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According to Wired, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang began working with crisis communications firm Heller at least as early as October 2025, months before admitting to an extramarital relationship with Alice Huang. The firm was reportedly instructed to handle any press inquiries about Huang, whether personal or professional. Founded by Risa Heller, the firm is known for working on personal controversies and also handles corporate clients.

The New York Times had linked Alice to Nvidia’s dealings with Megaspeed and reported that US intelligence officials identified her as a spy working for the Chinese government. Huang apologized to his family and employees, and Nvidia’s board announced an independent investigation. The board said it had no reason to believe that confidential company information or national security information had been compromised.

Sources: Wired

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Jonathan Kanter, the former head of the US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, and Doha Mekki, the division’s former acting chief, launched FluxCap. The startup sells a platform built with proprietary technology and large language models for legal research and analysis, initially focused on antitrust cases and planned to expand into other practice areas. Kanter says the tool can identify weaknesses in legal arguments, sift through large volumes of documents and find signals of potentially anticompetitive conduct.

The team includes former Justice Department staffers and former Palantir engineers. Antitrust boutique Kressin Powers is among FluxCap’s first customers, and Kanter says the company is in talks with public and private enforcers. He says the platform can give a small team the capacity of “20-plus people” working around the clock, acting as a force multiplier for investigators and lawyers.

Sources: The Verge

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About 600,000 Nvidia H200 chips were reportedly being stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, Reuters reported, as cited by Xataka. Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters that large companies may have obtained about 10,000 GPUs each, but the exact volume is uncertain because of the gray market, intermediaries and indirect routes used to bypass trade restrictions.

The U.S. authorized H200 sales to selected Chinese customers, and Reuters reported that about 10 companies gained access to the chips in May, including Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance. However, The Information reported that China limited approvals to fewer than 200,000 units and directed companies to prioritize domestic processors for inference, widening the gap between the estimated Hong Kong stockpile and officially authorized purchases.

Sources: Xataka

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NVIDIA announced an investment in Point2, a South Korean AI interconnect company, and said it also plans to invest in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage. The announcements were made at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum, held at COEX with South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and attended by Vice Minister Ryu Je-myung.

According to NVIDIA, more than 20 startups took part, spanning foundation models, physical AI, AI infrastructure and AI semiconductors. Motif develops models for agents, RLWRLD builds robotics models for real-world tasks, and Upstage works on language models and document AI tools. NVIDIA also said its NVIDIA Inception program has more than 1,000 Korea-based members.

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Platforms including KGen, Hub Data, Mimix AI, Flambra, Crowtado and Claru offer tasks in which users record videos of activities such as washing dishes, sweeping, cooking and shopping. Some participants interviewed by g1 say they received up to R$5,500 in a month; Yasmin Prado, 33, says she made about R$2,000 in September and that the activity has become her main source of income. Part of the earnings may come from commissions for referrals.

As the work has grown more popular, users report that payments have fallen and that they were banned for allegedly violating platform rules. The platforms do not disclose which companies buy the videos or explain in detail how they are used for training. Requirements include being at least 18, recording through one’s own account and avoiding faces, documents, screens, photos, vehicle license plates and outdoor areas. Participants must also follow rules on framing, lighting, duration and natural movements.

Sources: g1

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An unusual coalition is trying to stop Google from building a data center campus in Thurrock, east of London. The group includes conservation organization Buglife, local wildlife groups, nonprofit Foxglove, and the Thurrock Hammers motorcycle club. They cite the possible loss of habitat for rare plants and animals, pollution, and the loss of a racing track on the site; the club also wants to race there again. A petition opposing the project has collected almost 55,000 signatures, according to Wired.

Google acquired the site through a subsidiary in 2023 and applied for permission to build the campus. The opposition group says the development could produce up to 570,000 tonnes of emissions a year. Google says its plans prioritize biodiversity and emissions reduction, and that the objections are based on misconceptions about the project. The dispute comes amid protests against data centers elsewhere in Europe, according to Wired.

Sources: Wired

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Nvidia opened an independent investigation into Jensen Huang after reports linked his relationship with Alice Huang, a former executive at data center company Megaspeed, to a possible Chinese intelligence operation. According to reports cited by The Verge, the BBC, and Xataka, US officials suspect Alice Huang worked for Chinese intelligence and passed information to Beijing; the allegations have not been proven, and China rejected them. Huang admitted being unfaithful to his wife but did not name Alice Huang in his message to employees. Nvidia says it has no reason to believe company secrets or US national security were compromised. The BBC reported that the company hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, led by attorney Joon Kim, to conduct the investigation; the FBI is also investigating. Donald Trump said Huang told him he did not know Alice Huang was a spy and that he believed him.

Sources: The Verge, TechCrunch, g1, Xataka, BBC, Ars Technica, Wired

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Rights holders for Elvis Presley’s music and the publisher of some of Eminem’s biggest records have sued Suno, claiming that the company generates music and lyrics that imitate the artists. In the Presley-related suit, lawyers argue that Suno violated Tennessee’s Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, which bars AI companies from cloning a singer’s voice. The lawsuits add to cases brought by Sony, UMG, Jason Isbell and Reservoir Media, among others.

Suno spokesperson Cat McCormack told The Verge that the company exists to help users create new, original music, not to trade on artists’ names or likenesses. She said Suno does not allow prompts containing specific artists’ names and songs and uses third-party providers to screen uploaded audio files and lyrics, while continuing to strengthen its safeguards.

Sources: The Verge

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In an interview with The Verge, Alex Stamos, Cognition’s chief security officer and a cybersecurity expert, said private and state actors, including Russia and North Korea, are using AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities at the same time. He said the multibillion-dollar cybersecurity industry is facing a succession of breaches and may enter a “dark age” while it adapts to the new reality.

Stamos cited an attack chain involving Fireworks and Cursor: as described in the interview, API keys stolen from Fireworks enabled an intrusion into Cursor, which then distributed a malicious plugin to other companies. The plugin reportedly reached 5,000 companies, creating 5,000 potential breaches. He described the situation as a continuous sequence of breaches across the technology sector, with attackers chaining compromises to expand their reach.

Sources: The Verge

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Potential investors are reportedly pushing for a more attractive valuation and questioning whether Anthropic can hold its investor presentations next week and go public in November, according to sources who spoke to Reuters, as reported by g1. The US$1.5 trillion valuation discussed recently would be at the high end of expectations, while the company may need to lower its share price to attract buyers.

The doubts grew after a sharp drop in AI-related assets and amid geopolitical uncertainty. The sources said investors are awaiting Anthropic’s October revenue figures, which were absent from the updated S-1 filing, to assess whether the company accelerated growth after a recent slowdown. The offering, which some estimates put at up to US$100 billion, could be delayed if market conditions do not improve.

Sources: g1

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Crusoe confirmed the sale of an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google will take over development and announced plans to invest $17 billion in the campus, without disclosing how much it paid for the project. Crusoe and Tallgrass had initially announced the facility with a goal of eventually reaching 10 gigawatts of power capacity.

The deal was first reported by Bloomberg in June, according to TechCrunch. It highlights the challenges independent data center developers face in delivering large projects on time and within budget, amid difficulties securing equipment and power. Despite the sale, Crusoe is still developing another data center for Google near Amarillo, Texas, and raised a $3.9 billion round in September.

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Nvidia opened an independent investigation after reports claimed that its CEO, Jensen Huang, may have been targeted in a Chinese espionage operation. According to The New York Times, a memo reportedly based on U.S. intelligence said that Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive, had allegedly been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to obtain information about American AI chips and influence Nvidia’s sales to China.

In a message to employees, Jensen Huang confirmed that he had an affair with Alice Huang and apologized. Nvidia’s board said it had no reason to believe that U.S. national security or company secrets had been compromised; the investigation will be conducted by independent directors and outside legal counsel, with Huang’s cooperation. Megaspeed also hired outside lawyers for an internal investigation, according to g1.

Sources: The Verge, TechCrunch, g1, BBC

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OpenAI has reportedly raised $11 billion so far in a new funding round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion, according to Bloomberg, as reported by TechCrunch and The Verge. The round has not closed and could reach about $20 billion in the coming weeks. The company had reportedly initially sought as much as $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation, The Verge says, but that target was lowered after tech stocks fell and midterm election results reflected negative public sentiment toward AI companies and data center projects.

The Verge also reports that rival Anthropic filed its S-1 to go public the previous week. OpenAI had indicated plans for an initial public offering, but CEO Sam Altman said the company would wait until it could make more confident claims about the safety of its models.

Sources: TechCrunch, The Verge

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S. Krishnan, secretary of India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, told ETGovernment, in an interview reproduced by Xataka, that the country plans to develop its own GPU in approximately 24 months as part of India Semiconductor Mission 2.0. The effort comes as India still depends on international suppliers for these chips and seeks to create commercial demand for the domestic RISC-V processors SHAKTI and VEGA.

According to Xataka, the country had more than 45,000 GPUs in the IndiaAI program’s shared infrastructure in June 2026, but it has not disclosed the future GPU’s specifications, developers, manufacturing location or launch date. SHAKTI was created by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, while VEGA comes from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC); both use the open RISC-V architecture.

Sources: Xataka

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Lisa Su told Yahoo Finance on November 5 that AMD is already a “data center first company.” In the third quarter of 2026, the segment generated US$8.55 billion, or about 65% of the company’s revenue, while PCs, gaming and embedded systems together generated nearly US$5 billion. Demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure is driving the result, with AMD serving the market mainly through Epyc processors and Instinct accelerators.

AMD has given no sign that it will abandon gaming or PCs: it remains involved with Project Helix, the next generation of Xbox, and continues updating its Ryzen X3D chip line. Still, Tecnoblog assesses that the priority given to data centers could reduce the frequency of updates or the availability of products such as Radeon GPUs. The situation warrants attention, but does not indicate an immediate withdrawal from these markets.

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Security firm Censys identified more than 800 distinct Artex deployments accessible from the internet without a password. The Chinese-made open-source software automates penetration testing and, according to Microsoft, can conduct attacks from reconnaissance through data exfiltration with little human interaction. Censys researcher Silas Cutler said not every instance was operated maliciously, but the software does not need to be exposed to the internet. Publicly accessible systems can also reveal implants used to maintain access to victims’ networks.

Security companies have linked Artex to attacks against South Korea’s financial sector in September and, according to Microsoft, to an October intrusion at ConnectWise that allowed China-linked hackers to spy on organizations with data in Microsoft’s cloud. CrowdStrike attributed part of the attacks to a Chinese-speaking hacker. Artex later announced that it would become closed-source, although dozens of copies of its code remain available on code-sharing sites.

Sources: TechCrunch

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Meta said it does not plan to implement, for now, an update to its commercial terms that could require Facebook page owners to authorize the use of linked content for AI training. Andy Stone, the company’s vice president of communications, said consultation with publishers and industry leaders could extend beyond November 20, delaying implementation of the revised terms.

The proposal had drawn criticism because replacing the word “train” with “develop” was seen as failing to address concerns about using scraped content for commercial products. US senators Adam Schiff and Marsha Blackburn asked Mark Zuckerberg to withdraw the terms. Meta says its crawling practices have not changed and that content owners can still signal preferences through robots.txt, but Nieman Lab noted that the revised version contained no specific language about respecting those preferences.

Sources: Ars Technica

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The Verge reports that artificial intelligence has become a compatibility factor on dating profiles in San Francisco. Some people write that they do not want to date anyone who uses AI, while others consider whether they would date someone who develops the technology or weigh the financial benefits and ethical risks of that choice.

For Kyle, a researcher at a nonprofit AI safety initiative, the possibility that the technology could cause human extinction — estimated at 10 percent by some experts in the field, according to the article — affects how he thinks about having children and planning for the future. Bryan, who works at a frontier AI company, says the person’s job is not relevant to romance. The article also describes people treating their views on AI like a political signal or even handing parts of their love lives over to the technology.

Sources: The Verge

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Wired reports on a little-known expansion of the data-acquisition market for AI. Companies including Handshake, Micro1, and Mercor are seeking professional documents, emails, Slack messages, tickets, and call transcripts; Handshake confirmed to the magazine that it licenses professional documents so labs can test and train models, including graduate students’ work. One writer said she was offered $1,000 for a story but did not sell the material.

According to Wired, Mercor, founded in 2023, has become one of the industry’s leading companies. Its CEO, Brendan Foody, says labs need data that reflects real work rather than simulated tasks. He says Mercor removes personally identifiable information, a claim echoed by other people in the industry. Anthropic acknowledged to Wired that there is a large market for data but said it does not buy workflow from live companies such as WIRED; OpenAI did not respond before publication.

Sources: Wired

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Ramp data shows that companies’ token usage rose, but AI spending grew only 1.5% from August to September, compared with 42% in July. Ara Kharazian, Ramp’s lead economist, told TechCrunch that the heaviest-spending companies saw a slight pullback, enough to hold back revenue despite higher usage; in October, spending re-accelerated 8.9% from September 23 to October 23.

Kharazian said the trend does not indicate a demand problem, but a more competitive market. He pointed to price cuts by OpenAI and Anthropic, enterprise discounts, and cheaper or open-source models as factors reducing the cost of use. Anthropic said in a recent filing that its price reductions cut revenue growth by about $600 million. Kharazian said the era of hypergrowth may be over, challenging investor expectations as Anthropic prepares for its IPO.

Sources: TechCrunch

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