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Archive November 9, 2026 11:11 UTC
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Signal: Control is personal, not institutional: a jail threat instead of a rule, a safety office moved indoors, a $4.5TN firm with no successor.
Nvidia Has No Plan for Life Without Huang
Shares fell almost 5% premarket as Beijing called the spy narrative unsubstantiated, and Bloomberg reports the board investigating him has no succession plan for a founder with 60 executives reporting directly to him - eight days before earnings.
Chosunbiz: 60 executives report to Huang, and Bernstein calls him 'Nvidia itself' CGTN: Beijing calls the spy claims 'nothing but smears' against China Trump calls him honorable and says he may still join the Asia trip

NEWOne Man, Local Models, Taipei's 911 Records
Acronis traced agents aimed at hundreds of targets in eleven countries to a single person in Hualien, who pulled emergency dispatch records from seven Taipei districts - commercial models refused him, so he ran 'abliterated' local ones with the safety training stripped out.
Workbench Weekly podcast Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026 · 19:43
NEWTRUMP: 'GET READY TO GO TO JAIL'
The president told 60 Minutes his team warned the head of 'one of the big ones' to kiss his wife goodnight because he was going to jail in the morning - he would not name the company, and the Justice Department did not comment.
CBS transcript: Trump says he does not mind guardrails but will not take 'a deep second position'
32 of 34 Governors-Elect Want Data Centers Reined In
Data Center Watch counted 32 of 34 winning governors backing tighter rules and twelve backing outright bans, after campaigns spent $380MN on television advertising naming data centers - and Wisconsin's governor-elect flipped to supporting a moratorium under pressure.
CoreWeave asks Texas's governor-elect to let already-permitted data centres finish Wyoming News: Google confirms $17BN as a university poll finds only 30% of residents supportive
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