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  1. 31 October 2026

    AI and Tech News, 31 Oct 2026: Intel Crash, Binance, OpenAI

    • Intel Shares Fall About 28% in Their Worst Day on Record
    • The Nasdaq Has Its Worst Day Since June as Tech Stocks Lose More Than $1T
    • North Korean Hackers Are Blamed for the Record $6.3B Binance Theft
    • OpenAI Cuts Its Funding Target to About $20B at a $1.25T Valuation, the FT Reports
    • Anthropic Will Likely Get a 'Junk' Credit Rating After Its IPO, Blackstone Tells Investors
    • Amazon Sets Up a Secured Loan Facility of Up to $80B to Buy AI Hardware
    • Baseten Is Raising About $2B at a Valuation of Up to $30B, Bloomberg Says
    • Apple Intelligence Comes to China in December, Using Alibaba's Qwen
    • The UK's Competition Regulator Opens a Formal Investigation Into Meta's Business Terms
    • OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic Back One Robots.txt Signal for Opting Out of AI Training
    • ChatGPT Will Limit Weapons Information for Teens and End Chats Fixated on Violence
    • Google Is in Early Talks to Join the Pentagon's $185B Golden Dome Program, Bloomberg Reports
    • Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Toyota bZ4X Robotaxis in Japan Next Year
    • Salesforce Is Reportedly Buying Defense AI Startup Rune for $375M
    • Google's First Data Center Satellite Runs Gemma 4 in Orbit and Writes a Haiku
    • Apple Acquires Agentic Data Engineering Startup Ascend.io
    • CISA Says Hackers Are Exploiting a Maximum-Severity GitLab Flaw
    • Drupal Warns of a Critical Commerce Core Flaw That Attackers Are Already Exploiting
    • Trezor Investigates a Suspected Crypto-Stealing Implant in One of Its Hardware Wallets
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  2. 30 October 2026

    AI and Tech News, 30 Oct 2026: Binance Hack, AWS, DoorDash

    • Binance Pauses Withdrawals After a Suspected Multibillion-Dollar Hack
    • AWS Revenue Grows 39% to $46B, but Amazon Misses Earnings Estimates
    • DoorDash Agrees to Buy Instacart for About $17B
    • Intel Shares Plunge More Than 20% After Hours on a Weak Forecast
    • Reddit Will Move to a Mostly Logged-In Experience
    • Reddit's Revenue Jumps 53% to $895M as US Daily Users Slip
    • A Chinese Spy May Have Targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, The New York Times Reports
    • Anthropic Is SpaceX's Biggest Customer, at About 34.5% of Quarterly Revenue, Bloomberg Says
    • Thrive Holdings Will Buy ADT for $7.6B in Cash, or $15.3B Including Debt
    • Mistral Releases Open Weights for Large 4, Its 1-Trillion-Parameter Model
    • Canada Will Invest Up to C$1.6B in Cohere's Series E of Up to C$7B
    • Korean AI Chipmaker FuriosaAI Raises $620M at a $2.9B Valuation
    • Walmart Commits About $6B More to Symbotic's Warehouse Automation
    • Sandisk's Revenue Soars 378% to $11B, and It Announces an 8-for-1 Stock Split
    • Rivian's Revenue Rises 38% as the R2 Becomes Its Best-Selling Vehicle
    • GM Will Pay $220M to Settle a 36-State Lawsuit Over Selling Driver Data
    • The FTC and Eight States Sue Toast Over Hidden Fees and Hard Cancellations
    • Roblox Bookings Fall 12% and Daily Users Drop 9% After New Child Safety Measures
    • Pinterest Misses Revenue Estimates, and Its Shares Fall About 8% After Hours
    • Coinbase Returns to Profit, Helped by Gains on Its Crypto Holdings
    • Polymarket Briefly Halts Trading After Hackers Hit a Third-Party Provider
    • Google Brings Ads in AI Mode to 10 More Countries
    • Apple Cuts Its App Store Commission in Taiwan to 26%
    • Researchers Find Flaws in the Built-In Browsers of Five AI Coding Tools
    • AI Agent App Wabi Raises $55M at a $1.25B Valuation
    • Fan Fiction Site Archive of Our Own Could Be Offline for Up to Four Weeks
    Read the full roundup

  3. 29 October 2026

    AI and Tech News, 29 Oct 2026: Alphabet, Microsoft, Gemini 4 Carbon

    • Alphabet's Cloud Revenue Doubles to $30.7B, but Its Shares Fall About 10% After Hours
    • Microsoft's Azure Revenue Grows 48%, Beating Its Own Forecast
    • Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, Starting With Cyber Defenders Before a Wider Release
    • Marvell Is Reportedly Nearing a Deal to Buy Optics Maker Lumentum
    • Oracle Targets At Least $225B in Revenue by Fiscal 2030 and Caps New Funding at $20B
    • The Fed Holds Rates at 3.75% to 4% in a 10-2 Vote
    • Apple Launches Its First Touchscreen MacBook Pro, With an OLED Display
    • Fortinet Shares Plunge About 26% After Hours Despite a Quarterly Beat
    • ServiceNow Shares Drop About 17% After Hours Even as It Raises Its Outlook
    • The Justice Department Is Examining Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face Deal
    • New York Bans Risky AI Chatbot Features for Minors
    • OpenAI Sets Up an Election 'War Room' Ahead of the US Midterms
    • Vertiv's Sales Jump 61% as Organic Orders More Than Double
    • Coinbase Says an Analytics Vendor Exposed Some Customers' Contact Details
    • Cloud Security Startup Upwind Raises $400M at a $3.8B Valuation
    • Chrome's Gemini-Powered Autofill Can Now Pull Details From Gmail
    • Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a Free Open-Weight Speech Model
    • Reddit Adds a 'For You' Feed Alongside 'Following'
    • eBay's Gross Merchandise Volume Rises 15% to $23.2B, Above Its Own Forecast
    • Meta Brings Its Muse AI Agent to Singapore
    Read the full roundup

  4. 28 October 2026

    AI and Tech News, 28 Oct 2026: SK Hynix, Nvidia-Meta, Oracle

    • SK Hynix Posts Record Quarterly Revenue Above 100 Trillion Won as HBM Demand Soars
    • Nvidia Will Invest $3B in Meta's Stock Offering and Expand Work on Muse Models
    • Oracle Builds ChatGPT and Codex Into Its Business Apps and Adds Google TPUs to Its Cloud
    • OpenAI Reportedly Plans to Buy Google's AI Chips, Not Just Rent Them
    • Apple Launches a 14-Inch MacBook Pro and an iMac With the New M6 Chip
    • Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 4, a World Model That Generates Its Own Audio
    • Anthropic Gives Every Level of US Government 40% Off Claude
    • Anthropic Buys Mithril, a One-Person Startup Developing Rare Disease Drugs With Claude
    • Robotics Startup Physical Intelligence Is Reportedly in Talks to Raise $1B at About $20B
    • General Motors Will Move Its Stock Listing From the NYSE to Nasdaq on November 17
    • Nvidia Vera Rubin Systems Become Generally Available on Oracle Cloud
    • Tech Stocks Lift the Nasdaq 1.18% as the Fed Meeting Begins
    • Visa's Revenue Grows 13% to $12.1B, but Shares Slip on a Cautious 2027 Outlook
    • PayPal Raises Its Profit Forecast Even as Quarterly Revenue Misses Estimates
    • NXP Shares Fall About 8% After a Fourth-Quarter Forecast Slightly Below Estimates
    • Seagate's Revenue Jumps 61% to $4.2B, Yet Shares Drop About 8% After Hours
    • Teradyne's Revenue Rises About 70% on AI Chip Testing, but Its Shares Slip
    • Robinhood Shares Drop About 7% as Revenue Narrowly Misses Forecasts
    • Enphase Shares Tumble After a Weak Fourth-Quarter Forecast
    • OpenAI Is Sued Over ChatGPT's Alleged Role in a Woman's Death After She Stopped Her Seizure Medication
    • Infisical Raises $40M at a $600M Valuation to Secure AI Agents' Credentials
    Read the full roundup

  5. 27 October 2026

    AI and Tech News, 27 Oct 2026: Anthropic S-1, Meta, Microsoft

    • Anthropic Files Publicly for an IPO and Plans a Nasdaq Listing as ANT
    • Meta Kicks Off About $35B of Stock Offerings, With Up to $60B More Planned
    • About 60,000 Microsoft Employees Are Offered Voluntary Buyouts
    • $63B From Banks and Blackstone Will Finance Broadcom Chips Leased to Anthropic
    • An Internal OpenAI Model Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, the Company Says
    • GPT-6.1 Terra Arrives at About Half the Price of Its Predecessor
    • Intel Will Buy Israeli Quantum Software Startup Classiq
    • Apple's New iPad Mini Gets an 8.5-Inch OLED Display and an A20 Pro Chip
    • After Anthropic's Filing, the Nasdaq Rises 0.82% and Chip Stocks Gain 2.82%
    • Barclays Upgrades Tesla to Overweight, and Shares Rise More Than 5%
    • iOS 27.2 Brings Siri AI to Five More Languages
    • Verizon Adds 406,000 Postpaid Phone Customers and Lands a $2B-Plus Fiber Deal With AWS
    • Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Tried to Upload a File to a Beijing Server in a Test, Cohere Says
    • A Cloudflare Cache Bug Leaked Other Customers' Data in 155 GLM-5.3 Responses
    • A Planted File in Your Downloads Folder Can Hijack AI Coding Agents, Researchers Show
    • Bedrock Robotics, Maker of Autonomous Excavators, Raises $600M at a $4.1B Valuation
    • Tata Communications Plans Up to $450M for a 10,000 km AI Fiber Network in India
    • Paytm's Quarterly Profit Jumps More Than Tenfold to ₹225 Crore, With Revenue Up 28%
    Read the full roundup

  6. 26 October 2026

    AI and Tech News, 26 Oct 2026: SpaceX Debt, iPhone Duo, MacBook Pro

    • SpaceX Has Closed $40B of Debt Financing for GPUs, Musk Says
    • The Hinge May Be Behind Cracked iPhone Duo Screens, iFixit's Teardown Suggests
    • A Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Is Reportedly Coming on Wednesday
    • SK Hynix Is Reportedly Considering a Special Dividend of About $12B
    • Outside Tech, AI Has Delivered Zero Financial Payoff, Says Apollo's Chief Economist
    • Late-Delivery Penalties From AI Data Center Tenants Now Top $5M a Day
    • Apple Stores Are Reportedly Getting a Device That Checks iPhones Without Opening the Box
    • A macOS Update Will Close the Gap Left by Compromised eMudhra Certificates, Apple Says
    • Elvis Presley's Rightsholders Sue Anthropic Over 274 Songs and Seek About $41M
    • Asian Chip Stocks Slip on Monday Before Samsung and SK Hynix Earnings and the Fed
    • A Zelenskyy Adviser Pushes Back on Musk's Claim That Ukraine's Military Broke Starlink's Terms
    • Netflix Users Open the App on Fewer Days a Month, According to Bloomberg
    • Victor Yin Takes Over Apple's Display Development as Two 30-Year Veterans Step Back
    • 11 Unpatched Tailscale Flaws Published by a Researcher, Including an SSH Route to Root
    • Reddit's r/opensource Now Bans Projects That Use AI, Are Made With AI or Are Built for AI
    • Rest of World, the Global Tech Outlet, Stops Publishing as a Standalone Site in January
    • AI Shopping Platform Glance Gets a Strategic Investment From L Catterton
    • Newpress Raises $12M and Brings In Former 60 Minutes Chief Bill Owens
    Read the full roundup

  7. 25 October 2026

    AI and Tech News, 25 Oct 2026: Starshield, Bitcoin, Grok Study

    • After about 10 days of limits, Ukraine says Starshield is working normally again
    • Middle East tensions push bitcoin below $80,000
    • Forced to pick, Grok recommends Republicans and OpenAI's model recommends Democrats, a study finds
    • Thariq Shihipar and Anthony Morris, two Claude Code engineers, leave Anthropic
    • Apple shuts several French stores ahead of more protests
    • First iPhone Duo teardowns reveal two batteries totalling 4,883mAh
    Read the full roundup

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