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🐶📰Weekend Update
Jensen Huang admits an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, the US and Iran weigh an $8B deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2.
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Headlines
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy as shares fell 14% on the week — Huang resigned as CEO after 33 years, and Colette Kress was named interim CEO
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
Binance warned of an iOS flaw that let malicious apps read seed phrases and private keys
TradFi
Gold and silver lost over $1.1 trillion of market cap on Thursday
US October CPI rose 0.4% month over month, above the 0.3% forecast
Fed Governor Christopher Waller said a December rate hike was likely and that he was open to a half-point move
The US and Iran considered an $8B deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — Oil rose over 1% after Trump said the US didn't need a deal with Iran
Central banks bought 321 tons of gold in Q3, the most since Q4 2024
Crypto
The DOJ seized $1.2B in North Korea-linked crypto and dismantled the 'FaceStealer' deepfake scheme
Trezor cut its reseller network by 80% after finding seed-stealing implants in Safe 5 wallets
The crypto industry told a court Illinois' crypto transaction tax was unenforceable as written
The US Treasury cut MEXC Global off from the US financial system over sanctions evasion
Goldman, Citi, Santander and Deutsche Bank committed about $270M to a joint stablecoin venture
MSCI was removed MSTR from its indexes, with potential passive outflows of $8.8B
AI
Anthropic lowered its proposed IPO size to up to $64.4B in the latest draft — IPO said to be multiple times oversubscribed
ByteDance rolled out its Seedream 5.5 image model
SpaceX planned a $24B AI supercomputer and gas-fired power plant in Starbase, Texas
Google rolled out Gemini 4 Carbon on Cloud Platform with a 1M token limit
OpenAI told investors Q3 revenue jumped 50% to around $10B