Monday, 9 November 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Monday, 9 November 2026.
Research & Products
Nvidia opens independent probe into claims surrounding Jensen Huang and a foreign intelligence effort
Nvidia’s board has launched an independent probe into claims tied to Jensen Huang, with U.S.-China chip tensions shadowing the case. The post Nvidia opens independent probe into claims surrounding Jensen Huang and a foreign intelligence effort appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
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Hide your slop PR descriptions behind
Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature is complete, document decisions and then merge the finished result. Today's coding agents are great at writing PR descriptions. They're too good at describing the work The problem is that they are too good. An agent-written PR description is accurate and comprehensive. It describes the problem, the detailed solution, and the steps taken to verify it. That's a lot of...
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parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust
Research: parsenumber() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust I was out walking the dog when I got curious about how easy/difficult it would be to write a SQLite C extension that adds a parsenumber() function for turning strings like -$1,234.56 or '12.5%' into numeric values that could be summed and sorted. I fired up regular Claude chat (Opus 5.5) and prompted : I'm thinking about a SQLite custom function 'parse_number(value)' that strips ',', '$', '£' and '%', handles a leading '-', and returns 'NULL' for anything it can’t parse Explore the difference between building this as a SQLite...
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‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints
MPs, local authorities, lawyers, schools and more are receiving floods of grievances, requests and legal challenges, often complex to read and respond to ‘It started as a trickle in 2024 and now it’s an onslaught.” Hollie Wickens, a senior caseworker in a Labour MP’s office, is explaining the daily reality of dealing with surging volumes of artificial intelligence-generated correspondence. “Half the emails we receive are some form of AI,” she says, adding that this has made requests and complaints much more complex and time-consuming to read and deal with, despite her decade of experience...
Read moreAnthropic reportedly strikes $3.4 billion deal for gas-fired data-center power
The reported OnePWR Solutions agreement includes installation capabilities without a supplier takeover. Neither company responded to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Read moreThe Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford
My comment on The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford — Hacker News. OK, this comment convinced me to give that a shot. Here's a thing I made in Three.js this morning - a Nudibranch themed Faberge Egg: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg... (77KB) I just asked Claude (Opus 5.5 Medium running in regular Claude Chat) to port that to Vanilla JS, in the same thread where it had built it, and got this: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/Hidden-Reef-Egg... (98KB) They aren't identical - you can see what Claude said about that in the transcript (I don't...
Read moreNAVER and Brookfield sign deal for up to $9 billion in AI infrastructure
Brookfield would own the hardware while NAVER Cloud operates it. The financing depends on future computing sales, with customer commitments still undisclosed.
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US AI safety staff were asked to report informally to White House, AP says
The Commerce Department center has no permanent director and has stopped publishing research. Critics fear political interference; others see a chance for greater influence.
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[One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco
What do you assign when a coding agent can finish last year’s homework in one prompt? In the second run of Stanford’s CS146S, Mihail Eric brought open-source maintainers into the course. Students have to learn an unfamiliar repo, propose a change, and ...
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NVIDIA explains how factory AI agents investigate defects and coordinate rework
The early-access FOX design links inspection images, production records and machine readings. Plants must supply equipment connections and decide when operators approve actions.
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