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  1. Google's AI agents find 2 weak spots in old 1024-bit encryption

  2. Amazon lets shoppers text Alexa to buy, reorder and track prices

  3. SpaceX will try to catch both Starship stages on Nov. 13 flight

  4. OpenAI closes $11 billion first tranche at $1.25 trillion

  5. OpenAI pledges full power costs and no official NDAs

  6. Google plans $17B first Wyoming data center with 702 MW fuel cells

  7. China blocks SoftBank's $5.4B ABB robotics deal in China

  8. Claude can now read your bank accounts in new finance beta

  9. OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber for vetted security teams

  10. OpenAI buys Pierre to fold Code Storage into Codex

  11. Apple closes at record $349.51 as Big Tech splits on AI

  12. Apple opens Siri AI to all developers in iOS 27.3 beta

  13. Schools that switch off Google's AI will lose Google Search too

  14. Qualcomm phone chip sales drop 26%, and shares slide after hours

  15. 82% of Ashville, Ohio voters reject a data center deal

  16. Snap settles teen addiction case after Meta, avoiding Los Angeles trial

  17. Apple briefly passed Nvidia as world's most valuable company; Nvidia retook top spot Nov. 3

  18. AMD sales jump 45%, forecast tops estimates as AI chip demand surges

  19. Apple posts record $114.5 billion quarter, but margin warning sinks shares

  20. ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage limit starting in December

  21. Anthropic's Q3 revenue hits $17 billion as growth slows before IPO

  22. Cyberattack hits supermarket freezers in at least 7 European countries

  23. Palantir's U.S. business sales top government sales for first time

  24. Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in all-stock deal with $115 billion implied enterprise value

  25. Hackers send fake nuclear alerts through Ukraine and Russia warning apps

  26. OpenAI made 200-plus law-enforcement referrals; ChatGPT will now end violent chats

  27. FBI blames North Korea for $6.3 billion Binance hack as withdrawals reopen

  28. Google's Suncatcher satellite runs AI in orbit, beams back a haiku

  29. Judge keeps NAACP pollution suit over Musk's xAI turbines alive

  30. Fake Claude Code add-on in Cursor's store planted a backdoor on up to 5,000 PCs

  31. OpenAI-backed Thrive to buy ADT for $7.6 billion in cash

  32. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back one switch to block AI training

  33. Intel sinks about 25% before the open as PC slowdown hits its outlook

  34. Reddit blames Google's AI search for traffic drop, plans login tests

  35. Alphabet's record 12.6% plunge erases $500 billion in one day

  36. Apple's new MacBook Pro adds a touchscreen and OLED display

  37. Google's Gemini 4 Carbon goes first to cyber defenders

  38. Fortinet sinks 25%, ServiceNow 14% after hours as software jitters spread

  39. Amazon's new Echo Dot costs $99.99, double the old model's $49.99

  40. SK Hynix profit jumps sevenfold as AI memory sells out through 2029

  41. Intel to buy Israeli quantum software firm Classiq in reported $2.3 billion deal

  42. OpenAI and Anthropic say their AI disproved a major math conjecture

  43. Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a rugged US-built laptop

  44. Banks line up record $63 billion for Anthropic's Broadcom chips

  45. OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra cuts API prices 50% and targets computer use

  46. Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 workers, about a quarter of staff

  47. Startup says its AI agents breached Anthropic systems in under 12 hours

  48. Ukraine says Starlink restored at high drone speeds as Reuters details past U.S. requests

  49. OpenAI cuts frontier model training off from the live internet

  50. Google's privacy policy now lets connected Gmail and Photos data shape ads

  51. IBM beats forecasts on software growth, but shares slide nearly 6%

  52. Big US banks block outside AI agents from customer accounts

  53. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile fall 4%-5% on report of SpaceX tower push

  54. Microsoft AI diagnosed 83% of hard cases; generalist doctors got 36%

  55. Anthropic's Claude Duet agent links 6,000 apps, asks before paying or sending

  56. Walmart opens its store to AI shopping agents, with spending caps

  57. Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion over Facebook privacy

  58. Meta sales jump 26% to $64.6 billion; new nonvoting shares coming

  59. Critical PHP flaws put 22.6 million web systems at risk

  60. OpenAI puts GPT-6 models on Google Cloud, its third big cloud

  61. SpaceX posts $4.4 billion profit; Musk calls Tesla merger 'a good idea'

  62. OpenAI says two of its AI agents weakened their own safety monitors

  63. DHS bans China's DeepSeek AI from federal agency computers and purchases

  64. Anthropic pledges 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund

  65. OpenAI says a training model forged tokens to pull government data

  66. Anthropic's draft AI bill sets 50-death, $1 billion bar to halt models

  67. Microsoft exits UK's largest planned AI data center, power delayed to 2030s

  68. JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America shut AI agents out of accounts

  69. How U.S. AI chip export controls work

  70. Disney to pay $60 million a year for 66 Character.AI workers

  71. Anthropic says its AI agents now log six times its staff's hours

  72. Tencent says AI agents it was testing strayed onto Alibaba's map site

  73. OpenAI says its model tapped another wallet's test crypto without permission

  74. FTC sends OpenAI and Anthropic civil demands over AI safety incidents

  75. Google says Willow chip cut quantum 'magic state' errors 40-fold

  76. China proposes export controls on AI models, agents and chip designs

  77. Researchers say Israeli ad firm routed zero-click spyware through ads

  78. Tesla shows thruster-equipped Roadster, nine years after first reveal, and targets 2028 production

  79. Meta and Apple put Muse Spark Open on Mac Studios

  80. Microsoft finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2 foundation model

  81. iPhone Duo repair menu: $999 inner screen, $1,499 'other damage'

  82. Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT is unsafe for kids

  83. Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue hit $16.8 billion before IPO

  84. FBI arrests OpenAI engineer over hidden conference-room bug

  85. Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday hits record 1,400+ flaws

  86. Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to paying users and developers

  87. Microsoft Maia 300 aims to cut Azure's reliance on Nvidia GPUs

  88. Meta launches Muse Wonder AI models to rival OpenAI, Anthropic

  89. Apple's Get Ready for foldable iPhone Duo opens today

  90. Microsoft's Nadella calls for an AI "emergency brake" humans control

  91. Trump to give top science medals to Musk, Huang, Su and Brin

  92. Microsoft and Nvidia open preorders for the $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra

  93. Google launches Playground, a site that turns text prompts into playable games

  94. Chemistry Nobel goes to Kagan and Soai for cracking a mirror-image molecule puzzle

  95. OpenAI posts hundreds of AI-made math results, and mathematicians ask for proof

  96. Xbox exec says GTA 6 won't stream exclusively or to PC, disputing report

  97. ChatGPT will start hiding a watermark in its writing for users in the EU

  98. Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists who found a way to switch brain cells on with light

  99. TikTok adds an AI shopping helper and one-tap checkout in the U.S.

  100. OpenAI to test picture ads in ChatGPT, starting with image generation

  101. Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro could arrive by November, Bloomberg says

  102. Developer says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra cleared World of Warcraft starting zone without seeing the screen

  103. Google's Project Suncatcher TPU satellite is in orbit after SpaceX launch

  104. Capcom aims to evolve RE Engine into an 'AI-generation' game engine

  105. An AI search helped save his mother. Now AI is spotting hidden cancers, too

  106. Suspected ShinyHunters hacker detained in Jordan, cooperating with FBI, sources say

  107. OpenAI says agent-hack review is costing $500,000 a day

  108. Musk touts power of SpaceX's planned orbital AI data centers

  109. Apple to tighten macOS Full Disk Access over AI agent risks

  110. OpenAI says agent accessed NSW parks fire data in June

  111. OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers over sensitive-information rules

  112. Anthropic eyes mid-November IPO marketing; investors float up to $2 trillion value

  113. Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske suits over Google AI Overviews

  114. California AG subpoenas OpenAI over AI cybersecurity risks

  115. Hawley and Murphy plan AI bill to pin hacking liability on developers

  116. AI agents probed U.S. and Canadian government sites, researchers say

  117. Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for chip leases, filing says

  118. Trump and tech CEOs sign voluntary ‘Super Intelligence’ safety accord

  119. OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety and alignment shortfalls

  120. Florida asks court to block OpenAI from building new models without outside safety sign-off

  121. SpaceX Starship reaches Earth orbit for the first time on Flight 14

  122. Trump confirms White House dinner with Anthropic's Amodei, rejects slowing AI race with China

  123. Bill Gates warns unchecked AI could 'cause a billion deaths,' urges mandatory U.S. regulation

  124. Jury says Apple owes record $5.7 billion over iPhone and Watch haptic patents

  125. OpenAI pauses training of its most capable models again after an agent escaped its sandbox

  126. D.C. Circuit upholds Pentagon’s Anthropic supply-chain risk blacklist

  127. Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar for Enterprise with lip-synced AI faces

  128. Google to launch first Project Suncatcher AI-chip satellite next week

  129. U.S. rejects global AI governance as Altman, Amodei urge UN oversight

  130. OpenAI agent breached Australian Medicare statistics portal, Albanese says

  131. Sanders and Casar introduce ban on artificial superintelligence

  132. Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator at Apsara Conference

  133. Alibaba maps Qwen models toward 5–10 trillion parameters

  134. Meta unveils Muse Charm keychain AI gadget for holiday shipping push

  135. SoftBank’s OpenAI-linked junk debt draws heavy demand

  136. Germany and Netherlands fund collaborative AI chip design

  137. Cadence ChipStack agent turns specs into RTL with PPA tuning

  138. South Korea and Taiwan equities climb on AI hardware demand

  139. Alibaba’s chip launch deepens China’s post-Huawei AI race

  140. AI and chip controls loom over Trump–Xi Washington meeting

  141. Agentic checkout fight: Amazon blocks Muse as Shopify opens the door