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In Form S-1/A No. 2, Anthropic priced 825M Class A shares at $70 to $78 (up to $1.02T valuation) as Google, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft, and TSMC agreed to buy $26.0B of non-voting Class N stock at the IPO price for $84.6B net proceeds. Not financial advice.
Bitdeer lifted Q3 revenue 89% YoY to $320.7M on 86.4 EH/s, but cut its balance-sheet Bitcoin stash 97.7% YoY from 2,029 BTC to 47 BTC to fund 332 IT MW of AI cloud capacity. Not financial advice.
Six months after completing its May 11 combination with Udemy, Coursera committed to laying off roughly 10% of its global workforce, booking $14M to $17M in cash severance and benefits charges across Q4 2026 and the first half of 2027.
Hashimoto joins on Nov 16 at a $675K base salary with a 90% bonus target and 240% equity target before succeeding retiring CFO Paul Lawrence on Jan 15, 2027.
Agents powered by Gemini Carbon generated over 6M lines of Lean proofs for Signal's production cryptography, cutting human review to 1% of the codebase and catching 2 reintroduced bugs.
Funded accounts rose 18% YoY to 4.39M with $20.8B in assets, yet weaker retail crypto volume cut net contribution 13% to $186M and GAAP profit from $57M to $15M. Not financial advice.
TSMC reported October 2026 consolidated net revenue of NT$586.89B, up 14.7% from September and up 59.7% year over year, pushing January-to-October revenue up 43.3% to NT$4,485.62B as AI wafer shipments continue accelerating in Q4.
Swapping third-party LLM calls for its proprietary Base 1 model turned Wix's vibe-coding unit from a Q1 margin drag into a 58% gross-margin business in two quarters.
Replacing Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Bedrock ($22,200 per million tickets) with Strands Decider E4B on single-A10G SageMaker instances ($1.408/hr) across one of Amazon's largest 20-category internal ticketing systems cut cost to ~$500 per million tickets and latency by 78%.
Between 08:09:35 and 08:11:59 UTC on Nov 9, an attacker drained ~$304.5K from Ankr's Ethereum bridge in five withdraw() calls reusing one Optimism tx, according to SlowMist. All five forged receipts carried valid consensus-signer signatures. Not financial advice.
Released Nov 9 at $8/$40 per million input/output tokens (up to 30% faster than 5.1, with a $16/$80 2.5x fast mode), Claude Fable 5.2 and cyber/bio-gated Mythos 5.2 formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 30 hours and hit 69.9% on FrontierSWE v2.
In its Nov 9 Form 10-Q following a Jan 2026 NYSE IPO and Aug NYDIG trading buyout, BitGo grew clients from 4,988 to 6,640, but Q3 median Assets on Platform fell from $104.0B to $59.9B (staked assets down to $10.5B) on a $19.2M operating loss. Not financial advice.
CoinDesk parent Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) appointed former NYSE Group President Stacey Cunningham as President on Nov 9, following its May 2026 $4.2B deal for transfer agent Equiniti (~3,000 issuers, 20M+ shareholders) to connect registries onchain. Not financial advice.
CNH Industrial agreed Nov 9 to sell 70% of its CASE Construction, New Holland Construction, and Eurocomach unit to Kobe Steel's Kobelco for $700M cash at a $1B enterprise value, keeping a 30% JV stake under a three-year lock-up to cut debt. Not financial advice.
After closing a fresh ETH long on Nov 9, wallet 0x020cA6...5872 (tracked by EmberCN as Machi Big Brother) withdrew its last $50,340 USDC at 07:00:57 UTC, leaving $0 balance and zero positions after $15.93B in volume and $37.46M in all-time losses. Not financial advice.
After selling 26,984 BTC for $1.92B in the first nine months of 2026, MARA sold another 13,597 BTC post-Q3 for ~$1.1B (40,581 BTC sold in 2026) and used $750M to wipe out its BTC-backed loans, unencumbering its remaining coins. Not financial advice.
In Q3 results filed Nov 9 (quarter ended Sep 30), monday.com reported $36M in AI ARR across AI credits, agents, and vibe as monday agents passed 6M interactions in under two quarters, while total revenue rose 19% to $377.5M with $31.2M GAAP operating income.
Announced Nov 9, Tubi CEO Anjali Sud succeeds Jennifer Witz as SiriusXM CEO on Jan 1, 2027 under a three-year contract: $2.6M base salary, a 2x-base target bonus guaranteed for 2027, $10M sign-on RSUs, two $4.5M RSU grants, and at least $9M a year in 2028-2029 equity.
In a Nov 9 Form 6-K, SoftBank Group ($1.0B), Grab ($750M), and Petroleum Sarawak Berhad ($100M) signed joint development agreements for $1.85B in staged seed capital across Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia toward a 5-gigawatt AI compute target. Not financial advice.
From Nov 2 to Nov 8, Strategy sold 2,051,348 MSTR common shares for $283.8M net proceeds, spending $188.3M to buy back 1,887,464 STRC preferred shares and $81.9M on 1,036 BTC at $79,012, taking holdings to 850,364 BTC as of Nov 8. Not financial advice.
Drawing on Claude Code on Nov 8, Anthropic's Addy Osmani outlines 12 management habits for IC engineers: verify non-overlapping slices when /batch spawns 5 to 30 worktree PRs, restart after 2 failed corrections, and audit 600-line green-test diffs.
Testing four Claude Opus 5.5-generated SQLite parse_number() extensions across 2M rows and 8M fuzz checks on Nov 8, Simon Willison found naive C lagged Rust (67 ns vs 41-46 ns on mixed data) until a custom C parser cut cost to 19 ns in 14 KB.
Between 21:55:37 and 21:55:50 UTC on Nov 8, Hyperliquid liquidated 57,929.22 ETH ($120.96M) and 60.77 BTC ($4.46M) across three linked cross-margin wallets, realizing $28.14M in losses while $112.96M in longs stay open. Not financial advice.
On Nov 8, NVIDIA's board formed a committee of independent directors with outside counsel after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort, saying it had no reason to believe company secrets were compromised.
According to Lookonchain and Hyperliquid clearinghouse data on Nov 8, wallet 0x45d7 deposited 6.92M Tornado Cash-sourced USDC and scaled 20x positions to $40.08M notional: long 263.83 BTC ($20.05M) vs short 8,945.74 ETH ($20.03M). Not financial advice.
On Nov 8, Vitalik Buterin argued Ethereum should accept EIP-1559 burn below 10% of breakeven, warning that chasing corporate-scale R&D to justify a ~$270B fee-burn valuation would require ~700,000 ETH a year in protocol funding. Not financial advice.
Anthropic detailed how offline 'dreaming' builds linked memory wikis for Claude: across 350,000 internal files (~420M tokens) from acquired firm Stainless, 128 dreaming sessions raised accuracy with search from 53% to 61% while saving roughly 20,000 tokens per query.
Berkshire's Q3 10-Q (Nov 7) shows CEO Greg Abel repurchased $9.65B in shares (lifting 9M buybacks to $14.4B vs $0 in 9M 2025), ended Sept 30 with $357.0B in net cash and T-bills, and listed Alphabet among its top five equity stakes. Not financial advice.
U.S. nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000 in October (with August and September revised up 84,000 combined) and unemployment held at 4.1%, though workers employed part time for economic reasons jumped by 339,000 to 4.8 million. Not financial advice.
Meta closed $15.0B in USD senior notes on November 5 at coupons up to 7.50% due 2056, offered €9.0B in Euro notes out to 2065 on November 6, and expanded its forward share sale to 46M shares amid post-election pushback on data centers. Not financial advice.
A New York Fed study by Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington found college-educated Americans spend roughly half their in-office days entirely on Zoom calls or solo work, meaning work-from-home counts miss up to three-quarters of functional remote work.
According to Lookonchain and Arkham entity tracking, Solana launchpad Pump.fun deposited another 76,111 SOL ($6.85M) into Kraken on November 6, bringing its cumulative fee liquidations to 5,553,833 SOL ($882.4M) at an average price of $158.88. Not financial advice.
Published under Apache 2.0 on Nov 7, Tencent's 2.03B-parameter DSpine draft model for Qwen3.8-27B predicts 16 draft tokens in parallel, lifting GSM8K greedy acceptance to 7.20 tokens and speeding up SWE-bench Pro decoding 3.19x to 791.30 tokens/s.
According to Lookonchain and Ethereum mainnet data, wallet 0x4AB7 bought another 3,300 ETH ($7.41M) on November 7, bringing its seven-day accumulation to 13,077 ETH ($29.95M) held onchain at block 26,363,393. Not financial advice.
According to Lookonchain and Ethereum mainnet token data, wallet 0xC374 bought another 308,517 UNI ($2.13M) on November 7, lifting its 45-day accumulation to 1,322,537 UNI ($11.05M) verified at block 26,366,757. Not financial advice.
Alphabet's November 6 Form 13F-HR shows it added 3,854,060 SpaceX shares in Q3 to hold 555,043,560 shares valued at $83.73B as of September 30, representing 94.8% of its entire $88.35B 31-stock 13F portfolio. Not financial advice.
Solana core client team Anza issued an urgent mainnet-beta upgrade to Agave 4.4.1 on November 5 to enforce minimum loaded data sizes on loader-v3 ProgramData accounts, warning unpatched validators would fork off at epoch 1079 (~13:30 UTC November 6). Not financial advice.
Statistics Canada reported flat headline employment (-4,700) in October only because 50,000 new public-sector roles masked 53,000 private-sector job losses, pushing overall unemployment up 0.2 points to 6.7% and youth joblessness to 13.7%.
One day after gaining 1,569.40 points on November 4, the Dow fell 1,833.06 points (-3.44%) to 51,523.06 on November 5, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 1,421.51 points (-5.52%) to 24,315.00, sitting 11.9% below its October 6 peak. Not financial advice.
Ethereum core developers paused the Glamsterdam upgrade and postponed forking the Hoodi testnet on November 6 after Chainsecurity found EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 gas repricing broke eight smart-contract invariants. Not financial advice.
Floki took its Telegram trading bot offline and halted deposits on November 5 after detecting an active exploit, urging anyone who had exported private keys from the bot to move funds to a new external wallet immediately. Not financial advice.
While GitHub's busiest repos today see at most dozens of writes per second in bursts, internal tests of its new Project Rubicon Git storage supported 5,000 concurrent agents on one repo sending 7,200 pushes per second at low read latency.
Updated November 6 as AOSP shifts source drops to Q2 and Q4, Google's November Android Security Bulletin patches 215 unique CVEs, led by CVE-2026-58868, a critical Framework flaw allowing remote code execution on Android 14 to 17 with zero user interaction.
Listed on Nasdaq as AGLT to automate warehouse work with its Digit robot, Agility Robotics booked $175,000 in 1H 2026 net sales ($1.78M in 2025) against a $362.7M operating loss, despite touting $300M+ in milestone Digit 5 orders. Not financial advice.
From October 5 to November 3, Layer3 Intel observed proxy traffic exiting AS2650, the Executive Office of the President, 236 times from six IP addresses across 26 of 30 days via 28 residential proxy services, roughly half between 5 p.m. and midnight ET.
Laid-off software engineers formed OccupySaaS to build Apache-2.0 clean-room replacements for enterprise SaaS using isolated two-team AI workflows, shipping release candidate v1.0.0-rc.1 of Auth0 alternative ZeroAuthy while Salesforce clone SalesCompel remains early.
The Fed's November 6 G.19 report shows U.S. revolving credit rose 14.5% annualized in September to $1,368.5B (lifting total consumer debt 6.4% to $5,224.4B), while Q3 bank cards assessed interest averaged 22.36% APR. Not financial advice.
Arkham Intelligence updated its portfolio module with a dedicated Frozen button that filters immobilized, blacklisted, or destroyed tokens away from movable balances, launching with USDT, USDC, and USDT0 following October's multi-billion-dollar issuer freezes.
French cooperative bank Credit Mutuel Arkea confirmed an external breach through a supplier platform that used bank funds for fraudulent transfers, after onchain researcher ZachXBT tracked more than $133M laundered through bridges and exchanges. Client assets were untouched.
France's national blood agency EFS confirmed hackers breached supplier Coolworld to change cold-storage targets across three regional sites from -30C to 110C. An on-duty technician caught the alarms in time, preventively moving all plasma units with zero samples lost.
In a 72-page federal lawsuit filed in SDNY, The New York Times sued Brave Software for copyright infringement, alleging its search API and LLM Context endpoints unlawfully resell scraped journalism from its 30B page index to AI developers like Anthropic and xAI.
Arkham records show Trump Media transferred 4,259 BTC ($343.7M) in two transactions from its 2028 convertible notes collateral wallets to Crypto.com ahead of a November 30 window where noteholders can demand cash repayments. Not financial advice.
Under Va. Code 46.2-507 enacted via HB 2096, Virginia became the first state enforcing active GPS engine throttle limiters for 60 days to 6 months on drivers convicted of exceeding 100 mph, physically blocking acceleration past posted road speed limits.
In its Q3 2026 release on November 4, the parent of Albert Heijn, Stop & Shop and Food Lion estimated that taking IT systems offline during its October cyberattack will cut Q4 net sales by 200M to 250M euros and operating income by 75M to 100M euros.
An amended Form S-1 filed with the SEC shows Anthropic recorded more than $1.7B in quarterly personnel expenses across roughly 5,300 employees, averaging about $107,000 per worker monthly, with stock-based compensation accounting for $1.1B of the total.
In a November 3 Workspace for Education update, VP Chris Phillips wrote that Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will default to off for K-12 student accounts until admins turn them on, bundling Search into the same switch as classroom AI.
Arkham puts the hacker's entity at $31.24M, with $11.12M (34%) frozen: USDT, USDC, PAXG and other issuer tokens. The ETH and BTC are the part that can still move. Same split as the Binance drain, at a smaller size.
On September 11, Stonk took 48.3% of an $841.8M daily Solana launchpad market against Pump.fun's 49.3% and LetsBonk's 2.4%. By November 3, Tehc Screener data shows Pump.fun back near 90% of a smaller pool: challengers rented volume at the top, then lost it when retail left.
At AI Engineer New York, Revolut AI operations lead David Abitbol reported that replacing rationed frontier coding tools with uncapped GLM 5.3 on 56 Nvidia B200 GPUs cut its AI coding bill by roughly 90% and improved feature lead time more than raw coding hours.
XAUt backing reached $3.44B at the end of September, 827,417 troy ounces, up 59% in ounces since the end of 2025. Like USDT, it is an issuer token: Tether holds the gold and can freeze the token. XAUt was among the tokens frozen in the Mercado Bitcoin hack.
September openings were little changed at 7.5 million while quits rose to 3.4 million. People quit when they think they can find something better, so the quits number is a read on worker confidence, three days before the October jobs report.
Lumentum makes the optics that move data between AI chips. Marvell is paying in its own shares, 4.5 per Lumentum share, so Lumentum holders end up with about a third of the combined company. Closing is not expected before the first half of 2028.