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Signal: The buildout's biggest buyer is switching off rented capacity as the spending data thins; the open models nobody gates get better at hacking.
Microsoft Thins Its Neocloud List. Oracle Is Already Off.
Microsoft is shrinking the roster of neocloud suppliers it has committed more than $80BN to, has let a 2023 Oracle contract lapse and switched that capacity off, and says it now wants its own data centers first - a buyer pulling back inside a buildout already straining.
TNW: the dropped Oracle servers ran older Nvidia chips Microsoft no longer wanted CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN are each down about half in a month
The RaceCompanies, models and money
$17BN in Wyoming, and Google Builds Its Own Power Plant
Google's first Wyoming data center comes with a contracted 702MW fuel-cell plant burning natural gas with carbon capture, the largest of its kind planned anywhere, plus a promise to pay 100% of the power it uses.
TNW: Crusoe hands Google the Laramie County site it had been developing IBD: data-center projects now take 33% longer just to get going
AI Stocks Bounce; Taipei Sends In Its Bailout Fund
Wall Street steadied on Friday after Thursday wiped $3.2TN off US stocks - the S&P up 0.8%, Nvidia 4.1% - but only after Tokyo and Seoul fell 6% and Taiwan's state stabilization fund was authorised to intervene.
Dow Jones: Taiwan's fund can deploy $15BN; short-selling curbs start 9 November Guardian: the Nikkei's worst fall since the 2025 tariff panic, KOSPI off 6.7%
Token Spend Grew 1.5%. In July It Was 42%. The most AI-pilled 1% of firms slipped below $10,000 per employee a month
Investors to Anthropic: Cut the $1.5TN Price CNBC: stakeholders now call $1.5TN a 'stretch' after Thursday's rout
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWFree Chinese Models Now Hack Nearly as Well Anthropic pitched Project Glasswing as a head start for defenders
NEWAn AI Closed a 2008 Quantum Conjecture Unite.AI: the system then improved the result twice before Lean accepted it
A Browser Add-On Can Make Claude Run Code The researchers say the flaw can still be exploited
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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Google Gives Away Its Agent Sandbox Baseten shipped microVM agent sandboxes the same week, free until 16 November
Copilot Chat Has Limits Microsoft Won't Print
NEWPerplexity's Always-On Agents Cost $200 The Decoder: Perplexity's annualized revenue topped $750MN in August
NEWClaude Code Gates Unverifiable Calls
NEWAntigravity CLI Hardens Sandbox OAuth
Claude Console Gets an IP Allowlist
The FightLaw, policy and power
Burgum 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
Russia and US Move to Kill Killer-Robot Rules ICRC: 'The world cannot afford further delays'
UK Wants Search Powers for Runaway Agents SecurityWeek: an OpenAI model wrote raw packets to get out of its sandbox
DoJ's Super Intelligence Task Force Is Live The memo's phrase 'affirmative measures, as appropriate' is never defined
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Labs Will Pay $2MN for Your Company's Slack One pitch named Wired itself as a publisher already being paid
100 Protesters Breach Microsoft Site The project predates Amsterdam's own ban on new data centres
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWCybertruck Dies; the Plant Goes to Cybercab Mother Jones: 'we dug our own grave with Cybertruck,' Musk said in 2023
NEWKrispy Kreme Is Beating Nvidia
Ghost Note It Renumbered the Pages. It Deleted the Year.
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