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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The Raspberry Pi 5 price for the 16GB model rose $80 to $385 on Nov. 2 amid a memory chip shortage, over three times its launch price. New prices and context.
Anthropic IPO filing update: Q3 revenue hit $16.96 billion, about 12 times a year earlier, but compute costs pushed the Claude maker to a $567M operating loss.
A Global Disinformation Index study found two AI models repeated Russian state claims in 70% of answers, as Russia and Ukraine reported alert-app hacks.
Business report November 1, 2026: Meta's AI-driven ad sales outpace Google Search, banks and retailers block AI agents, and tariffs squeeze a Maine factory.
AI news Nov. 1, 2026: Canada takes up to a C$1.6B stake in Cohere at a C$35.7B valuation, Apple adds Qwen in China, OpenAI ships GPT-Rosalind-6, xAI loses bid.
Taiwan chip export bill gets a hearing Nov. 2: shipping specified chips and tools to China without a permit could mean up to 10 years in prison. Key facts.
DeepSeek Super-agent, an open-source coding agent that flags fixes without being asked, drew 6,801 GitHub stars in 34 hours. How it works and its limits.
The Kalshi valuation hit $40 billion after a $1 billion Series G co-led by Wellington and Sequoia. Investors, valuation history, volume and expansion plans.
Reddit stock fell 29% on Oct. 30, its worst day since the 2024 IPO, after weak Q4 guidance, a drop in U.S. users and a warning that Google AI cuts its traffic.
The Toast FTC lawsuit, filed Oct. 29 with 7 states, accuses the Boston restaurant software firm of hidden fees and hard cancellations. Toast says it will fight.
Business report October 31, 2026: Binance covers 90% of its $6.3 billion hack, OpenAI trims its raise to $20 billion and gas prices near an Election Day record.
Nvidia Nscale guarantee talks: the chipmaker may back debt for a 460 MW West Virginia data center Anthropic will rent for up to $44.6 billion. The numbers.
A shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt will be honored by Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic. What the IETF draft says and each company's start date.
OpenAI funding round shrinks: the ChatGPT maker now seeks about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion, the FT reports. Key numbers.
The Zelda Ocarina of Time remake launches Nov. 5 on Switch 2 for $59.99 digital or $69.99 physical. New features, editions, ocarinas and what has changed.
The touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899 and ships Nov. 6. Full prices, PROLED XDR display specs and how it compares with the $1,999 M6 MacBook Pro.
Qubic Labs, the Quincy fintech nonprofit that ran Boston Blockchain Week, is closing after seven years and 70-plus portfolio companies as state grant money ran out.
India launched the NVS-03 navigation satellite to restore its NavIC network, a Ukrainian arms maker claimed Starlink workarounds, and SpaceX flew 27 more.
Business report October 30, 2026: Intel sinks 29%, the Nasdaq ends its worst month since March 2025, oil giants hit records and Fed officials urge rate hikes.
Google's Project Suncatcher satellite is online, running a Gemma 4 AI model on a TPU in orbit. What it did, the radiation tests ahead and the Starship math.
Intel stock fell about 29% Oct. 30 after a Q4 revenue forecast of $15-16 billion missed estimates on PC weakness and an Israel fab blast. The data and fallout.
An Amadeus data breach exposed booking records for about 92,000 JAL customers, 37,800 at ANA and 53,000 Cathay bookings over more than three years. What was taken.
Amazon earnings for Q3 2026: AWS sales jumped 39% to $46 billion, but $77 billion of AI capex sent free cash flow to -$42.4 billion. Charts and analyst views.
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