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Archive November 10, 2026 21:11 UTC
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Signal: The paperwork is the story: a smuggling probe that changed hands, a state register with fines attached, an S-1, and Claude moving into Office.
Nvidia's Counsel Emailed the Agents. Commerce Stood Down.
The New York Times says Commerce's Megaspeed smuggling investigation stopped and moved to the Justice Department after Nvidia's general counsel told the agents on the case that their own under secretary had cleared the contact - and Bloomberg puts $787MN of banned GB300s in Malaysia after the cut-off.
The Next Web: Megaspeed imported $787MN of GB300s after Nvidia's June 2025 ban CNBC: board retains Wachtell Lipton and ex-US Attorney Joon Kim Tom's Hardware: Rosen files a shareholder class action over the affair
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWClaude Joins the Meeting. Microsoft Slips.
Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Whiteboards in beta and Claude Data generally, and put Claude into Google Meet as a visible participant that drafts the plan while people are still talking - eight days before its IPO prices.
Anthropic: Whiteboards and Sheets in beta, Dashboards becomes Claude Data Investor's Business Daily: Microsoft stock falls as Claude reaches Office's ground
Seven Founders Sell $1.75BN, Keep 51% of Votes
The updated S-1 has each of Anthropic's seven co-founders selling 3,378,378 shares - about $250MN apiece at the midpoint of the $70-to-$78 range - while one Class F supervoting share each leaves them holding 51.1% of the votes after the sale.
CNBC: 825m shares at $70-$78, pricing 18 November, trading the 19th Anthropic: the roadshow filing, Nasdaq ticker ANT
Google's Cyber-First Model Opens to Everyone GitHub: Gemini 4 Carbon is generally available in Copilot
NEWOracle Drops a $7BN Tencent Compute Lease
Mythos Ships Inside Cisco and IBM The Verge: Anthropic says 5.2 formalised Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
An Agent Proved Signal's Crypto Holds
Billing Data and Half a Model Walked Out The Register: Fireworks burned twice as the data exposure widens
NEWNo Model Passed the Legal-Aid Test
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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Agent Skills Get a Registry and a Version
One Controller for Thousands of TPUs
NEWOne /swarm and the Agent Hires Workers Antigravity changelog: the browser agent now asks before downloading a file
UK Copilot Tenants Get Claude by Default
Nvidia Adopts Google's Agent Sandbox unite.ai: Nvidia donates its OpenShell agent-security runtime to the CNCF Sandbox
NEWAgents Get a DNS Name You Can Verify
NEWA Free Agent That Runs on Your Laptop
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWRegister by January. New York Tests the Models Itself.
New York opened a registration portal for frontier developers above $500MN in revenue, who must file by 1 January, publish safety frameworks and report critical incidents within 72 hours - and face a new Binghamton centre that will evaluate their models independently.
Engadget: New York will independently test frontier AI models unite.ai: the Binghamton centre opens with more than 80 researchers
A New Regulator, and a 'Failure to Prevent' Offence ABC: the government moves to close the loophole the agent walked through
Four Labs Sign Up to a Kill Switch
A Switch to Turn the Bot Off Bloomberg: the curbs also target AI systems that simulate personal relationships
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Chicago Blocks the Bots; Google Sets a Date NBC San Diego: districts have until January 2027 to take AI search or lose it
NEWHe Asked ChatGPT How to Plan the Attack
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
35,000 Buses Now Mail the Ticket
Ghost Note A $250 Camera That Flies Down Your Hall
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