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EU Digital Fairness Act First to Regulate AI Shopping Agents: Three Authorization Tiers and 6% Fines Draw the Legal Boundaries of Agent Autonomy

The European Commission’s proposed Digital Fairness Act would require AI shopping assistants offered to EU consumers to let users choose among three authorization tiers, with violations punishable by fines of up to 6% of global annual turnover. It also introduces a mandatory exception requiring user confirmation whenever the agent’s provider is paid by the counterparty or has a conflict of interest.

Largest AI Company IPO Ever Opens Six Times Oversubscribed: Dario Amodei Says at Roadshow That Compute Is the Deepest Business Challenge

Anthropic’s IPO roadshow is six times oversubscribed as Dario Amodei tells investors that compute procurement is the company’s deepest business risk, with nearly $900 billion in commitments due against revenue that must grow severalfold. The offering may succeed, but the real test begins after listing.

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Where was Nvidia’s security team?

Nvidia’s security chief quietly left in August, and now that CEO Jensen Huang has stepped down over his relationships, including one with an executive at a company suspected of funneling chips to China, a former intelligence officer says it’s the kind of leak that runs everyday conversations, which most corporate security teams are poorly equipped to catch.

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Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang

The petition had attracted more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon.

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WDCD Run #428: Gemini 3.1 Pro Leads with 89.8 Points as Average Instruction Decay Hits -16.4%

WDCD Run #428 (2026-11-15) benchmarked 15 frontier models on multi-turn commitment integrity, recording an average instruction decay of -16.4% from Round 1 to Round 3. Gemini 3.1 Pro led the field at 89.8 points with the strongest decay resistance observed in this cycle.

WDCD v3.1 Commitment-Compliance Shakeup: Claude Opus 4.7 Drops 9.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro Rises 6.8

WDCD v3.1 data shows Claude Opus 4.7 falling 9.7 points while Gemini 2.5 Pro rises 6.8, with Gemini 3.1 Pro leading at 89.83. The results highlight how models hold up under escalating constraint pressure and what that means for enterprise deployment.

WDCD Five-Scenario Cross-Review: Data Boundaries Lowest for All, qwen3-max Scores Just 1.36

The WDCD v3.1 five-scenario cross-review shows data boundaries as the weakest scenario across all models, with qwen3-max scoring only 1.36/4, far below the top score of 4/4 in engineering standards. It also reveals the largest differentiation in business rules and significant model specialization.

After Three Rounds of Pressure and 33 Complete Collapses, Qwen3 Max Ranks Last in Adherence

In 390 samples from the v2 anchor questions, the average confirmation rate was 0.92 in R1, resistance fell to 0.68 in R2, and the average integrity rate was only 53.5% in R3. Qwen3 Max showed the steepest decay, with a 30.8% R3 collapse rate, while Gemini 3.1 Pro and Grok 4 had zero R3 collapses.

Gemini 3.1 Pro Tops WDCD Constraint-Adherence Leaderboard with 89.83, Qwen3 Max Last at 58.85

Gemini 3.1 Pro ranks first in the WDCD v3.1 constraint-adherence test with 89.83 points, while Qwen3 Max finishes last at 58.85. The 31-point gap between the top and bottom is driven mainly by constraint-survival performance under R3 pressure.

1.5 Million GPUs Flowed Into China: The Complete Logic Chain from Supply Chain Loopholes to Jensen Huang's Resignation

SemiAnalysis estimates that more than 1.5 gigawatts of export-restricted Nvidia hardware — equivalent to as many as 1.5 million GPUs — reached China over several years. That smuggling network was among the factors that drove Nvidia's board to act as Jensen Huang ended his three-decade career at the company by resigning.

Nvidia Allegedly Funds Startups to Manufacture GPU Shortage, Commitment Amount Triples in a Single Quarter

A Wall Street Journal investigation reports that Nvidia provided financing to AI startups and small cloud providers unable to afford its GPUs, sustaining the perception of high demand while helping absorb inventory, with total guarantee commitments tripling to $530 billion in a single quarter. The report also details internal conflict over the practice and raises questions about securities disclosure, antitrust, and related-party transactions.

Doubao Pro Main Leaderboard Plunges 8 Points: Code Execution 94.5→45.8, Material Constraints 47.6→89.3

Doubao Pro's main leaderboard score fell 8.02 points to 65.38 in today's Smoke evaluation, driven by a 48.70-point collapse in code execution that a 41.70-point rise in material constraints only partly offset. The pattern of movement points to question-sampling noise in a very small sample rather than genuine capability degradation.

Claude Opus 4.7 Code Execution Drops 19.5 Points as Material Constraints Rise 19.3 Points

In today's Smoke evaluation, Claude Opus 4.7's code execution score fell 19.5 points while its material constraints score rose 19.3 points, leaving the main leaderboard total down only 2 points. The article attributes the shift mainly to sampling fluctuation rather than real model degradation.

GPT-5.5 Trends Up 10 Points, Gemini 2.5 Pro Drops 30.9 Points: 2026-W46 Weekly Data Analysis

Smoke evaluation data from November 9–15, 2026 shows GPT-5.5 rising from 78.74 on the first day to 88.75 on the last, with a trend value of +10, making it the largest gainer this week. Gemini 2.5 Pro fell 30.9 points, while GLM-4.6 showed the highest volatility at 53.7 points.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-6 Luna Tie at 95.19 Points: 2026-11-15 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief

The 2026-11-15 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-6 Luna tied at 95.19 points for the daily lead. Smoke is a daily 10-question check intended for short-term signals, not for replacing Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.

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Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit

Some governments moved to confirm chip supply commitments, while others are monitoring the impact on local projects or addressing ongoing investigations.

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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

FBI Alert: ARTEX Framework Breaches Nine Industries; 1,600 Consoles Exposed and Privileged Access in Under Three Hours

The FBI has issued FLASH-20261113-001, warning that the open-source LLM-driven ARTEX attack framework has been used to breach organizations across nine sectors, with more than 1,600 publicly exposed consoles found worldwide and some intrusions reaching privileged access in under three hours. The framework lowers the barrier to end-to-end automated enterprise intrusion, with supply chains and third-party integrations particularly exposed.

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Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom

Fully automated ransomware hasn’t arrived—yet. But seemingly unsophisticated attackers are using AI tools to wreak havoc.

ChatGPT Officially Begins Selling Ads: Monetizing a 1.2 Billion Weekly User Gateway for Brands

OpenAI has launched the beta of Businesses in ChatGPT, adding sponsored placements, merchant profiles, product data feeds, and AI customer service agents to the ChatGPT interface. The move creates an advertising revenue track alongside subscriptions and brings ChatGPT into closer competition with Google.