The Brutalist Report - tech
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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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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) [2d]
- 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]
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