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Nvidia hires former acting US attorney Joon H. Kim and his law firm Wachtell Lipton to conduct a probe into Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy — Wachtell partner Joon H. Kim, a former acting U.S. attorney, is leading the inquiry into the chip maker's chief executive.
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Storyboard18, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Washington Examiner
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Bluesky: @christianrincon.com, @niedermeyer.online, and @patbits
| April Roach / CNBC: |
Nvidia's stock fell 5.47% on Tuesday, following a 4%+ drop on Monday, after Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy — Nvidia shares sank 5.47% on Tuesday as investors continued to weigh the potential fallout from CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy.| 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 — Before Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One en route to Beijing, the president was reminded of intelligence showing that he was in a relationship …
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Bluesky: @bcfinucane, @timobrien, and @carlquintanilla
Forums: r/technology, r/neoliberal, r/thebulwark, and r/politics
| Desmond Shum: |
Rather than being a spy, Alice Huang is likely a commercial fixer or “white glove” for businesses, leveraging a career in China's capital-market structures — Behind $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips lies a familiar Chinese business model: the white glove
More: New York Times and Seoul Economic Daily
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| New York Times: |
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
More: The Hill, Reuters, Politico, Motley Fool, Times of India, Tech in Asia, ASIATODAY, Raw Story, Political.org, and The Observer. X: @staunovo
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| 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 — Nintendo Co. sold 5.2 million copies of its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake in just four days …
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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @risettemd
Forums: r/majorasmask, r/NintendoStock, and r/OcarinaOfTime
| 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 — 'We support the work of those who are trying to limit the harm generative AI is doing to videogames and our world …
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Forums: r/aiwars, r/artificial, r/DreamStationcc, r/kindafunny, r/aigamedev, r/PS5, r/pcgaming, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| 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 — Anthropic PBC's seven co-founders will sell $1.75 billion of stock between them in next week's initial public offering, according to an updated prospectus released Tuesday.
More: US Securities …, Anthropic, Morningstar, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Anthropic, and CNBC
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked documents: OpenAI's adjusted operating margin improved from -150% in Q2 to -109% in Q3, while its adjusted operating losses rose from $10.1B to $10.9B — The company improved its adjusted operating margin but remains far off from profitability — OpenAI grew revenue by roughly 50% …
More: Reuters. X: @berber_jin1, @berber_jin1, @markdistef, @puppyeh1, @borrowed_ideas, @edzitron, @borrowed_ideas, and @edzitron
| Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: |
An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more — PMs are winning, engineers are plateauing, designers are hurting, and the biggest AI hiring boom isn't in software
X: @lennysan, @lennysan, @bentlegen, @gergelyorosz, @nichochar, @subodhkolhe, @lennysan, @lennysan, and @lennysan. Bluesky: @seldo.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/UXDesign
| 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 — Our first look at Zen 6, both under the hood and in real-world applications. … AMD's EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs are the first to debut …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/TechHardware, r/AMD_Stock, and r/hardware
| 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 guidance; CRWV jumps 13%+ pre-market — CoreWeave reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and lifted its 2026 guidance on Tuesday, showing that demand …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/CRWV_investors
| Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR teardown: a 5/10 score, a point above the M5 MacBook Pro, and Touch ID works with a new logic board; the backlit logo uses four LEDs — “Fancy new display” makes our screwdrivers nervous, and Apple's latest MacBook has the fanciest display yet.
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| 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 — Anthropic PBC is releasing a suite of tools that weave the company's artificial intelligence capabilities into more everyday office work …
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| 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 — Office for Students says institutions in England should return to traditional exams and in-person presentations
More: The Decoder, Unite.AI, Times Higher Education, and Financial Times
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Incident report: Railway says it believes the October hack targeted AI provider keys for resale, and estimates unauthorized spend on the stolen keys at ~$740K — Cloud hosting provider Railway says hackers exploited vulnerabilities in its infrastructure to steal customer authentication secrets …
More: Railway Blog, Wall Street Journal, and iTnews
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find that Grok Build is leaking data of over 35,000 apps via shareable links, including proprietary information, some belonging to SpaceXSI — Grok Build, the vibe-coding agent from SpaceXSI, is leaking data—some of it proprietary business information and other sensitive secrets …
More: Claroc Blog, Cyber Security News, MadRobot, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: r/SPCXInvestors and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming says the company plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and reach the AI frontier by 2029-2030 — ByteDance Ltd. plans the release of a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks to augment its lead in AI video … | 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 — A top federal financial regulator has warned Kalshi of potentially imminent charges tied to the launch of certain wagers …
More: Unchained, Reuters, crypto.news, NewsBTC, and Blockhead
| 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 — Regulations under consideration could affect up to 150 platforms, including LegoPlay, Spotify and eBay, sources say
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Forums: r/TheUnitedKingdomNews, r/truespotify, r/behindthebastards, r/LabourUK, r/uknews, and r/ukpolitics
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Records: China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has close PLA ties, has access to Nvidia's H200 AI chips despite being on a US export blacklist — A Chinese university with deep ties to the People's Liberation Army bought Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips last month despite …
More: Outlook India, ANI News, Political.org, Unite.AI, and Seoul Economic Daily
| 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 — Developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers can now try our latest frontier model. — SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google
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LinkedIn: Raluca Ada Popa and Thang Luong
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/GeminiAI
| Reuters: |
Analysis: AI-driven e-commerce adoption surged during China's month-long Singles Day festival, with event sales rising 2.4% between October 7 and October 31 — If you are looking for evidence of how enthusiastically China is adopting AI, look no further than the country's premier month-long Singles Day shopping festival.
More: Business Today and Associated Press
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Rapidus has yet to produce functioning SRAM, a key step that needed to be completed by summer 2026 to meet its March 2028 deadline for making 2nm chips — Japanese government-backed startup Rapidus Corp. has fallen behind schedule on its high-stakes pledge to mass produce cutting-edge chips … | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says its Apple Support Community forum will close permanently on November 20 and starting today the site is read-only and no longer accepts new posts — Users visiting the Apple Support Community tonight were greeted with a message informing them that the platform will permanently shut down on November 20.
More: The Verge, Engadget, PCMag, TechRadar, MacRumors, iClarified, iThinkDifferent, The Apple Post, AppleInsider, Pixel Envy, and PhoneArena
X: @classicii_mrmac, @rsgnl, @rsgnl, and @rsgnl
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