AI News for November 9, 2026 — 7min.ai
- [NEWS] Nvidia board opens probe after Huang admits affair with suspected Chinese spy
- Nvidia's board opened an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort, hours after Huang told staff he had been "unfaithful" to his wife.
- [NEWS] OpenAI's $11B round priced at $1.25T, below the $1.4T it sought
- The first $11B close is priced at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, CFO Sarah Friar confirmed.
- [NEWS] Apple's Ternus pushes Federighi to make Siri a full AI agent like ChatGPT Dots
- CEO John Ternus is pressing Craig Federighi to accelerate Apple's software roadmap and turn Siri into an agent that can rival OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse.
- [NEWS] Anthropic buys $3.4B of gas-fired generators to power its data centers
- Anthropic agreed to pay $3.4B for gas-fired generators for its data centers.
- [NEWS] Huang's affair admission contradicts Nvidia's earlier 'normal business' account
- Nvidia spent more than a year minimizing Jensen Huang's ties to Megaspeed and Alice Huang, the executive who helped set up the Chinese gaming spinoff.
- [NEWS] Trump backs Jensen Huang: 'He probably has an excuse for it'
- President Trump defended Jensen Huang after the Nvidia CEO admitted the affair, calling him "an honorable guy" who has done an "amazing job" for the US and should stay in charge.
- [RESEARCH] MIT's WorldParticle uses one AI model to simulate sand, fluids and folding proteins
- MIT, UBC and others built WorldParticle, a single deep-learning system that simulates physical processes usually split across separate hand-coded solvers.
- [NEWS] Jensen Huang, in pre-scandal interview, calls China 'not our enemy' and US chip curbs a 'mistake'
- In an Oct 14 interview released Monday, Jensen Huang defended engaging with China and called US chip export restrictions a "mistake." He also addressed whether the AI industry relies too heavily on Nvidia and who might succeed him as CEO.
- [NEWS] DeepSeek's AI agent platform reaches 1.54M daily users
- DeepSeek released adoption numbers showing its AI agent platform hit 1.54M daily users.
- [NEWS] Elvis and Eminem rights holders sue Suno over AI voice and style clones
- Rights holders for Elvis Presley's music and a publisher of Eminem's biggest records sued Suno, claiming the AI music generator illegally mimics the artists' voices and lyrics.
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