• OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away
• Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights
• Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon's or CrowdStrike's, expert says
• It's the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist's 1960 prediction
• Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, "Remember the road atlas"
• Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029
• Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron
• Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride
• In reversal, American Cancer Society urges routine prostate cancer screening
• FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
• Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud
• The Elder Scrolls' most obscure adventure gets a 4K PC makeover
• Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash
• Ukraine says it can’t stop Russian strikes because Starshield is limited again
• Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash
• Netflix releases new trailer for Ray Gunn
• Building a rocket is hard. AST SpaceMobile thinks it's "simple."
• Man's secret use of synthetic testosterone for cows nearly destroyed his heart
• The amazing disappearing exoplanet
• Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395
| • Claude Duet review: user-friendly, sends a helpful morning brief, and spots scheduling conflicts, but can feel like a neurotic personal assistant that nags (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
• Some in China question the timing of reports on the relationship between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang; Trump is set to meet Xi Jinping in Shenzhen next week (Mithil Aggarwal/NBC News)
• Microsoft says Microsoft 365 availability is improving as the outage stretches into a second day, disrupting governments, hospitals, and businesses globally (Bruce Gil/Gizmodo)
• Wall Street fears Jensen Huang's ouster will slow Nvidia's AI dealmaking; sources: its $500B lending consortium is in flux and at least one lender may exit (New York Times)
• OpenAI disbands its standalone robotics team, moving its staff to research and Applied units, saying models like GPT-6 Astra can be directly applied to robotics (Wen Shao/Fortune)
• Sources: Anthropic's IPO, like SpaceX's, is closed to institutional investors in mainland China and Hong Kong, partly due to US arms export rules (Bloomberg)
• Sources: Nvidia's board has approached Arm CEO Rene Haas in its search for a potential successor to Jensen Huang; Haas worked at Nvidia more than a decade ago (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
• Paytm gets tentative approval to revive its digital wallet, which effectively died after India's central bank canceled Paytm Payments Bank's license in April (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
• OpenAI announces ChatGPT Wallet, which lets its dots AI agents make purchases on behalf of users, available to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US who are over 18 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
• Sources: SpaceX laid off ~60 Grok Imagine staffers in the past week, leaving a handful to keep the product alive, as it prioritizes AI coding tools and Grok Bot (The Information)
• Scott Bessent says the departments of Treasury, Defense, and State were in favor of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months, but Commerce is in charge (CNBC)
• Jensen Huang's biographer says Nvidia had a culture of omertà and deference toward Huang, who was quite arrogant, that enabled him to "be his worst self" (Stephen Witt/New York Times)
• Amended S-1: Nscale had $5.5B in debt in September, up from $137.4M in June; Nvidia committed $2B of its $3B+ convertible financing; it previously disclosed $1B (Bloomberg)
• Jensen Huang's downfall exposes Nvidia's internal politics; source: Huang ran Nvidia as a "feudal system" with his daughter and son-in-law in powerful positions (Financial Times)
• Source: at an August 2026 finance meeting, Jensen Huang interrupted Colette Kress' presentation, calling her "a deer in the headlights" and a "reporting CFO" (Wall Street Journal)
| • You can now tempt fate and give your banking information to ChatGPT
• Microsoft services are returning after an outage took down Outlook, Teams and more
• The Motorola Signature 27 is a beast
• Why Apple's HomeView relies so heavily on your iPhone
• Surface Laptop Ultra review: The most powerful Surface yet, but it still lags behind Apple
• Bloomberg details web of Chinese AI companies with smuggled NVIDIA chips linked to Alice Huang
• Whoop Humans is a social network designed for fitness enthusiasts
• BYD admits wheel assembly error on its flagship electric SUV
• Meta's Muse can now make calls on your behalf (if you have a paid subscription)
• Who is Colette Kress, NVIDIA's interim CEO?
• Multiple Microsoft 365 services are experiencing an outage
• Ex-NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is set to testify before Congress this month
• Zelenskyy says Starshield has been slowed again, endangering Ukraine's defense
• Apple Sports adds live UFC updates
• Pre-orders for some Apple Home Collection devices will open November 13
• Jensen Huang is out as NVIDIA CEO
• Google really needs you to know it cares about smart glasses privacy
• The first batch of Android XR smartglasses made me rethink my stance on specs without displays
• Apple HomeView review: A versatile smart display and Siri-powered home hub
• Apple TV 4K (4th gen) review: Still great, but drastically more expensive
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