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- 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 (New York Times) [1d]
- Sources: officials at the Commerce Department's AI safety center CAISSI were asked to informally report to a White House office, raising independence concerns (Garance Burke/Associated Press) [1d]
- 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 (Ian Hodgson/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- 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 (Madison Mills/Axios) [1d]
- 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 (Ian King/Bloomberg) [1d]
- 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 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) [1d]
- 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 (Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- 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 (Alex Eichenstein/The Information) [1d]
- 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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [1d]
- 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 (Martha Muir/Financial Times) [2d]
- Inside Inner Mongolia, China's fastest-growing AI data center region, where construction is accelerating with low building cost and no public backlash (SemiAnalysis) [2d]
- 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 (Valerie Volcovici/Reuters) [2d]
- Internal documents leaked by Cisco workers angry over the company's ties to Israel's military show how it expanded its business as the war in Gaza dragged on (Alice Speri/The Guardian) [2d]
- The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industry (Financial Times) [2d]
- 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 (Nous Research) [2d]
- Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+ (TechNode) [2d]
- Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland (Financial Times) [2d]
- 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 (Politico) [2d]
- Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg) [2d]
- No new articles in the Past 24 Hours.
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #1247) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #1750) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, November 9 (game #981) [1d]
- Nvidia hits back at US data center gloom with plans to repurpose old telephone and telecom buildings owned by Brightspeed into small AI data centers [1d]
- How to watch The Institute season 2 online — stream Stephen King series from anywhere [1d]
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 creative director explains how King Art balances RTS factions 'organically' so 'players who do not know the faction still intuitively play them the right way' — 'This is also an ongoing process' [1d]
- Sam Altman won't like it: Bosgame intros mini PC with 192GB RAM for $6,199 — M5 MAX has a Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 APU plus an OCuLink connector [1d]
- The Breville Black Friday sale includes up to AU$1,000 off espresso machines and other appliances — and TechRadar readers can save an extra 10% [1d]
- Lenovo and HP run out of RTX 5090 gaming desktops as standalone GPUs disappear from US retailers [1d]
- This is the cheapest RTX 5090 PC we could find — and why we'd pick it over a similarly-powered laptop [1d]
- New report claims 'America hates data centers' as it finds 90% of public comments at local government meetings are negative [1d]
- How to watch Patriots vs Packers for FREE: live stream NFL Week 9 game online from anywhere [1d]
- How to watch Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona: live stream La Liga match for free online from anywhere [1d]
- Google and Microsoft among those signing up to OpenAI's plan for a new website crawling standard — including opting-out of internet scraping [1d]
- How to watch Stacey Dooley's Australia: Off the Beaten Track for FREE [1d]
- I took the iPhone 18 Pro to New Zealand to find out just how good its cameras really are [1d]
- Samsung S90H review: a phenomenal OLED TV [1d]
- How to watch WTA Finals 2026: FREE Live Streams & TV Channels for Women's Tennis, Schedule & Preview [2d]
- How to watch England vs Australia: FREE live streams, TV channels for Nations Championship 2026 game [2d]
- 'Getting the job done should also be a natural thing': Zoom lays out its plans to use AI and context to be even more of a useful workplace assistant [2d]
- The iPhone has a 'gray list' of words and phrases that won't auto-complete [2d]
- Audio-Technica AT-LP7X review: a beautiful and easy to use turntable that's just a shade off excellent, sonically speaking [2d]
- Winter commuter kitlist: my essentials for traveling in the wet and cold [2d]
- Corsair Voxara review: the right specs for a gamer, but a long way off ‘studio grade’ [2d]
- The UK government has a plan to fix 'wild west' e-bikes, but will it work? [2d]
- Shark PowerDetect Transformer review: a strong, versatile vac that switches from upright to stick [2d]
- Employed job seekers are shunning companies which use AI interviews — and I don't blame them [2d]
- Watch Australia vs Samoa: FREE live streams and TV channels [2d]
- Just a moonshot? Google energy head claims data centers in space would cost up to 100x more than on Earth [2d]
- 'The next generation won’t replace this one so much as sit on top of it' — Industry analysts say Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo's 'relentless push for higher-end performance will need to be moderated' to avoid $1000 launch consoles [2d]
- Drones can now be tracked down by mobile networks alone — could this new Ericsson tech spell the end for the current crop of flying UAVs? [2d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, November 8 (game #1749) [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, November 8 (game #1246) [2d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, November 8 (game #980) [2d]
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