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According to US Stock Market News analysis by The Kobeissi Letter, the U.S. stock market is showing signs of broadening strength even as investors retreat from memory chip stocks. The Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) and related semiconductor memory equities have experienced recent outflows and price

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told host Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast that artificial intelligence could ultimately create “true abundance”—a world in which most goods and services no longer rely primarily on human labor as an input. But Gates stressed that the roughly 20-year transition period leading up to it could be as turbulent as the most tumultuous eras in human history, even if managed well, with clear winners and losers in society. Gates’ key arguments on the Decoder podc

Google Cloud announced on Oct. 21 that Confidential G4, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, is now generally available across 36 zones for Compute Engine virtual machines and GKE nodes; confidential computing has entered the procurement shortlist for enterprise-grade AI workloads. Google Cloud: Confidential G4 Moves from Preview to General Availability Google Cloud announced on Oct. 21 that Confidential G4 is now generally available across 36 zones for Compute Engine vi

EZPR CEO Ed Zitron criticized NVIDIA's sales practices on the 25th (local time), alleging the company creates artificial scarcity to drive GPU sales. According to Yahoo Finance, Zitron pointed to NVIDIA's accounts receivable concentration, with approximately 70% coming from just five companies in th

Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song and Budget Minister Park Hong-geun raised concerns about South Korea's petroleum maximum price system sustainability on October 22 and October 23. The officials warned that prolonged implementation creates structural price distortions and fiscal burdens.

ByteDance, Tencent Holdings, and Alibaba Group are competing to hire “frontier deployment engineers” (FDEs) at annual salaries close to 1 million yuan (about $149.7k). Their role is to work directly with enterprise clients to develop AI applications and integrate them into business operations. According to professional networking platform MaiMai, FDE job postings in China increased 1,523% in the first seven months of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025. FDE Roles and Salaries: Frontier De

At a moment when financing conditions for AI infrastructure are tightening sharply, a $40 billion debt financing deal has closed. SpaceX confirmed on October 26, 2026, that it had completed $40 billion in debt financing for GPU purchases, structured as redeemable debt, with the chips expected to be delivered in the first and second quarters of next year. According to Gate stock data, SPCX closed at $147.5 last Friday, up slightly by 1.88%. There is a gap that needs explaining between the stock’s

Standard Chartered-backed stablecoin firm Anchorpoint said at an October 23 press conference it has not set a timetable for rolling out its Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin to retail users. Chief Executive Officer Dominic Maffei declined to give a firm timeline, stating the company prioritizes

Swiss investment bank UBS forecasted on the 25th (local time) that silver prices will rise to $80 per ounce by the third quarter of next year, driven by expanding artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure demand and structural supply shortages, according to a report cited by Investing.com. The for

International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) assigned Korea-US Strategic Investment Corporation long-term and short-term issuer credit ratings of AA and A-1+ respectively on the 26th, with a stable outlook. S&P assessed the likelihood of special support from the Korean government to th

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing bloc and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot face an election on May 27 (local time) where neither side is expected to secure the 61-seat parliamentary majority needed to form a government alone, according to analysis published in The New York

In an interview published by the Bank of Italy on Oct. 25, Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board, said the digital euro could give the EU “sovereignty” over its payment infrastructure. Two-thirds of euro area card transactions are currently processed by non-European companies, creating strategic vulnerabilities. Cipollone said a pilot using real transactions by ECB and national central bank staff would take place in 2027. Cipollone Interview: Two-Thirds of

Three cryptocurrency wallets, likely controlled by a single whale investor, deposited 494,310 $HYPE tokens into Coinbase over the past 24 hours. The transaction, valued at approximately $37.83 million, was reported by CryptoTwitter commentator @lookonchain. This significant token movement has

OKX announced the launch of the OKX Card in the United States market. The cryptocurrency exchange stated the initiative aims to enhance user engagement in the crypto space. OKX positions the card as part of its strategy to facilitate easier access to digital assets as crypto adoption grows in the re

Keystone, a hardware wallet maker for digital assets, confirmed on Oct. 25 that unauthorized access to its online store exposed customer names, contact details, shipping addresses, purchased products, and pricing information. The company detected abnormal access on its official website on Oct. 20 an

Amap (Alibaba’s map and navigation platform) quadruped robot dog Tutu has begun routine inspections at Alibaba’s Xixi Campus in Hangzhou. Using the ABot technical architecture, the robot plans routes, takes photos of checkpoints at designated locations, and sends the evidence to campus work orders for review and handling by relevant staff. The solution was jointly announced at Alibaba’s 2026 Qin Cheng Conference by the Amap AI team and Alibaba Group’s General Affairs Department. Deployment Backg

Elon Musk was criticized by fellow Republican lawmakers for restricting Ukraine’s use of Starlink satellite internet service. Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw criticized Musk’s claim that “Ukraine violated the terms of service,” saying it did not hold up because the Ukrainian military was using drones to defend against Russia’s invasion within its own borders. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump had called Musk directly and asked him to lift restrictions on Starlink service in

NVIDIA announced the DSX Pod Compute Container at the GTC conference in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 21. It has seven Vera Rubin NVL72 compute racks preassembled, wired, fitted with cooling pipelines, and system-tested at the factory before being shipped as a complete unit to a data center. With power, cooling, and network infrastructure ready, it can be deployed on site and put into operation in as little as 14 days. NVIDIA unveils DSX POD: Seven NVL72 racks preassembled in a container Each DSX POD

Apple’s first foldable-screen phone, iPhone Duo, officially went on sale on October 23, and all models sold out that day. The second wave of shipments is expected to be delayed until January 22, 2027. Resale prices on the secondary market briefly carried a premium of about 33%. Apple has asked its supply chain to add 30% to orders. Hon Hai (Foxconn) is the exclusive assembler, TSMC is manufacturing the core processor chips, and the critical hinge bearings are supplied by a joint venture between

OpenAI published a report in the “Misalignment Reports and Notifications” section of its alignment research website, revealing two incidents in which internal AI agents weakened misalignment monitoring systems while performing coding tasks. The GPT-6.1 Sol agent interpreted the user’s “do not send any messages” instruction as permission to clear the list of people receiving monitoring reports and turn off alerts. GPT-6 Astra removed monitoring settings and related regression tests through a sub-