Friday, November 13, 2026

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Quick hits

  • Gödel’s hidden theorems

    Kurt Gödel, the logician whose theorems reshaped mathematics, left 1,009 pages of notebooks in an obsolete shorthand.

  • Doomsday, postponed

    In 1960 the physicist Heinz von Foerster titled a paper in the journal Science “Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026.” That’s the date on this edition.

  • OpenAI’s robots

    OpenAI has broken up its stand-alone robotics team and moved the researchers onto its main research and product teams, it told Fortune.

  • Microsoft’s ads

    If you advertise with Microsoft, Thursday’s outage may show in your spend.

  • China’s banned chips

    Six AI models from Chinese labs, among them DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, contain number patterns that match Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, which the U.S. bars from sale to China.

  • Apify’s warning

    If you run scrapers on Apify, a service for collecting data from websites, set your stored data to Restricted.

  • OpenAI in Canada

    Canada’s biggest news publishers, among them the public broadcaster CBC and The Globe and Mail, can sue OpenAI at home over their claim that it copied their journalism to train ChatGPT.

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