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Signal: A resignation becomes a paper trail: antitrust files, records demands, a closed-door hearing. Meanwhile Google prices cutting-edge intelligence at $1.50 a million tokens.
Alice Huang Held a Piece of Huawei's Compute Supply
Private intelligence firm Tesari tells CNBC that Alice Huang simultaneously held stakes in Chinese businesses that supplied computing power to Huawei - Nvidia's biggest rival in China - as the Justice Department opens an antitrust inquiry into Nvidia and Huang agrees to testify to Congress by Thanksgiving.
Semafor: a DOJ antitrust probe now reaches Nvidia itself TechCrunch: Huang testifies by Thanksgiving, behind closed doors TechCrunch: Reuters reports a third affair, with another Nvidia employee
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWA $1.50 Model That Outscores Google's Frontier One
Priced flat at $1.50 per million input tokens across the full million-token window, Hydrogen scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis index against frontier Argon's 50, and ships to Search, the Gemini app and every AI Studio tier at once.
Wccftech: at xhigh thinking it costs about a third of Claude Sonnet 5.5 per task The Decoder: it outscores the bigger Argon four weeks after Argon launched
Nebius 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
Warby Parker Will Sell You Gemini for $395 Wired: Google and Samsung's Android XR glasses are finally here
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Two AI Scanners Found the Apache Hole
NEWOpenAI Chose Speed Over Seeing Inside
An AI Agent Ran the Spy Op
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026 · 19:43
NEWRun Claude's Agents on Your Own Servers The Next Web: every model call still leaves your network
Antigravity Now Starts Agents in Auto Mode
NEWOne Session, Two Models, 24% Less Quota Unite.AI: static routers guess difficulty from the first prompt
Agents Wrote It. AWS Didn't Review It. unite.ai: RPM, Debian, Docker and an embedded Rust mode
Amazon Will Sell You Its Web Index
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWThey Took a Cut of the China Chip Sales, Wyden Says
Ron Wyden and Richard Neal have opened an investigation and demanded Commerce preserve every record of the arrangement that let advanced Nvidia chips reach Chinese buyers while Washington took a cut of the sales, as Thune puts a 'high probability' on new export limits in the defense bill.
Semafor: Johnson and Jeffries both back a chip crackdown in the NDAA Seoul Economic Daily: Singapore and six more would need Blackwell licences
NEWNvidia Told a Congressman Chip Tracking Works
Plaintiffs: Grok Undressed Their Childhood Photos
Four Groups Sue to Stop the Next Model
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEW1,000 Staff Ask Britain for a Union Ballot
Oakland Voted 94% to Strike Over AI Fed governor Barr: prepare for serious AI job disruption and inequality
NHS Said 137 Trusts Benefited. 29 Didn't.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Russian Pranksters Got OpenAI Talking Ukraine
Ghost Note The Burnt Pizza Was Generated
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE — AI news without the engagement trap.
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