JUST IN: The US economy reportedly added 165,000 jobs in October, above expectations. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, below expectations.
JUST IN: Bitcoin has reportedly fallen below $75,000.
Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. The domestic policy adviser has driven the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, President Trump said, The New York Times reports.
AI toy Doubao gave a self-harm crisis reply to an unrelated question from a BBC reporter. The toy, sold in the UK as My Baby Bunny for £75 and marketed for children as young as three, told her to call emergency services and move away from anything she could use to hurt herself. The Next Web reports the BBC's findings.
Three men have been charged with using AI-generated copies of executives’ and lawyers’ voices and faces to steal about $129 million from companies. The charges allege that staff were tricked into wiring money between 2024 and 2026, The Next Web reports.
The Justice Department has intervened in a Texas lawsuit against Planned Parenthood. The move could signal a readiness to challenge newly elected Democrats in state offices, The New York Times reports.
JUST IN: Elon Musk says California’s taxes and regulations forced SpaceX and Tesla to move operations to Texas.
AI law firm Crosby has bought malpractice insurance for its agents. The move highlights a nascent coverage gap as major insurers grapple with risks related to artificial intelligence, The New York Times reports.
JUST IN: The US reportedly approved Nvidia chip sales to Chinese firms with empty offices and suspicious ties.
Three House committee chairs have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to brief them about Megaspeed and possible industrial espionage. They want a closed-door meeting on 18 November to discuss his contacts with former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang and Nvidia’s defences against spies, The Next Web reports. Jensen Huang has until 11 November to accept or suggest another date.
Sequoia is shutting down its Scouts program, the venture capital firm’s pioneering scout network. Many VC firms later followed its model, but a consensus is forming that it has reached its limits, TechCrunch reports.
JUST IN: US intelligence reportedly found that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a “romantic relationship” with a Chinese spy, the Financial Times reports.
OpenAI is reportedly raising an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation. The funding round hasn't closed but is expected to do so in the coming weeks, TechCrunch reports. OpenAI hasn't confirmed this.
JUST IN: OpenAI has reportedly raised $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation.
JUST IN: Anthropic reportedly plans to go public before Thanksgiving at a $1.5 trillion valuation, the Financial Times reports.
Google has taken over Crusoe’s southeast Wyoming data-centre site and will build the project itself. The move follows Google’s pledge to spend $17 billion on its first Wyoming data centre; neither company disclosed the deal’s terms, The Next Web reports.
JUST IN: Apple and Meta have reportedly rejected OKX plans to tokenize their stocks, bringing the reported total to 67 companies.
JUST IN: The U.S. Treasury will reportedly bar crypto exchange MEXC Global from the U.S. financial system over transactions linked to Iran, North Korea and Russia.
JUST IN: Democrats reportedly are discussing plans for tougher cryptocurrency laws after winning control of the U.S. House and Senate.
OpenAI has added editable tools, background context compaction and optional time awareness to the Agents API public beta. Tool changes take effect on the next model call for function tools and MCP servers, or by the next turn for built-in tools. Time awareness is disabled by default; background compaction may use more tokens.
