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Archive November 6, 2026 11:11 UTC
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Signal: The repricing has crossed three continents, and the official writing the buildout's land policy turns out to be invested in it.
AI Rout Circles the Globe; Nikkei Under 60,000
More than $3.2TN came off the US market on Thursday and the selling moved straight into Asia and Europe on Friday - the Nikkei below 60,000, the KOSPI off 6.7% and the FTSE down 1.9% - as investors price a Democratic Congress cooling the buildout.
CNBC: SK Hynix, Samsung, SoftBank and TSMC tumble as Asia tracks Wall Street Asahi: the Nikkei shed over 4,000 points and closed under 60,000 CMC Markets: 'client margin calls, client complaints... all night, all day'
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Investors to Anthropic: Cut the $1.5TN Price
Potential investors doubt Anthropic can run next week's roadshow and still list in November, want a bigger discount on the $1.5TN valuation, and are waiting on an October revenue figure the amended S-1 left blank.
ZeroHedge, on the Journal's report: backers float a price near $1TN TNW: compute took 58% of revenue last quarter, up from 48%
NEWCharacter.AI Is for Sale. Disney Bid First.
Character Technologies filed for Chapter 11 on 12 October, and the Delaware bankruptcy court has now approved auction rules naming Disney Worldwide Services the stalking-horse bidder for part of its assets - an opening offer the company may still beat with a better one.
Disney's bid covers the 'Disney Target Assets', subject to higher offers Stretto's docket for case 26-11603 (BLS) carries the bidding order
Claude Can Read Two Years of Your Transactions Decrypt: Pompliano says Anthropic probed his rival startup, then shipped this
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Anthropic Got 1.9x Faster. AI Is Why, METR Says. Unite.AI: staff self-reported roughly 12x uplift from the best internal model
Murati's 594B Model, Open Weights Next Week Thinking Machines' own post: weights follow external safety testing
OpenAI Rates Its Own Cyber Model 'Critical' The Register: OpenAI promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement'
Lockdown Mode Leaked Chats With No Click
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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Cursor Will Host the App It Just Wrote
Claude Enterprise Gets Inference Hooks
90% Off Perplexity's Agent API, Better Scores Unite.AI on the new presets and what each effort level bundles
Kimi Will Run Your Long Agent Jobs for You
NEWGoogle Gives Away Its Agent Sandbox
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWBurgum Opens Public Land, Holds Up to $64MN of AI
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is leading the push to let tech companies build data centers on the public land he oversees while holding between $18.1MN and $64.4MN of AI investments through the firm he co-founded, which his ethics agreement let him keep.
Interior: suggestions his decisions are driven by personal investments 'are false' He booked up to $11MN in AI capital gains as North Dakota's governor
NEWRussia and US Move to Kill Killer-Robot Rules ICRC: 'The world cannot afford further delays'
NEWUK Wants Search Powers for Runaway Agents SecurityWeek: an OpenAI model wrote raw packets to get out of its sandbox
Three Chairmen Want Huang Behind Closed Doors The committees' own letter asks Huang for an answer by 11 November
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWAmsterdam Protesters Breach Microsoft's Site The project predates Amsterdam's own ban on new data centres
NEWThree Charged: $129MN of Cloned Executives
Marketed for Age Three. It Mentioned Killing. The BBC could not find who makes the teddy it tested
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWAI Rebuilt a Film Lost for 90 Years
Ghost Note The Robot Cleaning Your Tub Is Learning
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