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Sunday, November 8, 2026
In the last 24 hours, Nvidia's board opened a probe into CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI raised $11B and Anthropic made a $3.4B power purchase, while DeepSeek reported strong usage for its agent app.
35 stories ranked · updated Nov 8, 23:12 UTC
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Nvidia's board opens probe into Jensen Huang over ties to alleged Chinese spy
Nvidia's board launched an investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, and says it has no reason to believe Nvidia secrets were compromised. Huang admitted in a staff memo to an affair and said he fell short of his duties.
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OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation, below the $1.4T it first sought
OpenAI closed an $11 billion raise at a $1.25 trillion valuation, according to a report on the deal. That is below the $1.4 trillion valuation the company initially sought.
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Anthropic buys 1.7GW of gas generator commitments from OnePWR for $3.4B
Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7 GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4 billion, according to sources cited by the Financial Times. The FT calls it the largest known such purchase by an AI lab.
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DeepSeek says its open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54M daily active users
DeepSeek says Harness hit 1.54 million daily active users on November 4, less than three months after launch. It reports about 92 trillion Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. a day, or roughly 60 million per user.
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Officials at Commerce's AI safety center CAISI asked to report to a White House office
Sources told the AP that officials at the Commerce Department's AI safety center CAISI were asked to informally report to a White House office. The move has raised concerns about the center's independence.
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Elvis Presley and Eminem rights holders sue Suno over AI music cloning
Rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records sued Suno. They claim the AI music company illegally generates music that imitates their catalogs.
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Apple's Ternus presses Federighi to accelerate agentic Siri
Bloomberg reports that CEO John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts. He is pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri tweaks toward Agent: An AI that doesn't just answer but takes steps on its own to finish a task: searching the web, running code or using apps. and other advanced capabilities.
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AI companies sold or priced over $300B of stock in 2026, excluding Anthropic's IPO
The Information reports that AI companies sold or priced more than $300 billion of stock in 2026, excluding Anthropic's IPO, with about $100 billion more on tap. The report raises questions about how much the market can absorb.
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Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in midterms; 10 of 17 picks won
Public First, an AI safety super PAC backed by Anthropic, spent over $63 million in the 2026 midterms. Ten of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won, according to Bloomberg.
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