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New: Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia, with its open-source advocacy and startup cheques at stake· ×2 · FAA extends congestion advice to all US airspace, controllers' union not involved· OpenAI gives ChatGPT's agents a wallet, limited to US Pro users· ×2 · Bessent says agencies wanted Megaspeed listed for months· Nvidia board orders independent review of its CEO's China ties· ×6 ·

Top storiesmost sources, last 48 hours

  1. Nvidia board orders independent review of its CEO's China tiesNvidia's board has opened an independent investigation into whether chief executive Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese intelligence operation.×6
  2. Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to all paying developers at Argon's priceGoogle made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available on 10 November, two weeks after releasing it to selected cybersecurity defenders.×3
  3. Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia, with its open-source advocacy and startup cheques at stakeJensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia, TechCrunch reported on 12 November 2026, without giving a reason or naming a successor.×2
  4. OpenAI gives ChatGPT's agents a wallet, limited to US Pro usersOpenAI has started rolling out ChatGPT Wallet, which lets its Dots agents pay for goods on a user's behalf.×2

What happened — 70 on the wire

What went wrong?6

  1. Outage hits Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Copilot, with no cause given

  2. United bars personal AI assistants from booking its tickets

    ×2

  3. Inspectors find officers acting on unchecked facial recognition matches

  4. Parents sue Google, alleging Gemini was used to plan a suicide

    ×2

  5. 35,000 Grok Build apps found reachable by anyone

  6. Claude Code approvals are leaving credentials in public repositories

In the world13

  1. FAA extends congestion advice to all US airspace, controllers' union not involved

  2. AI could slip human control within months, OpenAI board member says

  3. Caseworkers describe a rising volume of AI-drafted complaints

  4. Column claims datacentre operators use disinformation to blunt local protests

  5. BBC reports AI-edited property listing photos can mislead buyers

  6. Families press schools to remove Gemini after teenager's lawsuit

  7. Australia issues AI workplace guidance as entry-level roles go first

  8. Tamil Nadu orders library audit after row over AI-written books

  9. England's university regulator backs exams over AI-written coursework

  10. Google lets schools switch off Gemini but not AI in Search

    ×5

  11. Qantas outsources work to Accenture as 850 Australian roles go

  12. Teenager sentenced to community order over ChatGPT-assisted Sydney attack plan

  13. Palantir asked minister to extend its NHS work into GP records

What shipped22

  1. OpenAI lets its work and coding agents pay with your card

  2. Perplexity adds span extraction to models that return probabilities

  3. Google open-sources TPU Sync for cache transfers between chips

  4. Google puts Gemini 4 Hydrogen in search to handle multi-part queries

    ×2

  5. Liquid AI's audio codec encodes 361 times faster than real time

  6. Google ships Gemini 4 Hydrogen, skipping the guarded launch used for Carbon

  7. CopilotKit releases OpenBot 1.0, a self-hostable agent workspace with audit logging

  8. DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 predicts DNA effects separately for each cell type

    ×2

  9. Google's Gemini Decision 1 answers yes/no questions about video and audio

  10. Google's Decisions endpoint returns probabilities, not text, at $0.10 per million tokens

  11. LLM fixes a bug that could send OpenAI keys to other providers

  12. An open world model renders 20 seconds of predicted action as video

  13. Tether AI releases 0.8B on-device model that doubles its base's agent scores

  14. Fish Audio's Live 3 voice model listens and speaks at once

  15. Anthropic announces Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 without benchmark figures

    ×2

  16. Meta undercuts Claude Haiku 5.5 on cached input with Muse Ember

    ×3

  17. Gemini 4 Carbon opens to all at rival prices, doubling on 1 December

  18. OpenAI adds business profiles so firms can be found inside ChatGPT

  19. Claude Meetings drafts the plan while the meeting is still running

  20. OpenAI lets brands run verified agents inside ChatGPT

  21. Anthropic ships Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at 20% lower price

  22. Anthropic ships Mythos and Fable models with no benchmarks given

Rules & courts4

  1. Bessent says agencies wanted Megaspeed listed for months

  2. Democrats open second inquiry into Nvidia's China sales

  3. New York obliges large AI developers to register and report incidents

  4. Australia creates an AI safety regulator and requires incident reports

    ×2

Money & power4

  1. Fractile raises $720M for chips designed specifically for AI

  2. Anthropic files for an initial public offering, revealing finances and risks

    ×6

  3. Anthropic prices IPO at $70–$78 a share, below the $2tn once reported

    ×2

  4. Seven Anthropic founders to sell $250M each while keeping control

Achievements4

  1. Google researcher's agent-assisted Maya find was in a 2025 journal

  2. Radical Numerics says its offline model identifies AI-engineered pathogens

  3. PSI says an unreleased Anthropic model answered a long-open quantum question

  4. Anthropic's tests tie Claude Fable 5.2's code merging to one prompt sentence

What it costs11

  1. Report ties China's top AI models to chips US rules bar

  2. Israeli startup investors expect Nvidia rivals to gain ground

  3. Google's cheapest Gemini 4 model is only 25% cheaper until December

  4. Nebius plans to fund $40bn AI build with prepayments and loans

  5. Nvidia told a congressman chip-tracking measures are technically possible

  6. Announced AI data centres often stall before construction, TechCrunch says

  7. CoreWeave asks customers to pay up front and borrows against single contracts

  8. Anthropic says a tool called Mythos ported Claude to AMD in three days

  9. Developers propose 181GW of gas generation at datacentre sites

  10. One outlet reports a Huang affair allegation and 240,000 smuggled GPUs

  11. Apple adds a $49.99 top-up for Logic Pro's AI features

From labs2

  1. Meta swaps k-means for a faster clustering step in FAISS 1.16

  2. DeepMind researchers formally verify Signal's encryption protocol

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