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NVIDIA's board said on Nov. 12 that co-founder Jensen Huang has resigned as president, CEO and director, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO while remaining CFO, and Harvey C. Jones becomes the company's first board chair. The official statement gives no reason. IT Home reported the stock once fell about 14% during U.S. trading.
On the Texas DMV's public automated-vehicle register, Tesla Robotaxi moved ahead of Waymo just before midnight on Nov. 10 (Texas time), 1,302 vehicles to 1,297. By the morning of Nov. 12, the EVwire tracker showed Waymo back in front, 1,305 to 1,303. Registered vehicles are not the same as cars carrying riders. When the list first went public in May, Tesla had 42.
Users report that Anthropic's Claude has started refusing to help build Pokémon fan games and assets, even when the sprites are already on the user's own computer. Japanese outlet AUTOMATON says it extends a late-October Claude Code rule against recreating specific existing games, and that the rule text now spells out names, characters, art, music, levels and appearance. Anthropic has not publicly commented on the Pokémon refusals.
Mitsubishi Electric said on Nov. 10 that, with help from Japanese carrier KDDI, it built "Liqutenna," an antenna that uses tap water to send and receive signals. An 800 MHz prototype connected to mobile devices in KDDI's indoor test environment with no difference in performance from a typical metal antenna. Mitsubishi calls it a telecom-industry first and is aiming it at shops, restaurants and historic buildings where metal antennas are hard to place. No launch date or price has been announced.
Secondhand meeting notes circulated on Nov. 11 said Anthropic told sell-side analysts its compute contract with SpaceX won't run past mid-2027. Elon Musk replied on X: "We would be happy to take the compute back. No problem. But I think the opposite is going to happen." Anthropic's IPO filing puts the deals at up to $120.5 billion through 2029, about $3.1 billion a month once fully delivered, with 90-day exit rights after the non-cancelable periods. Anthropic has not publicly confirmed any termination.
An investigation by China's Sci-Tech Innovation Board Daily, published Nov. 11 and republished by 36Kr on Nov. 12, found that an "hour" of robot-training data can sell for anywhere from 5 yuan to over 1,000 yuan. After five or six layers of subcontracting, some of the people recording the footage earn as little as 8 yuan an hour, and the same clips are often copied and resold.
Apex Compute announced Apex Neural Rendering (ANR) on X on Nov. 11. Only the frame-generation beta is out so far, and the company says it works on Nvidia GTX 16/RTX 20 and newer, AMD RX 5000 and newer, Intel Arc and Steam Deck. It claims ANR is faster, uses less video memory and looks better than Nvidia's DLSS Frame Generation, but those are the company's own tests with no independent review yet.
China's drug regulator has approved Eli Lilly's orforglipron (sold in China as 穆优达), TMTPost reported on Nov. 12, making it the first oral GLP-1 drug approved in China for weight loss. It's a once-a-day pill for adults with obesity, or overweight adults with a weight-related health problem. The US approved it in April. Pricing, insurance coverage and launch timing in China weren't reported.
Amazon's Ring launched Ring Robotics: the Ring Drone Cam, an indoor flying camera that patrols set routes, priced at $249.99 and slated to ship in the US on Jan. 27, 2027, and the Ring Rover Cam, a $999.99 patrol robot for businesses shipping Dec. 16. The drone flies five to eight minutes per charge, navigates with cloud-based AI, and is still awaiting FCC certification.
A hacker on underground forums claims to have 46,000 records (6.9 GB) of TSMC employee data and is asking 3 bitcoin. On Nov. 12, TSMC confirmed some current and former employees' data was posted without authorization and said it matches data held by a cloud service provider, with no evidence its own systems were breached and no production or customer data involved.
Alibaba told the Hong Kong stock exchange on Nov. 10 that it plans to spin off its wholly owned chip subsidiary T-Head for a standalone Main Board listing; T-Head filed confidentially on Sept. 11. Size, structure and Alibaba's remaining stake are undecided, and the deal still needs exchange approval and a filing with China's securities regulator.
On Nov. 11, Japan's Fair Trade Commission approved Amazon Japan's remedy plan: sellers previously had to price at or below rival sites' lowest prices to win the recommended-offer spot. Amazon must show its lowest on-site price including shipping within six months, for five years. No violation was found; MLex says it is the first such change secured through regulation worldwide.
On Nov. 10, US startup Memories.ai launched Memories Upload, a gig platform that pays people to wear a sub-45-gram LUCI Pin camera and film first-person video of food prep, shelf stocking and repairs to train robots. Fortune reports $6 to $18 per task, and the company says beta users logged over 1 million hours in the first month.
On Nov. 11, Tmall made Token, the unit AI usage is measured in, a standalone Double 11 category for the first time. MiniMax, Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu, Qwen Office and Qoder sold monthly and weekly cards at roughly 50% to 67% off. Tmall reportedly said token sales rose 450% month over month on the first sales day.
Independent benchmarker Artificial Analysis says Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 now leads its real-world robot-arm benchmark, AA-Robotics v0.1, with a score of 75, ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 69, and is the first model to score on the 'measure the box' task by using a tape measure's markings in video as a scale. The firm also said Google's Gemini 4 Carbon broke one of its grippers.
SpaceX signed a deal with German equipment maker SINGULUS for heterojunction (HJT) solar-cell production lines, starting with one worth over €60 million due in the first half of 2027 and scaling toward more than 100 GW of equipment for its Starmind space-computing satellites. Elon Musk then claimed on X that 100 GW in space is roughly equal to 800 GW on Earth. Those comparisons are his own estimates.
At Baidu World 2026, Baidu introduced the Tianchi 1024-card supernode, which links 1,024 AI accelerator cards with optical interconnects. Baidu claims 3x the chip-to-chip bandwidth, 2.5x training and 3x inference performance versus its previous generation, and says the product is a year ahead of its earlier roadmap. No independent tests yet.
United said on Nov. 11 it will restrict unauthorized third-party personal AI agents across its own site and app and via travel agencies and aggregators, citing account privacy, unintended purchases and FAA/DOT rules. CEO Scott Kirby said he doesn't want "another middleman." Agents can still show flights, but travelers must complete purchases themselves.
Xinhua reported on Nov. 11 that China Mobile and partners used 230-gigabaud technology to send a real-time 1.6 Tb/s signal on a single wavelength over 960 km of standard G.652.D backbone fiber, the company's longest such run. It hints that existing fiber could be upgraded just by swapping equipment, but vendors, error rates and a commercial timeline weren't disclosed.
On Nov. 12, the China Consumers Association spoke out on "AB goods," where online sellers ship different quality under the same listing and price, sending downgraded items to rural shoppers for whom returns are hard. It said platforms profile users by buying habits, delivery region and return history, and sellers ship based on those labels, violating personal-information and fair-trade rights and possibly amounting to fraud. It urged shoppers to keep evidence.