Edition #78

The One Thing

• Mexican truckers block California border crossing over B-1 visa crackdown

Signals

• New data shows on-time container shipping suffers biggest drop in 5 years
• Nvidia becomes one of world's biggest strategic tech backers as equity investments soar to $99 billion
• Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
• Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
• Amazon Shipping readies 2026 holiday delivery surcharges
• Amazon’s ad auction surcharges secretly bilked brands of billions, FTC alleges
• Marketers say usage rights are driving up the price to work with creators
• The inflation genie could be out of the bottle — and bond markets are sounding the alarm
• The ‘Great Flattening’ rolls on as Uber lays off middle managers
• Company’s inability to explain one manager’s firing over another keeps FMLA claim alive
• 153 Million Driver’s Licenses Were Allegedly Put Up for Sale on the Dark Web. Now the FBI Is Investigating

Watch Your Back

• Plex Urges Immediate Updates After Patching Multiple Undisclosed Security Flaws
• Google Releases Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited V8 Zero-Day
• GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests
• French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000
• Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules

Antics

• Jensen Huang: Hugging Face approached Nvidia’s Huang weeks ahead of $12.9B acquisition, CEO tells CNBC
• OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
• Kevin O’Leary Says Zohran Mamdani’s Biggest Advantage Comes Down to This 1 Hire

What's Being Built

• Nex — Claude Cowork for high-volume GTM workflows
• MagiCrew — Give everyone their own AI workforce in one platform
• Omi — Ask your computer anything you saw or heard