owning a 3.56% stake, presenting a challenge for Nvidia's 10-person board
5:50 AM  •
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:  Nvidia Senior Director Madison Huang, daughter of Jensen, cancels a high-profile Seoul appearance citing a “family matter”, throwing the event into disarray
5:40 AM  •
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:  Nvidia drops 4.3% after its board opens an investigation into Jensen Huang; the company originally dismissed the interactions as “nothing unusual or unexpected”
5:00 AM  •
Financial Times:  Analysts warn Russia's Rassvet broadband satellite network could come online as early as 2027 after its troubled development, enabling more deadly drone strikes
4:50 AM  •
Adeel Hassan / New York Times:  US federal prosecutors say businesses have lost $129M+ to scam calls that used AI-generated voices to mimic company executives in the 18 months since July 2024
4:35 AM  •
Laura Dubois / Financial Times:  The EU sues IBM, French IT group Atos, and Italian contractor Leonardo over delays building its smart border system, whose rollout caused travel chaos
4:20 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Chinese media denies Beijing's link to Jensen Huang's affair, accuses the US media of a fabricated spy narrative, and warns the issue may hurt trade relations
4:00 AM  •
Pilita Clark / Financial Times:  As companies replace human workers with AI agents, determining managers' grade and pay is becoming harder since both often depend on how many people they manage
3:46 AM  •
Globe and Mail:  Toronto-based Ada and SF-based Dialpad, both makers of AI customer service software, agree to merge, sources say in an all-share deal valuing Ada at ~$430M
12:15 AM  •
CBS News:  When talking about AI safety, President Trump says “I don't mind guardrails. But I don't wanna put us in a deep second position”, and “China has no guardrails”
12:10 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources and filings: how Jensen Huang hired his children and other family members, making Nvidia a family business to a degree that is unique in Silicon Valley

November 8, 2026

11:25 PM  •
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor:  Jensen Huang's scandal is a rare crisis in US corporate history, given the national security implications, his centrality to Nvidia, and its role in the AI race
11:05 PM  •
Nilay Patel / The Verge:  An interview with Cognition CISO Alex Stamos on how AI is upending cybersecurity, AI-powered red teaming, handling vulnerabilities in legacy codebases, and more
10:15 PM  •
Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post:  Tencent Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu says AI's bio abilities will soon make it “possible to do harm” and Anthropic has a “strong argument” for closed models
9:20 PM  •
Annie Palmer / CNBC:  Job listings show Amazon is building a “new-to-world” home robot to operate “alongside family members”, after its $1,450 Astro reached only a few thousand homes
8:40 PM  •
Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg:  President Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after his affair admission: he is a “fine person” and “I haven't heard he's done anything wrong”
8:05 PM  •
Financial Times:  How Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Pat Grady erased Roelof Botha's legacy, halving GPs and unwinding his fund; sources: he joined SpaceX's board before telling the VC
6:55 PM  •
New York Times:  Sources: Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of a classified memo this spring warning US officials that Jensen Huang was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy
5:55 PM  •
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
4:45 PM  •
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

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