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Six developments: one new today and five from this weekend's alerts.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged in a Sunday staff memo that he was 'unfaithful' with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive US intelligence assesses was recruited by China's MSS to target him. Nvidia's board simultaneously opened an independent probe into his conduct.
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DeepSeek's open-source agent app Harness reached 1.54 million daily active users on Nov 4, less than three months after its Aug 13 debut, Bloomberg reported. Against its own API, the company puts daily token consumption at roughly 92 trillion.
Apple could ship a proactive, agentic Siri 'as early as next year,' Bloomberg's Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter, 9to5Mac reported. Apple is also testing a new engineering pipeline aimed at faster model development after iOS 27's personalized Siri shipped.
Amazon has quietly built a Personal Robotics Group around a 3.5-foot humanoid called Sprout, CNBC reported Nov 8, five years after its $1,450 Astro reached only a few thousand invite-only households. Recent job posts refer to 'a new-to-world robot product.'
In his first post-midterm 60 Minutes interview with Ross Douthat, President Trump said AI risks 'can be managed,' named the Justice Department as the manager, and said 'I don't mind guardrails' as long as the US is not pushed into 'a deep second position' to China.
The US Commerce Department's AI Safety Center, CAISSI, runs on roughly $10 million a year, about one-eighth of the UK's counterpart, and staff were recently asked to informally report to a White House office, two former officials told the Associated Press.
Alex Stamos, newly installed as Cognition's chief security officer, told The Verge's Decoder podcast that cybersecurity has entered 'a dark age' as AI helps private and state actors, including Russia and North Korea, detect and exploit vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch.
Tencent chief AI scientist Yao Shunyu, a former OpenAI researcher, told a Hong Kong Academy of Sciences symposium Saturday that frontier AI's 'cyber abilities… and soon bio ability of models will reach a threshold where it's actually possible to do harm,' the South China Morning Post reported.
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Simon Willison argues coding agents like Claude Code and Codex now write PR descriptions that are 'too good.' His fix: wrap the AI-written deep dive in HTML tags so human reviewers see a short approved intro and can expand only if curious.
That’s today’s shot. — Alexis · AI Weekly