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The Jensen Huang sex scandal is still all the AI industry can talk about—and for good reason. The New York Times reported that a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed, Singaporean company where Jensen Huang’s alleged spy lover, Alice Huang, was a top executive, was transferred to the Justice Department after Nvidia intervened.

In addition, it appears that Jensen Huang suspected that his extramarital affair had the potential to blow up in his face. As reported by Wired, in October 2025 the Nvidia CEO hired the crisis communications firm Heller, which is known for handling sex scandals.

Nvidia's stock fell 4.27% on Monday.

Let's get started.

— Jody Serrano

→ “Do you like the color orange?”
→ Anthropic launches two new models
→ Someone built a Sam Altman annoyance machine

...and all the AI news we couldn’t fit here.

The news: President Trump poured gasoline on the fire surrounding Nvidia's Jensen Huang in a new interview on 60 Minutes.

In the interview, Trump says his administration once threatened to put the CEO of a major AI company in jail. “We had a situation where somebody was reported to us to be doing something bad with AI,” the president said. “We said, ‘Do you like the color orange? Go home right now, see your wife and children, give them a kiss good night, because tomorrow morning you are going to jail.’”

Trump did not reveal which AI CEO he was referring to in the interview. Notably, the president taped the interview on Nov. 6, two days before Jensen Huang publicly admitted to his affair with the alleged Chinese spy.

The AI CEO in Trump's story did not end up in jail. According to the president, the person changed “everything” after receiving the threat. Trump said he didn't think the CEO acted “maliciously.”

The takeaway: Trump is an expert at diverting attention away from himself. Given his party's loss in the midterms, he may have been doing just that. When asked about Jensen Huang on Sunday, Trump said he thought the executive should stay on as Nvidia CEO.

The news: Given the debacle over at Nvidia, it can be difficult to remember that anything else is happening in AI right now. As such, it's not too surprising to see that Anthropic's new model releases aren't getting the attention they normally would.

On Monday, the AI company announced the release of Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, which it claimed are among its most capable ever. Anthropic said the models feature improvements to coding, reasoning, and vision. The frontier lab also made notable claims, which included stating that the models were able to solve two previously unresolved black hole physics problems, design working electronic devices, and more.

Furthermore, Anthropic said its new models were cheaper to run than their predecessors. They are both slightly cheaper to run than OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra.

The takeaway: While AI companies love to talk about all the breakthroughs their models made, we might be getting to the point where that doesn't matter that much anymore. Models can make all the breakthroughs they want, but without humans to verify them, what value do they really have?

The news: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman briefly became the target of the internet's ire late last month when he said it was "quite terrible" that individual device owners and operators of local AIs have access to DRAM, which is already insanely expensive and hard to obtain.

Instead, Altman suggested that DRAM would be far more useful in the world's data centers, many of which his company is building. After the predictable outrage, the OpenAI CEO said his remarks were taken out of context.

But the internet does not forget. Neither does this developer, who created a Linux script he named "RAM Altman." The script scans your computer every five minutes and, if it detects that more than 10% of your system's RAM is available, sends an automated report to an email of your choosing.

The takeaway: You can just imagine whose email they are choosing. It's going to be hard to separate AI from greed in the mind of the public any time soon.

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