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Signal: Everything is being repriced in public - Nvidia, Anthropic's listing, GPU loans - while the models get faster and cheaper and 850 more jobs go.
His Own Board Opened a File. $193BN Gone.
Nvidia's directors have opened an independent investigation into Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset, the shares fell 4.3% to $178.67 on a day the rest of the market rallied, and the first securities class action has been filed - the board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised.
Semafor: Gensler says the stock drop suggests a court would find it material TechCrunch: Huang hired a sex-scandal crisis PR firm a year ago Tom's Hardware: Rosen files the first class action over the undisclosed affair
The RaceCompanies, models and money
GPU Loans Are 'Getting Smoked'
Whole portfolios of data-centre loans are being shopped at steep discounts on fears the debt outlives the hardware, and the next test is a $40BN chip financing for SpaceX that Goldman Sachs and Apollo have started marketing.
CNBC: CoreWeave's 2031 bonds yield over 16% as it reports Tuesday
Fermat in 30 Hours, 20% Off the List Price
Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 run up to 30% faster and cost 20% less at $8 and $40 per million tokens, and Anthropic says they formalized the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and solved two open black-hole problems in prerelease testing - its own account, untested outside.
The Verge: Mythos 5.2 stays limited to vetted organisations
$2TN to Maybe $1TN. Anthropic Lists Next Week.
Anthropic will set its range this week and start trading as ANT on Thursday or Friday, with institutional investors now pushing below the $1.5TN target - itself down from $2TN - days after the Nasdaq's worst month in years.
Gizmodo: filings warn AI could pose 'catastrophic or existential risks to humanity'
Four TPUs in One Year, 100 Customers The Decoder: both are new systems around existing silicon, not a new chip
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
One Man, Local Models, Taipei's 911 Records
LLMJacking Crew Took Fireworks Datasets
Breached Through Its Own MCP Server
The WorkbenchTools and agents
You Cannot Approve a Force-Push by Voice
Fable 5.2 Drops 20%, Fast Mode Costs Double
Workspace Skills Ship, 18 and Over Only
The FightLaw, policy and power
Palantir WhatsApped the Minister About GP Records
Trump Won't Name the AI Boss He Threatened CBS transcript: Trump says he does not mind guardrails but will not take 'a deep second position'
After the Medicare Breach, Models Get Audited ABC: Albanese says tech giants will have to open their models for evaluation
'We're Not a Democracy,' Said the Authority Georgia Virtue: the authority signed its OpenAI NDA on 27 October 2025
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Qantas Cuts 850. Accenture and AI Get the Work.
Your Sleep Headband Trained a Brain Model
Google: Search Can't Be Sold Without AI
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Disney Hands Adobe Its Characters
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