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Tuesday, 3 November 2026

A complete daily edition from the Aizanoi News archive.

Technology

Marvell bets $115 billion of stock on optical links for AI clusters

Marvell will acquire Lumentum in an all-stock deal carrying an implied enterprise value of $115 billion, or about $1,132 per Lumentum share, a 23.9% premium to the undisturbed price on 28 October.

Sources Marvell TechnologyTechCrunch

Economy / Markets

Washington's balance of power goes to voters with 53 million ballots already cast

All 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and governorships in 36 states are on Tuesday's ballot, with control of Congress deciding how much of the president's remaining agenda can pass.

Sources Al JazeeraBloomberg

AI

Publishers sue Brave, casting the browser as a fence for scraped news

The New York Times sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court on Monday, alleging the browser's index of more than 30 billion pages was copied without permission and sold to AI developers including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.

Sources TechCrunchThe VergeThe New York Times Company (court filing)

AI

Anthropic's amended filing puts its compute bill at $895 billion

Anthropic's first S-1 amendment fills in the third quarter: revenue of $17.0 billion, more than eleven times the year-earlier figure, and a net loss of $23.3 billion that the filing ties largely to revaluing convertible notes.

Sources SEC EDGARYahoo Finance

Technology

Apple's record quarter arrives with a memory bill it cannot yet price

Apple reported September-quarter revenue of $114.5 billion, up 12%, earnings per share of $2.10 and a 47.9% gross margin that included about a point of tariff refunds.

Sources AppleTechCrunch

Football

The Champions League table has already split before matchday four

Nine fixtures run on Tuesday, opening with Galatasaray against Stuttgart and Shakhtar against Sporting at 18:45 CET, then seven more including Barcelona against Aston Villa.

Sources ANSA

Economy / Markets

Seoul leads an Asian retreat as the AI spending trade loses its floor

The KOSPI fell 145.02 points, or 2.48%, to 5,714.06 by late Tuesday morning in Seoul, with Samsung Electronics down 2.95% and SK hynix down 3.8% as investors re-priced the cost of AI infrastructure.

Sources Yonhap News AgencyTrading Economics

Economy / Markets

South Korea doubles its chip and AI bet inside a record budget

President Lee Jae-myung told the National Assembly that 2027 spending will rise 12.8% to 820.9 trillion won, the largest budget on record, with 21.3 trillion won, nearly double this year's figure, going to semiconductors, physical AI and AI data centres.

Sources Yonhap News AgencyCNBC

AI

OpenAI offers utilities a switch it can flick when the grid strains

OpenAI's Grid Protectors Program commits future compute campuses to cut electricity demand when local grids are under pressure, starting at its planned Effingham County site in Georgia, where an agreement with Georgia Power covers up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible load.

Sources OpenAIGeorgia PowerUnite.AI

Technology

Taiwan moves to make AI chip smuggling a crime in its own right

An amendment heard in the Legislative Yuan's economics committee on Monday would criminalise exporting specified advanced chips, wafer materials and equipment to China without approval, with penalties of up to ten years in prison and fines of NT$5 million to NT$10 million, including for shipments routed through a third country.

Sources Asia Times

AI

Meituan ships a 1.6-trillion-parameter agent model without the weights

LongCat-2.5 is live on Meituan's API platform, keeping the 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts shape of LongCat-2.0 with roughly 48 billion parameters active per token.

Sources LongCat API Platformeesel

Technology

Langflow's default login left a 9.8-rated door open until 1.13.0

IBM's bulletin covers four Langflow flaws in every release from 1.0.0 through 1.12.8, two of them rated 9.8: an authentication bypass tracked as CVE-2026-93680 and unauthenticated code execution through code generation, CVE-2026-110186.

Sources IBMNIST NVD

Football

Udinese cut Runjaic loose after eight winless matches

Udinese dismissed Kosta Runjaic on Monday, ending a tenure of more than two years after a run of eight matches without a win and a 5-2 home defeat by Roma that left the club on five points from ten games, just above the relegation places on goal difference.

Sources Udinese CalcioFootball Italia

AI

Anthropic edits Claude Code to stop it rebuilding other people's games

Anthropic added two sentences to the Claude Code system prompt on Opus 5.5 telling the model to build original games and games within a genre, but not to recreate a specific existing title even when it is relabelled as original.

Sources The Verge

Football

Bottom club Fukuoka part with Tsukahara thirteen games into the season

Avispa Fukuoka terminated Shinya Tsukahara's contract on Tuesday with the club bottom of J1 on seven points from thirteen matches, two wins and ten defeats, after a 0-3 loss at JEF United Chiba extended the run to four straight league defeats.

Sources Avispa FukuokaSanspo