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Nvidia Board Is Launching Investigation After Reporting That CEO Targeted By Chinese Informant

Nov 8, 2026 · 12:26pm PST

The independent investigation comes after The New York Times reported that Jensen Huang had ties to a woman who American officials believed was passing along information to Beijing.

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Meta Strategy Chief Dave Wehner to Become Fireworks CFO

Nov 6, 2026 · 5:45pm PST · 1 comment

Former Meta executive is leaving to become CFO of inference provider Fireworks.

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Longtime SpaceX Board Member Resigns

Nov 6, 2026 · 2:51pm PST

Donald Harrison was among the SpaceX directors weighing the possibility of a SpaceX-Tesla merger.

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OpenAI Expected to Brief Investors Next Week After Raising $11 Billion

Nov 6, 2026 · 1:57pm PST · 1 comment

The company has raised just over half of its new target for its latest $1.25 trillion fundraising round.

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Anthropic to Proceed With IPO Roadshow Next Week

Nov 6, 2026 · 1:56pm PST

The roadshow will try to ride out AI-related volatility in tech stocks.

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Alphabet Acquires Qualcomm Stake Through Modular Purchase

Nov 6, 2026 · 1:15pm PST

Google also owns stakes in Arm.

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Tesla Will Discontinue Cybertruck Next Year

Nov 6, 2026 · 11:01am PST

Elon Musk said it’s to make room for Cybercab product

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Microsoft Ends Deal to Rent Cloud Servers from Oracle

Nov 6, 2026 · 11:00am PST

Microsoft declined to renew its contract because the servers it was renting from Oracle were equipped with older chips that Microsoft believed became less useful over time.

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GPU Futures Hopes Hit Another Roadblock as CME Delays Launch for Second Time

Nov 6, 2026 · 7:47am PST

The exchange behind the futures product voluntarily agreed to delay.

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Amazon Says Shoppers Can Now Text With AI Shopping Assistant Alexa For Shopping

Nov 6, 2026 · 7:31am PST

It’s one of several efforts that make Amazon more competitive with rival consumer AI agents, including Meta’s Muse

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Jensen Huang Asked to Brief Congress Over Alleged Chinese Spy Plot

Nov 5, 2026 · 10:20pm PST

Three House committees requested a briefing with the Nvidia CEO, citing national security concerns.

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Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s PIF Made Takeover Approach for Unity Software

Nov 5, 2026 · 5:51pm PST · 1 comment

A buyout would follow the acquisition of Electronic Arts by Silver Lake, PIF and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners.

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Lyft Growth Slows to 8% in Q3

Nov 5, 2026 · 2:00pm PST

Despite the slowdown, Lyft CEO David Risher was ebullient in a press release, saying "neither rain nor heat nor the gloom of night can slow Lyft's business."

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Anthropic Launches Personal Finance Feature for Claude

Nov 5, 2026 · 1:20pm PST

Claude only has read-only access and can’t move, manage or invest money.

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Amazon Strikes Uber Eats Partnership

Nov 5, 2026 · 12:40pm PST

Amazon Prime members can order deliveries on Amazon, without a delivery fee, with the deliveries handled by Uber Eats.

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Unity Software Reports Strong Growth in AI Ad Business

Nov 5, 2026 · 10:53am PST

Unity shares have rallied nearly 200% since March as the company has reported that its new ad business was surging.

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Anthropic’s R&D Speed May Have Doubled Due to AI, Researchers Find

Nov 5, 2026 · 10:00am PST · 1 comment

Engineers’ use of Anthropic’s Claude models to develop new model generations has substantially sped up the pace of AI progress, a report from AI nonprofit METR says.

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