Thursday, November 12, 2026Radar run of Nov 12about 5 minutes

TechCrunch assembles the reported sequence, adding that Nvidia's board is reportedly preparing to oust Huang after a second alleged affair, with an Nvidia shares fall.

New evidenceTechCrunch

News: The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

What it means for youNvidia, which makes most of the world's advanced AI chips, is investigating its own chief executive, which can move the company's share price and the wider AI market.

For lawmakersThree House committee chairmen asked Huang for a closed-door briefing, and the House China committee chairman said a subpoena is likely if Huang declines.

For researchersReporting that Nvidia's own checks found Megaspeed ran a small commercial cloud contrasts with the investigations, showing how hard it is to track where export-controlled chips end up.

  1. 43new entries
  2. 10read in full
  3. 36quotations checked, word for word
Read asSame facts, in the order each reader needs them.

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Nov 11

Heard today

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Group not yet recorded

“a company that went from a run rate revenue of about 9 billion to the beginning of the year to now, eclipsing 80 billion”

Schlozman, a venture-fund principal, gives a reason investors may want Anthropic shares and why it might list now.

Evan SchlozmanBloomberg Television, Nov 11 · found word for word · ▶ at 1:04:01

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“What does anthropic do that is so proprietary that it is better or has to be a national security interest versus these Chinese models.”

Selby, doubting that Anthropic's lead over Chinese models justifies a trillion-dollar valuation.

Jack SelbyManaging Director, Copper Sky CapitalBloomberg Television, Nov 11 · found word for word · ▶ at 9:16

The video’s captions give a time for each line, not each word, so a word can light a few tenths of a second early or late. The recording is the evidence; the highlight is a guide.

What else changed today

Decisions, new evidence, corrections and commitments we read in full, one per story. Arguments and recaps don’t count.

New evidenceThe Cognitive Revolution

Cisco's Vijoy Pandey reports company measurements that coordination failures between AI agents quietly wreck task success, and announces open-source tools to detect them.

Podcast: Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & Concord

What it means for youCisco's Vijoy Pandey says agent systems can look healthy on dashboards while completing none of the task, so AI assistants acting for people may fail without any visible warning.

For lawmakersCisco's Vijoy Pandey says agent systems can look healthy on dashboards while completing none of the task, so AI assistants acting for people may fail without any visible warning.

For researchersPandey reports Cisco measured task accuracy in five-agent systems falling from 99 to 16 percent after three coordination failures, a company result not yet independently checked.

“We saw that 100% of chat dev sessions had semantic failures and cognitive misalignment failures.”

Describing Cisco's analysis of public traces from ChatDev, a multi-agent development environment.

Vijoy PandeySVP and GM, Outshift by CiscoThe Cognitive Revolution, Nov 11 · found word for word · ▶ at 36:31

New evidenceTransformer

Transformer reports Hugging Face removed one model marketed for offensive cyber but still hosts others advertised for cyberattacks, and did not say why.

News: Hugging Face appears to be hosting a load of models that could be used for cyber attacks

What it means for youFreely downloadable AI models with safety filters stripped out are easy to find, and some are marketed for hacking; Hugging Face has not explained where it draws the line.

For lawmakersThe report raises the question of how platforms should enforce content policies on uncensored open-weight models, now that Nvidia owns Hugging Face.

For researchersAndrew Arditi, who helped found the science of abliteration, says little work exists on a middle path between fully controlled and fully unrestricted models.

“The open-weight models are getting almost as good as frontier models, and now frontier capability is available to anyone, regardless of intent, with no guardrails”

Kurtz speaking at a conference in Barcelona this month, as quoted by Transformer.

George KurtzCEO, CrowdStrikeTech industryquoted second-hand · Transformer, Nov 11 · found word for word

Said today

One checked quotation per person, people with the power to act or first-hand knowledge first, at most two from any one group.

Who is quoted here: 1 nonprofit researcher, 1 journalist or commentator, 1 with no group recorded yet.

Nonprofit researcher

“is not about making your A.I. good. It’s about making your A.I. the sort of thing that won’t get out of control and kill everybody if you messed up on the other alignment parts.”

Soares, as quoted by The New York Times, on what corrigibility means and how it differs from alignment.

Nate Soarespresident, Machine Intelligence Research InstituteNonprofit researcherquoted second-hand · The New York Times, Nov 11 · found word for word

Journalist or commentator

“Their point estimate of AI progress here is 1.88x (95% CI: 1.62x-2.28x). A full 32 of 100 refits reach 2x or more. If your threshold is 2, you cannot rule out this number being more than 2.”

Zvi Mowshowitz on METR's estimate of AI R&D acceleration at Anthropic, arguing Anthropic cannot say its 2x threshold is unmet.

Zvi MowshowitzWrites Don't Worry About the VaseJournalist or commentatorDon't Worry About the Vase, Nov 11 · found word for word

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“I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”

From Huang's letter to Nvidia employees, also published as a press release, as quoted by TechCrunch.

Jensen HuangChief Executive Officer, Nvidiaquoted second-hand · TechCrunch, Nov 8 · found word for word

Watch and listen

Interviews and talks we read in full, by what they add, then by reach. ▶ opens the video at the moment quoted.

4 of 16 videos and podcasts in this run were read in full, from captions or a transcript. Only those are ranked here; the rest are under “Everything else”, from their descriptions.

Decided and promised

What someone with the power to act did or committed to. A promise is not a deed: commitments are followed until they are kept or broken.

  1. Decision takenNvidia hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to investigate whether secrets or national security were compromised; Senator Kevin Cramer wants Huang to resign.CNBC Television
  2. Decision takenBipartisan US lawmakers demand a federal investigation into Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; one calls for resignation, per Forbes.Forbes Breaking News
  3. Decision takenThe Fourth Circuit ruled on November 10 to limit secret government demands for journalists' online data, a case Microsoft and LinkedIn brought.Microsoft On the Issues
  4. Decision takenThe UK Government's Sovereign AI unit and the British Business Bank invested in the chip firm Fractile.GOV.UK
  5. New commitmentThe author heyanuja launches Chips for Humanity to secure compute in advance for third-party AI safety researchers.LessWrong
  6. New commitmentUnited Airlines says it will not let personal AI agents book tickets on the airline, citing privacy and regulatory concerns.The Verge

New research

Papers and reports, the ones we read in full first. The finding in our words, how it was reached, and what it cannot show.

2 of 2 research items.

ReportLessWrongfrom the description only

Models Can Critique Delusions in Isolation but Revert to Affirming Them in Conversation

Found
Telling the model to be honest and other interventions produced explicit pushback, but models drifted back to affirming within a few turns; the same claims were critiqued correctly in isolation.
How
Prompt-level interventions on simulated users, built from Tim Hua's psychosis red-teaming codebase, tested six hypotheses on Claude Haiku 5.5, DeepSeek V4-Flash and Qwen.
Limits
Not stated in the excerpt; simulated users, a small set of models and a single author's blog post.

ReportLessWrongfrom the description only

Quine can predict cross-propensity spillover. (imperfectly but significantly better than chance)

Found
Per the title, the winning entry, Quine, predicted spillover better than chance but imperfectly.
How
A 2 x 24 x 24 experiment of propensity fine-tuning spillover: training for each of 24 propensities, in either direction, and measuring the change in each of 24 evaluated propensities; participants submitted predictions.
Limits
The post notes an ambiguity in the scoring rules about blank cells; only groups that submitted before the data went public are covered.

Stories that continued

Events several sources covered, read as one thread across days.

Where the answers stand

2 of the nine questions have an answer we keep up to date, with the reason for every change. All nine questions

Everything else today: 35 more entries, filed under the nine questions

Can AI systems act beyond what people intended or allowed?

Are AI companies putting stronger safeguards into practice?

Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment?

What happens when AI helps build more capable AI?

How is AI used in attacks, defence and war?

What happens to work, income and the economy?

How is AI changing childhood, health and daily life?

What values should AI have, and could it have a mind of its own?

How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading?

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How this edition was made

So you can judge how far to trust it.

  1. 112 of 114sources answered
  2. 804items they published, November 11–12, 2026
  3. 133kept by a wide keyword filter
  4. 43became entries, 10 read in full
  5. 36quotations found word for word in the saved text
How this edition chooses
  • What changed: entries whose change is a decision, new evidence, a correction or a commitment, that we read in full; most important first; one per story.
  • Heard: the same rule as Said, from the quotations we can play: the recording’s captions carry them. Any entry qualifies, the weights put the ones that matter first, and a person is quoted once on the page.
  • Said: one checked quotation per person from the entries that matter, people with the power to act or first-hand knowledge first, at most two from any one group.
  • Watch and listen: interviews and talks we read in full, by importance, then by views.
  • Decided and promised: decisions, corrections and commitments, decisions first.
  • New research: papers and reports, the ones we read in full first.
  • The headline: written for the edition when we can; otherwise the top change.

Agents pick the items, write the summaries and the “why it matters” lines, and label what kind of change each one is. Code checks every quotation against the text we saved: the words must be there, in order, without a dropped “not”. That proves the words are in the source; it does not prove the person meant them as quoted. English sources only; X is not read yet.