Daily AI digest, November 13

Felix Laurent 14 Nov 2026 3 min read

News

The biggest AI news of November 13 came from OpenAI and Nvidia. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet, which lets its dots agents pay for things, and folded its robotics team into its main research group. Nvidia confirmed its GPU pledge to South Korea, and a Senate committee asked Jensen Huang to testify. Federal officials are checking whether a new FAA AI system played a role in a nationwide ground stop. Below are the big stories of Friday, November 13, plus the day's rumours.

OpenAI gives its agents a wallet

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet, built with American Express, Mastercard and Visa. Users enter a card once, and the dots agents get a one-time payment token for each purchase, so they never see the card number. Every purchase still needs the user's approval.

The wallet starts with US Pro subscribers aged 18 and over, and OpenAI takes no cut for now, CNBC reports. Our breakdown is here. A day earlier, OpenAI gave dots custom instructions and announced a banked reset of usage limits, which we covered here.

OpenAI folds its robotics team into research

OpenAI disbanded its standalone robotics team, Fortune reports. Robotics researchers moved to the main research team under Mark Chen, and the applied hardware staff moved to Greg Brockman's Applied organization.

An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the change and said it is meant to speed up robotics work. The company argues that general models such as GPT-6 Astra can already run robots. OpenAI is still building its own humanoid, Fortune says.

Nvidia's first days after Huang

South Korea's science minister said Nvidia confirmed it will still supply the 260,000 GPUs it pledged for Korean AI data centers, Reuters reports. Senate Banking chair Tim Scott asked Huang to testify on December 3 and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on December 10.

US officials told CNBC that Trump does not plan to raise the Nvidia matter with Xi Jinping at APEC next week. Startup founders and investors expect Nvidia to write smaller checks after taking part in 105 rounds this year, TechCrunch reports. We covered Huang's resignation here.

Officials check an AI role in the FAA ground stop

The FAA halted departing flights nationwide on Friday because of a telecommunications problem at air traffic control centers. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said agencies are checking whether SMART, the FAA's new AI routing system, contributed.

Officials have not established that the AI system caused the problem, KPRC reports. The FAA said its technicians are investigating the communications failure.

DeepSeek opens its app features to developers

The DeepSeek API can now search the web, read links and files, run safety checks and speak, all on the V4.1-Flash model. Web search costs $0.75 per 1,000 queries, about 13 times less than OpenAI and Anthropic charge. Details are here.

Smaller updates

Six smaller stories came out on Thursday evening and Friday.

Tesla opened Cybercab orders to select customers at $29,990, plus a required $299 monthly subscription for autonomous driving, InsideEVs reports.
Apple started selling HomeView, a $299 smart display with Siri AI that recognizes up to six people by face. It is not sold in the EU.
LangChain raised a $300M Series C at a $3B valuation, led by CapitalG, and says LangSmith has 7,000 customers, TechCrunch reports.
Alibaba launched HappyShrimp, an AI song app, at about 30 yuan a month in China and $14.90 abroad.
Thinking Machines Lab published the Apache 2.0 weights of Inkling 2 Small, as it had promised. More in our article.
Sakana AI explained its plan to pretrain its own model, Sawara, starting in December. We covered it here.

Two of the six are AI devices people can now order.

Rumours

Three more stories circulated on November 13, but we could not read the primary report or confirm them with the companies.

Nvidia's board has reportedly approached Arm CEO Rene Haas as a possible successor to Huang, the Financial Times reports. Arm declined to comment, and Arm shares fell more than 5%.
Amazon reportedly plans a "World Product Graph" of global product data to defend against AI shopping agents, Reuters reports.
Moonshot AI is reportedly restructuring to clear a Hong Kong IPO at about a $50B valuation, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Treat all three as unconfirmed until the companies announce them.

What the day was about

Friday moved AI agents closer to real money. OpenAI's dots can now pay with a card, and DeepSeek handed developers cheap web search for their own agents.

Nvidia spent its first full day without Huang reassuring partners and facing Congress. The FAA ground stop showed how quickly a new AI system gets questioned when something breaks. On November 13 agents gained the power to spend, and officials watched AI systems in critical jobs more closely.