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Archive October 27, 2026 10:12 UTC
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Signal: The chip vendors are now buying stock in the customers who buy their chips - while the Chinese half of the same trade has already given back $2.4TN.
Nvidia Puts $3BN Into the Company Buying Its Chips
Nvidia will buy $3BN of Meta's share sale and Meta will deploy more Vera Rubin chips and Spectrum-X networking - the supplier funding the customer's purchase of its own hardware, announced by both sides this morning.
Nvidia's own release: Muse models, OpenShell deployment, Sentry monitoring TNW: Meta raised the common-stock leg to $25BN and priced it at $625
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic Aims to List Before Thanksgiving at $2TN
Tech Monitor puts the implied valuation at $1.5TN to $2TN with a debut expected before Thanksgiving, on a filing showing 1,368% June-quarter revenue growth and an operating loss narrowed to $693MN.
TheDesk: the Journal has it listing the week of 16 November, raising $100BN Five customers supply a quarter of revenue, and most have no long-term contract
NEWChina's AI Trade Already Cracked. $2.4TN Gone.
Shanghai's STAR 50 index of technology and innovation names is down 40% since June and $2.4TN has left Chinese equities since May, on a market where Goldman says AI stocks are over 40% of the value.
Unitree's shares have halved since August; CXMT is down a quarter in a month A 60BN-yuan state AI fund started paying out this month, into the same slide
Banks and Blackstone Buy Anthropic's Chips Broadcom's Hock Tan spent two months pushing banks to commit over $40BN
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Hundreds of Papers Rest on It. OpenAI Says It's False.
An internal model found the disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis on 16 October, OpenAI says, alongside the Kakeya conjecture and a Yang-Mills existence result - and two of the hypothesis's own authors will lead an independent check that has not happened yet.
Tao's advisory group wants the Yang-Mills output released now, not to hand-picked checkers Baez: it isn't the Millennium Prize problem, but making Yang-Mills make sense is a big step
Cloudflare: 155 Answers Hit the Wrong Tenant Knostic's Gadi Evron reported the tenant-isolation bug through HackerOne
Microsoft Rushes Out Brotli Patches for .NET Cyber Daily: PHP, Microsoft and Cloudflare all patched overnight
NEWCompaction Coughed Up the Hidden Reasoning The block it beat was built after August's 'Stolen Thoughts' replay attack
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Oct 19 – Oct 25, 2026 · 19:58
NEWCopilot Lets a Model Approve Its Own Commands
Ollama Speaks Locally on Mac
The FightLaw, policy and power
FTC Wants Anthropic Executives Under Oath OpenAI is under the same probe; the FTC would not say it got the same demand
NEWJudge Won't Let the EPA Kill the xAI Suit Filed in April over dozens of unpermitted methane turbines
300 Signatures Against Selling Spot to ICE 'How we can live with ourselves if it is' - from the petition letter
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Microsoft Offers 60,000 Staff the Exit Business Insider: read the memo Microsoft sent the 60,000
NEWAI Called Her Road Trip Suspicious
Proton Will Re-Interview Staff About AI Use
NEWGrand Theft GPU: Hijacked in Transit NBC: thieves struck the escorts guarding trucks carrying $10MN-plus loads
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
'Reader-Patience Budget' and Five More Tics
Ghost Note The Haunt's Poster Still Had the Gemini Diamond
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