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Midterm elections deliver a ‘blue wave.’ The stock market sees green.
Wall Street finds reasons to cheer the Democrats’ sweep. Plus: Microsoft’s AI-era buyouts and a retiree’s appetite for a “free lunch.”
Sam Altman addresses RAM comments: people should ‘put as much as they want in their computers’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent election night defending his position on PC RAM purchases. He changed his name on X to "Ram Altman" in response to another user's comment, saying, "i actually do want the world to have tons of memory and people to put as much as they want in their computers, and it is fucking annoying that this was taken out of context. i have been arguing for the world to ramp up…
Who's Buying the Future of AI & Robotics: 2026 M&A Report
AI data center stocks and Musk's SpaceX decline as Texas governor result raises risks of a slowdown
AI fortunes were mixed as premarket trading opened on Wednesday.
Bearish
Big Tech’s $500 billion spending spree leaves a lot less for shareholders
AI is changing the bargain between large technology companies and their shareholders,
SpaceX is working with Qualcomm to build its Starlink Mobile 5G network
SpaceX is teaming up with Qualcomm to build out its nationwide mobile network. Under the multi-year deal, SpaceX will bring Qualcomm's Dragonwing technology to "tens of thousands" of 5G cell sites across the US, with the first deployments set for 2027. The news of the partnership comes as part of SpaceX's push to make Starlink Mobile a "major" carrier in the US, competing directly with T-Mobile…
Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
I'm curious how people on HN are using AI day to day, and came up with a list of questions I thought could be interesting to know. No need to answer every question of course, just wanted to get a gut feel how people are using AI. 1) What AI subscriptions are you personally paying for? (Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, Cursor, etc) - Which tiers? - Have you purchased multiple subscriptions from the same…
US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2026/us-voters-roundly-reject-data-centers-in-ballot-measures Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365982 Points: 191 # Comments: 304
Revolut’s valuation jumps 53% to $115B in new share sale as it prepares to launch US bank
Glade Brook, Coatue and T. Rowe Price were among the investors that led the share sale.
Bullish
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/north-korean-fake-job-interview-led-to-63b-binance-heist/5307398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50365755 Points: 169 # Comments: 104
Feels like the market wants to try to do "Somewhat less data center construction, good news for both hyperscalers and the non-AI economy":
India markets regulator reviews startup-listing platform rules
The internet is ‘dying’: AI is eating it and obliterating these business models
“The internet as we’ve known it for the past 20-plus years is going away, and it’s going to completely change,” one CEO says.
Does opting out of TV tracking work?
TVs use automatic content recognition to gather viewing information about us, and opting out doesn’t always stop it. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn't new, but what and how they're tracking - and if we can stop it - is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University monitored 12 TVs from 10 manufacturers to test whether opting out…
UK interest rates increase expected after services sector activity accelerates
Purchasing manager’s index at eight-month high, bolstered by spending on AI as firms regain momentum lost to Iran war Business live – latest updates The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates on Thursday after a closely watched survey showed growth across the UK’s services sector leapt last month to an eight-month high, bolstered by spending on artificial intelligence. S&P Global’s…
Bullish
India cybercrime agency warns financial firms on AI attacks
Bearish
Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling AI campuses across Texas were already dealing with a suspension of approvals under Greg Abbott. Under Gina Hinojosa, they’re facing their…
Data center developers seeking to build dozens of sprawling AI campuses across Texas were already dealing with a suspension of approvals under Greg Abbott. Under Gina Hinojosa, they’re facing their worst-case scenario.
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Animal Spirits: Drowning Financially
On today's show we discuss reasons to be bearish, the joys of indexing in an AI boom, carnage in name-brand stocks, why the stock market is not down more, how the investing rules have changed, the buy the dip generation, Anthropic's insane growth, AI agents vs. the labor market, being middle class in NYC, the biggest risk to retirement assets and more. The post Animal Spirits: Drowning…
Bearish
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Doors open at 9 a.m. ET in Boston
Today is the day to join TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston's SoWa Power Station. Register now to join this founder-focused conference today.
Canva lays off over 1,200 people amid slowing growth
Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its 'hardest year' yet.
Bullish
AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-cybersecurity-php2shell-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50364336 Points: 472 # Comments: 326
Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synaptics-Blocks-Vino-Driver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363968 Points: 151 # Comments: 62
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time never gets old
Breath of the Wild changed everything. Two decades after The Legend of Zelda made the transformational shift to 3D, Breath of the Wild reinvigorated the franchise with an open-ended adventure that was built around player freedom and expression. Instead of following a set path, players could go wherever they wanted and tackle challenges in a variety of ways. That philosophy filtered down to…
AI on the Ballot
Data Centers were on the ballot, and they lost in a major way; what does it mean if American opposition to building is permanent?
Last year North Korean cyber-thieves stole $2bn-worth of cryptocurrency. This year’s haul is set to be much bigger. Detecting cyber-vulnerabilities could be a big opportunity for AI labs
Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be read by human reviewers. Although Google claims to disconnect them from your account when human-reviewed, they explicitly warn not to enter confidential…
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Elon Musk floats space data centers as Democratic sweep puts pressure on AI trade
Texas election result raises fears of data centre restrictions, while Musk and Palihapitiya draw attention to the space economy.
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