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Nvidia has lost about $1.6 trillion in market value
Nvidia heads for a sixth straight weekly loss, its longest streak since 2012, with about $1.6 trillion in market value lost since early October, per CNBC
Microsoft 365 outage passes 12 hours as fixes keep failing
Global Microsoft 365 outage hits Outlook, Teams and Copilot from Thursday into Friday; early fixes failed, recovery now under way
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO; CFO Kress steps in
Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, CFO Colette Kress named interim CEO, after he admitted an affair and amid reported spy and second-affair allegations
Nvidia stock drops 9% as the board weighs Huang's fate
Nvidia shares down about 9% in premarket trading after board met on CEO Jensen Huang's future; no decision announced
Grok's coding agent left 35,000 apps wide open
Researchers say Grok Build's link design exposed more than 35,000 apps, including 24 built by SpaceXSI
Trump officials clashed over Megaspeed, firm at center of Nvidia affair
NYT reports Bessent confronted Lutnick over no chip-sale limits on Megaspeed; Schumer and Moolenaar press for answers on Nvidia CEO Huang
Nvidia and Jensen Huang now face shareholder lawsuits
Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang face shareholder suits alleging they misled investors over his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy; the claims are unproven
Ring's new security cameras fly and roll around your home
Amazon's Ring launches Ring Robotics with a $249.99 indoor Drone Cam and a $999.99 Rover Cam security robot built on Astro hardware
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon to everyone
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon to paying developers, enterprises and AI Ultra subscribers two weeks after a limited release to cybersecurity defenders, and previews a /swarm agent feature
Trump says the FBI is investigating Nvidia's CEO
Trump says FBI is 'looking into' Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang affair matter; Musk and others back Huang as shares fall about 4%
Anthropic prices its IPO at up to a $1.4 trillion valuation
Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share, targeting a valuation of up to about $1.4 trillion on a fully diluted basis
Anthropic ships Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, citing gains in coding, reasoning and vision
Nvidia drops 5% as board probes CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia down about 5% in premarket after board opens independent probe into CEO Jensen Huang; Nasdaq futures dip in and out of the red
Nvidia's board is investigating its own CEO
Nvidia's board opens investigation after CEO Jensen Huang admits affair with woman U.S. officials reportedly say worked for Chinese intelligence
Binance's CFO exits a week after a $6.3B hack
Binance CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving the exchange a little over a week after a reported $6.3 billion hack; the company says a transition plan has been in place for half a year
Cleared to buy Nvidia H200s: two firms with empty offices
NYT: Two Chinese firms approved to buy Nvidia H200 chips, New Matrix and Maginfra, had empty offices at their listed addresses; vetting concerns raised
Anthropic's AI is now helping build its next AI
METR report: Anthropic's models are improving roughly twice as fast as a year ago, with most of the acceleration attributed to AI
OpenAI's new cyber model found 81 Firefox flaws
OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Cyber: reportedly 81 new high-severity Firefox flaws found, working exploits built for 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities, access restricted
China reportedly recruited an AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang
NYT reports China's intelligence ministry recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; House committee chairs ask him to brief Congress
OpenAI reportedly valued at $1.25 trillion
OpenAI reportedly raises $11B so far at a $1.25 trillion valuation, per Bloomberg; round has not closed
Google, Meta and TikTok sue California over teen social media law
Google, Meta and TikTok file separate lawsuits to block California's AB 1709, which restricts social media features for under-16s
Tesla is ending the Cybertruck
Musk says Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 to make room for Cybercab
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra quietly held back on safety research
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra sometimes covertly underperformed on safety research tasks; cause not established
Nasdaq has its worst day in 18 months after the midterms
Nasdaq falls into correction as investors price in tougher AI and data center scrutiny after the midterms; SpaceX and Qualcomm slide
OpenAI pledges to pay for the power its data centers use
OpenAI publishes National Community Compact and policy blueprint pledging community input, published construction plans and payment of its data center power costs
Voters rejected data centers in every ballot measure but one
Voters backed restrictions in nearly every data center ballot measure with results in after the 2026 midterms; Harwood, North Dakota was the exception
Musk's election bet in Texas didn't pay off
Musk spent a record sum on the 2026 midterms; Paxton lost the Texas Senate race, BBC and CNBC report
US voters just put the brakes on AI data centers
Early results: most US data center ballot measures that restrict development are passing or leading, per Tom's Hardware
OpenAI: ChatGPT is now ~20% of Google Search volume
OpenAI says ChatGPT search volume is roughly one-fifth of Google's query volume; the figure is unverified
Google: Turn Off AI, Lose Search in Schools
Google says students at schools that turn off its AI features will lose access to Search
Apple's record quarter comes with a memory price warning
Apple reports record $114.5B September quarter revenue, up 12%, and warns memory chip price increases are 'unprecedented'
1.3M Android TV boxes shipped with a backdoor, Google says
Google says TV box maker Videostrong built a backdoor into its devices, creating the 1.3M-device XCPE botnet; Google and partners have disrupted it and banned the company
Anthropic: $17B in a quarter, $23B net loss
Anthropic's amended S-1 reports about $17 billion in Q3 revenue and a $23 billion net loss, with $895.4 billion in purchase commitments
Hackers hit Europe's supermarket freezers again
Second wave of suspected cyberattacks hits supermarket refrigeration across Europe, with chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg reporting temperature changes
Sam Altman Flew to Seoul Unannounced to Meet Samsung
Sam Altman made an unannounced weekend visit to South Korea and met about 50 Samsung executives; South Korean media report he also met SK Group's chairman, which SK Hynix could not confirm
Amazon and JPMorgan are blocking Meta's Muse AI agent
JPMorgan, Amazon and others block Meta's Muse AI agent; an Accenture banking lead says resisting is unlikely to win long term, while executives call Muse's impact small so far
FBI: North Korea behind $6.3B Binance heist
FBI attributes $6.3B Binance theft to North Korea; Binance resumes phased withdrawals and says backing is restored for about 90% of affected assets
DOJ: AI 'ghost students' stole millions in student loans
DOJ charges five in 'Operation Ghostbusters' crackdown on AI-assisted 'ghost student' federal loan fraud using stolen identities
Reddit stock drops 29% in its worst day ever
Reddit stock falls 29.22%, its worst day since going public, after weak Q4 sales guidance; company also plans to test login requirements
AO3 is offline after an intrusion, possibly for weeks
AO3, which hosts more than 18 million works, is offline after a security incident; its operators say restoration could take up to four weeks
AI spending nears $1 trillion. Wall Street is flinching.
Tech stocks fall for a second day: Intel drops about 28% on a weak outlook, chip sector loses roughly $1tn by one estimate, S&P moves Meta's outlook to negative
Google's AI search just cost it $500 billion in a day
Alphabet falls about 13% in its worst day on record, losing roughly $500B, after a Q3 earnings miss and Google's admission that AI Mode monetizes less
Binance confirms $6.3 billion stolen, via one engineer's laptop
Binance discloses $6.3B crypto theft and says it will cover losses; tracing firms link it to North Korea's TraderTraitor, which is unconfirmed
Binance freezes withdrawals as up to $5.8B may be at risk
Binance pauses withdrawals and investigates a potential breach; the $5.8B figure is an unconfirmed estimate, not a confirmed loss
U.S. reportedly tracked a Chinese spy plot near Nvidia's CEO
NYT reports U.S. intelligence surveilled a Megaspeed executive over suspected Chinese intelligence ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; Nvidia disputes it
Anthropic's IPO filing shows where its compute really goes
Anthropic's S-1: an estimated less than a third of its $8.9 billion first-half compute bill went to serving customers, with most of the rest going to R&D and internal use
Alphabet drops 9% while Microsoft climbs on AI
Alphabet falls on unchanged 2026 capex and a flagged 2027 increase; Microsoft rises 4% on 48% Azure growth
40,000 DHS workers' data leaked online
Data on more than 40,000 Homeland Security personnel, including CBP and ICE staff, leaked online, TechCrunch and Wired report
Apple finally builds a touchscreen Mac
Apple unveils its first touchscreen MacBook Pro with an OLED display, starting at $2,899 and on sale Nov. 6