16 Issuers Object to OKXICE’s Stock-Token Plan
By October 2026, 16 companies had objected to OKXICE’s stock-token proposal. Nasdaq had an SEC-approved rule for a DTC pilot, while Kraken was already selling tokenized U.S. securities to EU customers.
Nvidia reportedly cut its Asian chip roster by over half
Nvidia reportedly cut its authorized Asian AI-chip client roster by more than half in July 2026. Its new tracking requirement for Southeast Asian Cloud Partner applicants puts the location of rented compute under supplier scrutiny.
40,000 CVEs Can't Prove a Patched Server Is Clean
The CVE program logged more than 40,000 entries in 2024, while NIST narrowed detailed analysis in 2026. React exposure data and Exchange cleanup warnings show what a shared identifier cannot establish about a deployed system.
Midterms Put Half of AI Data-Center Plans Under Scrutiny
Democratic wins put 50% of proposed AI data centers in line for more scrutiny, even as tech shares rose. Anthropic pressed ahead with IPO plans after a $23.3B quarterly loss.
OpenAI’s Plaid Reach Tests Open Banking Consent
OpenAI’s US ChatGPT Pro finance tools use Plaid connectivity to more than 12,000 institutions, while some US banks are reportedly restricting agents that appear to exceed customer instructions.
Apple says the App Store has over 100K apps built for the iPhone Duo and “thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day”
Even though a lot of apps have been updated for the iPhone Duo, they sometimes still have issues.
Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang
U.S. intelligence concluded that Alice Huang, a Chinese business executive who developed a close relationship with Nvidia's leader …
Researcher: *sshole, a decade-old OpenSSH flaw, lets attackers use a password of 256+ characters to log into passwordless accounts on some musl Linux systems
A newly disclosed flaw involving OpenSSH and musl, dubbed “*sshole,” allows attackers to log in to certain Alpine Linux …
Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users
Starting on Friday, everyone using Meta's Muse agent and Meta AI gets new models the company trained using Muse Wonder, its frontier model.
AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a quantum computing question open since 2008
The Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture is now a theorem. — Open since 2008, the conjecture of Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis concerns …
Sources: Microsoft has been turning off rented computing capacity from Oracle after declining to renew a 2023 deal, because the hardware used older Nvidia chips
Microsoft Corp. is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle Corp., part of a larger reassessment of billions of dollars in cloud partnerships.
Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11B at a $1.25T valuation; the round could increase to as much as $20B in total
OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11 billion, the initial part of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Sources: Anthropic is continuing with plans to list before the Thanksgiving holiday this month, expecting to raise $80B-$100B at a valuation of $1.25T to $1.75T
Claude-maker intends to list before Thanksgiving despite brutal tech rout — Anthropic is pressing on with its high-stakes IPO …
US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion
The U.S. Treasury is moving to cut off crypto exchange MEXC from the U.S. financial system, alleging that it handled …
Fox closes its $22B Roku acquisition well ahead of the expected 2027 date; Anthony Wood joins Fox's board and will co-chair a new Tubi, Fox One, and Roku unit
Democrats, with Elizabeth Warren a top contender to chair Senate Banking, are poised to step up oversight of Nvidia over chip exports and circular financing
Nvidia Corp. is in for tougher scrutiny from a new Democratic majority in Congress that's set to demand answers …
Elon Musk says Tesla plans to wind down production of the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory around mid-2027 “to make room for increased Cybercab production”
The US DOJ indicts three foreign nationals for allegedly using AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys at major international law firms in a $129M+ fraud scheme
Federal prosecutors say the suspects posed as corporate executives and high-powered attorneys, using AI to convince employees to transfer millions of dollars.
Sources: TSMC is considering expanding into manufacturing 3D DRAM at the request of Nvidia, its biggest customer, amid memory chip shortages due to the AI boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is considering expanding into the advanced memory chip manufacturing sector …
Preliminary findings: the EU says TikTok violated the DSA by not preventing its recommendation algorithm from trapping users in harmful content “rabbit holes”
Public records appear to show SpaceX building a “Starbase supercomputer” in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans
Elon Musk moved early to build AI data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi and reaped the rewards.
Chicago-based data analytics company Ocient raised a $100M Series C co-led by Boka Capital and OCA Ventures to grow its agentic AI analytics business
Ocient Inc., the maker of a speedy data analytics platform, today said it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to expand …
Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units in Q3 2026, their lowest level in nearly three years; Apple's iPad shipments fell 27.5% YoY to ~11.58M
The global tablet market fell 23% year-over-year (YoY) to 32 million units in Q3 2026, marking its lowest shipment level in nearly three years …
CesiumAstro, which plans a 737-satellite LEO communications network at two altitudes, raised $730M at a $4.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.4B
CesiumAstro raised $730 million in its latest funding round, a cash infusion the Austin-based satellite manufacturer will use …
Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July
Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access …
Crusoe says Google has bought out its data center site in southeast Wyoming; Crusoe reportedly failed to lock in customers including Google for the project
Alphabet Inc.'s Google has bought out Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming, opting to take on the project itself …
Axon invests $1.2B in Skydio, whose autonomous drones are used by public safety agencies, the US military, and 32 allied nations, at a $5.2B pre-money valuation
The investment gives Axon a minority stake in the US drone manufacturer and strengthens an exclusive public safety partnership …
Sources: Democrats are eyeing Apple, Meta, and Elon Musk-led companies as early congressional investigation targets, after winning House and Senate majorities
Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept.
Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago
Employees at Microsoft, long known for its stability, are grappling with its decision to offer buyouts to 60,000 people as its spending priorities shift to AI
Within an hour of Microsoft's announcement of buyouts last week, employees rushed to an internal site to see whether they had been offered one.
Binance says CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving to “pursue a new venture” days after a $6.3B hack, citing a six-month transition plan, and names Justin Yek as CFO
Kaiser Ng, the chief financial officer at Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange …
Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption
A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.
Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul
BENGALURU — Recent college graduates in India could struggle to land technology jobs as companies automate entry-level coding …Forums:r/worldnewsForums:r/worldnews:India's IT lobby chief warns grads c...
Beijing-based Sand.ai, an AI startup specializing in video generation, raised a $200M Series A+, bringing its total funding over the past 10 months to $300M
Sand.ai, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup specialising in video generation, announced on Thursday the completion …
Elon Musk says US government contracts will account for under 10% of SpaceX's revenue this quarter, down from 16.6% last quarter and around 20% in 2025
Sources: The New York Times has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for ~$330M; A24 dropped out of negotiations after price expectations rose
Anthropic launches Personal Finance in Claude, letting users connect bank and credit card accounts via Plaid with read-only access to analyze spending trends
Democratic wins could slow AI investment and safeguard the US economy against a downturn by pacing it over time, as Deutsche Bank sees “shaky” projects killed
Guardrails against data-center expansion in states won by Democrats may help spread investment over time.
Cleanview: ~40% of pending US data center capacity is planned to be built in states where newly elected governors have pledged to stop or pause construction
Microsoft rolls out to Xbox Insiders an Xbox PC app that launches up to 60% faster and has a design to match Xbox Cloud Gaming updates on the web and smart TVs
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS-powered Qinyun HM650 series desktop PCs for enterprise and government users, saying they use “100% domestically made” components
Huawei Technologies has launched its first desktop computer powered by its proprietary operating system, HarmonyOS …
Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3M shares of Qualcomm, which is pushing into serving the AI data center market
Experts say the new Democratic congressional majority will likely seek to rebuild CISA, prioritize AI security, revive local cyber grants, probe DOGE, and more
How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies
Voter hostility to Big Tech helped shape the US midterms, and similar fears are spreading through the west.
Shenzhen, home to tech giants and an illicit trade of smuggled chips and stolen iPhones, is clearing out its illegitimate markets ahead of the APEC summit
Shenzhen clears out illicit markets for smuggled chips and stolen iPhones as it prepares to host gathering of international leaders
Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions
The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia's H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions
The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia's H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
Sources: Nvidia is requiring Southeast Asian customers seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner status to enroll in a program that tracks the locations of their AI chips
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Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS
American intelligence warned the tech boss was involved with executive recruited by China to gather information on US group