2 days of AI noise, one honest wrap.
what the pubs yelled about all week. our read on what was worth hearing.
DAY BY DAY
MONNvidia CEO Jensen Huang Admits Affair With a Woman U.S. Officials Suspect Is a Chinese Spy• On Sun Nov 8, 2026, Jensen Huang told Nvidia staff in a memo: "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry." (TechCrunch, Al Jazeera)
• Nvidia's board opened an independent investigation, run by independent directors with outside counsel, into whether he was targeted by foreign intelligence. It says it has "no reason to believe" national security or company secrets were compromised, and that it has confidence in Huang (TechCrunch).
• The woman, Alice Huang (also known as Huang Le, no relation), is a former senior executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed. A memo circulated among U.S. policymakers claimed China's Ministry of State Security recruited her. The New York Times reported in late October that U.S. intelligence officials believed so, and that Megaspeed bought about $4.8 billion in Nvidia equipment (via Al Jazeera). No charges have been reported. She has not commented publicly.
• In October, Huang told Bloomberg their interactions were "completely normal and not unusual" (via Al Jazeera).
• Republican Reps. Moolenaar, Mast and Crawford asked Huang to testify on Nov 18. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says Huang and the board "owe Congress answers." China's Foreign Ministry called the spy narrative "nothing but smears against China." Nvidia, worth about $4.5 trillion, fell more than 4% in overnight trading into Mon Nov 9 (Al Jazeera).
TUEAnthropic's Own System Card Says Claude Fable 5.2 Is Easier to Hijack Than the Model Before It• Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on Monday, Nov 9, 2026, with a system card.
• The system card says Fable 5.2 "falls back to Opus 4.8 more frequently than recent models do in prompt injection scenarios, resulting in a higher attack success rate." Prompt injection is hidden text in an email, web page or file that tries to make an AI agent follow someone else's instructions.
• The figures, as reported by Notebookcheck from the system card: in Gray Swan's indirect prompt injection test, attacks succeeded 4.09% of the time against Fable 5.2, versus 1.02% against Fable 5.1 and 0.96% against Opus 5.5. About four times the last version.
• Why: when Fable 5.2's safety classifiers flag a message, an older model answers instead (Opus 4.8 for cyber topics). In that test, 53% of attempts on Fable 5.2 were answered by Opus 4.8, versus 23% for Fable 5.1.
• Against an adaptive attacker in coding scenarios, 89.82% of attempts succeeded without Anthropic's prompt injection safeguards and 28.16% with them. Opus 5.5 stood at 11.13%.
• Anthropic's side: when Fable 5.2 answers an attempt itself, "it is one of our most robust models to date." These are Anthropic's own red-team tests. No real-world attack has been reported.
• The switch can be turned off: "Switch models when a message is flagged," in Settings and Capabilities, or in Claude Code's config.