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Barnes & Noble has released a branded version of TCL's base tablet, sold as the Barnes & Noble TCL Tab A1 NXTPAPER, according to BGR. The Android tablet's NXTPAPER display is designed to give the look and feel of real paper to minimize eye strain. The posts did not include pricing or release date details for the device.
Brad Gerstner, CEO of Altimeter Capital, and Gavin Baker, managing partner and CIO of Atreides Management, sent a joint letter to Nvidia's board asking it to pursue a 'slow, measured, and deliberate process' on future leadership that leaves all options on the table, including a potential return of Jensen Huang. The shareholders say there are 'more questions about recent events than answers,' warn against a rush to replace Huang, and note the company will be 'capably led in the interim by Colette Kress and team.' The letter cites massive uncertainty around recent events surrounding Huang's departure. The tweet also reports a petition site demanding Huang's reinstatement pending an independent investigation, calls for reinstatement joined by Elon Musk per the Washington Post, and that the bo
Reuters reported on November 13, 2026 that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has turned to the law firm Paul Weiss, which Reuters characterized as the firm that struck a deal with Trump. Crypto Briefing described the move as a hire made amid scrutiny over Huang's personal ties and referenced an Nvidia investigation connected to the matter. The reports do not specify the nature of the engagement, and neither Nvidia nor Paul Weiss is quoted confirming it.
Tesla announced that select customers are now being invited to purchase the Cybercab for personal use. The order page lists an estimated purchase price of $29,990 excluding taxes, a $1,000 non-refundable deposit, and estimated delivery of December 2026 to Austin, Texas. Operating the vehicle requires a $299-per-month Autonomy Subscription (one month included with purchase) as well as regular vehicle maintenance.
Airspace Intelligence (ASI), developer of the AI tool SMART, stated that the FAA outage affecting air traffic control operations is not based on or a result of the SMART system, any ASI product, or its integration with the FAA and ATC. The company posted the statement from its X account @airspaceintel amid a current ground stop.
Microsoft said on November 13, 2026 that the FAA ground stop does not appear to be linked to its services. The company issued the statement while working to resolve an outage affecting its own services. The statement addresses the ground stop but does not confirm the cause of the disruption.
NBC reported that the Denny's restaurant where Nvidia was founded has removed the sign honoring the company, and a Nov. 13, 2026 post citing the report said the removal had already been completed. Polymarket also reported that Denny's had removed a plaque honoring the booth where Jensen Huang and his co-founders came up with Nvidia. A photo attached to the post shows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding a commemorative plaque at the Denny's reading 'NVIDIA: The room where it started a $5 trillion company.'
In a Fox News interview posted November 13, 2026, DHS Secretary Mullin said DHS is 'taking a look' through CISA at the matter raised about the FAA's new AI traffic control system. He was responding to a reporter's question about whether there was any link between reports that the FAA was rolling out the new AI traffic control system that day and flight groundings. Mullin did not confirm or deny any link.
As the FAA's nationwide ground stop unfolded on November 13, 2026, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said 'we can't rule out' AI as a possible cause of the disruption, according to Polymarket. Fox News separately reported that DHS is 'not ruling out' a cyberattack in connection with the ground stop. Neither statement identified a confirmed cause, and the posts do not specify where or exactly when the remarks were made.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is wrapping up a corporate restructuring in which it deactivates its Cayman Islands holding company and moves investors' stakes to its primary operating entity in China, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. The restructuring would pave the way for an initial public offering, per the sources.
A video credited to Pliant Energy Systems shows the company's amphibious bionic robot, C-Ray, moving across an icy surface with an action camera mounted on its back. The company describes C-Ray as designed for scouting, quiet operation, low power use, and high stealth. According to a post about the robot, C-Ray was developed by the Brooklyn-based company with U.S. Navy research funding and uses flexible undulating fins inspired by animal movement instead of conventional propellers, allowing the roughly 1-meter robot to transition between water, beaches, sand, snow, and solid ground.
According to The Information, AI inference startups Fal, Together and Baseten are moving to buy their own Nvidia chips rather than rely entirely on cloud providers, as access to computing power tightens. The outlet reports the companies are being forced to rethink their business models as a result. The Information also notes that the Fireworks breach could accelerate a shift toward inference providers owning their own servers.
Semafor reported that Nvidia adopted a 'scorched earth, adversarial attitude' targeting proponents of US export controls in Washington, DC, and invoked Trump's name to get export license approvals expedited. Techmeme highlighted the report in a post on November 13, 2026. The claims are attributed to Semafor's reporting.
A CNBC report published November 13, 2026, says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing questions over the Nvidia spy scandal, noting that his sons' firm Cantor Fitzgerald has deep ties to the chipmaker. A CNBC analysis found Cantor Fitzgerald's reported Nvidia share count fell by nearly half between September 2025 and March 2026, the period when Axios reported Lutnick faced pressure from administration officials to address suspected smuggling of Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China. Per CNBC, the firm formerly chaired by Lutnick and now run by his sons helped arrange billions of dollars in financing for companies in Nvidia's AI business universe and repeatedly hosted its top executives.
The Financial Times reports that Amazon has reached a preliminary agreement for 600MW of power capacity at Fermi America's Texas data center campus, nearly a year after walking away from earlier talks. Amazon is expected to build its own data centers on the site, with power delivery beginning in 2027; the arrangement includes a $200M prepayment, $15M for early construction, and a proposed $90M purchase of building materials, though the long-term lease has not been finalized. Crypto Briefing reports the revived talks could stabilize Fermi's financial outlook, and FRMI shares rose 27.67% to $2.63 on Nov 13.
Arena's Agent Arena leaderboard places Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 (Max) at #1, reporting a +30.5% net improvement across 7.8k real-world sessions as of November 13, 2026. Per Arena, Fable 5.2 leads Claude Opus 5.5 (Max) in 9 of the 10 categories where both are ranked, with a statistical tie in the tenth, and Arena attributes the largest lead to visual design. Arena reports overall net improvement scores of 30.48% for Fable 5.2 versus 19.51% for Opus 5.5, and says the Business & Finance gap is too small to call.
DeepSeek announced that the capabilities behind the DeepSeek App — search, files, links, safety, and voice — are now available through the DeepSeek API. Developers can enable built-in features with a few API parameters or call standalone APIs for OCR, ASR, and TTS, according to the company. DeepSeek also released an open-source frontend demo that supports importing DeepSeek conversation history.
LangChain has raised $300 million in a funding round valuing the company at $3 billion, according to Crypto Briefing. The same report states that LangChain's LangSmith product is now used by more than 7,000 organizations, and frames the growth as reflecting demand for AI infrastructure and management tools beyond raw model capability.
Apple has released the tvOS 27.2.1 software update, which MacRumors reports brings Siri AI features to older Apple TV models. According to 9to5mac, Apple also released the HomePod Software 27.2.1 update alongside it. Both outlets reported the releases on November 13, 2026.
Nvidia has unveiled GR00T 2, an AI model for humanoid robots, according to Nov. 13, 2026 social media posts by @WatcherGuru and @MartiniGuyYT. The model is described as designed to help robots learn new skills by observing human behaviour and to transfer learned skills across different robotic bodies, reducing the need to train each robot from scratch. The posts say the technology could accelerate the development of more adaptable, general-purpose humanoid robots.
An OpenAI board member publicly warned that AI is 'the most likely reason' you'll die, according to an Ars Technica report. The board member also warned that an AI 'takeover' of society could be months away. The report does not identify which OpenAI board member made the remarks.
A New York Times report says Nvidia held $48 billion worth of stakes in 229 private companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, at the end of July, and offered $165 billion in cloud backstops. According to the report, some investors and founders say they lost an ally in Jensen Huang. Techmeme highlighted the report on November 13, 2026.
Speaking at a J.P. Morgan event, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the AI coding market is maturing, a shift he said points toward infrastructure and affects job dynamics while accelerating industry consolidation. He said AI's next big markets — scientific discovery, life sciences, physics and materials, robotics, and cybersecurity — could be much larger than coding, just as coding was much larger than chatbots. These are Amodei's stated assessments as reported, not independently established developments.
Wccftech reported on November 13, 2026 that DeepSeek and Moonshot AI models appear to carry hidden NVIDIA Blackwell fingerprints in their starting weights, which the outlet says point to training clusters of 3,000 to 4,500 GPUs. The finding is presented as an appearance in the models' starting weights and has not been independently confirmed by the model developers. In same-day coverage, TechCrunch reported that new research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.
Microsoft has released new Windows 11 builds to the Beta and Experimental channels, saying they bring new features and improvements. The Experimental (26H1) preview build 28120.3542 includes a redesigned Run dialog with a modern interface, updated visuals, and improved usability, available as an opt-in feature. A screenshot of the new dialog shows a text field reading 'Type the name of a command to run' alongside a Run button.
Decrypt reports that Federal Reserve Chair Warsh wants answers on AI inflation, with the Fed examining whether artificial intelligence will lower prices or keep inflation elevated. Decrypt notes the question could shape interest rates and, in the outlet's own assessment, the outlook for crypto, suggesting Bitcoin may feel an impact. The Bitcoin angle is Decrypt's speculation rather than a stated action.
Intel's unannounced Core Ultra 7 260K CPU has appeared in Newegg listings for prebuilt gaming PCs, which VideoCardz describes as a Newegg-exclusive launch. Intel has not published an official specifications list for the chip, which Tom's Hardware identifies as an Arrow Lake part. Per the product slide, the Core Ultra 7 260K has 20 cores, boosts up to 5.4 GHz with 30 MB of Intel Smart Cache, and is marketed for gaming and creator workloads.
Perplexity Teammates, described as personalized, proactive agents that can operate Plugins and Skills and are powered by Perplexity's range of models, are now available on the Perplexity Mac application for Max subscribers, according to @testingcatalog, which notes the feature needs testing. A user reports two days of hands-on use, with their Teammate handling SEO optimization work for a newsletter website.
Anthropic, which is preparing for an IPO, is signaling a conservative stance toward investors, with CEO Dario Amodei saying the company's goal is to 'underpromise and overdeliver.' The remarks were reported by @wallstengine on November 13, 2026, and were made at a J.P. Morgan event according to the video source shown in the post. Amodei cited the company's compute bets as the biggest reason for its current timing, saying 'The more cash we have on hand, the more buffer we have.'
Apple met with Thai officials in a meeting whose subject was iPhone spyware warnings, according to a MacRumors report published November 13, 2026. iPhoneinCanada also posted about the same meeting that day, referring to iPhone spyware alerts. The available reports do not detail the outcome of the meeting.
