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Nvidia's founder resigned as chief executive on 12 November after a board meeting, with CFO Colette Kress taking over on an interim basis while a search begins. The shares fell as much as 13 per cent, and quarterly results are due on 17 November.
Reuters-sourced reports say Trump may hold off further strikes on Iran unless provoked, with a third US carrier heading to the region. Iran says two more tankers hit mines in Hormuz. The blockade stands, leaving energy costs and Gulf data-centre risk unresolved.
The White House AI task force, meeting for the second time, wants regulators to ease enforcement against companies that report cyber incidents in good faith for at least 12 months, back a long-term renewal of the 2015 information-sharing law and build a voluntary AI incident-reporting channel.
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Tracxn data reported on 11 November shows Indian AI startups raised $1.6 billion across 81 rounds in January to September 2026, more than double last year, but deal counts fell 43 per cent and infrastructure firms took three-quarters of the money.
PhysicsWallah told analysts that AI now writes around 90 per cent of its code, and credited AI efficiencies for slightly lower headcount and faculty numbers in the second quarter of FY27. Profit doubled to Rs 142 crore on revenue of Rs 1,242 crore, while the offline business remains loss-making.
Senior officials say the central government wants departments in sectors such as defence and aerospace to use more AI built in India under the IndiaAI Mission, and may steer some away from non-Indian frontier models for critical applications. The details below are drawn from the primary source, with analysis labelled separately.
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Bloomberg reports OpenAI has raised $11 billion so far at a $1.25 trillion valuation, with the round potentially reaching $20 billion. The figures fall below the $30 billion at $1.4 trillion reportedly sought in September, as investors grow wary of AI valuations and data-centre politics.
After the midterm result, Democratic lawmakers and aides say they will introduce a broad set of bills on AI systems and data-centre expansion once they take control of Congress in January. Representative Lori Trahan wants independent experts to evaluate leading models against safety standards.
While the Nasdaq suffered its worst day since April 2025 and Asian chip stocks fell 6 to 7 per cent, Indian benchmarks extended a seven-session winning streak on 6 November with Infosys, TCS and HCLTech in focus as a services-led alternative to AI hardware. Brent's swing back towards $100 on Hormuz disruption remains the sector's main macro risk.
Brent crude fell more than 16 per cent to $98.32 in the week to 6 November as traders bet on a US–Iran agreement, even as tanker attacks in Hormuz continued at near-record pace. For AI operators the energy shock matters most through gas-linked electricity prices in Europe and Asia and through the cash Gulf states have left to invest.
Nine months into the US–Israeli war on Iran, Washington carried out what President Trump called 'minor' strikes on Iranian air defences near the Strait of Hormuz on 6 November while Tehran reviewed a Qatari-mediated bridge proposal. A naval blockade, sanctions and near-record tanker attacks continue; no ceasefire is in force.
Meta has rolled out specialised versions of its models, trained with Muse Wonder, to every user of its Muse agent and Meta AI assistant. The company claims a 2.4-fold reduction in forgetting critical information and a 67 per cent improvement in completing everyday tasks that hit obstacles, with correct use of context rising from 76 to 90 per cent on its internal evaluation.
HSBC Global Research estimates that India's planned jump from roughly 1.5 GW to 6.5 GW of data-centre capacity will require about $105 billion of imported equipment, close to 2.5 per cent of GDP. Chips account for the bulk of it, and the bank urges a staggered expansion funded by foreign capital.
Baidu has published ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B-parameter mixture-of-experts checkpoint with 14B active per token, trained on 33.5 trillion tokens. Weights are downloadable, but the licence excludes the EU, UK and South Korea and limits commercial use above $50 million revenue.
The US Department of Justice has created a Super Intelligence Task Force to deter and prosecute misuse of advanced AI by foreign state actors, transnational criminal groups and fraudsters. It is led by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy Attorney General Stephen Weiss.
The Nasdaq fell 5.5% on 5 November, its steepest drop since April 2025, with Nvidia and Qualcomm each down more than 9%. Investors fear AI infrastructure spending will slow after US voters rejected local data-centre projects in all but one of 41 ballot measures.
Agility Robotics began trading on Nasdaq on 5 November under the ticker AGLT after merging with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The deal valued the humanoid maker at $2.5 billion pre-money and raised about $465 million in gross proceeds, including a Foxconn-led private placement.
Google has launched Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, raising the single-generation video limit from 10 to 15 seconds and cutting 720p pricing by 30 per cent to $0.07 per second. It is generally available through the Gemini API and Google Cloud, with limited access in the Gemini app.
