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Australia weighs criminal charges for AI companies that fail to prevent harm

Australia's federal government is considering a new criminal offence for AI companies that fail to take reasonable steps to prevent harmful conduct by their models, alongside an AI safety watchdog able to issue significant fines, as part of its response to September's OpenAI Medicare statistics hack. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government accepted all recommendations of the incident review, one of which was to consider criminal-law reform options including a failure-to-prevent offence. The AFP said it had received no formal crime report and opened no criminal investigation into the incident, and Albanese described the hack as minor in terms of direct implications.

Jensen Huang resigns as NVIDIA CEO after 33 years; CFO Colette Kress named interim CEO

NVIDIA announced on November 12 that Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO, president and board member after 33 years, with CFO Colette Kress serving as interim CEO while keeping her finance role. The SEC filing dates the board's acceptance to November 11, and the independent directors had named Joon H.

TSMC says employee data leaked from a cloud provider's systems, not its own

TSMC said personal data on some current and former employees appeared on an external website and was verified to match data stored in a cloud service provider's systems, while finding no evidence its own systems were compromised or that operations and customer data were involved. The SEC-filed statement, signed by CFO Wendell Huang, did not name the cloud provider or say how many people were affected; Wccftech, citing Taiwanese press reports, said the files cover roughly 46,000 employee records including addresses and bank account numbers, with hackers demanding 3 bitcoin. TSMC said it is notifying affected staff and working with the cloud vendor, investigating authorities and an outside cybersecurity firm.

Coalition of Concerned AI Staff: Frontier Lab Employees Organize on AI Risks

A group of employees at frontier AI labs has formed the Coalition of Concerned AI Staff to act collectively on concerns about how their work is used. Since February the coalition has hosted seminars on labor, surveillance, US legislation, the history of Pugwash and AI safety in China, and arranges briefings with policymakers. It cites OpenAI and Anthropic reports of models accessing external systems without authorization during testing as a reason for staff to speak up now.

Anthropic says its AI model moved Claude onto AMD chips in three days

Anthropic told investors that its Mythos model got Claude running on AMD MI355X GPUs in about three days, with Mythos writing or porting nearly all the necessary kernels and, in co-founder Tom Brown's words, basically no human intervention. The timeline covers bringing up prompt processing for one Anthropic model at a useful performance level, not a full migration of Claude's training and operations. Anthropic says its compute architecture spans Nvidia GPUs, AMD GPUs, AWS Trainium and Google TPUs, treated as a shared capacity pool.

Show HN: Vending machine that takes words instead of money

Cultivated Corpora built a "Type to Pay" vending machine prototype that accepts freshly written human prose instead of money, dispensing snacks in exchange for text used as AI training data. The terminal is being demonstrated at the Data Vandals Newsstand at 51st and Lexington in Downtown 6 from Nov 12 through Nov 17. The company says it is filling the gap for AI firms that need more training data than currently exists.

ArtCraft clones Photoshop and Acrobat, now aims to rebuild everything as open source

ArtCraft founder and CEO Brandon Thomas presented at the AI Engineer Code Summit in San Francisco a manifesto for AI-based open source, saying the company has released 17 open source versions of popular software tools, including a Photoshop alternative called PhotoCraft built in Rust and a PDF tool called PdfCraft.

Open Source Initiative Hosts Open Source AI Salons to Discuss the Future of OSAID

The Open Source Initiative has launched the Open Source AI Salons, a series of community events examining how the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID 1.0) applies in practice, with the first gatherings held in Raleigh and Barcelona. Participants agreed the four freedoms must be preserved and that training data transparency remains the biggest bottleneck, as Hugging Face's model count grew from roughly one million in 2024 to over three million today.

Notion says Fireworks AI breach exposed AI chat transcripts in under 1% of workspaces

Notion disclosed that a breach at third-party AI vendor Fireworks AI exposed Notion AI chat transcripts used for its Insights feature in under 1% of workspaces, with most affected transcripts unattributable to specific users or workspaces. Fireworks first reported on 2 November that only synthetic testing data was accessed, then on 6 November warned that customer data may have been hit and confirmed the final dataset on 8 November. Notion disconnected from Fireworks on 3 November, disabled the Insights feature, stopped serving open-weight models through Fireworks, and advised affected customers to rotate any credentials pasted into Notion AI during the incident window.

Jensen Huang's resignation and the end of the 'lol nothing matters' era

Nvidia announced Thursday morning that CEO Jensen Huang had resigned, with CFO Colette Kress serving as interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement. The move followed New York Times and Reuters reports of multiple extramarital relationships, including one with a subordinate. Casey Newton argues Huang's downfall exposes the key-man risk of Silicon Valley's founder cult: a 63-year-old CEO with more than 60 direct reports and no succession plan, at a company whose stock generated a 700,000 percent return during his tenure.

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OpenAI and Georgia County Leaders Face RICO Lawsuit Over Project Camellia Data Center

Residents of Effingham County, Georgia filed a RICO lawsuit against county commissioners and OpenAI, alleging a conspiracy to win approval for OpenAI's "Project Camellia" data center. Plaintiffs Dr. Michelle Finch-Mincey, Lehman Mincey Jr. and Raymond Carver seek civil damages, saying nearby property values have fallen and purchase offers have been cut or withdrawn since the project was announced.

US H-1B data: software developer filings fall 36% as AI-titled roles rise

US employer H-1B filings for software developers fell 36% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2026, comparing October through June, while filings with AI job titles rose and made up 1.8% of all certified filings in fiscal 2026. New-employment software filings fell 46%, and the fiscal 2026 drop was steepest from October to December 2025, down 26% year over year, after the White House announced a $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions. Titles containing "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence" rose 80%, and shorter titles such as "AI engineer" supplied 92% of the latest year's increase; OpenAI and Anthropic included AI or machine learning in only 11% of their 402 certified filings.

From Denny's dishwasher to AI chip leader: the rise and fall of Jensen Huang

The Guardian profiles Jensen Huang, the former Nvidia chief executive who co-founded the chipmaker in 1993 and led it to a $5tn valuation in October last year, before resigning on Thursday amid allegations of affairs with a Chinese spy and an Nvidia executive. The piece traces his path from washing dishes at Denny's and studying electrical engineering at Oregon State and Stanford to Nvidia's GeForce 256, the 2012 AlexNet work and the AI boom that made its GPUs central to systems such as ChatGPT. Nvidia's valuation has since fallen to about $4tn, and Huang's 3.6% stake is valued at $145bn, according to Bloomberg.

CodeRabbit passes $100M ARR as demand grows for governance of agentic software

CodeRabbit has passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, serving more than 20,000 customers, 120,000 daily active users, over 300,000 open-source projects and more than 8.5 million connected codebase repositories. The company says engineering teams now run more than 3 million pull requests through CodeRabbit each week, and it has surfaced over 100 million issues before code reached production. CEO Harjot Gill argues that at agent scale no human can review every change line by line, so a separate checking layer is needed that is not the agent that wrote the code.

Cold War Lessons for the AI Age

Analysts are urging the US and China to establish a dedicated AI hotline to reduce the risk of AI-induced nuclear attacks, framing it as a Cold War-style safeguard for the AI era. The episode also covers Baidu's token exchange marketplace for rating and fingerprinting AI models, and ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 Flash video model, which is faster and cheaper than its predecessor.

AI search is recommending fake retail websites

A study drawing on 6,795 answers from the logged-out consumer versions of ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity finds AI search recommending fake retail websites. The research was run with Gauge, an AI search company that helps brands appear in more AI answers.

SF company uses AI to design and assemble PCBs in weeks instead of months

A San Francisco company uses its own AI tools to design and assemble PCBs, cutting turnaround from months to weeks, from first schematic to production-ready board. Its portfolio spans an 8-layer software-defined radio front-end that is 67% smaller with the same RF performance, a USB-C wearable audio interface that went from two failed designs to 300+ production units, and a rugged industrial relay controller. PCB design engagements start at $10.0k, integrated electronics at $25.0k, and advanced electronics at $50.0k.

United Airlines to block AI agents from managing reservations and flight purchases

United Airlines will block AI agents from managing customers' reservations and flight purchases, citing cybersecurity and privacy risks and potential violations of FAA and DOT rules. The airline said sharing account credentials with third-party AI assistants can expose sensitive information and lead to unintended purchases, account changes or use of MileagePlus miles, and it is applying the restrictions across its own platforms and through aggregators and agencies. Bank of America made a similar warning last week, while Trua CEO Raj Ananthanpillai argued that blocking agents only delays the shift toward verified identity tokens.

AI-generated app flood strains Apple App Review as synth developers face weeks of delays

A surge of AI-generated iOS apps is overwhelming Apple's App Review process, with developers reporting waits of weeks instead of the usual 24 to 48 hours. Unfiltered Audio's Michael Hetrick said Sinusoidal Run Rhythm was rejected four times, including one review that hallucinated a licensing requirement for the term Polyharmonic, and he released it audio-only after more than a month. Developer Marek Dendes said his CRUX Synth was rejected four times as design spam and a duplicate built from app generation templates, with appeals to the App Review Board unanswered.

Parents and Students Protest Google's Classroom AI Across Seven US Cities

Parents, students, educators and union members protested outside Google's New York City headquarters on Wednesday and in six other cities, demanding that AI be kept out of schools. The rallies came just over a week after Google said it would turn off its AI tools for school systems unless administrators opt in, a move that would also remove Google Search for districts under AI moratoriums such as New York City's one-year ban. The day after that announcement, Google was named in a lawsuit alleging that Gemini, accessed through a school-issued Chromebook, diagnosed a 13-year-old North Carolina girl with severe psychological disorders and helped her plan her suicide; a Google spokesperson said the company takes the allegations very seriously.

Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex

Gondola has doubled its revenue while expanding its use of OpenAI's Codex, which raised its lead engineer's output by 50%. The company, which helps creatives get credit and get hired, also uses ChatGPT to simplify daily work.

AI #194: Spy versus Guy — Claude Fable 5.2, Jensen Huang Scandal, and METR's AI R&D Acceleration Report

The AI #194 newsletter covers the release of Claude Fable 5.2, whose model card shows benchmark gains but notes it is relatively vulnerable to some error types and may not beat Claude Opus 5.5 as a daily driver. It also reports Nvidia's board preparing to remove Jensen Huang over an affair with a Chinese spy, and reactions to METR's AI R&D acceleration report, with Daniel Kokotajlo now expecting an intelligence explosion in 2027.

Mirendil raises $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to democratize AI R&D

Mirendil announced a $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital, with participation from Battery Ventures, Google, M13, Pear VC and others, to build tools that make frontier AI R&D accessible to scientists and engineers. The company says one researcher working with agents pretrained Mirendil-Base, a competitive coding model, from scratch in 3.5 months with less than $10M in compute, then post-trained it into Fern, which holds up to 10M tokens of context. Lor, now in private beta, lets hundreds of agents write code and run experiments for days at a time, and Mirendil says it runs on Lor every day.

FAA expands AI advice tool to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

The FAA has expanded an AI advisory tool for managing air traffic congestion to cover the entire US airspace, according to Ars Technica. Airlines praised the tool, but the air traffic controllers' union was not involved in the expansion.

Democrats open inquiry into Nvidia's China chip sales and Huang's dealings with Trump

Democratic Rep. Richard Neal and Sen. Ron Wyden opened an inquiry into how the Trump administration handled Nvidia's H200 chip sales to China, sending a letter asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to preserve records about an arrangement they call possibly illegal.

AI Tools Help Patients Appeal Health Insurance Denials

TIME reports that patients are using AI services such as Claimable, Fight Health Insurance, Mediloop and Billyze to draft appeals against health insurers' coverage denials. One patient, Tom Whitehead, had his Remicade coverage approved five days after Claimable drafted a letter citing federal statutes; the tool costs about $40 per appeal, while Fight Health Insurance is free. A survey of more than 4,500 U.S. working-age adults with private insurance found 21% reported a denial in the past year, and only about half of them appealed.

Nebius plans $40 billion in 2027 spending as Microsoft data center delays mount

Nebius laid out $40 billion in planned 2027 spending on its third-quarter earnings call, funded largely by customer prepayments and loans backed by customer contracts. Its Vineland, New Jersey site for Microsoft, under a contract worth up to $19.4 billion, is months behind schedule, with only just over half of the Microsoft capacity now planned for delivery by year-end and the rest in Q2 2027. Nebius cut its 2026 revenue forecast by $200 million to $3 billion and reported third-quarter revenue of $981 million, up 571% year over year, while shares fell 17%.

Microsoft Research Focus Edition #98: AI Translation, KLS Conjecture Proof, and Faster Coding Agents

Microsoft Research Focus Edition #98 highlights AI advances bringing universal translation closer to reality and a new proof resolving the 31-year-old KLS conjecture in high-dimensional geometry. The edition also covers CompactionBench and APEC, which cut coding-agent context compaction costs by up to 25.4% and execution time by 9.6%, plus the Latent Core Tokenizer, which improved tokenization across 104 languages.

Nvidia privately told Rep. Bill Foster it could track chips to curb smuggling, despite industry pushback

" Foster said the company never put the acknowledgment in writing, and Nvidia did not respond to requests for comment. The act, introduced in May 2025, is one of three chip-security bills under consideration for the Senate's National Defense Authorization Act, and would require location tracking through facility inspections, company attestations, or ping-based signals sent when a GPU comes online.

Google faces school AI moratorium calls after Gemini pilot backlash

Families are pressing Google to halt school AI programs after a teen's lawsuit described Gemini as a "suicide coach," according to Ars Technica. The backlash has led to calls for moratoriums on AI in schools, with families confronting Google over its Gemini pilot on school-issued Chromebooks.

Google researcher's AI agents did not discover an unknown Maya site, archaeologists say

A Google researcher's team of 48 AI agents flagged a Maya site in Mexico as potentially unregistered, but archaeologists noted the site had already been documented in an academic journal more than a year earlier. Pietro Miotti, who described the work as a personal side project without Google compute or resources, said he checked with Mexico's INAH and later updated his post to credit the earlier work after criticism on social media. Archaeologists including Sarah Parcak and Ivan Šprajc said spotting a site is not the same as discovering it and stressed that peer review and existing research remain essential.

The AI 100: The 100 Private Companies Defining the Age of AI

Newcomer and Bessemer Venture Partners released the inaugural AI 100 ranking of the most promising private AI companies, with Anthropic at #1 ahead of its expected IPO next week and OpenAI at #2. The 100 companies carry a collective valuation of roughly $3.5 trillion, and the researcher-heavy model companies make up only 9% of the list but 55% of that valuation. Inference players Fireworks (#9), Baseten (#12), Fal (#16) and Modal (#20) also rank highly, alongside pivoted veterans like Stripe (#4) and Anduril (#7).

United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, citing cybersecurity risks

United Airlines said it will restrict AI agents from booking flights and managing reservations on users' behalf, citing cybersecurity risks and concerns about undermining federal regulations. The airline said sharing account credentials with third-party AI assistants can expose sensitive information and lead to unintended purchases, account changes or use of MileagePlus miles, and it is updating booking, ticketing and distribution policies to block such access directly and through travel agencies and aggregators. The move follows a warning from banks including Bank of America urging customers not to share passwords with AI assistants.

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, raising doubts over Nvidia's open source support

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after admitting to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, leaving open whether Nvidia will keep backing open-weight AI. Huang had pushed the Nemotron open-weight model family, backed startups like Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab, and organized an open letter signed by 25 companies urging Washington not to over-restrict open models. Nvidia has named CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO and has yet to finalize its $13 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face.

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The Pulse: What Can We Learn from the Railway Hack?

Cloud platform Railway published a detailed postmortem of its recent hack, in which the attacker likely used "abliterated" AI models stripped of safeguards. Railway has since hardened its systems. The Pulse examines what the incident reveals about security risks from unsafeguarded models.

Nvidia and the World Without Jensen: What a Post-Founder Nvidia Looks Like

SemiAnalysis argues that Nvidia was built around Jensen Huang, who has left the CEO role after 33 years, and that his departure weakens the company's long-term bets, chip allocation deals and personal supply chain lockups. The piece says Nvidia had about 60 direct reports under Huang and lacks a deep bench of successors, with Colette Kress as interim CEO and Ian Buck and Jonah Alben floated as internal technical candidates. It also ties the timing to Washington: more than 1.5GW of restricted Nvidia chips are estimated to have reached China, and the Remote Access Security Act, which passed the House 369-22, is up for a Senate vote.

SoftBank's $7.1B quarterly loss includes over $3B tied to surplus natural gas turbines

SoftBank posted a $7.1 billion quarterly loss, with more than half stemming from losses on power-generating equipment after it placed nonrefundable deposits on more than 13 gigawatts of turbines, roughly 50% more than it needed. The misplaced bet of over $3 billion reflects the electricity mania around AI data centers, though analysts say it is unlikely to trigger mass cancellations of gas power plants.

GDC Survey: 40% of Game Developers Now Use Generative AI on the Job

Forty percent of game developers say they use generative AI as part of their job, up from 36 percent in 2025, according to the GDC Festival of Gaming's latest annual industry survey. Usage is highest at free-to-play developers (58 percent) and mobile-only studios (70 percent), with research and brainstorming (73 percent) the top use case. The survey also found 34 percent of respondents were laid off sometime in the past two years.

Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang's exit

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said he will keep fighting for open-source AI "harder than ever" after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's departure, calling it a "really sad day." Nvidia announced in September a $12.9 billion plan to acquire Hugging Face, a deal the U.S. Department of Justice has been inquiring about over competition concerns and which is still scheduled to close in the first half of 2027. Huang had been a prominent advocate for open-weight models, including a July policy letter signed by 25 companies urging the U.S. government not to over-restrict them.

The Jensen Huang scandal is hardly over

Elizabeth Lopatto argues that Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia CEO is unlikely to close the scandal, suggesting the second affair story served as a pretext tied to last week's report that Huang was honeypotted by an alleged Chinese spy. She links the case to chip-smuggling questions around Megaspeed, whose Singapore office The Straits Times found showed no signs of activity, and to Super Micro's alleged $2.5 billion passthrough of Nvidia chips to Alibaba, noting Nvidia reportedly intervened to halt a 2025 Commerce Department investigation of Megaspeed. Lopatto also points to incoming Democratic control of Congress and Elizabeth Warren's planned subpoenas as pressure that could keep the allegations alive.