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01 · EV Group

EV Group says it will show quantum-chip tools in Munich this week

02 · Ford

Ford says 2021 Mach-E batteries kept 92 percent health on average

03 · Google

Google adds TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max to its chip lineup

04 · BMW Group

BMW contracts Samsung SDI and LG for Gen6 battery cells

05 · City of Starbase

Starbase notice says SpaceX proposes a $24 billion plant and compute site

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via EV Group·1 min read

EV Group says it will show quantum-chip tools in Munich this week

EV Group says it is supporting quantum-chip makers with packaging and bonding tools, and will show them at SEMICON Europa in Munich from November 10 to 13. The release names no new contract value or ship date.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via Ford·1 min read

Ford says 2021 Mach-E batteries kept 92 percent health on average

Ford says 2021 Mustang Mach-E batteries have kept 92 percent of their health on average after five years. The reading covers more than 36,000 vehicles and is dated August 2026.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via Google·1 min read

Google adds TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max to its chip lineup

Google says it is adding TPU 8tx for confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for long context. TPU 8i Max pairs two TPU 8i chips and doubles that chip's compute, SRAM and memory bandwidth.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via BMW Group·1 min read

BMW contracts Samsung SDI and LG for Gen6 battery cells

BMW says it has contracted Samsung SDI in Europe and LG Energy Solution in the US to supply sixth-generation battery cells from the late 2020s. The cells will come from existing plants.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via City of Starbase·1 min read

Starbase notice says SpaceX proposes a $24 billion plant and compute site

A City of Starbase notice says SpaceX proposes a gas-fired power plant and a super-compute facility, with about $24 billion for the initial phases. The city will consider a tax abatement on December 9. Nothing has been approved.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via Iris Ohyama·1.5 min read

Iris Plaza says about 7.7 million customer records may have leaked

Iris Plaza says personal data stored for about 7.7 million people in an outside cloud service may have been viewed or taken, and the actual count is still under investigation.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via NVIDIA·1 min read

Nvidia plans investments in four Korean startups across AI infrastructure and models

Nvidia announced investments in four Korean startups covering interconnects, foundation models, robotics and enterprise AI at a Seoul forum on November 9.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 9·via Deutsche Telekom·1 min read

Deutsche Telekom expands its Munich AI factory with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs

Deutsche Telekom announced it will expand its Munich AI factory with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra B300 systems, doubling the site's chip count and raising power capacity to 20 megawatts.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 8·via Business Wire·1 min read

Faraday Future says OmniMind ranked No. 1 on a simulation test

Faraday Future has said its OmniMind model ranked No. 1 on RoboColiseum's global leaderboard as of November 6, with a score of 0.8698 out of 1.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via NASA·1 min read

NASA names eight firms for Moon cargo under a $10 billion ceiling

NASA has named eight companies that can compete for lunar cargo deliveries under a master contract with a combined maximum of $10 billion.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via Qualcomm·1 min read

Qualcomm says SpaceX selected it for Starlink Mobile 5G

Qualcomm has said SpaceX selected its Dragonwing platforms for Starlink Mobile's U.S. terrestrial 5G network, with a nationwide rollout planned to begin in 2027.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via World of Warcraft·1 min read

Blizzard says WoW: Forever had its biggest launch by peak players

Blizzard has said World of Warcraft: Forever had the biggest launch in WoW history by peak concurrent players, and the highest number of returning players.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via FAA·1 min read

FAA says first digital towers are operating in Florida and Alaska

The Federal Aviation Administration has said its first digital air traffic control towers are operating at airports in Florida and Alaska.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via SEC·1 min read

Alphabet's 13F lists 555,043,560 Space Exploration Techn shares

Alphabet's Form 13F for the quarter ended September 30 lists 555,043,560 Class A shares of Space Exploration Techn Corp, valued at $83,733,871,462.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via Elon Musk·1 min read

Musk says Tesla will add a shift to try to finish Cybertruck orders

Elon Musk has said Tesla will add an extra shift to try to finish Cybertruck orders before the line is dismantled for Cybercab expansion.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via CNBC·1 min read

Meta strategy chief Dave Wehner leaves to become Fireworks CFO

Dave Wehner, Meta's chief strategy officer, has said he is leaving to become chief financial officer of Fireworks.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via PlayStation Blog·1 min read

Sony delays Pulse Elevate speakers and names no new date

Sony has delayed the launch of its Pulse Elevate wireless speakers after finding a production issue, and it has not named a new date.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via SEC·1 min read

SpaceX says Google executive Donald Harrison resigned from its board

SpaceX has said Donald Harrison, a Class B director, notified the company on November 4 that he was resigning from the board, effective immediately.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via NVD·1 min read

NVD lists CVE-2026-17285; IBM's vector scores 7.7

NVD lists CVE-2026-17285 in IBM API Connect and says it has not scored the flaw. IBM's CVSS 3.1 vector on the page scores 7.7.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 7·via SpaceX·1 min read

SpaceX lists a Falcon 9 window for USSF-627

SpaceX lists a Falcon 9 launch window for USSF-627 from 11:03 p.m. AST on November 9 to 3:03 a.m. AST on November 10.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Insider Gaming·1 min read

State of Decay 3 prioritizes Single-Player after Undead Labs split from Xbox

Undead Labs studio head Philip Holt described State of Decay 3's single-player emphasis and upcoming publisher in a new interview. The studio became independent from Xbox in September 2026.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Anthropic·1 min read

Anthropic says dreaming raised a memory test from 13 percent to 48

Anthropic says a process it calls dreaming raised one memory test from 13 percent to 48 percent of graded criteria. The post does not say the process is turned on for every user.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via U.S. Treasury·1 min read

FinCEN order cuts MEXC Global off from the U.S. financial system

FinCEN has ordered U.S. financial institutions not to move funds for MEXC Global. Treasury says the exchanger facilitated at least $16 billion in illicit transactions from May 2021 to May 2026.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Frontier Model Forum·1 min read

Frontier Model Forum releases a framework for rating cyber jailbreaks

The Frontier Model Forum says it is releasing Version 1.0 of a framework for rating cyber jailbreaks. OpenAI says it partnered on the work.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Elon Musk·1 min read

Musk says over 100,000 satellites should outcompete undersea cables

Elon Musk says about 100 lasers per satellite, each above 10 Tb/s, on more than 100,000 satellites should be able to outcompete undersea cables.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Chain Store Age·1 min read

Visa's shopping-agent benchmark had a 57.2 percent pass rate, a report says

A report says Visa's shopping-agent benchmark had a 57.2 percent pass rate across 22 models. It does not name the models.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via OpenAI·1 min read

OpenAI says it is partnering with Hacktron to test its systems

OpenAI says it is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in its systems, with a focus on third-party connections. It is expanding Hacktron's access to Daybreak Red.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Censys·1 min read

Censys counted 1,465 exposed ARTEX consoles as of November 4

Censys says it observed 1,465 hosts running an exposed ARTEX console as of November 4. About 650 were in two identical hosting blocks.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via AST SpaceMobile·1 min read

AST SpaceMobile says it will build a 20-ton rocket called Blacklift

AST SpaceMobile says it will build a 20-ton rocket, named Blacklift, to launch BlueBird satellites, using Firefly engines. It says use starts in late 2028.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Elon Musk·1 min read

Musk says SpaceX revenue this quarter will exceed NASA's annual budget

Elon Musk says SpaceX revenue this quarter alone will be substantially higher than NASA's entire annual budget. The post gives no dollar figure.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Elon Musk·1 min read

Musk says SpaceX government revenue will be less than 10 percent

Elon Musk says government revenue will be less than 10 percent of SpaceX revenue. Bloomberg reports he said that share is for this quarter.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Google DeepMind·1 min read

DeepMind says its models found two weaknesses in 1024-bit RSA

Google DeepMind says human-guided models found two weaknesses in legacy 1024-bit RSA. It says modern 2048-bit systems remain safe from these specific exploits.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission·1 min read

Bose recalls about 634,759 speaker battery packs

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says Bose is recalling about 634,759 lithium-ion battery packs for S1 Pro and S1 Pro+ speakers because they can overheat and ignite.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via NVIDIA·1 min read

NVIDIA says 5G and 6G tool downloads surpassed 1 million

NVIDIA says adoption of AI Aerial and Sionna grew 10x over the past year, and that its open-source 5G and 6G tools have surpassed 1 million downloads.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via SpaceX·1 min read

SpaceX says Starship's first orbital launch will carry Starlink

SpaceX says the first orbital Starship launch will carry advanced Starlink satellites bound for space. Elon Musk says the upcoming flight will attempt to catch both the booster and the ship.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Tesla Latinoamérica·1 min read

Tesla says it arrives in Argentina on November 20

Tesla Latinoamérica says the company arrives in Argentina on November 20. Tesla's main account says it is launching later this month.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Meta·1 min read

Meta says terms updates will not take effect November 20

Meta says updates to its commercial terms, product catalog terms, self-serve ad terms, and ad creative generative AI terms are paused and will not take effect on November 20, 2026.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Insider Gaming·1 min read

Tarkov PvE mode now holds 60% of Players, PvP at 25%

Battlestate Games revealed Escape from Tarkov reportedly now has 60% of players in PvE, 25% in standard PvP, and 15% in PvP Seasons. The split shows PvE outnumbering PvP for the first time in the game's history.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Elon Musk·1 min read

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production mid-2027 for Cybercab

Elon Musk said Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Harbinger·1 min read

Harbinger says it raised $240 million in a Series D round

Harbinger said it raised $240 million in a Series D round co-led by Tiger Global, Capricorn's Technology Impact Fund, and Ridgeline.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via CNBC·1 min read

Report: Moonshot seeks Nvidia Blackwell access via Europe neoclouds

Sources told CNBC that Chinese AI lab Moonshot has discussed leasing Nvidia Blackwell capacity from European neoclouds, including talks around clusters of 8,000 or more GPUs. No signed lease has been confirmed.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 6·via Semiconductor Engineering·1 min read

Chip week: HBM smuggling, 600k H200s held, Oracle cancels Tencent deal

Semiconductor Engineering's week in review: HBM smuggling into China, roughly 600,000 Nvidia H200s held in Hong Kong, a reportedly paused Micron Taiwan plant, and Oracle's reported cancelation of a ~$7B Tencent chip-access deal.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via Sony·1 min read

Sony says PlayStation 5 sell-in was 2.6 million units

Sony said PlayStation 5 hardware sell-in was 2.6 million units in the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Its tables put cumulative sell-in at 97.9 million.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via Agility Robotics·1 min read

Agility says it began Nasdaq trading today as AGLT

Agility said it began trading on Nasdaq on November 5 as AGLT after completing its business combination with Churchill Capital Corp XI, which it said raised about $465 million in gross capital.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via OpenAI·1 min read

OpenAI says future campuses it owns will pay their own power costs

OpenAI has published a National Community Compact for future compute campuses it owns and operates, and said those campuses will pay the full cost of the electricity they use.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via The Information·1 min read

Nvidia reportedly approached Apollo about Brightspeed sites

According to The Information, Nvidia approached Apollo about turning some of Brightspeed's telecom buildings into small AI inference data centers.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via IonQ·1 min read

IonQ raises 2026 revenue guidance to $505 million to $515 million

IonQ said third-quarter revenue was $173.8 million, up 336% from a year earlier, and raised 2026 revenue guidance to $505 million to $515 million. Remaining performance obligations more than doubled to $1.2 billion.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via Shield·1 min read

Shield to buy Echodyne for $5.3 billion and raise $2.5 billion

Shield said it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Echodyne for $5.3 billion and is raising $2.5 billion, including Series H funding at a $28.8 billion valuation. Closing is expected in early 2027.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via Nvidia·1 min read

Nvidia says Vera runs 1.6x more agents per watt than the fastest x86

Nvidia said its Vera CPU runs 1.6x more agents per watt than the fastest x86 CPU in a 100-megawatt comparison, and 2x faster than the most energy-efficient x86 CPU. The company did not give a ship date.

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VERIFIEDBy Xavier Rivera·Tech·Nov 5·via Federal Aviation Administration·1 min read

FAA proposes rules on when a commercial space flight must abort

The FAA proposed rules on when a commercial space flight must abort, and when operators can toggle abort capability during flight. A fourth action is a final rule of minor technical corrections. A licensing overhaul is planned for 2027.

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