Komyshuvakha: Struck Again
By Emory Quill · Sunday, November 8, 2026
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Wars rage on and AI is playing a role.
Komyshuvakha: Struck Again
On Monday, November 2, Russian forces dropped nine large glide bombs on a school in Komyshuvakha, a village in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, near the front line. Residents had gathered at the school to collect humanitarian aid. At least 55 people were killed. Many of the recovered bodies are still unidentified, and DNA testing continues.
On Sunday, rescue workers went back into the rubble, still searching for around 50 missing people. A Russian drone struck them as they searched. No one was hurt in Sunday’s strike, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. The drone damaged specialized rescue equipment.
Mykola Krasnov, 72, told the Associated Press on Saturday that he was still looking for his wife. He had heard no word from rescuers.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called Sunday’s strike on the rescue workers “absolute cynicism and brutality.”
Ukraine’s military intelligence said on Saturday it had identified seven Russian servicemen allegedly involved in the November 2 bombing, including the officer it says planned the attack. That is an allegation, not a finding. Russia’s Defense Ministry gave a different account. It said its forces had targeted Ukrainian military units in the area.
American officials will mediate working-level talks between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11.
Gaza
In Gaza, the ceasefire holds on paper. But not on the ground.
It took effect in October 2025. The killing did not stop with it.
At least four Palestinians were killed on Saturday, including a teacher, Diaa Abu al-Rous, killed in shelling of the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to al-Awda Hospital. At least six have been killed over the past 48 hours, according to the health ministry.
Two more were killed on Sunday, and 12 injured, in attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources.
No single total for the dead since the ceasefire is settled tonight. The figures in circulation disagree, and they have not been reconciled.
Sudan: The Lights Go Out in Damazin
In Damazin, the dialysis centre runs on electricity. Patients come to have their blood cleaned by machines, and the machines need power. This weekend the power went out across the whole city, and the treatment stopped.
Clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and allied fighters reached Damazin, the capital of Blue Nile State, on Friday and Saturday. A drone strike hit the city’s electricity substation. The strike cut power across the city and stopped work at the local dialysis centre, leaving patients without treatment.
Damazin is one of the army’s principal strongholds in the southeast. The alliance of the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North retook the strategic area of Bakori on Thursday and ordered its fighters to advance on the city.
On Friday, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region called the drone attacks on Sudan’s power facilities war crimes. The attacks have hit electricity facilities across the country for weeks. The Merowe Dam, on the River Nile about 350 kilometers north of Khartoum, is now the country’s last major source of electricity, supplying more than 70 percent of it.
The United Nations expects to hold talks with the Rapid Support Forces and their allies before Christmas, focused on a possible transition to civilian rule.
The wars run on their own counts. At home, another count is being argued in court.
America Votes
The count is not over. Two Senate races are now in court, and the House count is still coming in.
The Associated Press had called 254 seats in the House of Representatives for the Democrats and 162 for the Republicans by Saturday, with 19 races still uncalled. The Democrats passed the 218 seats needed for a majority on Wednesday morning. The newest call came in South Carolina, where Democrat Nancy Lacore beat Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt in the First District, flipping a seat the Republicans held.
In the Senate, the count stands at 54 Democrats to 44 Republicans, with two races still uncalled. Neither race changes who controls the chamber. Both decide the final margin.
In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by 2,574 votes, with about 97 percent counted. About 20,000 ballots are still outstanding. The fight is over affidavit ballots. These are ballots cast by voters whose names were not on the poll books, or who did not have an acceptable photo ID.
Hyde-Smith’s lawyers have asked all 82 counties to separate, secure, and preserve every affidavit ballot. Colom’s lawyers say the demand has no basis in Mississippi law. Voters who cast an affidavit ballot without a photo ID have until Tuesday, November 10, to fix it at their circuit clerk’s office. Counties must certify their results by November 13. Mississippi has no recount right for a candidate.
In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola leads Republican Senator Dan Sullivan by 637 votes, 102,962 to 102,325, with about three-quarters counted. Her campaign sued state officials on Friday, asking for records that identify rejected absentee ballots and the reasons they were rejected. The state says those records are confidential. The suit does not claim any specific ballot was wrongly rejected, and it does not ask the court to stop the count. The state’s next count comes Tuesday, November 10. Absentee ballots can arrive through November 18, the day the state runs its ranked-choice count.
Nothing is certified anywhere yet. The new Congress sits on January 3, 2027.
The count is a question of who gets to decide. The next story asks the same question inside a bank.
The Bank Draws a Line
Goldman Sachs, one of the biggest banks in the world, has taken its advanced coding tools away from its bankers and traders, and left them with its engineers.
The tools are Anthropic’s Claude Code and Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. They write computer code from plain-language instructions. Under guidance updated in October, only engineers and quantitative strategists may use them.
This is not a ban on AI at the bank. Goldman’s own AI assistant, built on models including ChatGPT and Gemini, stays available to everyone at the firm. What changed is who may use the coding tools that build things.
A Goldman spokesman, Nick Carcaterra, said the bank spent a period experimenting, and weighed productivity and risk, before giving the tools to “those who are best suited to leverage them for the long term.”
In July, Marco Argenti, the bank’s chief information officer, had praised staff outside engineering for “vibe coding.” They would sketch a prototype with AI and hand it to engineers to finish. That phase is over.
About 12,000 of Goldman’s roughly 47,500 employees are engineers. The rest, about three in four, now work without the coding tools.
There is an irony on the record. Goldman Sachs is a lead underwriter on Anthropic’s stock-market listing. The bank is selling shares in the company whose tool it has just taken away from most of its own staff.
A bank answers to its own rules about who may build. Jensen Huang answers to his board, and to Congress.
Jensen Huang: Under Investigation
Reuters reports Nvidia probes whether CEO, Jensen Huang, was the target of a foreign intelligence effort.
The company said its board has opened an independent investigation, run by independent directors with outside lawyers. Nvidia said it has no reason to believe American national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised.
The investigation follows a report in the New York Times last month. The Times reported that American spy agencies concluded Alice Huang, a senior executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore company that buys Nvidia’s chips, was an intelligence asset passing information to Beijing. The Times also reported a close relationship between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang. Alice Huang is not related to Jensen Huang. She is a Chinese citizen.
That is what the reporting alleges. No court has tested it. Neither Alice Huang nor Megaspeed has been charged with any crime.
In a message to employees, Huang said he had been unfaithful to his wife and took full responsibility. The message did not name Alice Huang. Nvidia says he stays on as chief executive “without interruption.”
Huang also said Nvidia reviewed every graphics processor it shipped to Megaspeed and found no evidence any had been illegally diverted to China. That is Nvidia’s account.
One analyst, Dan Ives, said there is a risk Huang could be removed, depending on what the board’s investigation finds.
Three chairmen of the United States House of Representatives wrote to Huang on November 4, asking him to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18 about his contacts with Alice Huang. They asked him to answer by November 11, or propose another date. That request still stands. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declined to comment today.
His answer is due Wednesday, November 11. What he says, and whether he appears, is the next beat of this story.
An investigation asks what one man knew. An exchange is still answering for what its customers lost.
Two More Coins, One Departure
Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange that lost about $6.3 billion to hackers on October 29, restored withdrawals for two more coins on Sunday. Customers can now take out Hyperliquid, known as HYPE, and Aptos, known as APT.
The exchange has been reopening withdrawals in batches since November 1, coin by coin, as security checks finish. HYPE and APT were on a list Binance said it would restore by the end of next week. They came back early. Four more from that list, INJ, PLASMA, NEAR, and LTC, are still waiting.
Binance says its proof of reserves is ready. The proof covers 44 tokens, from a snapshot taken at midnight on November 4. It lets each customer check their own balance is there. No independent check of the proof has been published.
On Saturday, Binance said its chief financial officer, Kaiser Ng, is leaving after more than five years. He will be replaced by Justin Yek, formerly a finance executive at the fintech company Airwallex.
The two sides still do not agree on the size of the theft. Binance puts it at $6.34 billion. Elliptic, the blockchain analytics firm, puts it at $6.43 billion. About $3.11 billion remains in addresses linked to the theft, according to Elliptic.
Editorial — Who Holds the Tool
Start in Damazin, a city in Sudan, where the dialysis machines went quiet when the power died. The patients were still there. The treatment was not.
Go to Komyshuvakha, a village in Ukraine, where rescue workers climbed back into the rubble on Sunday, still looking for their neighbours. A drone found them there.
Cross the ocean to Mississippi and Alaska, where voters are waiting for courts to tell them whether the ballots they cast will count.
Sit down at a desk at Goldman Sachs, where three workers in four found the building tools gone this month. Someone above them decided their hands were not the right hands.
End in a boardroom, where Nvidia’s directors are asking what Jensen Huang knew, and when. He has already answered for the message he sent his own staff. The harder questions are still open.
Five places. One shape. A tool exists. Someone else pays when it is aimed badly, or used carelessly, or kept from the people it was meant to serve.
Responsibility starts with the people who build the thing, and it flows down. To the companies that deploy it. To the officials who use it. To the voters who are asked to trust it. It does not wash off along the way. And at the point of action, the machine bears the actor’s share of what it does.
So the question tonight is not abstract. It is sitting in a dark dialysis centre. It is standing in the rubble. It is waiting at a clerk’s office window. When the tool is in your hands, who answers for what it does?