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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on 9 November, priced at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output, 20 percent below the 5.1 generation and cheaper than OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra.
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The S&P 500 rose 2.35 percent to 7,549.94 on 9 November, the Nasdaq Composite gained 2.74 percent to 25,253.14 and the Dow added 1,104.02 points to 52,389.75 as investors bought back last week's heavy losses.
Sources XinhuaCboeSwingfolio Research
Google introduced two configurations of its eighth-generation tensor processing units on 9 November: TPU 8tx, built with the same silicon as the TPU 8t and paired with custom AMD processors for confidential computing, and TPU 8i Max, which packages two TPU 8i chips to double compute, on-chip memory and high-bandwidth memory for long-context workloads.
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on 10 November that his government accepted all recommendations of a review into an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to Medicare's medical statistics portal, disclosed in September.
An 11-week assessment published on 5 November by the safety nonprofit METR concludes that Anthropic is probably improving model capabilities on well-specified tasks at about twice the rate it managed between March 2024 and October 2025, with benchmark scores growing 1.9 times faster since October 2025, a 95 percent interval of 1.5 to 2.8 times.
Sources METRAssociated Press
Fermín López scored in first-half stoppage time and again after the break as Barcelona came from behind to win 2-1 at Atlético Madrid on 8 November, restoring a three-point lead over Real Madrid at the top of La Liga.
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After winning control of Congress in last week's midterms, Democrats are drafting legislation to shield consumers from electricity costs tied to data centres, require independent testing of advanced AI systems and clarify corporate liability for AI harm, Reuters reported.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases October consumer prices at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on 10 November, and for the first time in the current cycle the report will omit a year-over-year headline figure because October 2025 prices were never collected during that year's government shutdown.
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Microchip Technology reported September-quarter revenue of $1.622 billion, up 42.2 percent, but chief executive Steve Sanghi told analysts that AI customers at outsourced assembly and test houses "came in and took over the whole factory", stretching standard-product lead times from four to eight weeks to as long as 32 weeks.
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Qantas said on 10 November it will cut 850 Australian jobs, about 3 percent of its 28,000-strong local workforce, and outsource parts of finance, procurement, human resources and marketing to Accenture, with some roles moving to teams mostly based in India.
Microsoft has stopped renewing an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle and has been turning off that capacity in recent months, Reuters reported, citing a Bloomberg account.
Sources Reuters (via The Indian Express)
Newcastle defender Dan Burn, who has 11 caps, was added to England's squad on 9 November after Marc Guéhi withdrew through injury, joining Thomas Tuchel's group at Tottenham's training ground.
Sources England FootballEngland Football
Nvidia said on 9 November that Rebellions will adopt NVLink Fusion to connect its next-generation R200 neural processing units to Nvidia's rack-scale inference platform, and that SK Telecom plans to deploy those systems in its AI data centre.
Sources NVIDIA
Barcelona defender Pau Cubarsí was named the 2026 Golden Boy at a ceremony in Sassuolo on 9 November, taking 475 points from a maximum 500 in the Tuttosport award voted on by journalists from 22 countries.
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Bitcoin traded around $74,800 late on 9 November, barely changed, after bouncing from an 11-week low near $73,500 over the weekend, even as the Nasdaq Composite climbed 2.74 percent.