News · 2026-11-13

Today, the organization open-sourced Edge0-145B, the world's first 145-billion-parameter on-device AI model.

Shanghai fund manager Kang Wei introduced his wife, Alice Huang, to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, facilitating a network that allegedly enabled a $7.5 billion AI GPU smuggling operation. Kang founded Shanghai Hexi in 2010, where Alice joined in 2016 with a 25% stake. The firm invested in gaming and data center companies, including Hangzhou Shengfeng and Shanghai Longjing Information Technology, which were later consolidated under entities like Osmanthus Vale Holdings and Megaspeed. Alice Huang served as a signatory and director, allegedly acting as a "white glove" to conceal identities. By 2024, she was publicly linked to Jensen Huang, sharing photos to establish credibility. This matters because it details how a Chinese investment firm and its executives allegedly structured a massive chip smuggling ring to bypass U.S. export bans.

SoftBank canceled 13 gigawatts of gas turbine orders, taking a $3.7 billion hit after denying Elon Musk's default claim.

C++26 failed its October ISO ballot over Contracts, with 13 for, 9 against, and 12 abstentions, risking a delay to C++27.

AI data center buildouts drove fiber optic prices up six to 10 times, squeezing Ukraine's drone operations.

Nvidia privately confirmed to Rep. Bill Foster that the Chip Security Act's chip-tracking mandates are technically feasible.

AWS released a Rust emulator with 29,684 commits in three weeks to run local service tests without paid API keys.

[Fix the Pixel] repaired an LGA 1851 mainboard by soldering a missing 5.1 Ohm resistor on an SPI clock line.

GitHub Manager Shishir Tewari introduced agent skills as versioned directories centered on SKILL.md files at GitHub Universe 2026.

[Andrew "Bunnie" Huang] produced the Baochip-1x, a mostly-open 22nm SoC designed for high assurance applications where every transistor must be accounted for. The design is based on the FPGA-based CPU in the Precursor device and features a single-core, 350 MHz VexRISC-V core, 4 MB resistive RAM, and 2 MB of SRAM. Because it includes an MMU, it supports any software using the RV32IMAC RISC-V instruction set. A Coder's Guide, SystemVerilog, and Verilog sources are available, and a physical 'Dabao' evaluation board with a Raspberry Pi Pico-shaped form factor can be obtained.

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Aleš Michl, Governor of the Czech National Bank, argues that a small country's currency future depends on multiplying a functioning asset market with high-quality settlement infrastructure, rather than merely adding them. Citing a model from the Jackson Hole conference, he asserts these factors multiply, meaning if either is zero, the result is zero. To support this, he details the CNB's first DLT bond issued on 10 November 2026, noting transactions ran on the Prague Stock Exchange's platform with Česká spořitelna as the counterparty. He specifies bonds had a nominal value of CZK 10,000 and tested features like repo transactions. Michl further claims AI agents will soon manage digital koruna, potentially making 95% of the market machine-to-machine, while instant payments have already reduced settlement times from two days to immediate.

Tabarrok cites Are Oust showing Oslo's 1982 rent control lift reversed shortages and discriminatory demands.

Jensen Huang's ouster at Nvidia, following $5 billion in China sales, signals a governance crisis comparable to Hank Greenberg's AIG exit.

Richard Hanania argues against status-seeking consensus by noting African doctors move to America to drive cabs due to unrecognized licenses.

Noah Smith and Brad DeLong discussed the Re-Industrialization of America in the Hexapodia LXV episode on Nov 11, 2026.

Sanchez Pelayo and Harper find house-over-flat premia rose across all types and did not unwind despite stamp duty or rate hikes.

On November 12, 2026, Brad Delong praised Paul Reitter's 2024 translation of Marx's *Capital* at UC Berkeley.

Researchers found Arena-style rankings are vulnerable to manipulation, with combined attacks boosting a model's position by up to 45 places.

AutoAssumption formalized 89 algorithms, achieving the highest RULER-4K score and lowest perplexity of thirteen on four LLaMA models.

Researchers introduced CAFIN, a GPU-native framework that eliminates 18.91 MB of intermediate memory per step.

Kalai et al. found that adding an abstention line raised rates to 91% but threshold changes shifted them by only -0.8 points.

Researchers introduced FOE-Dreamer, which trained cyber defense policies in 3 days on a single GPU in an 8-host OpenStack testbed.

Mistral-7B and Llama-3.1-8B achieve 99 to 100 percent needle accuracy via rotary attention geometry manipulation.

Repairs raised same-object counting from 46.7% to 65.0% on a chance-33% benchmark across 7B-30B systems.

Authors prove deterministic agnostic PAC learning has sample complexity $\widetilde{O}\left( \frac{K^{1/3} \, d^{2/3}}{\varepsilon} \right)$ for classes with VC dimension $d$ and diameter $K$.

Iran's IRGC claims it destroyed a US radar in Bahrain in retaliation for a US airstrike on a Sirik communications tower.

Putin warned against foreign troops in Ukraine while Starlink faced disruptions again.

An Israeli strike devastated Gaza's Nasser Hospital, killing general surgeon Rizk Abu Shaira and destroying surgical and intensive care units.

On November 3, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Poland's Constitutional Tribunal intervention a coup.

Iran's Ghalibaf says the Strait of Hormuz will never return to pre-war status under Tehran's seven-point proposal.

Xi Jinping called for complete reunification with Taiwan during a speech marking the 160th birthday of Sun Yat-sen.

US Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighters from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 533 were deployed to Kunsa Air Base in South Korea for joint drills.

South Korean Ambassador Lee Hyuk led a separate memorial for nine bereaved families at Sado mines, marking Seoul's third consecutive boycott of Japan's event.