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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia's board is preparing to oust Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital affairs; NVDA drops 9%+ after hours  —  Move follows company investigation into an affair with a Chinese woman alleged to be a spy  —  Nvidia's board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang …
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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.
Bloomberg:
Source: Nvidia's board is working with an outside firm to identify possible replacements for Jensen Huang and weighs naming a temporary CEO during the search  —  Nvidia Corp.'s board has been working with an outside firm to identify potential replacements for Chief Executive Officer Jensen …
Axios:
Sources: Howard Lutnick has stalled curbs on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia chips to China; Trump approved curbs for a third time in 2026 on November 5  —  President Trump on Thursday authorized a crack down on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China …
Axios:
Sources: Scott Bessent confronted Howard Lutnick last week over the Commerce Department not adding Megaspeed to its entity list; the agency denies it occurred  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over a failure to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed …
Leo Schwartz / The Information:
Sources: the Commerce Department is finalizing a semiconductor control update that would prevent remote access and chip smuggling into China via data centers  —  The Commerce Department is finalizing a long-awaited rule that will prevent Chinese AI firms from remotely accessing advanced AI …
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 …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates 200+ services locally, saying AI agents wrote it and its team hasn't written or reviewed any of its 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 block third-party AI assistants from booking tickets to protect its customers' data, citing potential FAA and DOT rule violations  —  The carrier says automated assistants present data-privacy risks; 'I don't want to create another middleman'
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.
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 …
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  —  For Silicon Valley leaders, cozying up to the Trump administration has led to a series of spectacular failures.
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
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.

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Finya Swai / The Hill:
In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders calls for impeachment of FCC Chair Brendan Carr, accusing him of politically tinged investigations and more

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Mary Hager, senior executive producer of CBS News' Face the Nation and executive editor of politics, is leaving after over three decades at the network

Bloomberg:
Sources: iHeartMedia explores selling part or all of its podcast unit, which reported Q3 revenue of $174M, up 24% YoY; an iHeart spokesperson denies the plans

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Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
NYC-based Imprint, which helps companies offer co-branded credit cards and manage loyalty programs, raised $130M led by Khosla Ventures at a ~$1.9B valuation
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

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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
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
Wall Street Journal:
SoftBank takes a $3.7B earnings hit, due largely to canceled reservations on power generation equipment; sources: it had reserved 13GW+ of turbines to power AI
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The EU introduces the Digital Fairness Act, which aims to curb addictive design features on social media platforms and manipulative “dark patterns”
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
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
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