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Archive November 12, 2026 16:11 UTC
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Signal: The man who underwrote the AI trade is gone by lunchtime, and everything he backstopped - neoclouds, export rules, his own succession - reprices at once.
Huang Resigns at Once. His CFO Is Now in Charge.
Jensen Huang resigned as president, chief executive and director effective immediately after the board's affair investigation; CFO Colette Kress is interim chief, Synopsys veteran Harvey Jones becomes Nvidia's first board chair, and the stock fell as much as 14% to below $4TN.
The Verge: Nvidia's internal memos warn of an 'extraordinarily difficult period' CNBC: six analysts cut the stock before the announcement landed 9to5Mac: Trump says only Tim Cook can replace him
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWNebius Raised Capex $7BN. The Stock Fell 16%.
Nebius beat on revenue, then guided 2026 to the low end and lifted capital spending to $27BN from as much as $25BN, sending the stock down 16% and dragging CoreWeave and IREN with it as Nvidia's backstop of the neoclouds came into question.
Investor's Business Daily: Nvidia-backed neoclouds sold off together Ars Technica: TSMC will put $1BN into Anthropic and OpenAI
825 Million Shares at $70. One Week to Apply. Semafor: a Fed governor warns the IPO could trigger a correction
Chinese Labs Rush to Rent GPUs Abroad Japan Times carries the same Reuters report
NEWWarby Parker Will Sell You Gemini for $395 Wired: Google and Samsung's Android XR glasses are finally here
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWTwo AI Scanners Found the Apache Hole
Your Notion AI Chats Were in the Breach SecurityWeek: Notion customer data compromised in the Fireworks hack
NEWAn AI Agent Ran the Spy Op
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026 · 19:43
Agents Wrote It. AWS Didn't Review It. unite.ai: RPM, Debian, Docker and an embedded Rust mode
NEWAntigravity Now Starts Agents in Auto Mode
1,000 Yes/No Calls in One Pass The Decoder: five times cheaper than Flash-Lite, Google says
Amazon Will Sell You Its Web Index
MCP Finally Has a Release Date
The FightLaw, policy and power
Commerce Stalled. Now Singapore Will Need a Licence.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is finishing rules that would add Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Norway and South Africa to the licence list for Blackwell-class chips and curb Chinese remote access - sourced to The Information, with no Commerce comment.
NY Post: Singapore barred Alice Huang for lying about her Megaspeed role CNBC: the scandal unsticks three chip bills before the Trump-Xi summit
Plaintiffs: Grok Undressed Their Childhood Photos
Plaintiffs in three states say xAI, not its users, is responsible for nude images Grok generated from photographs taken of them as children; xAI denies it and has already beaten Minnesota's ban on First Amendment grounds.
NEWFour Groups Sue to Stop the Next Model
Australia Wants Your Model Opened to Auditors
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NHS Said 137 Trusts Benefited. 29 Didn't.
NEWOakland Voted 94% to Strike Over AI
UK Grew 0.7%. The IT Sector Did It.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWRussian Pranksters Got OpenAI Talking Ukraine
Ghost Note The Robot Says It Is Too Useful to Go
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