ACN Daily Brief: Friday, November 13, 2026

0:01 Headlines

Nvidia's former CEO agrees to testify before Congress. Conductor's cloud goes read-only. And Brave lets AI agents pay for search. From AI Coding News, this is your daily AI news brief for Friday, November 13th.

0:19 Jensen Huang agrees to testify

Our top story: former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress. Nvidia says Huang resigned this week, effective immediately, and finance chief Colette Kress is interim CEO. Lawmakers asked for his testimony after reports of an alleged relationship with a woman suspected of spying for China. House Foreign Affairs chair Brian Mast says the date is still being set, and CNBC reports he'll testify before Thanksgiving. Why it matters: Nvidia's chips run much of today's AI, and the company is now without its founder at the top.

0:52 Conductor Cloud goes read-only

Next, Conductor. Conductor's cloud service goes read-only today. Conductor is an app that runs several AI coding agents at once, each on its own copy of a project. Meta bought the startup last week. On November 20, Conductor Cloud shuts down, and the company starts deleting the data stored there. Why it matters: teams that used Conductor Cloud have one week before that data is gone.

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1:42 Brave lets AI agents pay for search

And finally, Brave. Brave's Search API now takes payments from AI agents. It uses x402, an open payment protocol. An agent sends a search, gets back a price, pays in the USDC stablecoin, and gets its results, with no account or API key. Each search costs half a cent. Why it matters: AI agents can now buy web search on their own, one request at a time.

2:08 Outro

That's your brief for Friday, November 13th. Sources are linked in the description. ACN is brought to you by Levr, the control plane for your coding agents, at levr.one.