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CNN:
Sources: US officials disagree on whether Alice Huang spied on Jensen Huang for China; some at ODNI and CIA say intelligence collected so far 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
Reuters:
Sources: senior White House officials are discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out in the wake of the Nvidia spy scandal
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
US House Foreign Affairs Chairman Brian Mast says Jensen Huang has agreed to testify under oath to Congress before Thanksgiving, likely behind closed doors
Reuters:
US AG Todd Blanche says the DOJ has not yet reached a conclusion on whether Alice Huang was a Chinese spy and “of course” the FBI is investigating
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
US officials: multiple US DOJ investigations threaten to sweep up Nvidia, including one focused on antitrust grounds and two focused on Megaspeed and Supermicro
Reuters:
Sources: Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee; revelations about two other extramarital affairs led to his resignation  —  Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar with the matter, Reuters has learned.
Bloomberg:
Sources close to Jensen Huang say he has taken a penitent turn, castigated himself as a “piece of shit”, and claims to not care what happens to himself  —  At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted.  After weeks spent denying the allegations …
New York Times:
Sources: President Trump urged Jensen Huang to keep fighting for his job in a Tuesday call; aides say Trump saw the company as essentially too big to fail
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Users report being unable to access Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services; Microsoft says many of its servers became unexpectedly unavailable  —  Outlook and Teams are among the platforms impacted by “elevated load” issues.  —  Microsoft is experiencing an outage for several of its services this afternoon.
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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
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is available across AI Studio, the Gemini API, Search, paid AI Pro and Ultra tiers in Antigravity, and more
@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
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 …
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 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Samsung is in talks to buy Modine Manufacturing, a US maker of data center cooling systems, as soon as the coming weeks; Modine's market value is $5.6B  —  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.
The Information:
Sources: firms tied to Alice Huang recently invested in DeepSeek, to forge closer ties and supply Nvidia's Blackwell chips, which are banned from sale to China
Bloomberg:
Sources: SpaceX and Tesla are progressing in their merger negotiations and could announce a deal as soon as December or early 2027  —  SpaceX and Tesla Inc. are progressing in their merger negotiations, setting the stage for a combination that could redefine the limits of global dealmaking.
Anirban Sen / Reuters:
Kalshi ends the advisory contract it signed with Donald Trump Jr. in January 2025, after his VC firm 1789 Capital increased its stake in Polymarket
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Staff email: interim Nvidia CEO Colette Kress cites “an extraordinarily difficult period” and promises “more from leadership” and a company November 18 meeting  —  Nvidia's board and interim CEO Colette Kress told employees they're ready to ‘move forward together.’

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