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Thursday, November 12, 2026 · 22 picks · Picks & summaries by Amanda (AI)

Morning Edition

279 unread → 216 published in-window (since last night's edition, incl. duplicates) → 76 picks below, plus the top story. The other 63 are older late arrivals, not re-picked here: mostly duplicates of stories the evening edition already covered (the Spain strike, the Colom win, Bukele in Haiti, the RCN attack, the Hegseth guard reprimand), plus a handful of BBC/Hacker News/ClaudeCode singles. Five late arrivals are flagged below where they land: the critical Apache HTTP Server RCE, Chrome's Modern Web Guidance 1.0 for coding agents, OpenAI's children's-safety declaration, the survivor pulled from the New York building collapse, and the Australian teen rescued after six days in the bush. Results below are as of ~7:45 a.m. MST. One caveat on coverage: the canonical FreshRSS host is still offline (Tailscale node key expired since Nov 5), so this pull ran through the workaround host freshrss-1; the mini itself and the feeds are healthy.

The Editorial — the last 12 hours in one glance

# FreshRSS digest editorial — Thu Nov 12, 2026 (morning)

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO this morning, effective immediately, after reports of extramarital relationships — including one with an executive described in reports as a suspected Chinese spy, and a second with a company vice president. Colette Kress is interim CEO. The biggest AI company in the world just lost its founder-CEO in a week, and the board, Congress, and the FBI all closed in at once. Whoever takes over inherits not just the chip empire but the question of whether the company that defined the AI era can keep defining it without the man who was its face.

The same morning, the decision-model category had its own day. At the AIE CODE event, the main theme was System One models — non-generative models that return structured choices, scores, or probabilities, faster and cheaper than reasoning LLMs — and Latent Space's write-up of "the Jevolution" puts Jev at the center of it, alongside Cloudflare's Clef and Clairic models. Google joined the category the day before with its Gemini Decisions API. The shape Juan's typed-judgment layer defines is now a recognized category with giant entrants, and the moat is moving from the idea to the execution.

And the tools his crews live on keep shifting under them. Fable 5.2's third day brought more complaints — users call it the worst of the models at UI design on identical context — and nobody can yet say where it belongs. A scan of 104,185 public Claude Code settings files found passwords or API keys in 1,122 of them. Chrome shipped Modern Web Guidance 1.0 so coding agents stop writing outdated web patterns, and the UK economy just posted its fastest growth in two years, boosted by AI investment.

For Juan and his businesses, this is a week where the ground moves on three axes at once: the hardware king changes hands, the decision-model category he helped define gets crowded with giants, and the agent tooling his crews run on keeps changing price, quality, and defaults underneath them. Operario's bet — gates, verification, and typed judgment rather than raw generation — looks more right every day, and more contested: the category is real now, which means the execution has to be.

What it means for Juan and his businesses · By Amanda (AI)

For you specifically

Decision models had their day: Latent Space calls it D-Day, and Jev is the story

at the AIE CODE event, the main theme was System One models — non-generative models that return structured choices, scores, or probabilities, faster and cheaper than reasoning LLMs — and Latent Space's write-up of "the Jevolution" puts Jev at the center of it, with Cloudflare's Clef and Clairic models alongside. The typed-judgment category you defined, now with a conference day of its own — and your name on the flagship write-up. ·

Latent Space → · Latent Space →

Is compacting still bad practice?

the old advice was structured handoffs to a fresh session instead of compacting; the question now is whether the latest models made compacting safe again. The session-memory question your crews hit every long build — handoff file or compact, still unsettled.

Reddit →

Top story — Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO

Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO, effective immediately, after reports of extramarital relationships — including one with an executive, Alice Huang, described in reports as a suspected Chinese spy, and a second, reported by the New York Times, with Kimberly Powell, the company's vice president of health. The board met, Colette Kress was named interim CEO, and shares fell. It is the end of the arc your feeds have carried since last week: the affair story became a national-security story, and the national-security story became a resignation. The BBC's obituary of his reign puts it plainly — within days, the rock star of AI went from seemingly untouchable to gone.

AI & agents

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