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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.
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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.
More: The Guardian, The Independent, Political.org, and Associated Press
| 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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| New York Times: |
A profile of Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed with her business partner Kang Wei, who sources say was often introduced as her husband — Alice Huang, who U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese asset, emerged from the high-flying world of Shanghai finance to work …
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
More: Reuters, Politico, Times of India, Tech in Asia, ASIATODAY, Raw Story, Political.org, and The Observer. X: @staunovo
| 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 …
More: Nintendo, Wccftech, Metacritic, GamesMarket, IGN, Kotaku, Video Games Chronicle, Nintendo Life, DayOne, Polygon.com, Inven Global, TheGamer, GoNintendo, Game Sandwich, KitGuru, Video Games Chronicle, and Forbes
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| 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.| 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
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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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, The Hacker News, and iTnews
| 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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| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/GeminiAI
| 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 …
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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: Times Higher Education and Financial Times
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| 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 … | Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
SpaceX announces Starlink Mini 2 with a swappable battery that it says can operate for over four hours without an external power source, reportedly for $999 — The all-in-one satellite dish can now operate for over four hours without an external power source.
More: Starlink, Digital Trends, PCMag, Android Police, and Redmond Pie
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, including Business Agents for companies to interact with users and a hub where companies can claim their profiles — ChatGPT's new AI agents represent companies and can help with things like comparison shopping.
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| Bloomberg: |
How US-based game publishers are losing ground in the $121B mobile gaming market to Chinese rivals, which can make games quicker, cheaper, and more profitably — American studios are losing ground to Chinese rivals that can make games quicker, cheaper and more profitably.| Reuters: |
AI training startup Mercor raised a $750M Series D from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Nvidia, and others at a $20B valuation, up from $10B in October 2025 — Mercor said on Tuesday it had raised $750 million in a funding round that valued the AI training startup at $20 billion.
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