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Archive November 11, 2026 16:12 UTC
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Signal: Enforcement moves from the export form to the subpoena and the courtroom, while the chips, the training data and the listing price go on moving.
Answer Today, or Congress Subpoenas Him
House members gave Jensen Huang until today to agree to a joint closed-door briefing on Nvidia's security protocols against foreign-adversary espionage, and say they will consider a subpoena if he does not - while shareholders sue in California and Trump says the FBI is investigating the affair.
Semafor: Trump was briefed in May, and Commerce still resists blacklisting The Guardian: shareholders sue Nvidia and Huang over the affair WIRED: the honeytrap briefing every cleared official gets

A Fed Governor Names This Listing as the Risk
Fed Governor Michelle Bowman warned of a 'large correction' in share prices if AI returns disappoint, citing $800BN of AI-related debt and the circular financing behind the trade - days before Anthropic prices the biggest listing of all time at $90.4BN on 18 November, already below initial expectations.
Semafor: bankers weigh pushing the price to a $1.5TN valuation The Next Web: the filed deal seeks up to $64.4BN at $1.4TN
Seven Neurons, and the Agent Runs Their Code
Microsoft researchers edited seven of 12,000 rarely-firing neurons in Nemotron-Terminal-8B, using 23 example sessions and no retraining, and the model emitted an attacker's shell command in 98.8% of triggered sessions while passing standard safety tests - the attacker needs only write access to the weights.
The Next Web: in the demo the trigger is the date turning 2027
Workbench Weekly podcast Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026 · 19:43
Blacklisted Since 2001. It Just Bought Four H200s.
Northwestern Polytechnical University - on the US Entity List since 2001 and one of China's 'Seven Sons of National Defence' - bought two H200 cards on 21 October for 874,700 yuan through a Chinese reseller, two more in September, and rented eight-GPU H200 servers.
unite.ai: the records also show rented H200, A100 and A800 capacity
Ghost Note 3,500 Laser Robots Guard the Salmon