🛃 U.S. Weighs NVIDIA H200 Greenlight: Washington is considering allowing NVIDIA’s H200 AI chip sales to China, signaling a thaw in tech tensions even as security officials warn the move could aid Beijing’s capabilities.

💼 Musk Predicts Work-Optional Future: Elon Musk told a D.C. forum that AI and robotics could make jobs optional within 10–20 years, rendering money less relevant, a vision economists say remains far off due to slow, costly automation and political hurdles.

📈 Google Warns of Soaring Compute Demand: A Google Cloud VP told employees the company must double compute capacity every six months to keep up with accelerating AI workloads, underscoring massive infrastructure pressures.

👨‍⚖️ U.S. Charges Four in NVIDIA Chip Plot: Federal prosecutors say four men illegally routed restricted NVIDIA A100, H100, and H200 chips through third countries to China and Hong Kong, triggering export-control, smuggling, and money-laundering charges.

📜 White House Pauses AI Preemption Plan: The administration has halted a draft order that would challenge state AI laws and withhold broadband funds, after bipartisan pushback over federal overreach and consumer-protection concerns.

⚡ Meta Eyes Electricity Trading Market: Meta filed for a license to trade wholesale electricity in the U.S., aiming to manage energy costs for its data centers. It signals growing tech interest in power markets.

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Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski warned on November 14, 2025, that the U.S. is falling behind China in AI research, calling the trend an “existential” threat to democracy. Speaking at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, he said PhD students now encounter more novel AI ideas from China than from the U.S. Konwinski argued that major U.S. labs—OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic—keep critical innovations proprietary while recruiting top academics with multimillion-dollar offers, shrinking the flow of open research.

He contrasted this with China’s support for open-sourcing work from labs like DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen, which he believes accelerates discovery. His central claim: the next major architecture breakthrough will favor the nation that keeps its research open and widely shared. → Read the full article here.

The Recap: Microsoft and NVIDIA committed $15 billion to Anthropic, creating a circular cloud-and-chip spending loop that challenges OpenAI’s once-solid lead in generative AI. The deal arrives amid market unease over OpenAI’s own $1.4 trillion in recent spending commitments and follows Google’s release of Gemini 3, its newest model trained on in-house chips. NVIDIA’s strong November 19 earnings and Alphabet’s record share price suggest investors see the competitive field widening rather than consolidating.

Highlights:

Forward Future Takeaways:
A once-linear AI stack, dominated by OpenAI atop Microsoft and NVIDIA infrastructure, is fracturing into a competitive loop where money, compute, and model development flow in multiple directions. For industry and policymakers, the shift raises questions about whether escalating capital commitments are sustainable or signal early stress in AI’s economics. → Read the full article here.

A recent TechSpot report describes how Anthropic’s disciplined enterprise strategy is narrowing the gap with OpenAI despite the latter’s massive infrastructure build-out and consumer reach. OpenAI reports more than 800 million weekly ChatGPT users and a $13 billion annual revenue run rate, but high compute costs and reliance on subscriptions limit margins. Anthropic, deriving about 80% of its revenue from roughly 300,000 corporate customers, has reached a $7 billion run rate and expects $9 billion by year’s end.

A Menlo Ventures study found Claude models now lead enterprise adoption with 32% market share versus OpenAI’s 25%, supported by stronger performance in coding, legal drafting, and other structured tasks. Analysts say that durable, ROI-driven enterprise use is positioning Anthropic as a materially stronger commercial rival. → Read the full article here.

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