Saudi Arabia pumped 10.563 million barrels a day in October, OPEC said, as the U.S. average gas price fell to $3.94, its first time under $4 in months.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has passed 11,000 cases and 5,387 deaths, its health ministry said Nov. 11, as Kenya began a 42-day countdown to Ebola-free status.
Spain held its first general strike in 14 years on Nov. 11 over housing costs. Masked groups clashed with police in Barcelona as 120,000 marched in Madrid.
Cost of living by country for mid-2026: the most expensive and cheapest nations, the biggest changes over the year and official inflation, with charts.
Russia hit six major power substations overnight, Kyiv said, a second night of strikes that left outages in eight regions and darkened city streetlights.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large prisoner exchange as Abu Dhabi talks ended Wednesday with no breakthrough. Envoys go to Moscow and Dublin Thursday.
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OpenAI data center policy: no NDAs with officials, full power-cost pledges and community input after voters rejected most AI data-center ballot measures.
Agility Robotics IPO debuts on Nasdaq as AGLT, raising about $465 million with more than $300 million in Digit 5 orders. Here is what the data shows so far.
FAA floppy disks leave air traffic control as E-IDS starts at five sites and targets 435 facilities by the end of 2028. Here is what the data shows so far.
Boston's Lazarus AI raised $43 million to expand enterprise AI that runs on customer hardware without per-token charges, backed by QBE, State Farm Ventures and others.
Lowell-based chipmaker MACOM reported record fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $424.8 million and topped profit estimates, but its shares fell more than 7% as semiconductor stocks slid.
Business report November 4, 2026: the Dow jumps 1,569 points after Democrats sweep Congress, oil sinks 8%, CVS plans a breakup and Boston's Wayfair surges.
Panasonic Hsinchu fire injures 5 and leaves 2 missing at a Hukou plant making circuit-board laminates for AI servers, raising fears of tighter high-end supply.
Oracle Tencent chip lease worth about $7 billion is canceled after U.S. officials raised concerns, the FT reports, cutting off access to 100,000 AI chips.
Nvidia China RTX Pro 5500 orders reach about 6 million chips worth $70 billion, but Chinese buyers expect only about 1% in four months, Bloomberg reports.
Tencent Hy4 launches with vision and computer use, a hallucination rate Tencent puts at 7.2%, unchanged API prices and open weights promised in coming days.
SK hynix export license talks stall as Commerce holds up tools for its Dalian, China fab, clouding a reported $45 billion Solidigm NAND plan for Marcy, N.Y.
Waymo Uber split: Waymo will run robotaxi rides in Austin and Atlanta on its own app from January 2028, as weekly paid rides top 500,000 and growth speeds up.
Altermagnetism is real: a SLAC-led team found a chiral X-ray signal in manganese telluride, confirming a third type of magnetism that could power better chips.
Google Search schools rules: from early 2027, K-12 districts that turn off Gemini lose Search too, since it now ships with AI Overviews and AI Mode built in.
Block earnings: Q3 adjusted EPS of $1.13 and $3.24 billion gross profit beat forecasts; Block raised its 2026 outlook and set a $14.52 billion 2027 goal.
Supermicro earnings: fiscal Q1 sales hit $19.9 billion, up 298%, and the 2027 outlook rose to $72-82 billion, but gross margin fell to 12.7%. Data inside.
Apple opens Siri AI to all app developers in the iOS 27.3 betas, letting third-party apps add actions and multi-step app skills. Customers get it in a few months; App Store submissions open in spring.
Business report November 2, 2026: oil plunges 7% on U.S.-Iran talk hopes, tech stocks slide, and Apple, Palantir and Anthropic post big quarterly numbers.
Google AI Overviews investigation: Turkey's Competition Authority opened a formal probe Nov. 2 and ordered interim fixes for news publishers. Fines and data.
OpenAI Grid Protectors program launches with a pledge to cut up to 1,000 MW at its Georgia campus when the grid is strained. What it means for power bills.
Marvell Lumentum deal: Marvell will buy Lumentum for $115 billion in stock at 4.5 shares each, closing in 2028. Both stocks fell Monday. Terms and data.
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