Saturday, November 7, 2026

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files (opens apiiro.com)

The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group (opens hunch.net)

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Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand (opens theguardian.com)

Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. — Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago

Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won (opens bloomberg.com)

Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections — Candidates who favor stricter oversight of artificial intelligence racked up wins in key congressional races, aided …

The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China (opens theverge.com)

Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company's H200 AI chips.

US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows (opens coindesk.com)

US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion — The U.S. Treasury is moving to cut off crypto exchange MEXC from the U.S. financial system, alleging that it handled …

Megaspeed exec was recruited to spy on Nvidia CEO, according to US intelligence memo (opens techcrunch.com)

A memo circulated earlier this year reportedly claimed that China’s Ministry of State Security recruited a female technology executive to spy on Nvidia's CEO.

Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity (opens reuters.com)

Microsoft is not renewing a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle; the servers ran older Nvidia chips.

Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia) (opens asia.nikkei.com)

Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul — BENGALURU — Recent college graduates in India could struggle to land technology jobs as companies automate entry-level coding …

Binance says CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving to "pursue a new venture" days after a $6.3B hack (opens bloomberg.com)

Binance says CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving to “pursue a new venture” days after a $6.3B hack, citing a six-month transition plan, and names Justin Yek as CFO — Kaiser Ng, the chief financial officer at Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange …

Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web (opens techcrunch.com)

Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.

Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof "shocking news" (opens nytimes.com)

Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption — A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.

Sequoia shutting down its Scouts program marks the end of an era (opens techcrunch.com)

Sequoia pioneered the scouts model and many VC firms followed suit, but a consensus now seems to be forming that the model has reached limits in its current form.

Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchers (opens theverge.com)

Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with little indication of slowing down.

Anthropic reportedly must face claims its Claude Max ads misled users (opens thenextweb.com)

A US judge has ruled that Anthropic must face key claims that it misled customers about how much use they get from its Claude Max plans. Magistrate Judge Alex Tse dismissed several other claims on Friday, Courthouse News reported. The proposed class action, Kahn v.

Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems (opens openai.com)

OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.

How to be unemployed: Glenn Kelman on life after Redfin (opens geekwire.com)

Glenn Kelman, who led Redfin as CEO for 20 years, writes about the 10 months of unemployment that came before co-founding a new AI-native company. He considered becoming a high school teacher, a bagel shopkeeper and a state legislative candidate, and used AI to test ideas with potential co-founders.