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November 7, 2026, 2:40 PM
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New York Times:
Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions  —  The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia's H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS  —  American intelligence warned the tech boss was involved with executive recruited by China to gather information on US group
New York Times:
Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang  —  U.S. intelligence concluded that Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive who developed a close relationship with Nvidia's leader …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July  —  Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access …
Cecile Daurat / Bloomberg:
Democratic wins could slow AI investment and safeguard the US economy against a downturn by pacing it over time, as Deutsche Bank sees “shaky” projects killed  —  Guardrails against data-center expansion in states won by Democrats may help spread investment over time.
Sayan Chakraborty / Nikkei Asia:
Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul  —  BENGALURU — Recent college graduates in India could struggle to land technology jobs as companies automate entry-level coding …
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Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users  —  Starting on Friday, everyone using Meta's Muse agent and Meta AI gets new models the company trained using Muse Wonder, its frontier model.
Gillian Tett / Financial Times:
How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies  —  Voter hostility to Big Tech helped shape the US midterms, and similar fears are spreading through the west.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11B at a $1.25T valuation; the round could increase to as much as $20B in total  —  OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11 billion, the initial part of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Valnet agrees to a $2M settlement to end a 2023 suit accusing it of misclassifying some workers as contractors rather than full-time employees to deny them pay

Denise Petski / Deadline:
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Jason Cox / The Diplomat:
International affairs magazine The Diplomat retracts a piece quoting Korean startup Newtype's CEO, saying the interview was faked and emails came from Russia

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Financial Times:
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Rebecca Cohen / NBC News:
The US DOJ indicts three foreign nationals for allegedly using AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys at major international law firms in a $129M+ fraud scheme
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