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5 storiesThe short versionThe FAA took its SMART AI tool nationwide three days before a ground stop, and Elon Musk backed a petition to bring Jensen Huang back to Nvidia.Full rundown
The FAA's AI scheduling tool, SMART, had only ever worked the skies around Washington, D.C. On November 10 the agency said it would run in all 22 of its centers. Then on November 13 every U.S. airport stopped sending planes out, because of what the FAA called communication issues at several centers. It lifted the stop that night. ASI says SMART wasn't the cause. The FAA hasn't named one.
Huang quit Nvidia on November 12. A day later Elon Musk said on X he'd sign a petition to bring him back, and Brad Gerstner and Gavin Baker each wrote to the board, which is who actually decides. Colette Kress is running things until then.
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FAA takes its SMART AI tool nationwide, and ASI says SMART didn't cause Friday's ground stop
Friday's stop came three days after the rollout was announced, and the official statements so far don't say what failed.
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Musk backs a petition to reinstate Jensen Huang, and Gerstner and Baker write Nvidia's board
The board opened a national-security review of Huang on November 8, and nobody has said it's finished.
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ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI's dots buy things for you, but you approve each purchase
Each purchase needs Face ID or Touch ID, but a subscription you approve keeps charging after that.
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Helen Toner would vote to remove Altman again, saying the future can't hinge on one CEO
Three years after the vote, the former OpenAI board member says relying on any one person to get AI right is the mistake.
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Will DePue finds Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints in six Chinese AI models, despite US export limits
The evidence sits in weights the labs published themselves, but it can't say where the chips were.
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Photo: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0Nvidia huang megaspeed briefing
- Nov 14Musk backs a petition to reinstate Jensen Huang, and Gerstner and Baker write Nvidia's board
- Nov 12Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia's CEO, and CFO Colette Kress takes over for now
- Nov 9Nvidia's board opens an independent investigation after reports Jensen Huang was a foreign intelligence target
Photo: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0Anthropic ipo
- Nov 12Anthropic says Mythos got Claude running on AMD chips in three days, almost unaided
- Nov 10Anthropic starts its IPO roadshow, but a single founders' share will carry 50.1% of the vote
Photo: UK Government, CC BY 2.0Grok 4 8 roadmap
- Nov 11Musk says Grok 4.8 trails Claude Opus 5.5, which he calls a masterpiece
- Sep 14The day after agreeing AI should slow down, Musk said Grok 4.8 finishes training this week
METR Anthropic rd acceleration
- Nov 10AI Futures Project now expects a superhuman AI researcher in 2027, citing METR's Anthropic report
- Nov 5METR estimates Anthropic's model progress has roughly doubled in pace, mostly from using its own AI
OpenAI agent australia medicare
- Nov 10Albanese says Australia will create an AI safety regulator that can impose significant penalties
- Sep 28Australian Senate inquiry calls Altman and Amodei to Canberra over data centers, not just the hack
- Sep 24An OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare portal in June, but OpenAI told Australia in September
Meta's Muse agent and models
- Nov 9Meta's Muse Ember matches Claude Haiku 5.5 at about a third of the cost per task
- Oct 20Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after a security firm finds 6,800 share addresses in public DNS
- Oct 15Meta releases Muse Spark Open's weights, tuned with Apple to run on two Mac Studios
From the labs' own feeds3
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- Outage · AnthropicSome users unable to sign up with Apple on the Claude iOS app
- Outage · OpenAIDelayed Costs Data in the Compliance API
- Outage · OpenAIElevated errors with ChatGPT billing and Ads billing
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