AI news for 13 November 2026
Friday 13 November 2026 · Latentown
On Friday 13 November 2026, Latentown tracked 2 posts from 2 AI labs and 45 news stories from 19 outlets. OpenAI was the busiest lab with 1 post. The highest-ranked story was "Introducing ChatGPT Wallet".
Top stories
- Introducing ChatGPT Wallet
- Jensen Huang quits, China trade surplus hits US$1 trillion, Xi-Trump summit
Jensen Huang resigned as chief executive officer of chipmaker Nvidia following an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, boosting the odds of tighter US export…
- Anthropic IPO Said to Be Six Times Oversubscribed
Anthropic's initial public offering has drawn about six times the orders for the shares available, according to people familiar with the matter, as interest…
Earlier: Chinese chip foundry CanSemi’s IPO oversubscribed 2,360 times as investors chase AI boom South China Morning Post · 28 September 2026
- Best AI Video Generation Models in 2026: Elo, Price per Second, Open Weights
The AI video leaderboard looks very different from 12 months ago.
- Perplexity Releases Decider v1.3: Open-Weight Decision Models Add Locate
Perplexity Decider v1.3 and Flash v1.3 are open-weight decision models that return probabilities, not text.
From the AI labs
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- The full DeepSeek App experience, now via API
Search, files, links, safety, and voice. The capabilities behind the DeepSeek App are now available through the DeepSeek API.
From the news wire
- Jensen Huang quits, China trade surplus hits US$1 trillion, Xi-Trump summit
Jensen Huang resigned as chief executive officer of chipmaker Nvidia following an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, boosting the odds of tighter US export…
- Anthropic IPO Said to Be Six Times Oversubscribed
Anthropic's initial public offering has drawn about six times the orders for the shares available, according to people familiar with the matter, as interest…
Earlier: Chinese chip foundry CanSemi’s IPO oversubscribed 2,360 times as investors chase AI boom South China Morning Post · 28 September 2026
- Best AI Video Generation Models in 2026: Elo, Price per Second, Open Weights
The AI video leaderboard looks very different from 12 months ago.
- Perplexity Releases Decider v1.3: Open-Weight Decision Models Add Locate
Perplexity Decider v1.3 and Flash v1.3 are open-weight decision models that return probabilities, not text.
- Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia as alleged spy affair wipes US$300B
Jensen Huang has stepped down as president and chief executive of Nvidia.
- DeepX Bets $100 Million on New AI Chip Using Samsung Technology
South Korean startup DeepX Co. plans to spend more than $100 million developing a next-generation artificial intelligence chip using Samsung Electronics Co.’s…
- Google Releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen: 2.5x Faster Than Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast agentic model with a 1M-token window, 4 thinking levels and $1.50/$7.50 pricing.
Earlier: Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen Google DeepMind · 12 November 2026; Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen Google DeepMind · 12 November 2026; Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello Google DeepMind · 23 September 2026
- Six AGIBOT G2 Robots Complete 1,730 Tasks in 24-Hour Shanghai Convenience Store Trial
Four of the six robots pass a performance assessment as the trial puts customer service, retail operations and embodied AI capabilities to the test in a…
- Lutnick agrees to testify before Congress amid bipartisan concerns
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has agreed to testify before Congress amid bipartisan concerns about the Nvidia spy scandal and the agency's enforcement of…
- Leading AI safety advocate likely to run for president
The former congressmember, who helped build the AI safety movement’s political infrastructure, has become a central voice in the debate over the technology.
- Banned Nvidia Chips Installed at China Data Center Linked to Alice Huang
A Chinese company founded by Alice Huang, the woman at the center of a controversy dogging Nvidia Corp., procured smuggled AI chips that were installed at a…
Earlier: Alice Huang Resurfaces in Beijing Amid Nvidia Scandal Bloomberg · 12 November 2026
- Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned to testify before Congress about affair with alleged Chinese spy
Huang abruptly quit on Thursday as head of one of the world's most valuable companies after revelations of alleged extramarital affairs.
- OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
- Nvidia scandal draws in Commerce Secretary Lutnick, who reportedly agrees to testify about China chip sales
Commerce Secretary Lutnick will testify before the Senate Banking Committee following revelations about Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
- National Stock Exchange of India deploys direct-to-chip liquid cooling at data center
NSE aims to deploy 80 GPUs this quarter
- Nvidia stock inches higher as investors continue to weigh Jensen Huang’s departure
Jensen Huang resigned as CEO of Nvidia on Thursday after coming under scrutiny for two extramarital affairs.
Earlier: Nvidia stock edges higher as investors weigh potential fallout of CEO's affair with alleged spy CNBC · 10 November 2026
- Nvidia’s turmoil is prompting a rotation across chip stocks. Here's what we know
That shift comes as Nvidia grapples with the fallout from Huang's resignation, following revelations about his multiple affairs.
- Frammer AI launches live sports platform with Astro Malaysia as first customer
Frammer AI launches its live sports platform with Astro Malaysia, turning match footage into social media clips in under 30 seconds.
- Jensen Huang’s abrupt exit stuns Nvidia’s China staff, clouding the outlook in a key market
Jensen Huang’s abrupt resignation stunned some Nvidia staff in China and raised questions about the future of the US chipmaker’s operations in a market its…
Earlier: If Jensen Huang exits Nvidia, who could take the US$4 trillion chipmaker’s reins? South China Morning Post · 12 November 2026
- Hyderabad Police’s new AI tool can link suspects to criminal networks. But how does it work?
Hyderabad Police have launched Dooradrishti, an AI platform to profile accused persons and identify criminal networks, but questions remain about its data…
- Trump told Huang to fight for his job after affair scandals: Report
President Trump called outgoing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and told him to fight for his job ahead of his resignation, The New York Times reported on Thursday,…
Earlier: Nvidia loses ground in Washington chip fight after CEO spy scandal Politico · 11 November 2026
- Megaspeed lawyers up with US firm as Nvidia scandal broadens
Singaporean authorities say they barred Alice Huang from reentering the country in February.
- Meta's Muse now calls businesses for you, but many companies might just hang up on the AI
Meta's AI agent Muse can now call businesses on behalf of paying US subscribers, handling everything from cable providers to restaurants.
- Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful
Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them.
- How far do Google’s smart glasses protect bystanders? We looked at five everyday situations
Google says its new smart glasses remove bystanders' faces before Gemini processes images.
- Microsoft 365 hit by major global outage, impacts Outlook, Teams, OpenAI and more
Fixes not going as expected
- What happened overnight with the Microsoft global outage?
Microsoft is struggling to fix a global outage, with services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot affected by "connectivity problems".
- AI didn’t eliminate our work. It changed what our team could do
What happens when your team needs a designer, a salesperson and a researcher, but you don’t have the resources to hire all three?
- XYBench: Helping with the problem behind the question
- Nearly 70 percent of US agencies use generative AI, and unions are finally catching up with guardrails
US public-sector unions are increasingly pushing through protections against AI surveillance and automated firings.
- Agents idling while they wait on humans push Kubernetes to hand back unused resources
Agentic AI workloads are handing Kubernetes an unexpected second act.
- How Rhoda AI is using video data to create generalized AI models for robots
Rhoda AI offers a direct video action model, which it recently extended with mobile DVA, to enable robots to understand the physical world.
- This Startup Is Betting on AI Microdramas to Get More Black Stories in Hollywood
Mansa says its AI microdramas can serve as proofs of concept for what Black audiences want.
- StarAgile Celebrates 10 Years of Excellence in Professional Training and Transformation
A decade after its founder left a 16-year IT career to build a training company, StarAgile has trained professionals across 100+ countries and is now preparing…
- SocGen's Kabra: Semi Trade's 'YoYo' Cyclicality Supports AI Users--Not Builders
Société Générale CIB Chief US Equity Strategist Manish Kabra tells Bloomberg's Anna Edwards and Tom Mackenzie he will focus on companies using AI rather than…
- Is footage from Indian homes going abroad to train robots? MeitY questions Pronto and other platforms
MeitY has questioned Pronto, Urban Company and Snabbit over footage recorded inside Indian homes, asking whether companies share it with overseas AI developers…
- Astribot's CoMind Lets Robots Lend Each Other Their Eyes, Cutting Shared Data by About 80%
Astribot's CoMind lets two robots trade compact, task-relevant views instead of raw video.
- Interview: MemStore’s Diwank Singh Tomer and Ishita Jindal on AI agent memory, contradictions and deletion
AI memory systems cannot guarantee that every fact will be remembered.
- AI could disrupt India's outsourcing model. It could also create millions of new exporters
AI is letting small Indian teams win global work that once needed a big company.
Earlier: From code to content: How AI could make India the world’s next story exporter YourStory · 2 November 2026
- The Philippines trusts AI more than anyone in ASEAN. Its rulebook hasn’t caught up
Picture a claims officer in Makati pasting a customer’s medical file into a free chatbot to draft a rejection letter before lunch.
- Why South Korea and Southeast Asia could be the next cross-border AI and blockchain corridor
South Korea and Southeast Asia are becoming more relevant to discussion around the next phase of AI and blockchain adoption.
- Former Cainiao CTO's Robot Startup Joins Double 11 Warehouse Work, Reports Nearly 5,000 Unit Orders
Quantum Dynamics, founded by ex-Cainiao CTO Li Qiang, says its robots worked Double 11 in Cainiao warehouses.
- ACE Robotics Pairs Mundo World Model With Self-Improving Skills to Run a Hotel Laundry Workflow
ACE Robotics uses its Mundo world model, a cloud planner and on-robot skills to run hotel laundry end to end.
Earlier: ACE Robotics and NTU S-Lab Unveil Mundo, a World Model That Builds Robot Training Scenes From Photos Pandaily · 31 October 2026
- The rise of 'housefishing' - when does using AI go from enhancing to misleading?
Experts warn that using AI to enhance property images can go too far and mislead prospective buyers.
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