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Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
The crypto exchange said it was compromised in what could be the biggest crypto heist ever. One research lab attributed the theft to “North Korea’s elite hacking unit.”
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Big Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St. (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
Amazon became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.
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Intel’s Shares Plunge 20% as A.I. Hinders Some Parts of Its Business (Thu, 29 Oct 2026)
The chipmaker, whose largest investor is the U.S. government, reported that the A.I. boom’s domino effect had hurt sales to personal computer makers.
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Polymarket and Kalshi Turn Midterm Elections Into a Multimillion Dollar Market (Thu, 29 Oct 2026)
Betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have transformed America’s democracy into a new kind of casino.
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In San Francisco’s A.I. Boom, a First Date Has Become an Interview (Sat, 31 Oct 2026)
When there is A.I. to build, who has time for romance? Techies are going out less and expecting more on each date — including a family health history.
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Hack Could Leave AO3, a Popular Fan Fiction Site, Offline for Weeks (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
AO3, which hosts 18 million stories spun off from the likes of “Harry Potter” and “Heated Rivalry,” was taken offline after “an intrusion,” one of its founders said.
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House Democrats Criticize Justice Dept. Support of OpenAI in Copyright Suit (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
In a court filing, top Democrats on the Judiciary Committee indicated their support for publishers in a lawsuit led by The New York Times.
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You Can See Everything That Billy Evans Watched on 2x Speed (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
What was Elizabeth Holmes’s partner watching in the new Nathan Fielder documentary? We found the videos (and the scientists in them).
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Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Is Just the Start of a Risky New Era (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
The largest cyber heist in history came as attackers increasingly use artificial intelligence and other advanced techniques to steal crypto and quickly launder the funds.
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Polymarket and Kalshi Face a Major Accuracy Test: The Midterms (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
Studies have shown that the betting sites can predict races correctly, but their ability to forecast U.S. midterm elections is an important proving ground.
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Are We in an A.I. Bubble? We’re About to Find Out. (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
“This is the first pure-play L.L.M. company to go public, to open its books so we can actually look at the underlying business of this A.I. boom.”
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This Device Uses A.I. and Lasers to Kill Mosquitoes (Fri, 30 Oct 2026)
A Chinese start-up has developed a device that uses artificial intelligence and lasers to kill mosquitoes. But there are safety concerns for people and other creatures nearby when the device is in action.
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DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17 Billion, Uniting 2 Delivery Giants (Thu, 29 Oct 2026)
The deal combines the country’s largest restaurant delivery service with its biggest online grocery platform.
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Hit the Road This Season With These Useful New Map Features (Thu, 29 Oct 2026)
The recent updates to Google Maps and Apple’s Maps use artificial (and human) intelligence for better navigation, planning and travel guides.
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Bodacious A.I. Bots Are Stealing Jokes From Young Female Comedians (Thu, 29 Oct 2026)
Swiping jokes word for word, these bodacious bots mainly lift from young female comedians. What’s so insidious is how they’re subtly changing us, the audience.
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Alphabet’s Revenue Rises 25% as Profit Falls (Wed, 28 Oct 2026)
The company has been spending relentlessly to build A.I. and said it would increase those investments next year. Profit dropped because of changes to the value of its investments.
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Microsoft’s Profit Jumps 32% Despite Big Increase in Spending (Thu, 29 Oct 2026)
The company’s free cash flow stayed positive in the last quarter even as it spent $45.2 billion on capital expenses like data centers and offered to pay workers to leave.
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Apple Unveils Its First Touch-Screen MacBook Pro (Wed, 28 Oct 2026)
Steve Jobs and Tim Cook both dismissed the idea, but Apple’s new chief executive is reimagining some of the company’s most important products.
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AI Is Finding a Flood of Bugs, and Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Fix Them (Wed, 28 Oct 2026)
A.I. has uncovered a horde of software flaws, which engineers are racing to fix before they can be exploited and abused by hackers.
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GM Is Leaving NYSE for the Nasdaq After More Than 100 Years (Tue, 27 Oct 2026)
After more than 100 years on the New York Stock Exchange, the automaker is shifting its listing to the Nasdaq, which is home to many technology companies.
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How Billionaires Are Fighting the Prop 40 California Wealth Tax (Tue, 27 Oct 2026)
The latest Silicon Valley billionaire club is a $333 million political ad machine that is heavily engaged in next week’s elections.
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Wanted: Robot-Dog Walkers. $20/Hour. (Tue, 27 Oct 2026)
No pooper scooper required.
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In the A.I. ‘Robogym,’ Machines Train to Be More Like Humans (Tue, 27 Oct 2026)
Germany’s Neura is one of the companies at the forefront of efforts to use artificial intelligence in robotics, and crucial to whether Europe can close the gap with China.
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The Key Numbers From Anthropic’s IPO Filing (Mon, 26 Oct 2026)
We broke down the A.I. company’s key figures, which give insight into the health of its business, its future plans and who’s in charge.
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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees as It Spends on A.I. (Mon, 26 Oct 2026)
About a quarter of the tech giant’s employees were eligible for the packages, although the company cautioned it did not expect many employees to sign on.
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Anthropic’s IPO S-1 Spells Out a Future of Promise and Peril (Mon, 26 Oct 2026)
The A.I. company took great pains to describe the many benefits that can come from using its Claude chatbot and technology, but also offered up a heavy dose of gloom.
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Meet Anthropic’s Seven Founders as the A.I. Firm Prepares for an IPO (Mon, 26 Oct 2026)
Former OpenAI employees started the company in 2021 after disagreements over how to safely build artificial intelligence. An I.P.O. could make them billionaires.
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Anthropic S-1 Reveals Rapid Growth Ahead of Blockbuster IPO (Mon, 26 Oct 2026)
Ahead of what could be the largest public listing ever, Anthropic said revenue soared to $16.3 billion in the first half of the year, and it planned to spend $807 billion on A.I. infrastructure.
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Darline Graham Gets Help From the Data Center Industry in South Carolina Senate Race (Mon, 26 Oct 2026)
As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.
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What’s Riding on Anthropic Going Public? Nearly Everything. (Mon, 26 Oct 2026)
Anthropic sits atop a pyramid of business partners and suppliers, making it a barometer of the broader economy. Its initial public offering will have widespread implications.
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Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 5 Killer Tasks (Sun, 25 Oct 2026)
When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.
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Elon Musk Says Ukraine Violated Starlink’s Rules (Sun, 25 Oct 2026)
The comments came after the disruption in the country’s satellite service. Earlier, Ukraine said drones using Starshield, the Pentagon-funded service, were back to normal speeds.
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