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- Fervo now has $12B in orders for its geothermal power techby Tim De Chant on November 9, 2026 at 8:55 pm
Geothermal company Fervo is targeting natural gas as it brings down geothermal drilling costs at its 8.4 GW resource in Utah.
- Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid Nvidia controversyby Ivan Mehta on November 9, 2026 at 8:09 pm
The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
- YouTube streaming data returns to Billboard charts, ending major disagreementby Lauren Forristal on November 9, 2026 at 7:39 pm
YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.
- Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concernsby Russell Brandom on November 9, 2026 at 7:24 pm
Anthropic says the new models “show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision,” as well as in communicating more clearly with users.
- AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 monthsby Julie Bort on November 9, 2026 at 7:21 pm
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.
- France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banksby Zack Whittaker on November 9, 2026 at 7:19 pm
France’s foreign minister blamed Iran for launching at least two waves of cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigerated and freezer units across France and wider Europe.
- Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutinyby Rebecca Bellan on November 9, 2026 at 6:09 pm
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.
- Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent executionby Russell Brandom on November 9, 2026 at 6:00 pm
At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.
- Uber launches parking service following SpotHero acquisition, with an eye on robotaxisby Kirsten Korosec on November 9, 2026 at 5:00 pm
Uber Parking is the latest example of the company offering products beyond its core ride-hailing service.
- Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbinesby Tim De Chant on November 9, 2026 at 4:56 pm
Anthropic bought billions of dollars’ worth of natural gas turbines in a deal that could give it buyer’s remorse.
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- Man who lost $308,000 on sports bets sues Kalshi for offering illegal gamblingby Jon Brodkin on November 9, 2026 at 9:13 pm
Lawsuit demands Kalshi return losses because online betting is illegal in Washington.
- A Sam Altman parody offers an amusing lesson in memory managementby Nick Indge on November 9, 2026 at 8:49 pm
We verified the RAM numbers are real without sending any emails to OpenAI.
- Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitationby Dan Goodin on November 9, 2026 at 7:41 pm
“*sshole” poses a serious threat to Internet security.
- Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moonby Stephen Clark on November 9, 2026 at 7:08 pm
“Please jump on my cislunar bandwagon because I need some more friends here.”
- Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHubby Kyle Orland on November 9, 2026 at 5:24 pm
“Do not ask again” prompt leads to passwords, API keys, and more being shared.
- SpaceX now fundamentally an “infrastructure company,” senior official saysby Eric Berger on November 9, 2026 at 3:39 pm
“Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9 percent perfect.”
- Nvidia CEO’s affair becomes a national security problemby Demetri Sevastopulo, Financial Times on November 9, 2026 at 3:23 pm
Nvidia is probing whether Chinese intelligence targeted its CEO through an affair.
- F1 in Brazil: You’ve got to keep your tires aliveby Jonathan M. Gitlin on November 9, 2026 at 3:16 pm
A topsy-turvy grid and intermittent rain resulted in a very entertaining race.
- New Democratic Congress will likely strip the gilding from Trump’s Golden Domeby Stephen Clark on November 9, 2026 at 12:00 pm
“There’s no doubt that whatever it’s going to be called, it won’t be called Golden Dome.”
- Physicists listened to electrical noise to crack a superconductor mysteryby Jacek Krywko on November 8, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Tuning in to electronic noise can tell us whether electrons have paired up or not.









