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November 10, 2026, 4:45 AM

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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”  —  President Donald Trump said Monday that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should not worry about the FBI looking …
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  —  An investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore company that was buying advanced Nvidia A.I. chips, was transferred to the Justice Department …
Semafor:
Jensen Huang's affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's weak board and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's spy scandal shines a spotlight on thin corporate governance and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company.
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Nvidia's 2025 figures to the US government undercounted chips sold to Megaspeed via partners by 50K; Nvidia did not give Bloomberg an exact figure  —  Nvidia Corp.'s general counsel intervened in a US government probe of suspected smuggling of AI chips by Megaspeed International …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Short seller Culper Research's May report, which flagged Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang as “uncomfortably close”, is resurfacing on social media  —  Six months before the Nvidia spy scandal emerged, the New York-based short seller firm Culper Research …
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Financial Times:
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  —  We've upgraded Claude Fable and Claude Mythos—models that are designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
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Anna Tong / Forbes:
AI infrastructure provider Fireworks says hackers accessed some customers' datasets, incomplete model weights, and billing information over the past month  —  Two customers told Forbes they had already substantially moved their business off Fireworks' systems, with one describing a series …
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and most cost-efficient AI model yet, saying it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna  —  Meta Superintelligence Lab released a new AI model on Monday called Muse Ember, the lab's lightest and most cost-efficient AI model yet.
Echo Wang / Reuters:
Emails: Anthropic sent bankers a copy of its IPO filing showing plans to raise up to ~$69B, then followed up saying the pricing details were inaccurate  —  Anthropic sent out and then retracted details of its blockbuster IPO filing, according to emails to bankers seen by Reuters late on Monday.
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  —  The video-game publisher may have hurt one game's sales with another of its own games  —  Take-Two Interactive Software Inc …
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Elliptic: the hackers behind the $6.3B Binance heist created at least six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain network to launder about $430,000 of stolen funds  —  The hackers who stole $6.3 billion from Binance Holdings Ltd. in crypto's biggest ever heist have turned to one of the sector's …
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  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is rolling out a broader array of artificial intelligence chips, aiming to capitalize on its rapid ascent …
Reuters:
French officials say Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers across France in October  —  French officials on Monday accused Iran's Revolutionary Guards of responsibility for the cyberattacks that knocked …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Meituan releases 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 1  —  Meituan released the weights for LongCat-2.5 on Nov. 9, one week after introducing the model.  The Chinese food delivery …
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  —  California voters have rejected a first-in-the-nation tax on the net worth of billionaires following a contentious ballot fight …

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