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CNN:
Sources: US officials disagree on whether China had Alice Huang spy on Jensen Huang; some at the ODNI and the CIA say the intelligence to date doesn't prove it  —  The US intelligence community is still working to understand the relationship between a Chinese businesswoman who had an affair …
Jasper Goodman / Politico:
Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott asks Jensen Huang and Howard Lutnick to testify at separate hearings in December over the Nvidia saga; Lutnick agrees to appear  —  Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott on Thursday called on fallen Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify …
New York Times:
Sources: President Trump's and Howard Lutnick's close relationship with Jensen Huang made officials wary of taking aggressive steps to rein in Nvidia chip sales  —  Howard Lutnick has frequently clashed with top officials over how to regulate sales of advanced technology to Asia …
CNBC:
Scott Bessent says the departments of Treasury, Defense, and State were in favor of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months, but Commerce is in charge
Stephen Witt / New York Times:
Jensen Huang's biographer says Nvidia had a culture of omertà and deference toward Huang, who was quite arrogant, that enabled him to “be his worst self”
Reuters:
Sources: senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out amid the spy scandal surrounding Nvidia
Wall Street Journal:
Source: at an August 2026 finance meeting, Jensen Huang interrupted Colette Kress' presentation, calling her “a deer in the headlights” and a “reporting CFO”  —  Interim CEO Colette Kress has questioned some Huang dealmaking.  He called her ‘a deer in the headlights.’
Bloomberg:
Sources close to Jensen Huang say he has taken a penitent turn, castigated himself as a “piece of shit”, and he has claimed to not care what happens to himself
New York Times:
Sources: during a Tuesday call, President Trump urged Jensen Huang to keep fighting for his job; aides say Trump sees Nvidia as essentially too big to fail
Reuters:
Sources: Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee; revelations about two other extramarital affairs led to his resignation as Nvidia CEO
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI announces ChatGPT Wallet, which lets its dots AI agents make purchases on behalf of users, available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US who are over 18  —  OpenAI on Friday announced ChatGPT Wallet, a new payment feature that enables its “dots” artificial intelligence agents to make purchases on behalf of users.
Will DePue / Unemployment Labs:
Analysis of open weights: six models from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax, and Ant Group released since April carry fingerprints of export-controlled Blackwell GPUs  —  Executive Summary  —  Our forensic analysis of publicly released AI models finds evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI …
Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google:
Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, calling it a major upgrade over Gemini 3.8 Flash, at $1.50/1M input and $7.50/1M output tokens across its 1M context window  —  Hydrogen brings cutting-edge intelligence to everyone.  —  SVP, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google
@artificialanlys:
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Gemini 4 Hydrogen nearly ties Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol, at a third of Sonnet's cost but ~2.5x that of Sol
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is available across Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Gemini for business, Search, and paid AI Pro and Ultra tiers in Antigravity
Bloomberg:
Sources: Samsung is in talks to acquire Modine Manufacturing, a US maker of cooling systems for data centers, as soon as in the coming weeks; MOD jumps 30%+  —  Samsung Electronics Co. is in talks to acquire Modine Manufacturing Co., a maker of cooling systems for data centers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Myles Miller / Bloomberg:
The DOJ says it got court authorization to seize or restrain $1.2B of the $2.7B frozen by Tether and Circle after North Korea's $6.3B Binance hack on October 29  —  The Justice Department says it's joined with the two biggest stablecoin issuers in efforts to secure almost half the money stolen …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic's IPO, like SpaceX's, is closed to institutional investors in mainland China and Hong Kong, partly due to US arms export rules  —  Institutional investors based in mainland China and Hong Kong have been excluded from placing orders in Anthropic PBC's initial public offering …
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic's IPO is about six times oversubscribed, and bankers have told prospective investors that Anthropic will prioritize existing backers
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Microsoft says it is “seeing encouraging recovery progress” after confirming users may be unable to access Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook and Teams  —  Outlook and Teams are among the platforms impacted by “elevated load” issues.  —  Microsoft is experiencing an outage …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX and Tesla are progressing in their merger negotiations and could announce a deal as soon as in December or early 2027, but obstacles remain  —  SpaceX and Tesla Inc. are progressing in their merger negotiations, setting the stage for a combination that could redefine the limits of global dealmaking.

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Bloomberg:
A look at Disney's AI push; sources: it is testing AI-powered suggestions and could add chats with characters on Disney+, and execs saw AI demos at Amazon MGM

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: in its next US TV deal, the NHL seeks a 50%-100% increase over its seven-year, $4.5B contract with ESPN and TNT; formal talks can begin on January 1

Columbia Daily Spectator:
Columbia Journalism School shut down a 12-year-old fellowship that paid graduates a salary for investigations published by The New Yorker, NYT, NPR, and others

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