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November 6, 2026, 10:55 PM
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New York Times:
Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang  —  U.S. intelligence concluded that Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive who developed a close relationship with Nvidia's leader …
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11B at a $1.25T valuation; the round could increase to as much as $20B in total  —  OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11 billion, the initial part of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic is continuing with plans to list before the Thanksgiving holiday this month, expecting to raise $80B-$100B at a valuation of $1.25T to $1.75T  —  Claude-maker intends to list before Thanksgiving despite brutal tech rout  —  Anthropic is pressing on with its high-stakes IPO …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle after declining to renew a 2023 deal, because the hardware used older Nvidia chips  —  Microsoft Corp. is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle Corp., part of a larger reassessment of billions of dollars in cloud partnerships.
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users  —  Starting on Friday, everyone using Meta's Muse agent and Meta AI gets new models the company trained using Muse Wonder, its frontier model.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple says the App Store has over 100K apps built for the iPhone Duo and “thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day”  —  Even though a lot of apps have been updated for the iPhone Duo, they sometimes still have issues.
PSI:
AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a quantum computing question open since 2008  —  The Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture is now a theorem.  —  Open since 2008, the conjecture of Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis concerns …
Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: TSMC is considering expanding into manufacturing 3D DRAM at the request of Nvidia, its biggest customer, amid memory chip shortages due to the AI boom  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering expanding into the advanced memory chip manufacturing sector …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Researcher: *sshole, a decade-old OpenSSH flaw, lets attackers use a password of 256+ characters to log into passwordless accounts on some musl Linux systems  —  A newly disclosed flaw involving OpenSSH and musl, dubbed “*sshole,” allows attackers to log in to certain Alpine Linux …
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Democrats, with Elizabeth Warren a top contender to chair Senate Banking, are poised to step up oversight of Nvidia over chip exports and circular financing  —  Nvidia Corp. is in for tougher scrutiny from a new Democratic majority in Congress that's set to demand answers …
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Alexander Martin / The Record:
Preliminary findings: the EU says TikTok violated the DSA by not preventing its recommendation algorithm from trapping users in harmful content “rabbit holes”  —  The European Commission accused TikTok on Friday of failing to prevent its recommendation algorithm from drawing users into …
Rebecca Cohen / NBC News:
The US DOJ indicts three foreign nationals for allegedly using AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys at major international law firms in a $129M+ fraud scheme  —  Federal prosecutors say the suspects posed as corporate executives and high-powered attorneys, using AI to convince employees to transfer millions of dollars.

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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSSFind
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Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI usersFind
2 hours ago
Loren Grush / Bloomberg:
CesiumAstro, which plans a 737-satellite LEO communications network at two altitudes, raised $730M at a $4.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.4BFind
4 hours ago
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Apple says the App Store has over 100K apps built for the iPhone Duo and “thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day”Find
4½ hours ago
Lynn Doan / Bloomberg:
Crusoe says Google has bought out its data center site in southeast Wyoming; Crusoe reportedly failed to lock in customers including Google for the projectFind
4½ hours ago
New York Times:
Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen HuangFind
6 hours ago
Ryan Barwick / The Information:
Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3M shares of Qualcomm, which is pushing into serving the AI data center marketFind
6 hours ago
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From Mediagazer

Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Valnet agrees to a $2M settlement to end a 2023 suit accusing it of misclassifying some workers as contractors rather than full-time employees to deny them pay

Denise Petski / Deadline:
Amazon Prime Video sets November 20 for the premiere of “Melania, The Series”, the two-episode follow-up to Brett Ratner's “Melania” documentary

The Athletic:
Sources: SNY cancels Sportsnite and Baseball Night in New York and lays off much of its editorial staff; it keeps pregame and postgame shows for Mets and Jets

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Fox closes its $22B Roku acquisition well ahead of the expected 2027 date; Anthony Wood joins Fox's board and will co-chair a new Tubi, Fox One, and Roku unit
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:
Sources: Democrats are eyeing Apple, Meta, and Elon Musk-led companies as early congressional investigation targets, after winning House and Senate majorities
Kana Inagaki / Financial Times:
Elon Musk says Tesla plans to wind down production of the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027 “to make room for increased Cybercab production”
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Bloomberg:
Cleanview: ~40% of pending US data center capacity is planned to be built in states where newly elected governors have pledged to stop or pause construction

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New York Times:
Sources: The New York Times has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for ~$330M; A24 dropped out of negotiations after price expectations rose
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:
Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft rolls out to Xbox Insiders an Xbox PC app that launches up to 60% faster and has a design to match Xbox Cloud Gaming updates on the web and smart TVs
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