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THORChain, which handled ~$1B of stolen Bybit funds in 2025 for $12M+ in fees, began moving the Binance loot despite FBI pleas, saying it can't stop transfers (Wall Street Journal)
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Excluding Anthropic's IPO, AI companies sold or priced $300B+ of stock in 2026, with ~$100B more on tap, raising questions about how much the market can absorb (Alex Eichenstein/The Information)
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Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Anthropic bought commitments for 1.7GW of gas-fired generators from equipment supplier OnePWR for $3.4B, the largest known such purchase by an AI lab (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
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Inside Inner Mongolia, China's fastest-growing AI data center region, where construction is accelerating with low building cost and no public backlash (SemiAnalysis)
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Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centers (Valerie Volcovici/Reuters)
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Internal documents leaked by Cisco workers angry over the company's ties to Israel's military show how it expanded its business as the war in Gaza dragged on (Alice Speri/The Guardian)
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The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industry (Financial Times)
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Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallow (Nous Research)
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Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+ (TechNode)
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Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland (Financial Times)
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How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms (Politico)
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Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
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US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
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Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept. (Arundhati Hazra/The Guardian)