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US employers added 165,000 jobs in October, far more than expected

US payrolls rose by 165,000 in October against forecasts near 65,000, unemployment held at 4.1 percent and markets now lean toward a December hike.

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber and rates its hacking skill as critical

OpenAI rates its new security model GPT-6 Cyber as critical for cybersecurity, so only vetted defenders in its Daybreak Red tier get access.

AI

METR finds Anthropic is improving its models about twice as fast as before

Evaluator METR says Anthropic's model gains on well-defined tasks now come about twice as fast as in 2024 and 2025, mostly from AI-assisted research work.

US stocks have their worst day since April 2025 as an AI chip selloff hits the Nasdaq

The Nasdaq fell five and a half percent into a correction as chip stocks slumped on fears of a slower US data-centre buildout after the midterms.

Qualcomm handset chip sales fall by a quarter as the company bets on cars and data centres

Qualcomm's quarterly handset revenue fell 26 percent as Apple business fades, while car chip sales hit a record of about two billion dollars.

OpenAI says its AI agents built working root exploits for 948 Linux kernel bugs

An unreleased OpenAI cyber model found and exploited 948 Linux kernel flaws in one run costing about 1.2 million dollars; patches are going to maintainers.

Microsoft passes on an option to more than double its Texas AI capacity deal with Nscale

Microsoft will not take up a 700 megawatt second phase at Nscale's Texas site, reports say; the current contract stands and adds to data-centre doubts.

Economy

The Bank of England raises its key rate to four percent and warns more may follow

The Bank of England raised its key rate by a quarter point to four percent, its first hike since 2023, as energy costs push UK inflation higher.

US stock futures fall as Democrats are projected to win the House in the midterms

Democrats were projected to win the US House and led in key Senate races on election night, and stock futures fell on worries about data centre limits.

Economy

US job openings rise to 7.5 million in September as more workers quit

The US Labor Department's JOLTS survey showed 7.5 million job openings in September, above forecasts, with quits up and layoffs little changed.

AMD data centre sales nearly double and the chipmaker guides higher

AMD's third quarter revenue rose 45 percent to a record 13.4 billion dollars, led by data centre chips, with about 17 billion guided for the fourth.

US factory activity speeds up in October as output hits a five year high

The ISM manufacturing index rose to 55.5 in October, above forecasts, with production at its highest since 2021 while price pressure eased a little.

Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum for about 115 billion dollars to own AI optics

Marvell will buy optical maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at about 115 billion dollars, a bet that AI data centres move from copper to light.

Security

Ivanti patches two more Connect Secure zero days used in a root takeover chain

Ivanti fixed two more Connect Secure flaws that attackers chained with an older bug to take root on patched VPN gateways. CISA set short deadlines.

US cyber agency confirms attacks on PHP2Shell flaws and sets a patch deadline

CISA added both PHP2Shell flaws to its list of exploited vulnerabilities. Attacks began days before the patches, so unpatched PHP servers are at risk now.

Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon for security work but only cyber defenders get it

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon finds, tests and patches software flaws. Vetted defenders get it first, because the same skills can serve attackers.

Security

Hacktivists leak details of more than 41000 US Homeland Security staff

A leaked dataset lists names, contacts and roles of over 41,000 DHS staff and contractors. The hackers say they got in through a single sign-on service.

Mistral publishes the weights of its trillion-parameter Large 4 model

Mistral released open weights for Large 4, a one trillion parameter model. Anyone can now run a near-frontier coding model on their own infrastructure.

Security

Binance loses about six billion dollars in the largest theft on record

Attackers took about 6.4 billion dollars from Binance on 29 October. Analysts and the FBI tie it to North Korea, and about half has been frozen.

Apple Intelligence comes to China in December, powered by Alibaba's Qwen

Apple confirmed its AI features reach China with iOS 27.3 in December, with a developer beta on 4 November and Alibaba's Qwen model built into Siri.

Economy

US inflation picks up again in September with core prices up three point one percent

The PCE price index rose 0.5 percent in September and 3.6 percent on the year, with core at 3.1 percent, well above the Fed's 2 percent target.

Intel has its worst day since 1974 after a weak outlook drags the Nasdaq down

Intel beat its own third-quarter targets but guided fourth-quarter revenue and margin lower on a PC slowdown; the shares fell 28.6 percent on 30 October.

A critical GitLab flaw patched in October is now being exploited in the wild

CISA added the CVSS 10 GitLab flaw CVE-2026-97229 to its exploited list on 29 October. Self-managed servers on 19.2 to 19.4 need the October patch now.

Amazon posts its best margin ever while AI spending turns cash flow sharply negative

Amazon grew third-quarter sales 12 percent to 201.9 billion dollars and AWS 39 percent, but 77 billion in quarterly capex left free cash flow negative.

Microsoft's Azure grows 48 percent while the company stays cash positive

Microsoft's first fiscal-2027 quarter brought revenue of 92.3 billion dollars, up 19 percent, with Azure up 48 percent and capex of 39.4 billion dollars.