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Archive November 9, 2026 16:11 UTC
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Signal: The audit arrives late everywhere: chip access already sold, loans already written, acres already deeded, brainwaves already collected.
Alice Huang Was Selling Nvidia Chip Access
The FT says she pitched China-based investors on a Southeast Asian data-centre project in early 2025 promising 'no problem securing GPUs' with Alibaba as the customer - and Megaspeed's balance sheet went from $33MN to $3BN during 2024 as Nvidia fell 5% on Monday.
Alibaba's Singapore arm lent to Megaspeed against its whole business WIRED: he hired a crisis firm known for sex scandals in October 2025 CNBC: Nvidia fell 5% and reports earnings on 17 November

NEWGPU Loans Are 'Getting Smoked'
Whole portfolios of data-centre loans are being shopped at steep discounts on fears the debt outlives the hardware, and the next test is a $40BN chip financing for SpaceX that Goldman Sachs and Apollo have started marketing.
CNBC: CoreWeave's 2031 bonds yield over 16% as it reports Tuesday Semafor: Corning doubled on a Meta data-centre deal, then gave it back
One 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
TRUMP: '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'
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