Newshot Friday, November 13, 2026
Daily · 30 items
Today’s lead
NVIDIA CEO 黄仁勋 has stepped down, leaving interim leadership and three open questions, while flowers and candles appeared outside 英伟达 headquarters and reports described the executive as exhausted in the final days. The day's other major thread is AI capital: Anthropic's IPO drew about six times subscription demand toward a roughly $1.4 trillion valuation, and OpenAI raised $15 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation.
The lead is written by the model from that day’s headlines. It is an index only and does not replace reading the originals.
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黄仁勋 Steps Down as NVIDIA CEO, Interim Leadership Leaves Three Open Questions
NVIDIA founder 黄仁勋 suddenly resigned as president, CEO, and director, ending a 33-year tenure; the board appointed CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO and began searching for a permanent successor from i
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Anthropic IPO draws about 6x subscription demand: seeking up to $64.4 billion, targeting roughly $1.4 trillion valuation
Investor orders for Anthropic's planned initial public offering have reached roughly six times the number of shares available, Bloomberg reported. According to its filings, Anthropic and its co-founde
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After 黄仁勋 resigns, flowers and candles appear outside 英伟达 headquarters
Business Insider reported that flowers and a white candle in a glass jar were placed in front of the NVIDIA sign outside the company's Santa Clara, California headquarters, seen as a tribute to 黄仁勋. 黄
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黄仁勋 Resigns as CEO of 英伟达, Potentially Adding Uncertainty to Anthropic's "Largest-Ever IPO" Next Week
On November 12 local time, Fortune reported that AI startup Anthropic is about to hold one of the most closely watched IPOs in history, but co-founder and CEO 黄仁勋 suddenly resigned on the eve of the l
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FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of c
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OpenAI Raises $15 Billion in Latest Private Round at $1.25 Trillion Pre-Money Valuation
OpenAI raised $15 billion in its latest private funding round at a pre-money valuation of $1.25 trillion, above the roughly $11 billion previously reported by media, according to CNBC. The round, desc
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Adapting to AI penetration testing orchestrators: The Modern Security Model
Over the last month, the number of Large Language Model (LLM) penetration testing and orchestration frameworks has exploded. Just a few weeks ago, ARTEX — an open source agentic penetration testing sy
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DeepSeek Releases Full-Suite App API: Developers Can Now Recreate the Complete DeepSeek App 1:1
On the evening of November 13, DeepSeek announced the official opening of its full-suite app API: by enabling the corresponding parameters in the existing API, developers can access conversational fea
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Cerebras Announces Microsoft Deal, $26.1 Billion in Remaining Performance Obligations at End of 2026Q3
Cerebras announced at its 2026Q3 earnings call that it has signed an agreement with Microsoft, gaining its third hyperscale cloud customer after AWS and Oracle. The company posted about $230 million i
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Let AI agents shop for you: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet payment feature
OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT Wallet, a payment feature that lets its dot AI agent shop on users' behalf. Developed with American Express, Mastercard and Visa, ChatGPT Wallet lets eligible us
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Microsoft 365 outage drags past 10 hours, forcing Japan's government to fall back on phones
Core Microsoft 365 services including Outlook and Teams suffered a massive global outage in the early hours, with Downdetector logging close to 130,000 Outlook problem reports as the disruption hit go
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Introducing ChatGPT Wallet
Introducing ChatGPT Wallet, a secure way for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots to complete purchases with user approval and existing card protections.
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Tencent Hunyuan releases Hy Realtime speech model: it can talk, sing and call tools, already live in Yuanbao voice calls and Tencent customer service
Tencent Hunyuan today launched Hy Realtime, a new real-time speech model that performs well in speech understanding, instruction following and human-like expression, and adds agentic tool-calling and
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Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to Launch Android XR Smart Glasses Next Month, Both Featuring Qualcomm AR1 Chips and Google Gemini Integration
Gentle Monster and Warby Parker have each announced that they will launch their first smart glasses built on the Android XR platform next month, with the products developed with the participation of S
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亚马逊’s Secret Plan Exposed: Aiming to Build a “World Product Graph” and Capture Product Data Across the Web
IT Home reported on Nov 13, citing Reuters, that 亚马逊 has a secret plan to keep consumers on its platform by holding product information from around the world; according to an internal document and peo
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Shanghai police say "Peace Hotel 510,000-yuan sky-high bill" was AI-generated: it was actually a liquor sales company marketing its own products, and 15 people involved have been arrested
IT Home, Nov 13: According to CCTV News, a purported "Peace Hotel 510,000-yuan sky-high bill" recently circulated online and sparked widespread discussion; Shanghai's Huangpu police reported that the
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Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful
Let’s get to work. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent fo
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Looking for the "next 英伟达": TSMC plans to set up a $500 million venture capital fund
IT Home reported on Nov 13 that, according to Nikkei Asia, TSMC plans to establish a $500 million venture capital fund to support chip startups that could grow into the next 英伟达 or Broadcom. 张晓强, TSMC
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No Subsidies, No Extra Costs for Others: Microsoft Pledges to Foot the Power Bill for Its AI Expansion
Microsoft will seek to power its AI data centers without relying on government subsidies or raising costs for other electricity users, Bloomberg reported on November 12. At the BloombergNEF conference
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This AI ‘mechanic’ can peer inside the black box of other neural networks
Nature, Published online: 13 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03679-8 Being able to target and debug systems could improve artificial-intelligence safety and utility.
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BBC Exposes UK 'Housefishing': Agents and Sellers Using AI to Fake or Beautify Property Photos
BBC has reported that 'housefishing'—using AI to fake or beautify property listing photos—is becoming increasingly common in the UK, with some agents and sellers heavily editing or generating images t
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South Korea Plans to Buy Radio Detection Equipment to Prevent AI Cheating in National Qualification Exams
South Korea is considering measures to prevent candidates from using high-tech devices such as AI glasses to cheat in national qualification exams, Yonhap reported. Lawmaker Kim Wi-sang of the main op
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Apple's First Smart Home Hub HomeView and New Apple TV 4K Launch, First Orders Already Delivered to Customers in Australia and New Zealand
Apple's HomeView officially went on sale on November 13 local time, and due to time zones the first pre-orders from Australia and New Zealand were delivered first; because New Zealand has no Apple ret
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AI Taking Over Phones Takes a Key Step: Google Gemini Automation App List Leaked, 134 Apps Currently Included
Android Authority reported on November 12 that the list of apps supported by Google Gemini's task automation feature has been leaked, totaling 134 apps covering food delivery, ride-hailing, shopping,
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SMIC's Zhao Haijun: Average Wafer Price Up 1.8% QoQ in Q3
At SMIC's Q3 earnings call, co-CEO Zhao Haijun said third-quarter revenue reached a record US$3.19 billion, up 6.1% quarter-on-quarter, as customer demand for AI-supporting chips such as BCD, specialt
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Alibaba's Xiami App Returns in AI Form Five Years After Shutdown: "Happy Series" HappyShrimp Officially Launches, Membership From 30 Yuan per Month
Alibaba's AI music creation platform HappyShrimp has officially launched on iOS and Android, arriving on the Apple App Store and major Android app stores, with the App Store version now at 0.2.14. Dev
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SMIC 赵海军: AI compute demand outstrips supply, semiconductor foundry capacity to be very tight in 2027
At SMIC's Q3 2026 earnings call, co-CEO 赵海军 said AI is still in its early stages and compute demand far exceeds supply, with industry consensus that 2027 will see very tight capacity lasting into mid-
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