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Sunday, 1 November 2026

A complete daily edition from the Aizanoi News archive.

AI

Apple hands Apple Intelligence in China to Alibaba's Qwen

Alibaba and Apple confirmed on Saturday that Qwen will power Apple Intelligence on iPhones in mainland China, reaching Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence.

Sources South China Morning PostRTHK (Xinhua)Anadolu Agency

Economy / Markets

Binance says it has replaced 90% of the $6.3bn taken in record hack

Binance said on Saturday it had replenished 90% of the roughly $6.3bn drained from its hot wallets on 29 October, drawing on company funds, its SAFU reserve and treasury to rebuy tokens; the rest sits in less liquid assets.

Sources AP NewsNBC NewsChainalysis

Economy / Markets

S&P cuts its Meta outlook to negative over AI cash burn

S&P Global Ratings lowered its outlook on Meta's AA- credit rating to negative from stable on Friday, citing negative free operating cash flow and spending it expects to stay elevated.

Sources CNBCThe Business Times (Bloomberg)

Technology

IBM links two 120-qubit processors with four metre-scale cables

IBM researchers joined two 120-qubit Nighthawk R1 processors with four 80-centimetre superconducting aluminium cables fixed after both chips were already mounted in one dilution refrigerator.

Sources Phys.orgarXiv (IBM Research preprint)Science

Football

Dortmund salvage a 2-2 draw in Munich as Silva strikes late

Konrad Laimer put Bayern ahead in the 38th minute and Dayot Upamecano restored the lead on 66, but Serhou Guirassy had levelled on the hour and substitute Fábio Silva equalised again in the 89th, converting Konstantinos Karetsas's corner after a VAR check.

Sources DFB DatencenterBBC SportESPN

Technology

Google's orbital TPU returns its first AI answer from space

A Tensor Processing Unit aboard Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite ran the open Gemma 4 model and returned a haiku during a ground-station pass over Svalbard, Norway.

Sources Google (The Keyword)The Verge

Football

Brighton win at the Etihad for the first time and close on City

Yasin Ayari scored in the 11th minute after Matheus Nunes misjudged a clearance, and Bart Verbruggen made seven saves as Brighton won 1-0 at Manchester City, their first away victory over them in 18 attempts.

Sources Sky SportsThe Guardian

Football

Ten-man United lose at Chelsea as Carrick's winless run reaches nine

Morgan Rogers ran through a static United defence to open the scoring five minutes after half-time, and Cole Palmer converted a penalty on 64 after Lisandro Martínez collected a second booking for raising an arm to Wesley Fofana.

Sources Sky SportsESPN

Economy / Markets

China's factory gauge slips back into contraction at 49.3

China's official NBS manufacturing PMI fell to 49.3 in October from 50.1 in September, missing forecasts of 50 and marking the lowest reading since July. Output, new orders, export orders and purchasing activity all dropped below the 50 line, employment held at 48.4, and input-cost inflation eased to 56.8 from 60.8.

Sources Trading Economics (NBS data)Myfxbook economic calendar

AI

AI labs agree to read one robots.txt training opt-out

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic said on Friday they will honour a single shared policy token in robots.txt, letting a publisher refuse generative-AI training without writing a rule for every crawler.

Sources Google Search Central BlogSiliconANGLEThe Next Web

AI

Altman takes OpenAI's memory squeeze to Samsung's boardroom

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman met about 50 Samsung Group executives in Yongin, south of Seoul, on Saturday, with memory supply and AI infrastructure on the agenda alongside a wider session on how AI may reshape their industries.

Sources BloombergEconomic Times (ET Enterprise AI)

AI

Meta built a humanoid prototype with China's Fourier, report says

The Information reported on Saturday that Meta assembled a humanoid, internally codenamed Max, with Chinese startup Fourier in about three months. The roughly 1.5-metre machine uses Nvidia's Jetson Thor chip and carries a display that mimics facial expressions, speakers and five-fingered hands for small objects.

Sources ReutersInvesting.com via Yahoo Finance

Technology

Hermantown council clears Google's 1.7m sq ft Minnesota data centre

After four hours of public comment and protests that twice postponed the vote, Hermantown's city council unanimously approved a development agreement, a special use permit and a $210m decommissioning plan for a 1.7 million-square-foot Google data centre on more than 200 acres outside Duluth.

Sources MPR News

AI

Altman says OpenAI will keep publishing faster than academia can check

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that humanity deserves fundamental knowledge and the company should not sit on a major discovery, confirming it holds more unpublished results.

Sources TechRadar

Technology

Apple's 2nm M6 reaches the MacBook Pro with memory-driven storage premiums

Apple's first 2nm chip is now in the entry 14-inch MacBook Pro, which starts at $1,999 with 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage; preorders opened on 28 October and shipping begins on 6 November.

Sources Chip Dispatch