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Archive November 13, 2026 11:11 UTC
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Signal: The chip scandal reaches the cabinet - a subpoena threat, a secretary's job, OpenAI switching sides - while $74BN of new data centres is committed.
Huang and Lutnick Called In. Dec. 3, or Subpoenas.
Senate Banking chairman Tim Scott has summoned the ousted Nvidia chief and the commerce secretary whose department cleared the China sales to a 3 December hearing and threatened subpoenas if they refuse - and the Guardian reports Lutnick himself could be fired over the delay in blacklisting Megaspeed.
Al Jazeera: refuse the 3 December hearing and face subpoenas, the chairman says CNBC: a sixth straight weekly drop, $1.6TN gone, Nvidia now worth less than Apple The Next Web: Malaysia opens its own probe into Megaspeed's local unit
The RaceCompanies, models and money
A $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
NEWSpaceX Commits $74BN, Most of It to Arizona
SpaceX will spend more than $50BN in Cochise County, Arizona and $24BN expanding Starbase in Texas, where it generates its own power - pitching tax base and school revenue at a moment when data-centre projects keep losing local votes.
Cerebras Up 17%, OpenAI Capacity Running Late TokenPost: the first 250MW tranche OpenAI is owed slips on slow data-centre deals
NEWSix Times Oversubscribed, Six Days Out Semafor: a Fed governor warns the IPO could trigger a correction
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI Chose Speed Over Seeing Inside
Deepfaked Colleagues on the Call, $400MN Gone The Record: $1.2BN of the Binance theft restrained, about half the stolen total frozen
OpenAI Now Sells the Red Team
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026 · 19:43
Run Claude's Agents on Your Own Servers The Next Web: every model call still leaves your network
Antigravity Now Starts Agents in Auto Mode Release 1.5.8 adds Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Carbon to /model, four thinking levels each
One Session, Two Models, 24% Less Quota Unite.AI: static routers guess difficulty from the first prompt
AgentCore Sessions Get 8 vCPUs and a Disk Unite.AI: committed-baseline billing and filesystem mounts land across four regions
Google Ships a Gateway for Agent Traffic
The FightLaw, policy and power
Singapore: She Was Never Investigated for Espionage
Singapore's home affairs ministry says the investigation that held Alice Huang's passport for eight months was about false server declarations, never espionage, and that it closed in February 2026 for insufficient evidence - then barred her for lying to police about her role.
Newser: Singapore says the DOJ and FBI gave it little help with Supermicro Network World: the crisis turns into every enterprise's single-supplier problem
The Weights Say DeepSeek Trained on Blackwell Unite.AI on Reuters: $3.2BN of Chinese compute projects still specify restricted Nvidia chips
NEWOpenAI Backs the China Chip Curbs
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
The FAA Put Its $875MN AI Over All 22 Centers
1,000 Staff Ask Britain for a Union Ballot
NEWCopilot Down 12 Hours, 74 Countries
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
OpenAI Board: A Coin Flip on AI Takeover
NEW'Bring Back THE Boss,' Say 1,600 Comments
Ghost Note Anthropic Bans Being Cruel to Claude
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