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Signal: The scandal outgrew the founder - a department, a board and two Asian regulators are exposed now - while agents quietly got spending rights.
Four Departments Wanted Megaspeed Blacklisted. Commerce Didn't.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Treasury, War, State and USTR pushed for months to put Nvidia's Singapore customer on the entity list - 'but Commerce has the pen' - as Lutnick agrees to testify on 10 December and White House aides weigh his firing.
CNBC: Lutnick agreed to testify voluntarily; Huang's own hearing is 3 December CNBC: Cantor, run by Lutnick's sons, halved its Nvidia stake The Guardian: the commerce secretary faces the sack over the blacklisting delay
The RaceCompanies, models and money
ChatGPT's Agents Now Buy Without Seeing the Card
Wallet hands dots, Codex and ChatGPT Work agents a payment token rather than a card number, with a Face ID check on every purchase - live only for US Pro subscribers, a week after United moved to bar third-party agents from booking flights.
The Next Web: a payment token and a Face ID prompt stand between an agent and your card Engadget: Gemini can now read your bank accounts, but not spend
NEWArm's CEO Gets the Call. Nvidia Says Nobody Did.
The Financial Times says Nvidia's board approached Arm chief Rene Haas, seven years an Nvidia executive himself - hours before the board told CNBC it has not picked a search firm and called candidate talk premature.
CNBC: no search firm engaged, no candidate approached, speculation 'premature'
NEWChinese Money Barred From the Anthropic Book Silicon Republic: the book is six times oversubscribed six days out
$1BN Series A for AI That Does AI Research Mad Robot: the founders left Anthropic to automate AI research itself
SpaceX's $74BN Goes Mostly to Arizona
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWSame Claude, 60% or 94% - Depends Who Asks
NEWOpenAI Folds Its Robotics Team Into Research
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026 · 19:43
NEWCloudflare Open-Sources Its Agent Browser
NEWShopify Turns On Poppy for Every Store
llama.cpp Hits 1.0, Freezes Its API Unite.AI: a compatibility contract for everything downstream of llama.cpp
AgentCore Sessions Get 8 vCPUs and a Disk Unite.AI: committed-baseline billing and filesystem mounts land across four regions
NEWCopilot Drops Models on 14 December
Google Ships a Gateway for Agent Traffic
The FightLaw, policy and power
Nvidia's Huang Investigation Stays Open
Singapore says the eight-month hold on Alice Huang's passport was about false server declarations and closed in February for insufficient evidence, yet Nvidia is still investigating its departed founder, and Reuters reports a second affair with an employee.
Singapore's home ministry: false declarations, never an espionage investigation Newser: Singapore says the DOJ and FBI gave it little help with Supermicro
NEWSingapore Charges a Buyer of 917 AI Servers
OpenAI Backs the China Chip Curbs Al Jazeera: Beijing warns Washington against fresh AI-chip export controls
NEWNo 'Artificial' Left at the Pentagon
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Twenty-Four Hours Later, Outlook Is Back Ars Technica: Microsoft blames failed server health checks, not hackers
Britain Steps In on the DeepMind Ballot WIRED: organisers say management handed voluntary talks to HR as box-ticking
NEWHe Fought a $24 Rent Rise and Won $279 Back
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
'Bring Back THE Boss,' Say 1,600 Comments
Ghost Note His AI Found a Maya Site. Tulane Already Had.
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