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New York Times:
Sources: Jensen Huang had an extramarital relationship with Nvidia's VP of healthcare, Kimberly Powell, who reports to him; it was discussed inside the company  —  Mr. Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, is already facing scrutiny over an affair with a Chinese businesswoman who U.S. intelligence determined was a Chinese spy.
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
An analysis of 42 interviews since 2022: after US chip restrictions, Jensen Huang's public rhetoric became more admiring of China and critical of export rules
Politico:
Sources: Jensen Huang's affair has significantly raised the chances of Congress enacting chip export limits in 2026 via the National Defense Authorization Act
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic's IPO draws multiple times the orders for the shares available; a source says Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon have a livestream event on Friday  —  Anthropic PBC's initial public offering has drawn multiple times the orders for the shares available, according to people familiar …
@firesidealpha:
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video: Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness will be “relics of the past” in “less than a decade”
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Memo: Meta's head of infrastructure and co-head of engineering Santosh Janardhan plans to leave in early 2027 and Dave Brown will become head of infrastructure  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s longtime infrastructure chief will leave the company in early 2027, a major leadership change as it continues …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates 200+ of its services locally, saying AI agents wrote it and its team hasn't written or reviewed any code  —  AWS says its engineers didn't write or review a single line of code in its newest developer tool, and the company is touting that as a selling point.
Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:
United Airlines says it will prevent personal AI assistants from booking tickets, citing data privacy risks and possible FAA and DOT rule violations  —  The carrier says automated assistants present data-privacy risks; 'I don't want to create another middleman'  —  United Airlines doesn't want to deal with your AI agent.
Google:
Google launches Gemini Decisions API, powered by its new Gemini Decision 1 model, to return predefined answers with confidence scores, at $0.10/1M input tokens  —  Introducing the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our new Gemini Decision 1 model.  Evaluate up to 1,000 yes/no, choice …
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles across 68 tissues to predict the effects of genetic variants, for non-commercial research  —  DeepMind's new DNA model better predicts how mutations affect different cells, potentially opening paths to treatment.
Politico:
After the US midterms, Palantir CEO Alex Karp pivots toward Democrats, describing his philosophy as “progressive” and praising Trump for saying ICE went too far  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Good Wednesday morning — and a special note of gratitude and thanks to all the vets on Veterans Day.
Nick Clegg / The Atlantic:
Silicon Valley's herd mentality in cozying up to Trump backfired as Democrats may seek retribution, China closes the AI gap, and anti-Big Tech sentiment grows
Axios:
Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Dept. not adding Megaspeed to the Entity List; Commerce denies the confrontation  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over a failure to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed …
Scott Patterson / Bloomberg:
OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE plans to launch a US tokenized stock venue on November 23 and list 70+ assets; 56 of the 62 companies it targeted objected  —  Crypto's race to grab a slice of the US stock market is picking up speed even as many of the companies whose shares are being targeted for tokenized trading are pushing back.
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
Records: China's Northwestern Polytechnical University, which has deep PLA ties, bought 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 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: co-founder Zhang Yiming says ByteDance plans to launch a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks and rival Anthropic and OpenAI by 2029 or 2030  —  ByteDance Ltd. plans the release of a Muse-like AI assistant in the coming weeks to augment its lead in AI video …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple says its Apple Support Community forum will permanently close on November 20 and as of November 10 the site is read-only and no longer accepting 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.
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR teardown: 5/10 repairability, a point above the M5 MBP, 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.
Bloomberg:
Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition is in talks to raise at least $1.5B led by General Catalyst at a ~$30B pre-money valuation  —  Applied Intuition Inc., a defense contractor developing technology for autonomous vehicles, is in talks to raise at least $1.5 billion …
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The European Commission introduces the Digital Fairness Act, which aims to curb addictive design features and manipulative “dark patterns” or face large fines  —  The European Union is debuting a new plan designed to curb practices that manipulate people into spending more time and money online.
Tim Keary / Forbes:
Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform designed for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across a Series A and a seed  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more. … Big data analytics is being reimagined for AI agents.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: SoftBank reserved 13GW+ of turbines, equivalent to six Hoover Dams, to power AI; SoftBank took a $3.7B earnings hit mostly from canceled reservations  —  SoftBank reserved enough gas turbines to generate the power of six Hoover Dams.  It cost the company billions of dollars in losses.
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 …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers find that Grok Build is leaking the data of over 35,000 apps via shareable links, including proprietary business info, 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 …
Mark Chediak / Bloomberg:
Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes  —  Torus, an energy-storage startup, said it raised $500 million in funding to help launch a new shipping container-sized product …

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Tom Jones / Poynter:
At Pete Hegseth's first press conference in months, reporters were threatened with physical removal, and he largely ignored questions from the traditional press

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
ITV says its £1.6B Media & Entertainment unit sale to Comcast-owned Sky is on track for H2 2027, and reports January to September revenue down 1% YoY to £2.76B

Jack Queen / Reuters:
A US federal judge says Trump's $10B defamation suit against the BBC over a Panorama documentary can go forward, but throws out an unfair trade practices claim

More News

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
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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
Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:
German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice

Earlier Picks

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
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
Jaron Lanier / New York Times:
VR pioneer Jaron Lanier says Silicon Valley is sabotaging itself by poorly pitching AI and callously treating areas for building data centers as sacrifice zones
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
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 earnings guidance; CRWV jumps 24.71%
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