Tuesday · November 10, 2026 Vol. I · No. 313
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Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips Rein Security is bringing visibility and control to every agentic action Ember’s latest self-heating 14-ounce mug is $50 off N-able takes its remote access service offline after researcher publishes dozens of zero-day bugs Adobe’s Acrobat is coming to Gmail and Google Drive in a wider Google deal Russian embassy blames London for severing military-to-military communication UK’s bestselling children’s author named in sex abuse scandal Lewis Hamilton visits Egypt’s Rafah crossing and Gaza aid facilities Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips Rein Security is bringing visibility and control to every agentic action Ember’s latest self-heating 14-ounce mug is $50 off N-able takes its remote access service offline after researcher publishes dozens of zero-day bugs Adobe’s Acrobat is coming to Gmail and Google Drive in a wider Google deal Russian embassy blames London for severing military-to-military communication UK’s bestselling children’s author named in sex abuse scandal Lewis Hamilton visits Egypt’s Rafah crossing and Gaza aid facilities

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Bitdefender’s new tool maps how attackers could reach critical systems

Bitdefender has launched GravityZone Exposure Management, which combines vulnerability discovery, internet-facing asset scanning, attack-path mapping and per-user hardening. It is…

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Memory and storage stocks keep sliding despite blowout earnings

Sandisk, Micron, Seagate and Western Digital were among the top stocks of early 2026 but have dropped to the S&P 500’s bottom 10% since July, Bloomberg reported. Western Digital f…

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Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax

"It's causing a lot of people to run who I don't want to be running," native Californian Palmer Luckey said. "But I'm planning on staying in California. I'm going to keep fighting…

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Hyphenate raises $45M Series A following 86x revenue growth

The first wave of finance AI helped teams work faster. The next is taking responsibility for the work itself. Hyphenate is the autonomous finance platform for the office of the CF…

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Black Ore launches its AI tax preparation platform for small firms

Black Ore, the AI platform for financial services, launched Black Ore for Small Firms. It is a version of its Tax Autopilot platform built for small and mid-sized accounting pract…

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Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

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General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative

General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

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Anduril, Qualcomm launch BlueChip, a new kind of US-made laptop

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which a…

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DeepSeek’s latest model still resists shutdown in safety tests

DeepSeek’s newest AI model is safer than its earlier versions, but it still sometimes switches off the software meant to shut it down. That is the finding of independent tests by …

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BNY says it now tracks its AI token spending to avoid overpaying

BNY has built tools to track how it spends AI tokens and to route tasks to the most suitable models, CFO Dermot McDonogh told Bloomberg Television. The bank runs about 400 AI agen…

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Israeli ad tech firm heavily targeted Starlink users, sources say

An Israeli ad company showed huge numbers of ads to people using Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet service, probably to track them. That is what researchers believe, Reuters r…

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Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

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Remote’s Job van der Voort says AI companies now pay PhDs to label data

Remote chief executive Job van der Voort wants his staff to be 10 times more effective a year from now, because their AI tools will be 10 times more effective too. The company run…

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Alibaba wins injunction against Pentagon rule

A US federal judge has temporarily blocked a Pentagon rule that could cost companies their defence contracts if they share lobbyists with Alibaba, Reuters reported. The California…

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Whitespace hires former Meta product manager Mike Howard as CPO

Whitespace, a UK company that builds AI for defence and government, has hired former Meta product manager Mike Howard as its chief product officer. He will set the direction for i…

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Apple’s iOS 27.2 gives Siri AI a memory and five more languages

Apple released iOS 27.2 on Monday, the first big update to iOS 27, alongside new versions of iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS and tvOS. Most of the new features are for Siri AI, t…

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Infineon to invest €1.1bn in Austrian plant for gallium nitride chips

German chipmaker Infineon will invest about €1.1bn in its site in Villach, Austria, to make power chips from gallium nitride, the company announced on Tuesday. It says the plant w…

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Nvidia to invest $3bn in Meta and expand work on Muse agent

Nvidia will put $3bn into Meta and work more closely with it on Muse, Meta’s personal AI agent, the two companies announced today. The money is part of the share sale Meta launche…

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Mozilla Festival returns to Barcelona with a focus on community-led tech

What would technology look like if it were built by communities rather than controlled by a handful of companies? That question sits at the heart of this year’s Mozilla Festival, …

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X is nudging users to promote their posts with a pointing hand, and people are confused

Whose hand is behind this travesty?

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How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage,…

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OpenAI says its AI model has disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

Hundreds of computer science papers rest on a conjecture that an internal OpenAI model now claims to have refuted, the company said on Monday. OpenAI announced two more results th…

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Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression lib…