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// AI Briefing · November 9, 2026

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Nvidia's board said on November 8 that it has opened an independent investigation, overseen by independent directors with outside counsel, after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. Citing the Financial Times, CNBC reports that Anthropic committed about $3.4 billion in late September for 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty gas-fired generators from San Antonio supplier OnePWR Solutions. Citing two former officials, the Associated Press reports that staff at the Commerce Department's AI testing center, now called the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), were recently asked to report informally to a White House office. Security firm Apiiro found 2,539 secrets across 1,994 public GitHub repositories. In a survey run in June and July by assessment firm SHL, 19.1% of US respondents said they had been personally replaced by AI and later asked to return to their jobs.

In this video

  1. 01Nvidia's Board Opens an Independent Probe After Reports That Jensen Huang Was Targeted by Chinese Intelligence
  2. 02Anthropic Reportedly Commits About $3.4B to Gas-Fired Generators to Power Its Data Centers
  3. 03AP: Staff at the US Government's AI Safety Center Were Asked to Report Informally to the White House
  4. 04Apiiro Finds 2,539 Secrets Leaked to Public GitHub Through Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' Settings File
  5. 05SHL Survey: 19.1% of US Respondents Say They Were Replaced by AI and Then Asked Back

The stories

01IndustryTechCrunch ↗

Nvidia's Board Opens an Independent Probe After Reports That Jensen Huang Was Targeted by Chinese Intelligence

Nvidia's board said on November 8 that it has opened an independent investigation, overseen by independent directors with outside counsel, after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. According to CNBC, Huang told staff in a memo that he had been intimate with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive whom US intelligence reportedly assessed was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security. The board says it has no reason to believe national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised. Still, the world's most valuable AI chipmaker now faces leadership uncertainty and a congressional briefing request for November 18, the day after its quarterly earnings.

02IndustryCNBC ↗

Anthropic Reportedly Commits About $3.4B to Gas-Fired Generators to Power Its Data Centers

Citing the Financial Times, CNBC reports that Anthropic committed about $3.4 billion in late September for 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty gas-fired generators from San Antonio supplier OnePWR Solutions. The reported deal shows a frontier lab securing its own on-site power instead of waiting on strained grids, at a moment when voters are turning against data centers. Anthropic and OnePWR did not respond to requests for comment.

03PolicyAP News ↗

AP: Staff at the US Government's AI Safety Center Were Asked to Report Informally to the White House

Citing two former officials, the Associated Press reports that staff at the Commerce Department's AI testing center, now called the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), were recently asked to report informally to a White House office. The center is formally an independent Commerce division. The report raises questions about whether the government's main body for testing frontier models can still work independently. According to AP, the center has no permanent director, has a budget of about $10 million a year, and has stopped publishing its model safety evaluations.

04IndustryThe Hacker News ↗

Apiiro Finds 2,539 Secrets Leaked to Public GitHub Through Claude Code's 'Don't Ask Again' Settings File

Security firm Apiiro found 2,539 secrets across 1,994 public GitHub repositories. Its research traces them to Claude Code saving approved commands, including any passwords or tokens in them, in plain text in .claude/settings.local.json. That file is excluded only through the user's global git settings, not the project's .gitignore, so it often gets committed. In 539 of 1,105 traced repositories, a commit co-authored by Claude changed the file. A bug report on the behavior was auto-closed as "not planned," which shows how agent conveniences can quietly create supply-chain exposure.

05IndustryFortune ↗

SHL Survey: 19.1% of US Respondents Say They Were Replaced by AI and Then Asked Back

In a survey run in June and July by assessment firm SHL, 19.1% of US respondents said they had been personally replaced by AI and later asked to return to their jobs. Among 18- to 24-year-olds the share was 24%. Of those who returned, 51% wanted a substantial raise first and 42% wanted written job-security guarantees. The self-reported figures suggest some companies are reversing early AI-driven cuts, which adds to growing doubts about how much AI can replace workers today.

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