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Archive November 7, 2026 16:12 UTC
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Signal: The chip trade now runs through counterintelligence, a paper-thin vetting file and a Democratic Congress - and Anthropic has to price its IPO into that.
A Honeypot, US Intelligence Says. Huang Was Never Told.
US intelligence believes Nvidia's chief executive had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, now assessed as a Chinese spy recruited to collect on him and press him on chip exports - and the Times says Trump was briefed in the spring and chose not to act.
House chairmen want Huang at a closed briefing on 18 November The spy suspect is tied to Megaspeed, accused of smuggling $2BN in chips Semafor: Trump's favour will not spare Nvidia a hostile Congress

Anthropic Asked $1.5TN. Buyers Are Saying $1TN.
Investors are now discussing a listing as low as $1TN after Thursday's 6.4% Nasdaq drop, three told the Journal it needs cutting by $500BN, and the roadshow is still set for next week.
Amodei asks Washington for power to block unsafe deployments, days before the roadshow CNBC: one investor now puts fair value at $1TN to $1.25TN
Microsoft: The AI Attack Framework Is Hitting Banks
Microsoft says a Cambodia-based crew has run ARTEX, an open-source agentic attack framework, against financial firms since October - scanning, exploiting and dumping databases at machine speed - while Censys counts 1,465 ARTEX consoles exposed on the public internet.
The public ARTEX Docker image is backdoored, exposing 62 consoles to root access Censys found ARTEX on 1,465 internet-facing hosts, some holding C2 and phishing kits
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'Don't Ask Again' Saved the Password Of 16 coding agents compared, only this one saves the full command by default
NEWCleared to Buy H200s: An Office With No One In It
The Times found the Commerce Department approving Chinese firms with ties to blacklisted companies to handle Nvidia's H200s, including one whose registered address was an empty office - the vetting export control depends on, done by neither Commerce nor Nvidia.
Nvidia Will Track Your GPUs or Drop You The same reporting line that produced Nvidia's 51%-local capacity instruction
CoreWeave's 2032 Bond Now Yields 16% Goldman: moratoriums could reach 45% of planned US capacity
Ghost Note The Professor Who Stands in Front of Robots