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Reuters reported on November 12, citing three informed sources, that Chinese artificial intelligence companies are attempting to rent Nvidia chip computing power from overseas data centers, concerned that the controversy surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may prompt Washington to tighten restrictions on the remote use of advanced processors. The United States has restricted the export of Nvidia's most advanced artificial intelligence chips to China, and Chinese companies can currently use such processors remotely by renting computing power from overseas data centers. A large Chinese cloud service provider has internally discussed whether to secure overseas Nvidia chip capacity, and some companies have contacted data center operators to negotiate reservations. The informed sources declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter and did not specify the cloud service provider.Two informed sources stated that smaller artificial intelligence labs are also considering similar arrangements, including reaching out to major computing power rental service providers in Southeast Asia. These companies are concerned that the controversy surrounding Jensen Huang may provide political momentum for the U.S. Remote Access Security Act (RASA). This bill aims to authorize the U.S. Department of Commerce to regulate remote and cloud access to restricted technologies. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill in January with a vote of 369 in favor and 22 against, and it is currently awaiting Senate review. Reuters stated that Nvidia's advanced processors are used to train and run the large models behind generative artificial intelligence products like chatbots, and restricting overseas cloud access will make it more difficult for Chinese developers to obtain high-end computing power without directly importing chips.Jensen Huang stated on Sunday that he was unfaithful to his wife. The New York Times reported that the individual involved is Alice Huang, a former executive of Singapore cloud computing company Megaspeed, who U.S. authorities have identified as a Chinese intelligence operative. Reuters stated it was unable to independently verify the allegation, and the Chinese side has denied it. Two informed sources said that Alice Huang has business dealings and investment relationships with Chinese tech companies such as Tencent and Alibaba, which did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Business filings in Singapore reviewed by Reuters show that Alibaba subsidiary Apex Enterprise Solutions had provided financing to Malaysian company Speedmatrix, which is associated with Megaspeed. Megaspeed denied illegally transshipping Nvidia chips subject to U.S. export controls to China. Two other informed sources stated that traders and intermediaries have begun hoarding restricted Nvidia artificial intelligence chips in China's gray market, with buyers concerned that the controversy may prompt the U.S. to take broader action against the smuggling of advanced chips and artificial intelligence servers.

According to screenshots circulating on social platform X, the official X account of the digital asset trading platform Websea once posted an accusatory tweet, publicly accusing the company's owner and CEO of withholding employee salaries and reimbursements, which was later deleted.The content of the screenshot shows that the poster claims employees have dedicated time and effort to the company but have not received basic salaries and work reimbursements, and alleges that the company has seemingly stopped normal operations, with management failing to provide a clear payment arrangement. The poster demands that the owner and CEO of Websea respond directly to the issues of unpaid salaries and reimbursements, publish a clear and credible payment schedule, and settle all outstanding employee payments as soon as possible, while also calling for industry attention to this matter.

According to a Dutch prosecution announcement, the prosecution is seeking a 6-month prison sentence for a former investigator of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (KMar), accusing him of illegally accessing police systems using his official authority to steal cryptocurrency worth over 6,000 euros from a traveler.

According to ABC News, American Republicans are seeking to hold a closed-door briefing with Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO.

According to an interview with "Daily People," a data center operations engineer who has worked in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia for 5 years stated that local AI data centers are still under large-scale construction, but the hiring demand at his company has significantly decreased. The company hired thousands of people in 2025, but by the time of the interview in 2026, only 3 new hires had been made.The engineer, who goes by the pseudonym Zhang Liwei, originally worked on an assembly line at an automobile factory. When he first switched careers, his internship monthly salary was 2,000 yuan, which increased to 4,500 yuan after graduation. After 5 years of job hopping and promotions, he currently earns over 10,000 yuan per month. In April of this year, DeepSeek was hiring senior operations engineers and senior delivery managers for its data center in Ulanqab, offering a monthly salary of 15,000 to 30,000 yuan, with 14 months' salary. These positions require extensive experience in data center operations and project management. According to Zhang Liwei's observations, local ordinary duty staff still earn around 5,000 to 6,000 yuan per month, while assistant engineers can earn over 10,000 yuan.The entry barriers are also rising. In 2024, some data centers were still hiring newcomers without relevant professional backgrounds; however, this year, some companies have required candidates to have a relevant degree and work experience, and there is even a 35-year age limit for basic duty positions. Zhang Liwei mentioned that a former colleague has started a training class for operations, charging nearly 20,000 yuan per student, and classes only start when there are 60 students, with a single session fee approaching 1.2 million yuan. The so-called internal recommendations are mostly just to help students secure an interview opportunity.

On November 8, Tencent's AI product WorkBuddy released a statement and compensation announcement regarding the DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash discount event. On September 10, WorkBuddy launched DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash and simultaneously started a two-week 50% discount points experience event, which was originally scheduled to end on September 24. Subsequently, WorkBuddy extended the discount until November 5 and restored the original price starting from 14:00 on November 5. Due to the delay in announcing this adjustment to users, WorkBuddy expressed its apologies for the inconvenience caused.WorkBuddy has decided that for accounts that used DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash from 14:00 on November 5 to 23:59 on November 8, all points consumed during this period will be settled at the original price with a 50% discount. The difference, which is 50% of the total points actually consumed, will be fully refunded. No application is required for the refund, as it will be automatically calculated by the system and is expected to be credited within 7 working days.

According to IT Home, on the afternoon of November 7, multiple users reported that DeepSeek experienced service issues, with a dialogue prompt stating "Server temporarily unavailable." The official status page of DeepSeek shows that the issue has been resolved and services have been restored. The duration of the interruption for the webpage and API was from November 7, 15:11 to 15:56, totaling 45 minutes.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," the artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has once again experienced issues with its chat function, with the chat interface temporarily displaying "Server busy, please try again later." The official status page indicates that starting from 15:11 today, there have been partial interruptions to the website and API, and the official team is investigating the issue to identify the cause.The affected services include the chat service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API service, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service. The latest update on the DeepSeek official website states that the interruption issue has been addressed, and they are currently monitoring the effectiveness of the fix.

CNBC cited four informed sources reporting that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup Dark Side of the Moon had discussions this year with several emerging cloud service providers operating data centers in Europe, seeking to rent computing power provided by NVIDIA GPUs. Three of the sources stated that Dark Side of the Moon primarily sought to rent NVIDIA's latest Blackwell series chips; one source indicated that the two parties had discussed renting a computing cluster deployed in Europe, consisting of 8,000 or more Blackwell chips.The sources said that Dark Side of the Moon mainly hopes to utilize these chips for AI model inference while also intending to acquire model training computing power. The United States currently prohibits the export of NVIDIA's most advanced AI chips to China, but existing laws have not granted regulatory agencies broad authority to restrict Chinese companies from remotely using these chips through overseas cloud services. Some cloud service providers and financing institutions, concerned about the U.S. tightening remote usage restrictions, have sought to charge higher advance payments, with proposals requiring Dark Side of the Moon to pay advance payments 30% to 50% higher than those of non-Chinese clients. Dark Side of the Moon was established in 2023 and owns the Kimi series models.

According to Gelonghui, the DeepSeek Harness team released data on the evening of November 5, showing that as of November 4, the daily active users of DeepSeek Harness, based on users utilizing the official API, have reached 1.54 million, with daily token consumption of approximately 92 trillion.The data indicates that on September 30, the daily active users of DeepSeek Harness (7-day average) were 271,000, reaching 429,000 on October 7, and climbing to 1.54 million on November 4, an increase of over one million in just one month.

The state of Arkansas in the United States has filed a lawsuit against the prediction market platform Kalshi, demanding that it cease the alleged illegal gambling activities. The state seeks compensation, recovery of unpaid taxes, and civil penalties in the lawsuit.Meanwhile, Kalshi continues to advance its federal appeal regarding the enforcement issues of gambling laws in various states.

The Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily reporter learned from multiple sources that the venture capital firm Lisi Capital, which participated in the previous round of financing for DeepSeek, continues to secure an investment share in DeepSeek's new round of financing, with the participating entity being its subsidiary Tianjin Lisi Xing Shen Equity Investment Partnership (Limited Partnership) (Xing Shen Fund). As multiple listed companies disclose their funding progress and business information updates, the fund size has increased from the previously disclosed 2.64 billion yuan to 6.02 billion yuan, and was ultimately confirmed at 7.52 billion yuan, with the funds already paid in.Public announcements show that Zhihu announced on September 6 that it plans to invest 1.5 billion yuan through its wholly-owned subsidiary to participate in the Xing Shen Fund, which completed registration with the Asset Management Association of China on September 15; Tongchen Beijian disclosed in late September that it participated with its own funds of 50 million yuan when the fund size was 2.64 billion yuan. On October 9, Zhongwang Fabric announced its intention to invest 50 million yuan, at which time the subscribed amount had increased to 6.02 billion yuan. On October 21, Tongchen Beijian disclosed that it received notice that the fundraising scale had increased from 2.64 billion yuan to 7.52 billion yuan, the fundraising has been completed and all funds have been paid in; Perfect World, Te Bao Biotechnology, and others subsequently confirmed this scale. According to Qichacha, the Xing Shen Fund has a total of 41 partners, including the executive partner Tianjin Lisi Ming Tang and 40 limited partners, with a total subscribed capital of 7.52 billion yuan.The reporter compiled that 13 listed companies and their related funding entities have a total subscribed amount of 3.495 billion yuan, accounting for approximately 46.48% of the total fund size. Zhejiang Innovation Deep Intelligent Venture Capital Partnership has subscribed 1.4 billion yuan, making it the second-largest contributor; along with the two funds of Zhejiang Province, Ke Chuang Zhan Xin and Ke Chuang Wei Lai, each subscribing 50 million yuan, the three Zhejiang state-owned entities have a total subscription of 1.5 billion yuan, while Wuxi Chanfang Guosheng Innovation Development Equity Investment Partnership has subscribed 80 million yuan. A person familiar with the situation stated that Lisi is one of the market-oriented institutions that obtained a larger share, while other market-oriented institutions typically have quotas ranging from 3 billion yuan to 4 billion yuan. Zhihu previously announced that the Xing Shen Fund adopts a blind pool structure, and this person indicated that the actual allocation may still be highly concentrated in DeepSeek. The reporter had previously sought confirmation from Lisi Capital on whether the Xing Shen Fund participated in this round of financing, but had not received a clear response by the time of publication.

The cybersecurity venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise a total of $490 million for two new funds, with neither fund recording sales at the time of filing.

According to The Defiant, a group supported by Cboe has filed a lawsuit regarding the approval of individual stock perpetual contracts by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and is seeking emergency relief to prevent the relevant contracts from being listed as securities futures.The lawsuit names Coinbase, Kalshi, and Bitnomial as defendants. Kalshi is a prediction market platform regulated by the CFTC, while Bitnomial operates a cryptocurrency derivatives trading business. The plaintiffs hope to intervene with emergency relief before the relevant contracts are officially listed.

On the afternoon of November 3, a reporter from Yicai tested and found that the dialogue function of DeepSeek, a subsidiary of the artificial intelligence company Deep Pursuit, was unavailable, with the chat interface displaying "Server busy, please try again later."The official status page of DeepSeek shows that starting from 16:58 on the same day, there were partial interruptions to the DeepSeek website and API, and the official team is investigating the issue to identify the cause. Affected services include the dialogue service, DeepSeek V4 Pro API service, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service.

According to a report by the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on November 3, reporters learned from multiple industry chain insiders that the artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's next-generation large model, DeepSeek V5, plans to be trained based on Huawei's Ascend chips. Previously, the Ascend chips were mainly used for inference tasks of the DeepSeek large model.The report stated that at the end of September this year, DeepSeek open-sourced infrastructure components for the Huawei Ascend computing power platform, covering the TileLang high-level language compilation tool, computing libraries, and distributed communication libraries, which correspond one-to-one with the previously open-sourced components for the NVIDIA platform. The report was written by Huang Xinyi, a reporter for the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily.

DeepSeek showcased the creator mode of the AI workstation Harness. Harness currently offers four modes: Standard, PTC, Minimal, and Creator. Among them, the Creator mode allows users to directly let AI develop plugins, modify software interfaces, and then install them for use in Harness without needing to write code themselves.Users only need to describe their requirements, and the AI will check Harness's development interface, write the plugin code, complete the installation, and check the running effects. The installed plugins can be saved for continued use the next time they open the application. In addition to adding new interfaces, it can also provide tools for the Agent, enabling it to perform operations it originally could not. For example, users can have AI create a video editing tool with a timeline, a paper reader that supports underlining and annotations, as well as generate poster design tools, interactive 3D models, or even change the Harness interface to a pixel game style.In the official demonstration, the AI created a floating tomato timer, writing over 600 lines of front-end code, completing the installation and operation, taking a total of 5 minutes and 24 seconds. DeepSeek also released the prompts for 7 demonstration cases. Some works were modified through multiple rounds of dialogue, and it is not possible to achieve the same effect by simply inputting a single sentence.

According to Cointelegraph, several major investment platforms in India are expanding their channels for investing in U.S. stocks to meet the growing demand for overseas asset allocation among local investors.The report states that the relatively weak performance of the domestic stock market, the depreciation of the rupee, and the lack of sufficient AI-related listed companies in the local market are driving Indian investors to seek investment opportunities in U.S. tech stocks.

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has announced a design plan aimed at enhancing the autonomy of AI coding assistants, allowing them to reduce human intervention while performing multiple tasks. According to a report by the South China Morning Post on Sunday, the plan originates from a paper published by the DeepSeek Harness team, with the core goal of reducing the human effort required to coordinate and monitor multiple AI agents.The team pointed out that managing multiple agents consumes human attention and cited a statement from the paper that "the single-task limit depends on model capability, while the multi-task limit depends on human attention." The paper also stated that one person can only supervise 3 to 5 active AI agent conversations at the same time. The proposed system will allocate tasks and coordinate work among the agents, allowing humans to free up energy to review results and make decisions.This proposal comes at a time of intense competition among AI developers, involving American companies Anthropic and OpenAI. Previously, Cointelegraph reported in October last year that, according to data from blockchain analysis platform CoinGlass, Chinese AI models outperformed their American counterparts in cryptocurrency trading, with DeepSeek being the only AI model in an experiment to achieve a 9.1% positive unrealized return, while the development cost of this model was only a small fraction of that of its American competitors.