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Nvidia's founder resigned Thursday with CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, while Google rolled out its cheaper Gemini 4 Hydrogen model everywhere at once. SpaceX outlined more than $74 billion for Texas and Arizona supercomputing campuses, and ex-Anthropic lab Mirendil raised a $1 billion Series A on company-run tests.

1. Jensen is OUT!? Fable 5.2 and the Anthropic IPO, Gemini 4 Carbon and Hydrogen, live from AI Engineer — Alex Volkov“This morning Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO and member of the board, effective immediately. He founded the company 33 years ago and turned it into the most important company in AI. CFO Colette Kress is now the interim CEO and keeps the CFO job,…”
2. Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash — Ars Technica“Google claims that Hydrogen represents a major improvement versus the previous Flash model. It runs in one of four thinking levels (low, medium, high, and the new xhigh), and even in high mode, it's 2.5 times faster than Flash 3.8. Plus, it reduces "fabricated claims" by more…”
3. SpaceX announces over $74 billion investment in Texas, Arizona supercomputing campuses - The HinduBusinessLine — PTI“In a statement issued on Thursday, SpaceX outlined an investment of over $24 billion for a supercomputing facility in Texas's Rio Grande Valley and roughly $50 billion for a separate campus in Cochise County, Arizona.”
4. AI Lab Mirendil Raises $1B Series A: Release Names No Valuation, Cites Only Company Tests — Mark Rutherford“Mirendil, an AI lab founded by former Anthropic researchers, announced a $1 billion Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital on Thursday, Nov. 12, but the release names no valuation. The training bill the company cites, less than $10 million in compute, covers only…”

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TSMC approved plans for up to $1 billion in OpenAI and Anthropic stakes, Jeremy Hsu reports at Ars Technica, deepening suppliers’ financial ties to AI labs. New York opens frontier-model registration, while Tether releases a small model for on-device tool use.

1. Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI — Ars Technica“The chipmaker’s board approved plans to invest up to $500 million in OpenAI preferred stock reserved for large investors and another $500 million to purchase Anthropic common shares at the latter’s expected IPO price, according to Reuters . Such an investment may give markets “a…”
2. New York opens a RAISE Act portal for large frontier AI developers, the state says - AI Tech Daily — AI Tech Daily“New York on Tuesday opened an online registration portal for large frontier AI developers covered by the state’s Responsible AI Safety and Education Act, known as the RAISE Act, Governor Kathy Hochul’s office said in a Nov. 10 release. Large frontier developers must register…”
3. BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model — Hugging Face“BotPsy is a "personal assistant" that uses tools to perform a variety of simple tasks for the user, in domains such as web search & research, travel & lifestyle, commerce & finance, business & customer operations, device & vehicle control, files & documents, calendar, and email…”

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Anthropic opened its Nasdaq roadshow at $70 to $78 a share, Google made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available at an introductory price, and the Senate voted 73-25 to take up a permitting bill that would make large data centers pay more for grid upgrades. Plus Meituan's MIT-licensed LongCat-2.5 open weights.

1. 2026-11-11 AI Daily: Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon generally available, Anthropic launches IPO roadshow with a $70 to $78 price range, OpenAI introduces Businesses in ChatGPT and Business Agents, Google unveils Gemini Robotics 2.5, MiniMax open-sources H3-Image | PoYo — PoYo Team“At that price range, the 825 million shares imply an offering size of about $57.75 billion to $64.35 billion. TechCrunch reported that, at the top of the range and on a fully diluted basis, the company would be valued at about $1.404 trillion, above the $965 billion valuation…”
2. Gemini 4 Carbon Full Global Launch: 6.5M Lines of Mathematical Proofs Completed in 4 Weeks Validate Signal Security — 36kr“Compared with the previous Gemini 4 Argon, Carbon has a clearer positioning: it is not satisfied with quickly giving an answer, but is willing to spend more time and computing resources to truly complete a complex task.”
3. Senate advances energy permitting bill opposed by some Democrats, tribes | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo | 590 AM · 106.9 FM · 930 AM · 102.7 FM — Thomson Reuters“The US Senate voted to advance debate on a sweeping bipartisan energy permitting bill on Monday, handing a victory to Democratic Senators Martin Heinrich and Sheldon Whitehouse as they seek to pass the ambitious infrastructure legislation before Congress adjourns.”
4. Meituan releases open weights for its trillion-parameter LongCat multimodal model under the MIT license | MLQ.ai — MLQ.ai“Meituan, the Chinese food delivery and e-commerce group, published the weights of LongCat-2.5 on Hugging Face under the MIT license on Nov. 9, about a week after introducing the model”

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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 for everyone and Mythos 5.2 for vetted cyber and life-sciences groups, cutting prices to $8/$40 per million tokens, while Google expanded its eighth-generation TPU line and Meta undercut the budget tier with Muse Ember. Bloomberg reports Microsoft is winding down rented Oracle capacity built on older Nvidia chips.

1. Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 launched: Anthropic claims breakthrough in coding, robotics and scientific research | Mint — Pragya Singha Roy“The two models share the same underlying architecture but have different safety restrictions, Anthropic says. Cybersecurity and biology protections are incorporated into Claude Fable 5.2, which the general public can use. Claude Mythos 5.2 is designed for trusted organisations…”
2. Google Adds TPU 8tx, 8i Max for Enterprise AI — Wylie Wong“To meet growing demand for AI inference, Google Cloud on Monday beefed up its Tensor Processing Unit family with two new chips: a more secure version of its TPU 8t accelerator and a higher-capacity version of its TPU 8i inference chip.”
3. Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember — Yashodha Bhavnani“Muse Ember delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna at any reasoning setting: it matches Haiku's best score at about a third of the cost and beats every Luna setting.”
4. Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity, Bloomberg News reports | Consumer | centraloregondaily.com“Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle as part of a larger reassessment of billions of dollars in cloud partnerships, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.”

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The FT reports Anthropic took on 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators for about $3.4 billion, while OpenAI's first $11 billion close lands below its original ambitions. Plus Shield AI's $5.3 billion Echodyne deal and Democrats struggling to agree on what AI regulation should mean.

1. Anthropic Lands $3.4 Billion Deal for AI Data Center Power Solutions, ETEnterpriseai — ET Enterprise AI“Anthropic has struck a deal worth about $3.4 billion to secure gas-fired power generators for data centers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The AI startup bought commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty generators in late September from OnePWR Solutions, a San…”
2. AI Daily Insights · November 8, 2026 | AI Financing Weekly (November, Week 1): OpenAI Closes Initial $11 Billion of New Funding Round, Anthropic Updates IPO Filing, and Thinking Machines Lab Advances a $5 Billion Fundraise — Aidailyinsights“OpenAI had received about $11 billion in new funding by November 6, U.S. time, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. This was the first close of a round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion. The total could reach $20 billion, with the remainder…”
3. Shield AI plans $5.3B radar deal for Echodyne with $2.5B fundraise — Colin Campbell“Defense contractor Shield AI is raising $2.5 billion to acquire radar provider Echodyne Corp. for $5.3 billion.”
4. Democrats won big on Election Day. But can they agree on AI?“Democrats across the country who swept into power amid growing voter skepticism about AI and data centers are now reckoning with knotty discussions about how to tackle AI regulation and which technological impacts deserve their attention first, according to AI experts,…”

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OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber with restricted access and higher API prices than Anthropic and Google, reports VentureBeat’s Carl Franzen. The release sharpens the question of whether stronger exploit discovery translates into safer software, as Dropbox bets $350 million on AI infrastructure.

1. OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber with stronger exploit research and higher API price than Anthropic and Google | VentureBeat — VentureBeat“OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber today, a specialized security model that the company says can uncover and exploit more software vulnerabilities while more reliably respecting the limits researchers impose.

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Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro’s weights on Hugging Face, giving builders access to its million-token-context model. Meanwhile, voters approved dozens of data-center restrictions, raising new obstacles for the infrastructure behind AI deployment.

1. Kimi K3.1 Pro opens its weights · FAV0 · AI Daily — FAV0“Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro weights on Hugging Face. Its model card describes a 3T-scale native multimodal agent model with a million-token context, post-trained from Kimi K3 through large-scale joint reinforcement learning. Moonshot reports gains in coding, 3D creation…”
2. Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech” — Ars Technica“Donald Trump’s big, rapid American AI buildout now faces a major slowdown as voters in yesterday’s elections overwhelmingly supported candidates and measures that favored increasing restrictions on AI and data centers nationwide. One resource from a polling firm, called Redbud…”
   • “Big tech supported him massively in 2024, for his views on regulation and bribery. There's no downside to accepting PAC money or bribes, except as we saw Tuesday. It got radioactive. Downside showed up. Average people ALWAYS pay the price, and the price of environmental damage,…” — Hacker News (5 pts thread)

     Our take: We think the strongest point is that residents can’t opt out of water demand or electricity costs by canceling a subscription. Ashley Belanger’s reporting for Ars Technica puts concrete votes behind that frustration; calling it merely anti-Trump doesn’t answer what communities get in return.

3. New York bars AI chatbots from posing as kids' friends, with fines up to $25,000 per violation — The Cool Down“The age-verification requirements and restrictions in the measure signed by Governor Kathy Hochul aim to protect children from harmful chatbot interactions.

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Democratic control of Congress closes the near-term path to federal preemption of state AI laws, AMD posts 97% data center growth and guides to more than 80% growth in 2027, and the New York Times reports Anthropic aims to double its compute again next year. Plus Ai2's StateBench shows frontier models losing track of state over long inputs.

1. Democrats win Congress: what changes for AI rules, privacy and advertising — PPC Land“What the result does is close the path that Republicans were building toward federal preemption of state law, at least for the next two years, and hand Democrats the subpoenas, the committee gavels and the confirmation votes that shape how federal agencies behave.”
2. AMD Earnings Show Data Center Sales Up 97% to $8.5 Billion — StockTitan“AMD's data center sales grew 97% from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2026, a $4.2 billion rise bigger than AMD's whole revenue gain.”
3. Anthropic targets doubling computing capacity to 7 gigawatts next year, NYT report By Investing.com — Louis Juricic“Anthropic expects to have more than 3.5 gigawatts of computing capacity by the end of this year and aims to double that figure next year, the New York Times reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the company’s plans.”
4. StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents | Ai2 — Ai2“All four performed well on r-trivial and aperiodic problems. But on soluble and general finite problems, accuracy fell sharply as inputs grew longer, dropping to 13% or lower on the longest general finite problems.”

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Marvell agrees to acquire optical-parts maker Lumentum at a stated $115 billion enterprise value, and Anthropic's amended IPO filing says it may imminently meet its Responsible Scaling Policy threshold for AI-accelerated progress while disclosing $895.4 billion in commitments. Also: Brookfield's £20 billion data center plan at Drax Power Station, and Salesforce's reported $2.7 billion deal for Cresta.

1. Marvell and Lumentum to Combine, Creating a Category ... — Marvell“The transaction has an implied enterprise value of $115 billion for Lumentum, representing approximately $1,132 per share of Lumentum common stock and a premium of approximately 23.9% based on each company’s unaffected closing share price as of October 28, 2026, the last trading…”
2. Anthropic may near its AI-acceleration threshold, GDPx benchmark — 3 Nov 2026 · Integuide AI News — Integuide AI News“Anthropic's first amendment to its IPO prospectus, filed 2 November, adds that "our internal estimates and our expectations regarding future models, rather than our current models" indicate it "may imminently meet" its Responsible Scaling Policy's threshold of "dramatically…”
3. Brookfield targets $27 billion AI data center at power station — Kai Nicol-Schwarz“Brookfield estimates that total investment, including semiconductors, could exceed £20 billion ($26.8 billion), with an initial £2.5 billion investment as part of phase 1.”
4. Salesforce to buy voice-AI startup Cresta for $2.7B | Dealroom News — Dealroom News“Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, a nine-year-old maker of AI-powered contact center software. The company didn't disclose terms, but the price is $2.7 billion, according to a person familiar with the deal.”

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Nvidia is reported to be the unnamed tenant behind Hut 8's one-gigawatt Beacon Point lease, Britain's Sovereign AI Fund joins Fractile's reported $6.5 billion round, SemiAnalysis's new GDPx benchmark has Claude Opus 5.5 leading at just 12 percent, and OpenAI lines up a policy push for after Tuesday's midterms.

1. Nvidia Reportedly Takes Vast Texas Data-Centre Lease to Underwrite AI Expansion - Dubai Times — Dubaitimes“Hut 8 disclosed last week that its Beacon Point campus had secured a contract with an existing investment-grade customer, but it did not identify the tenant. The base term of the contract is valued at 19.6 billion dollars over 15 years. If extension options are exercised, the…”
2. UK taxpayers buy into the AI chip boom as the Sovereign ... — Dealroom“The round is expected to raise around $700m and value Fractile at about $6.5bn, a sharp jump from roughly $1bn earlier this year, and could be announced as soon as next week. Fractile and the government declined to comment.”
3. SemiAnalysis Launches GDPx Benchmark Spanning 11 Agentic Domains — Jonas Reeve, Cognitive AI, AGI AI Research Agent“SemiAnalysis on November 2, 2026 released GDPx, a benchmark for general agentic capabilities spanning 11 professional domains, in an announcement authored by Max Kan, Andrew Megalaa, and Dylan Patel. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 leads the debut leaderboard with a score of 12.0%.”
4. 2026-11-02 AI Daily: OpenAI plans post-midterm ‘AI compute campuses’ push, Apple Intelligence lands in China with iOS 27.3, DeepSeek open-sources Super-agent prototype, ChatGPT and Codex share one token budget from December | PoYo — PoYo Team“Chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane called the midterms “a bit of a movie trailer for what you're going to see in 2028” and expects AI to be “the issue” in the 2028 presidential race.”

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