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Signal: Accountability keeps dissolving: officials can't name the cause, a judge can't name the author, a board can't name a successor.
Not the AI, Officials Say. The Routers Overloaded.
The FAA's four-hour nationwide ground stop - its third ever - delayed more than 10,000 flights and over two million passengers, and Duffy blamed switches and routers that 'got overloaded with data' on legacy analog gear that buckled after new patches were installed, with newer digital equipment running throughout and no cyberattack footprints found; the $875MN SMART advisory tool is not connected to the STARS or ERAM systems that failed.
AVweb: FAA rules out SMART as the cause and points at aging equipment WIRED: Mullin would not rule out an AI failure on Friday night Nextgov: 10,000 flights and two million passengers hit by legacy IT
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWArm's CEO Sounded Out. Arm Shares Fell 10%. Implicator: Haas reported to Huang for seven years; Arm fell 10%
No Loans Yet From Huang's $500BN Club
Chinese Money Barred From the Anthropic Book Business Insider: Amodei tells Jamie Dimon Anthropic turns away 'jerks'
NEWBuy a $29,990 Cybercab You Cannot Drive Teslarati: first deliveries in December, one month of the subscription included
NEWAmazon Wants Data on Every Product Online Storyboard18: the database would also defend Amazon's advertising business
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Artex Turns Any Model Into an Attack Chain
NEWRunway Opens a Video Model That Drives Robots
OpenAI Folds Its Robotics Team Into Research
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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Claude Code's Coordinator Now Reports Back
Google's Agents Now Sign In As the User
NEWAntigravity's Agent Now Runs Python Workflows
Cloudflare Open-Sources Its Agent Browser
NEWCopilot App Reaches Self-Hosted GHES
Copilot Drops Models on 14 December
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWTwice He Told His Lawyers It Was 'Appropriate'
Nvidia executives questioned Huang about Alice Huang and Megaspeed in autumn 2025 and again in October 2026, and both times he told them - general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld among them - that the relationship was appropriate, Reuters reports from internal messages; CIA and ODNI officials still say the intelligence does not prove she spied.
ABC: what Trump knew, and when, is still unanswered Breitbart: Sacks says the spy narrative is collapsing and wants the leak probed
Four Departments Said Blacklist. Commerce Had the Pen.
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 testifies 10 December; Huang's own hearing is 3 December CNBC: Cantor, run by Lutnick's sons, halved its Nvidia stake
Trump Bought Nvidia, Then Killed the Chip Rule
Cursor: The Key Came From Fireworks
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
87% Now Call AI a Systemic Risk. In Spring, 50%.
The Fed's twice-yearly stability survey put AI far ahead of every other danger - the next worry, a risk-asset correction, drew 52% - flagging stretched equity valuations, complex AI-related financing, and cyber damage caused by frontier models themselves.
CNBC: hedge fund leverage is the highest since 2013 and concentrated in a few funds
NEWJudge Can't Tell Who Wrote the Arrest Report
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Meta Bets 'Cred,' Not Cash
Ghost Note The Denny's Took Down Nvidia's Sign
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