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Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation after reports that US intelligence regards Jensen Huang as the target of a Chinese intelligence effort, and Huang admitted an affair in a letter to staff.
US employers added 165,000 jobs in October against forecasts near 65,000, and futures now put the odds of a Federal Reserve rate rise in December at about 77%.
OpenAI received $11bn at a $1.25tn valuation, below its earlier target, while investors in Anthropic’s listing press for a price below $1.5tn.
Source: Yahoo Finance. Latest data: 6 November 2026.
The index closed at 27,600 on 6 October and at 24,579 on 6 November. Thursday 5 November brought the sharpest one-day fall of the period, from 25,737 to 24,315.
LeCun explained the mathematical losses behind joint embedding methods and why a predictor helps on asymmetric tasks, and answered critics of weak results in papers using the name.
Chollet argued that data and compute scale up the generalisation power of a method, and that inefficient methods only look adequate while investment is enormous.
Karpathy said he turned a curated list of YouTube channels into TristanTube, a site with 47,000 videos and a television mode, in minutes with a coding agent.
Brockman wrote that frontier models given substantial compute at inference time are becoming the engine of scientific discovery.
A committee of independent directors will examine reports that US intelligence regards Jensen Huang as the target of a foreign intelligence effort; he admitted an affair in a letter to staff.
· Tom’s Hardware · JournalArta GlobalOpenAI received the first $11bn of a round that could reach $20bn, according to Bloomberg, while investors told the Wall Street Journal that Anthropic’s listing may need a price well below $1.5tn.
· RuntimeWire, citing Bloomberg · Hurriyet Daily News, citing the Wall Street JournalGoogle DeepMind said human-guided AI agents weakened padded signatures and batch factoring for legacy 1024-bit RSA; 2048-bit keys are unaffected, and some of the gains are theoretical estimates.
· OfficeChai · RuntimeWireKubicek et al. cluster attention keys in a learned latent space so that queries score groups of keys, speeding one attention layer by up to 72.4 times at 10 million tokens.
· arXivRandom reshuffling is shown to dominate stochastic gradient descent in smooth convex optimisation for any reasonable stepsize after any finite number of epochs, with new algorithm-dependent lower bounds.
For rowwise independent triangular arrays, the self-normalized central limit theorem is shown to force negligibility of the largest term, which yields necessary and sufficient conditions and settles a conjecture of Shao.
A model adding fractional memory to the VIX yields a Mittag-Leffler term structure and a semi-closed-form option price, and cuts out-of-sample option pricing errors, most at high volatility.
A model of firms in which humans and AI sort endogenously finds that better AI coordination can break the limit on firm size and produce a phase transition towards concentrated, AI-heavy firms.
Tiger Global’s flagship fund fell 8.5% in October and Whale Rock’s about 8%, according to Bloomberg, as selling in technology and chip stocks hit crowded AI positions.
· Hedgeweek, citing BloombergBrent settled at $98.32 on Friday and traded near $97.67 early on Monday after Donald Trump said further attacks on Iran would probably not be needed if talks progress.
Payrolls rose 165,000, far above forecasts, and unemployment fell to 4.1%; the CME FedWatch tool then put the chance of a quarter-point Federal Reserve rise on 8–9 December at 76.8%.