Newshot Thursday, November 12, 2026
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Today’s lead
Nvidia’s leadership crisis is the day’s dominant story: its CEO has resigned amid spy and affair scandals, and an interim CEO has been named. The shock is reverberating through AI stocks, with AMD and Broadcom bucking the trend, while Epic Games CEO Sweeney publicly backed the departing executive.
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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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid spy, affair scandals
Jensen Huang at GTC Berlin last month. | Photo: Soeren Stache / picture alliance via Getty Images Nvidia's board announced that Jensen Huang - its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO - has resigne
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Meet Colette Kress, Nvidia’s New Interim CEO
Nvidia’s longtime chief financial officer helped transform the company into an AI powerhouse. Now she’s taking the reins following Jensen Huang’s resignation on Thursday.
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黄仁勋 Resigns as 英伟达 CEO, Dealing a Blow to Global AI Stocks as AMD and Broadcom Buck the Trend
黄仁勋 has resigned as CEO of 英伟达 amid an escalating extramarital affair scandal, triggering a sharp selloff in global AI-related stocks on Thursday. 英伟达 said CFO 科莱特 · 克雷斯 will serve as interim CEO whil
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Jensen Huang is out. What did China want from him?
Today, we’re talking about the Jensen Huang scandal at Nvidia, which is developing so quickly that we had to do an emergency update of this intro minutes before publishing this episode. Huang just res
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Google Releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen Model: Built for Everyday Coding and Agentic Workflows, $1.50 per Million Input Tokens
Google has officially launched the Gemini 4 Hydrogen model, focused on fast execution and efficient operation for everyday coding and agentic workflow scenarios, bringing Gemini 4 series capabilities
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Runway's Praxis-1 robot model beats GPT-6 Astra-powered arm: 15.6x faster and 1/51 the cost
US video AI company Runway announced Praxis-1, an open-weight robot model under the Apache 2.0 license that applies knowledge learned from video pretraining to real robot control, letting developers r
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Google’s new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions
Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The ne
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Epic Games CEO Sweeney backs 黄仁勋: Ousting him from Nvidia would be like Apple firing Jobs
After Nvidia CEO 黄仁勋 recently acknowledged an extramarital affair and faced another affair allegation, Nvidia’s board is considering removing him and has met to discuss his fate without announcing a f
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Over $74 Billion Poured Into AI: 马斯克's SpaceX Isn't Just Building Rockets—It's Building a Supercomputing Empire
SpaceX, owned by the world's richest person Elon 马斯克 (Elon Musk), announced on November 12 that it plans to invest more than $74 billion in Texas and Arizona to build two AI-focused supercomputing dat
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Tesla Robotaxi overtakes Waymo in registered vehicles in Texas, with Cybercab making up nearly half
Tesla Robotaxi has surpassed Waymo to become the largest fleet on Texas's autonomous vehicle registration list, with 1,302 registered vehicles as of November 10 versus Waymo's 1,297, according to Texa
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ByteDance's Volcano Engine launches Seedance 2.5 flash video model: twice the generation speed at a lower price
ByteDance's Volcano Engine officially launched Seedance 2.5 flash, which it says is the model closest in quality to Seedance 2.5, with generation twice as fast and a lower price. For text-to-video and
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Baidu's 李彦宏 launches "Token Exchange," a marketplace for large models: claims neutrality and trustworthiness, rates model providers
At Baidu World 2026 on November 12, Baidu founder 李彦宏 announced a new large-model service platform called Token Exchange, described as a neutral, trustworthy marketplace for large models that he liken
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ChatGPT for Mac adds a 'Finances' entry: let AI manage your money, track spending and monitor investments
OpenAI announced on X on November 12 that its ChatGPT Finances feature is officially expanding to the Mac desktop app. After updating, users can connect bank, credit card and investment accounts throu
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Apple details iPhone 18 Pro / Max privacy indicator dot: hardware enforces privacy red line, mic / camera access blocked unless the indicator is lit
Apple published a new blog post detailing the new "Secure Exclaves" architecture for devices such as the iPhone 18 Pro and explaining the indicator light as a privacy gatekeeper. An isolated component
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Claude Joins the Meeting: Documents and Tasks Take Shape Before the Discussion Ends
Claude now joins Google Meet as a visible participant, and documents, whiteboards, notes, and action items take shape while the discussion is still ongoing. By default it answers only in text and asks
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Report: 马斯克 Pushes Forward SpaceX-Tesla Merger Talks, Announcement as Early as December, Potentially One of the World’s Largest Corporate Mergers
Bloomberg reported on November 12 that two core companies under 马斯克 are advancing merger talks, with their boards and advisers negotiating deal terms and the governance structure of the combined compa
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Apex Neural Rendering enters public beta to take on DLSS, works across Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
Apex Compute has launched the beta of Apex Neural Rendering (ANR), an AI rendering suite featuring AI frame generation, super resolution and ray reconstruction, which it says supports multiple generat
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A Malicious MCP Server Uses Reverse Sampling to Borrow Client Compute and roots to Probe Host Directories
MCP's request direction goes more than one way. Beyond clients calling tools, the protocol also lets servers make reverse requests to clients: sampling/createMessage borrows your model and quota to ru
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I tried Google’s AI glasses and Meta’s finally got real competition
It's a weird time to launch a new pair of smart glasses. These last few years, Meta has been the dominant player in pushing a fragile smart glasses resurgence. Unfortunately, its privacy reputation le
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Claude API adds adjustable effort: letting AI scale its effort to the task, shifting gears mid-conversation from casual chat to complex analysis
Anthropic has added a Beta feature to the Claude API that lets developers adjust effort within messages, so the same conversation no longer has to use the same setting throughout and developers can ch
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WTF are evals? How to test agents and the software they use
Agents are now users of software, doing work on people's behalf. Whether you're building the agent or the software it uses (API, CLI, MCP server, SDK), evals give you a way to measure how well that wo
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Apple’s HomeView is my new favorite smart display — but not my daughter’s
Apple’s first smart display is finally here. And it’s good. | Photo: Hunter McRae for The Verge The HomeView nails everything I want from a smart display. It's superb at controlling my smart home; it
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Who Said 127.0.0.1: GPUStack Loopback Trust Bypass (CVE-2026-102895)
On July 31, 2026, GPUStack's GitHub Security Advisory posted GHSA-gj9m-f8ph-pmhr: get_current_user in gpustack/api/auth.py directly elevates requests whose source is judged to be loopback to the built
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Qantas to cut 850 jobs in AI push as unions question whether AI is a cover for offshoring
Qantas said it will work with Accenture on an AI-driven transformation, cut 850 roles and outsource some corporate functions overseas, prompting unions to accuse the airline of using AI as a pretext f
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SoftBank leads $500M round in Agile Robots to scale up humanoid robot production
German robot maker Agile Robots SE has closed a new funding round led by SoftBank Group, reaching a valuation of $8.5 billion, with Nvidia, Hitachi and T.Capital also participating. The company raised
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No license needed for a 'self-drive' trip: Luobo Kuaipao and CAR Inc. launch world's first robotaxi rental service
At Baidu World 2026 in Beijing on November 12, Baidu announced that its Luobo Kuaipao robotaxi service has partnered with CAR Inc. to create the world's only unmanned-vehicle 'self-drive tour' service
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Microsoft 365 core services suffer massive global outage: Outlook, OneDrive, Teams affected, gradual restart and recovery underway
On November 12, local time, multiple core Microsoft 365 cloud services experienced a large-scale failure, affecting Outlook, Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Copil
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