A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
“The code could operate completely normally in NIPR and do something malicious and undisclosed in…
Nebius tests the neocloud playbook with $40 billion in planned spending
In its third-quarter earnings call Thursday, the neocloud company Nebius laid out $40 billion in planned spending for 2027, far more than Wall Street had expected. It’s an ambitious plan, but it rests on a string of planned projects that are already starting to show cracks. Nebius plans to fund the buildout by relying on…
Howard Lutnick Took Softer Line on Nvidia as Calls for Tougher Controls Grew
There is broad agreement among most senior Trump administration officials that the United States should more aggressively tighten controls on Nvidia’s advanced chips to keep China from using them to catch up in the race to dominate artificial intelligence. Then there is Howard Lutnick, who runs the Commerce Department. Over the past year, Mr. Lutnick…
Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay
After initially testing the feature in September, Meta’s consumer AI agent Muse is now able to place calls to U.S. businesses on behalf of its users. However, only paid subscribers have access to the feature, the company says. Meta’s Muse, which now has over 10 million users, the company said last month, has been working…
Grey Cup horse walks through Calgary hotel
By Dayne Patterson The Canadian Press Posted November 12, 2026 8:58 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size CALGARY – Taffy the horse walked to the tune of screaming bagpipes through a tight Calgary hotel lobby. It was recreating a decades-old CFL championship tradition ahead of the Grey Cup game…
Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump
Democrats on Thursday opened an inquiry into how the Trump administration handled Nvidia’s chip sales to China. Earlier on Thursday, the company ousted its CEO Jensen Huang. He also agreed to testify to a different set of Republican-led Congressional committees. Huang was removed from the company he founded after he confessed to an extramarital affair…
Crestwood residents fear 8-plex ‘sandwiches’ being fast-tracked before provincial deadline – Edmonton
People living in Edmonton’s Crestwood neighbourhood fear a huge infill development may be coming to their community. It comes after numerous permits were submitted to the City of Edmonton to build new eightplexes in the established, desirable west-end neighbourhood near the North Saskatchewan River Valley. It’s become a conversation some Crestwood residents say they’re having…
CopilotKit Releases OpenBot 1.0: An MIT-Licensed, Self-Hostable AI Coworker With Built-In Governance
Most AI coworker products are vendor locked. They pick the model, host the data, and write the rules. CopilotKit is taking the opposite route. OpenBot 1.0, was released November 9th, an MIT-licensed, self-hostable agent workspace. What sets it apart is, a company brings their own models, agents and infrastructure. Governance is fully baked in, and…
Nvidia Scandal Unleashes a Flood of AI-Generated Memes
Jensen Huang and his leather-clad likeness had become synonymous with the technological giant he co-founded, Nvidia. They were so entwined that, this year, the company sold $178 sweaters with a pixel-art version of Mr. Huang on the front. Now, in the wake of Mr. Huang’s resignation on Thursday after back-to-back cheating scandals, including an extramarital…
Silicon Valley Is Still Defending Jensen Huang
News of Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged asset of China’s Ministry of State Security was first met with a muted response in Silicon Valley—including inside Nvidia itself. Huang’s resignation, after news of two other alleged romantic relationships with Nvidia staffers, has left both the company and the broader AI industry stunned. As revelations about…
Paul Barril, French ‘Supergendarme’ Turned Mercenary, Has Died
Paul Barril’s offer to African dictators was straightforward: Your opponents will be subjected to surveillance and manipulation. Newspapers will be “infiltrated.” Plots against the state will be “neutralized.” Plenty of heads of state took up the services he offered, including Omar Bongo in Gabon and Denis Sassou-Nguesso in Congo. Other clients went to Paris to…
