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The Nasdaq 100 fell 6.4% Thursday, wiping $2.3T in market value, as the Philadelphia semiconductor index crashed 12% and Asian markets followed overnight. Nvidia and Qualcomm each dropped more than 9% on fears Democratic midterm wins will slow data-center buildouts.
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Business Insider reports Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is closing a $5B round led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, more than tripling its roughly $12B mark from last year's $2B seed. Nvidia is separately in talks to invest around $2.5B.
James Gates, a North Carolina man, sued OpenAI and Sam Altman in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging GPT-4o helped his wife Cheryl plan to poison him with oleander. The complaint lists nine causes including negligent design; attempted-murder charges against her were dropped for insufficient evidence.
US Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the DOJ Super Intelligence Task Force, co-chaired by Associate AG Stanley Woodward and Associate Deputy AG Stephen Weiss, to prosecute foreign state actors, transnational criminals and corporate actors who misuse advanced AI. The existing AI Litigation Section folds in.
Meta indefinitely paused the commercial-terms update it was set to impose on November 20, which would have let it scrape websites belonging to Meta Business account users. The retreat followed sustained pushback from publishers and from regulators in Norway and Brazil.
Google announced a $17B first Wyoming data center in Laramie County, powered by a 702 MW on-site fuel-cell development with carbon capture that Bloom Energy will build and American Electric Power will contract. Partners include Tallgrass Energy, Black Hills Energy and Related Digital.
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Mistral opened public preview of Studio managed agents, the Agents SDK, a visual workflow builder, apps CLI and evaluation tools, letting enterprises build multi-step agents with custom skills, code sandboxes and subagents on Mistral-managed infrastructure. Private cloud and on-prem deployment arrive late November.
Microsoft's Foundry Local now runs Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B as a local agentic coding model, plugging it into GitHub Copilot via Bring Your Own Key and serving it on ONNX Runtime. Qwen3.8-27B scores 73.0 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 61.7 on SWE-bench Pro in the published benchmarks.
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Philippe Jaenada won France's Prix Goncourt on Tuesday for L'Inconnue du quai de Javel, then told France Inter he used ChatGPT three times while writing it, including slipping in one AI-written sentence to 'play with the reader'. The jury had just removed another book over AI allegations.
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