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Live Wire·Archive November 5, 2026 Daily Briefing
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Signal: The buildout's financing is being repriced from Wall Street to Tokyo, and the biggest IPO ever may wait - while the labs keep accelerating.
Nvidia Sheds $450BN; Nasdaq's Worst Day in 19 Months
The Nasdaq fell 5.5% into correction and more than $2TN came off it, with Nvidia down 9.2% and the VIX up 61%, as Wall Street priced in Democratic governors slowing the data-center buildout.
CNBC: TSMC off 9.6%, SoftBank 11.6%, Advantest 12.2% on Friday Guardian: SanDisk fell 22%, Western Digital 17%, the VIX rose 61% Musk's SpaceX and Tesla each fell over 9% after his bet on the losing side

Anthropic's Compute Bill Ate 58% of Revenue
Anthropic's amended IPO filing shows compute taking 58 percent of revenue last quarter, up from 48, with revenue per dollar of compute down to 1.72x - and Broadcom agreeing to absorb up to $43BN of losses if Anthropic defaults on its $63BN chip lease.
CoinGape: Riot sold 10,599 bitcoin, signed a 15-year $28BN Anthropic lease
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
No NDAs, Full Power Bill: OpenAI's Day-After Offer
Published the morning after voters blocked data centers in nearly 40 jurisdictions: OpenAI will pay the full cost of power, publish site-level water and electricity use, commission independent noise studies and stop asking public officials to sign NDAs - at campuses it owns and operates.
Google: $17BN for its first Wyoming data center, paying for its own power Ars Technica: 38 of 44 restriction measures passed on Tuesday
Marketed for Age Three. It Mentioned Killing. The BBC could not find who makes the teddy it tested
Ghost Note Zhang Yimou Designed the Robot Newsreaders