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Nvidia's board announced an independent investigation on Sunday after reporting that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. In a memo, Huang admitted an affair.
9 Nov 2026Meta has paused updated commercial terms that were due on 20 November 2026, saying its existing terms remain in effect. The update had drawn court orders in Norway and Brazil and a UK competition investigation.
9 Nov 2026Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says he is told Apple wants Siri to work more like an agent, and believes it could come as early as next year. FourWeekMBA noted that, as of 8 November, Apple had not announced it.
8 Nov 2026John Langford, who helped organise AI Frontiers inside Microsoft Research, wrote on 6 November that the group is finished and that he has left. His is the only account so far.
8 Nov 2026Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt, The Next Web reported. The detail matters: it is a draft and a preference, and Search Engine Journal says that, on the companies' own timelines, none of Google, Microsoft and OpenAI supports it yet.
8 Nov 2026On 30 October Chainalysis said it had found no evidence of unauthorised access to credentials or session tokens. Its 4 November update said live tokens and password hashes for all users were exposed.
7 Nov 2026METR's high-access evaluation at Anthropic estimates AECI benchmark scores have accelerated about 1.9x since October 2025. METR says Anthropic redacted a majority of the evidence it found most informative.
7 Nov 2026Censys counted 1,465 hosts running an exposed ARTEX console as of 4 November 2026. The open-source AI penetration-testing tool has been linked to attacks in October.
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