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Lead noteThe Wire · Note 078 · Nov 13, 2026 · 7 min
Jensen Huang Resigns, and Nvidia's CFO Inherits the Company Five Days Before Earnings
Nvidia's board accepted Jensen Huang's resignation, naming CFO Colette Kress interim CEO and Harvey Jones its first chair. Shares fell as much as 14% on Thursday, closed down 4.3%, and results still land November 17.
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Also this week · The Wire · 6 min
Microsoft 365's Outage Passes 15 Hours, and the Health Checks Are the Story
A Microsoft 365 outage that began November 12 ran past 15 hours. Microsoft cites servers failing health checks and has rolled back a network change, with no sustained fix yet. The lessons are about health checks and fallbacks.
Also this week · The Wire · 7 minAnthropic Redraws Claude's Border: Location, Incorporation and Control Now Decide Access
Anthropic's revised Supported Regions Policy, in force since November 12, bars Claude use from China and other unsupported regions by location, incorporation or control, staff abroad and cloud resellers included.
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Jun 19 · 3 minPrompt Engineering: Text Summarization
In an era where market-research PDFs land on desks faster than you can finish a ristretto, prompt-engineered text-summarisation lets analysts trade hours of CTRL-F drudgery for instant, five-sentence clarity on how AI adoption and ramped-up privacy regulation are reshaping customer behaviour.
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Jun 18 · 2 minYou can ship in weeks, but can you survive the launch?
We had three weeks to build an MVP. No extensions, no excuses. Ambitious? Absolutely. Risky? Of course. But this wasn’t our first rodeo.
Jun 07 · 2 minThe Myth of the Perfect System
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Issue 078 · Nov 13 · 7 minJensen Huang Resigns, and Nvidia's CFO Inherits the Company Five Days Before Earnings
Nvidia's board accepted Jensen Huang's resignation, naming CFO Colette Kress interim CEO and Harvey Jones its first chair. Shares fell as much as 14% on Thursday, closed down 4.3%, and results still land November 17.
Issue 077 · Nov 13 · 6 minMicrosoft 365's Outage Passes 15 Hours, and the Health Checks Are the Story
Issue 076 · Nov 13 · 7 minAnthropic Redraws Claude's Border: Location, Incorporation and Control Now Decide Access
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078Nov 13
Jensen Huang Resigns, and Nvidia's CFO Inherits the Company Five Days Before Earnings
Nvidia's board accepted Jensen Huang's resignation, naming CFO Colette Kress interim CEO and Harvey Jones its first chair. Shares fell as much as 14% on Thursday, closed down 4.3%, and results still land November 17.
The Wire7 min077Nov 13Microsoft 365's Outage Passes 15 Hours, and the Health Checks Are the Story
A Microsoft 365 outage that began November 12 ran past 15 hours. Microsoft cites servers failing health checks and has rolled back a network change, with no sustained fix yet. The lessons are about health checks and fallbacks.
The Wire6 min076Nov 13Anthropic Redraws Claude's Border: Location, Incorporation and Control Now Decide Access
Anthropic's revised Supported Regions Policy, in force since November 12, bars Claude use from China and other unsupported regions by location, incorporation or control, staff abroad and cloud resellers included.
The Wire7 min075Nov 12Sixteen CVEs in the Plumbing: Node.js Patches Its HTTP/2 and TLS Stack
Node.js 26.13.1, 24.22.3 and 22.23.5 shipped November 11 with 16 fixes, seven rated High, led by an HTTPS heap leak and an HTTP/2 crash. Who is exposed, who a proxy shields, and how to upgrade.
The Wire7 min074Nov 12The Commit That Wasn't There: Inside the wfx Raid on GitHub Actions Secrets
Since November 10, hijacked GitHub accounts have pushed a CI secret stealer to default branches and reverted it within seconds. How it hid, where the counts disagree, and what to check today.
The Wire7 min073Nov 12DeepMind Ships a Factory Robot Brain and a Cell-Aware Genome Model, and Only One Has an API
Gemini Robotics 2.5 (November 10) and AlphaGenome 2 (November 11) arrive with large, Google-run numbers. The genome model is callable today for non-commercial research; the robot model reaches partners only.
The Wire6 min072Nov 11Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Coolify, Dokploy: The Limits, the Meters and the Monthly Bill
CPU caps, memory ceilings, build limits and egress rates for five deploy targets, from their own docs as of November 11, 2026, plus two worked monthly bills. The meters differ more than the sticker prices.
The Wire16 min071Nov 11Gemini 4 Carbon Goes on Sale: Frontier Scores at Argon's Price
Google opened Gemini 4 Carbon to paying API developers and AI Ultra subscribers on November 10: $2/$10 per million tokens until November 30, then $4/$20, a photo-finish CursorBench lead, and a Signal proof run.
The Wire7 min070Nov 11CoreWeave Beats, Raises, and Pays $846 Million in Interest
CoreWeave's third-quarter revenue rose 168% to $3.66 billion and guidance beat consensus, lifting a stock down 40% in a month. Underneath: a sixfold larger loss and an interest bill growing faster than sales.
The Wire6 min069Nov 10Node.js 26 'Lithium' Goes LTS: Temporal Ships, and the Deprecation Bills Come Due
Node.js 26.13.0 'Lithium' became Active LTS on October 28, with support to April 2029. Temporal by default, V8 14.6, real removals, and what upgrading a NestJS or Express service actually takes.
The Wire7 min068Nov 10NestJS 12: ESM Packages, Schema-First Validation, and an Upgrade You Can Mostly Script
NestJS 12 shipped August 27 with ESM-only packages, Standard Schema validation on route decorators, Vitest and oxlint defaults, and a hosted observability SDK. What breaks, what does not, and how to move a v11 app.
The Wire8 min067Nov 10.NET 11 and C# 15 Ship: Unions, In-Box Zstandard, and a Support Clock That Stops With .NET 10's
.NET 11 went GA on November 10 with C# 15 union types, Zstandard in System.IO.Compression and opt-in runtime async. It is an STS release whose support ends the same day as .NET 10 LTS.
The Wire8 min066Nov 10SoftBank's ¥1.1 Trillion Quarter: The Write-Off Was Made of Turbines, Not Models
SoftBank swung to a ¥1.12 trillion loss in its fiscal second quarter. The damage came from US data-center power equipment, financing costs and Intel hedges, while its OpenAI stake stayed marked at $99.6 billion.
The Wire7 min065Nov 10Five objections to gating AI-written code, and how Deslopping answers them
The approve button no longer proves anyone read the diff. I'm building Deslopping to fix that, and these are the five objections I hear most, answered with the screens.
The Wire6 min064Nov 10Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2: One Model, Two Doors, and a 20% Cheaper Ticket
Anthropic shipped Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on November 9: one model behind two access tiers, a 20% price cut to $8/$40, and benchmark, security and Fermat claims that are, for now, Anthropic's own.
The Wire6 min063Nov 09Nvidia's Board Opens an Independent Investigation Nine Days Before Earnings
Nvidia's board will investigate reports that Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. It sees no sign secrets were compromised; the stock slipped, and results land November 17.
The Wire7 min062Nov 09The Frontier Gets Repriced: OpenAI Takes $1.25 Trillion, Anthropic's IPO Buyers Talk Lower
OpenAI closed an $11 billion first slice of its round at $1.25 trillion, below its $1.4 trillion ask, while Anthropic's IPO buyers reportedly talk $1.2 to 1.3 trillion. The sell-off has set the price.
The Wire7 min061Nov 08Inkling 2 Small: 594 Billion Parameters, 17 Billion at Work, Weights Promised Next Week
Thinking Machines launched Inkling 2 Small on November 5, a 594B-parameter MoE with 17B active, on Tinker only. Its self-reported scores are solid, not dominant; the real test is the Apache 2.0 weights promised for next week.
The Wire6 min058Nov 07Google's $17 Billion Wyoming Campus Brings Its Own Power Plant
Google confirmed a $17 billion data center near Cheyenne on November 5, fed largely by a gas-fired private microgrid that includes AEP's 702 MW Bloom fuel-cell plant. The grid queue is what it routes around.
The Wire7 min057Nov 07The AI Trade Meets the Ballot Box: a $2.3 Trillion Thursday and a Cautious Friday
On November 5 the Nasdaq 100 fell more than 6% and chip stocks 12% as markets repriced the AI buildout after the midterms. Friday's bounce was partial; the open question is now electricity, not models.
The Wire7 min060Nov 06The Freezer Aisle Is an Attack Surface Now: US Agencies Warn on Refrigeration Controllers
On November 5, CISA, the FBI and three other US agencies warned that hackers are targeting refrigeration controllers worldwide, after supermarkets in at least nine European countries binned food from freezers set to 50°C.
The Wire6 min059Nov 06Atlassian Beat the Quarter and Got Punished for the Slope
Atlassian topped Q1 FY27 estimates, then guided cloud growth from 31% to about 27% and the stock gave back much of its autumn rally. The numbers, the Data Center hangover, and what agents mean for seat-priced Jira.
The Wire6 min056Nov 06GPT-6 Cyber: A 'Critical' Model, a Guest List, and a Longer Patch Queue
OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber on November 5 to vetted Daybreak Red customers, rating it Critical under its own framework. The vendor numbers are striking; the real bill lands on everyone's patch queue.
The Wire7 min055Nov 06How Deslopping works: one AI-written pull request, from risk score to merge
A step-by-step walk through Deslopping: how a pull request is scored, how its questions are written and tested, what happens after a wrong answer, and what a team learns about its AI without ever seeing a person.
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