AI news for Thursday, 12 November 2026

The day’s AI news in one list, the biggest stories first. Each story links to its short read and to the outlets that reported it.

  1. Google releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen AI model

    Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a new AI model designed to replace the previous Flash model in its product lineup.

    Reported by Google DeepMind and 1 more

  2. Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia over affairs

    Nvidia's longtime CEO resigned after reports emerged of two extramarital affairs, one involving an alleged Chinese spy and another involving an Nvidia executive who reported to him.

    Reported by The Verge

  3. Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia after affairs reported

    Jensen Huang, Nvidia's co-founder and former CEO, resigned following reports of two affairs.

    Reported by TechCrunch and 1 more

  4. Democrats investigate Nvidia China sales deal

    Democrats opened an inquiry into how the Trump administration handled a major chip company's sales to China after the company's CEO was ousted following revelations about an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese spy.

    Reported by TechCrunch

  5. Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud

    Drone and missile strikes have damaged data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East this year, disrupting cloud services for millions of people and permanently deleting some customer data.

    Reported by Ars Technica

  6. Anthropic says AI erodes Nvidia's CUDA lead

    Anthropic claims it has reduced the time needed to port its AI model to AMD chips from six to twelve months down to three days by using its own frontier model to write the software code.

    Reported by The Decoder

  7. Australia proposes AI safety law for frontier models

    Australia's government has announced a law requiring frontier AI companies operating in the country to comply with new safety rules for the first time.

    Reported by The Decoder

  8. Google releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen AI model for Search

    Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a new AI model designed to better understand complex questions with multiple parts, specific requests, or typos.

    Reported by TechCrunch and 2 more

  9. Nvidia introduces Scale-In for AI agent security

    Nvidia has introduced a new infrastructure component called Scale-In designed to provide security, management, and operation of AI agents running in data centers.

    Reported by SiliconANGLE

  10. FAA expands AI tool across US airspace

    The FAA has expanded an AI tool called SMART across the entire US airspace system to help manage air traffic congestion.

    Reported by Ars Technica

  11. OpenBot 1.0 releases self-hosted AI agent workspace

    OpenBot 1.0 is a self-hosted AI agent workspace that allows companies to run AI agents on their own infrastructure rather than relying on a vendor's cloud service.

    Reported by MarkTechPost

  12. Nebius plans $40 billion AI infrastructure spending

    A neocloud company announced $40 billion in planned spending for the coming year, significantly more than Wall Street expected, but the plan depends on financing strategy that relies on customer prepayments and loans backed by contracts.

    Reported by TechCrunch

  13. Block Inc. puts AI agents into shared workspaces

    AI agents have moved from single-user chat interfaces into shared workspaces where they function as named team members with identities and audit trails. Block Inc.

    Reported by SiliconANGLE

  14. Google adapts Kubernetes for AI agent workloads

    Kubernetes, a container orchestration system built for microservices, is being adapted by a cloud provider to handle AI agents rather than building an entirely new system.

    Reported by SiliconANGLE

  15. ElevenLabs releases Scribe v3 speech recognition

    ElevenLabs has released two new speech-to-text models designed to accurately transcribe audio in challenging conditions such as background noise and overlapping speech, with one version built for recorded files and another for real-time…

    Reported by The Decoder

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