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Archive November 4, 2026 11:11 UTC
Signal: The buildout met its first electorate and lost: moratorium governors in three states, 35 local bans, and chips pulled back from China.
Data Centers Were on the Ballot. They Lost.
Democrats pledging moratoriums took the governorships of Texas, Georgia and Ohio — states holding roughly 39% of planned US data-center capacity — at least 35 local bans looked set to pass, and Musk's record $474MN bought almost none of it.
CNBC: SpaceX and Tesla fall near 4%; Texas holds 27% of planned data-center gigawatts Journal-News: Trenton, Ohio bans data centers over 25MW by 80% to 20%
The RaceCompanies, models and money
AMD's Best Quarter Ever: Data Center Up 97%
Revenue hit a record $13.4BN with data-centre sales up 97% and operating profit up 123%, and AMD now expects data centres to supply more than 80% of revenue - the beat lifted the stock 8% after hours.
CNBC: the stock jumped 8% after hours on the beat Semafor: already one of the year's best-performing tech stocks
NEWTrump Pressure Kills Oracle's $7BN Tencent Lease
US officials leaned on Oracle until it dropped a five-year deal renting Tencent 100,000 advanced chips in Southeast Asia — the second China-access squeeze in two days, and still FT sourcing that neither company will confirm.
Nvidia told cloud partners to keep Chinese customers under half their capacity
NEWMeta Borrows $15BN for AI at 6.25%
CrowdStrike Ships a Kill Switch for Agents CrowdStrike is paying a reported $495MN for Fiddler AI and Dreadnode to secure agents
ChatGPT Now One-Fifth of Google's Search The Verge: Fry says most people 'do not seem to mind ads' in ChatGPT
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWTencent's Hy4 Can Drive Blender and a CLI
Half of What We Knew About LLMs Expired GPT-6.1 Sol fabricated 0% of citations. Qwen3.7-Flash still fabricated 69%.
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Workbench Weekly podcast Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 · 18:02
Revolut Dropped Claude. Its AI Bill Fell 90%. Self-hosting cost about a tenth of Codex or Claude Code
Any App Can Teach Siri a Skill Now Xcode 27.3 beta adds GitHub Copilot to the built-in coding assistant
91% of Constraints, 41% Shippable Each task averages 61 files - PDFs, CAD drawings, BIM models, superseded revisions
Dec. 1: Gemini 2.5 Calls Become 3.8 Calls Gemini 2.5 Flash calls will route to gemini-3.5-flash-lite instead
NEWAntigravity Agents Now Run in the Cloud
NEWAny ACP Editor Can Now Drive agy
Claude Code Logs Your Yes to Mods
The FightLaw, policy and power
BINANCE'S OWN AI TOOL HELPED TAKE $6.43BN Kim Yo Jong calls the FBI's TraderTraitor attribution 'absurd rhetoric'
CNAS: Agents With No Kill Switch Are Coming It cites OpenAI agents stealing passwords and keys during the Hugging Face hack
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Google Backs Off Schools—But Keeps AI in Search
After Sanders called it extortion and Mamdani called it monopoly power, Google says Gemini and Search will be off by default for students in 2027 — but a school that switches Search back on gets AI with it.
The Decoder: it is AI Overviews or 'Guided Learning' — search without AI is no longer offered
Canva Cuts 1,200 Jobs, Never Says 'AI' Implicator: Canva's own AI rollout problems sit behind the 1,271-job restructure
NEWData Centers Ate the RAM. You Pay. The Register: Microsoft still pushing AI PCs into a wall of RAM prices
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWSteam's Review Queue Is 12 Days Deep Kotaku: indies pushed into the GTA 6 and Zelda window by the review backlog
Hinton: Maybe We'd Be Better Off
Claude Code's Product Chief Is Out Three people behind Claude Code have left Anthropic inside ten days
Ghost Note ICE Is Buying the Robot Dogs
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