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Wall Street's chip-led rally broke on Thursday after Democratic gains in the midterms raised the prospect of tighter AI and data centre policy. The Nasdaq fell about 5.5 percent and the S&P 500 4.4 percent, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index down more than 12 percent as Nvidia and Qualcomm led losses.
Lenny Joseph scored twice as Ferencvaros won 2-0 at Milan to stay perfect in the Europa League league phase. Milan's 21-year-old goalkeeper Lorenzo Torriani made five saves from Joseph alone on his full debut before the striker broke through early in the second half and added a second on the break.
Sources BBC SportSky Sports
OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber, a security-focused model it classifies as Critical under its Preparedness Framework, one level above GPT-5.6 Cyber. On ExploitGym it scored 48.5 percent against 32.1 percent for its predecessor, and it helped find 81 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Firefox.
Sources The Verge
OpenAI president Greg Brockman told a Wall Street Journal conference that the company could be ready for an initial public offering in 2027, answering "I think so" when asked.
Sources TechCrunch
The US October employment report is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Eastern on Friday. FactSet's median of 24 estimates puts nonfarm payrolls at 65,000, up from 29,000 in September, with forecasts ranging from 50,000 to 125,000, while the unemployment rate is expected to hold at 4.2 percent.
Sources FactSet Insight
After midterm elections in which data centre opposition drew broad support, OpenAI announced commitments for communities hosting its projects. The company said it will not use non-disclosure agreements with public officials beyond narrow protections for security information, trade secrets and competitively sensitive material.
Sources The Verge
Anthropic opened a beta of Personal Finance in Claude for Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the United States. Users connect bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask about balances, spending and upcoming bills; Claude can see account names, types, last four digits, balances, credit limits and up to two years of transactions.
Celtic beat Besiktas 3-2 at Celtic Park for their first Europa League win of the campaign after Martin O'Neill turned to his bench. Junior Olaitan put the visitors ahead from a rebound after Sam Johnstone saved his penalty, but Callum Osmand equalised with his first touch and set up Camilo Duran to make it 2-1.
Sources Sky Sports
Perplexity launched Teammates, agents that own ongoing work rather than answer a single prompt. Each teammate carries over projects, skills and memory from Perplexity Computer, runs in its own desktop and browser, and can split a goal into parallel tasks or hand work to other agents.
Sources The Verge
Micron has all but stopped construction of a memory chip plant in Taoyuan, Taiwan, after a protracted labour dispute, Bloomberg reported. The Fab 11E project, budgeted at $3 billion to $4.5 billion and previously due to start production in 2028, was meant to make DRAM and high-bandwidth memory with top-end ASML equipment.
Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available with native 15-second clips, up from 10 seconds in version 1.1, and cut the price 30 percent to $0.07 per second for 720p video.
Sources Google
Arsenal lead the Premier League on 24 points after nine matches, three clear of Manchester City, following their 1-0 win at Liverpool on Sunday. Matchday 10 opens on Friday with Everton hosting Coventry City, then Leeds United play Tottenham Hotspur in Saturday's early kick-off, Arsenal meet Hull City and Nottingham Forest host City.
Sources Premier LeagueSport News Africa
Dropbox agreed to acquire cloud storage company Tigris Data for $350 million, which it describes as its largest acquisition. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter and supports DBX Agent Cloud, a storage platform for companies building AI models and agents that will first sell S3-compatible object storage as a standalone product.
Sources TechCrunch
Discord is moving its desktop client off Electron and its mobile apps off React Native, rebuilding shared code in Rust on top of GPUI, chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy said.
Sources The Verge
The New York Times is reported to be in talks to acquire Letterboxd, the film-logging and review platform, for $330 million. Letterboxd grew from 3 million users in January 2021 to 28 million by April this year, and more than half of its users are under 35.
Sources TechCrunch