November 10, 2026

California's proposed 'billionaire tax' fails to pass: California voters rejected Proposition 40, the one-time 5% tax on billionaires, the AP reported Monday. Tech leaders outspent backers roughly 10 to 1 to defeat it, and the founders and economists TechCrunch interviewed before the vote were split on whether it would have driven out wealthy residents or just trimmed their fortunes. Read More

Jensen Huang's alleged honeypot scandal has inspired some top-notch memes: The internet is having a field day with Nvidia's Jensen Huang's alleged honeypot scandal. Read More

Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot: Amazon-owned Ring is pushing into robotics with the launch of a home security drone and a rolling robot designed to patrol and protect businesses. Read More

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N-able takes its remote access service offline after researcher publishes dozens of zero-day bugs: The remote access giant also urged its self-hosted customers to take down their own servers amid a "critical security incident," fearing the possibility of cyberattacks. Read More

Meta's AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS: Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch. Read More

Reddit is turning user conversations into AI-powered product reviews: Reddit's new AI-powered reviews summarize what users like and dislike about 10,000 products, helping shoppers research purchases ahead of the holidays. Read More

Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion: The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis. Read More

Spotify's AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter: Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs. Read More

Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips: Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity. Read More

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November 09, 2026

Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversy: The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier. Read More

Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns: Anthropic says the new models "show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision," as well as in communicating more clearly with users. Read More

AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months: Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation. Read More

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Musk says Tesla will refund some Cybertruck deposits, defends decision to end production: Elon Musk defended the company's decision to stop making the Cybertruck, which will go out of production in around eight months. Read More

Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxis: Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service. Read More

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution: At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna. Read More

Waymo robotaxis kept illegally passing school buses after software fix, feds say: The update to Waymo's self-driving system was rolled out nearly a year ago. Read More

Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny: Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s lucrative AI market. Read More

Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe-coding apps amid a changing internet: Automattic aims to compete with the likes of Lovable with Spacefast. Read More

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