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Nvidia's founder resigned as chief executive on 12 November after a board meeting, with CFO Colette Kress taking over on an interim basis while a search begins. The shares fell as much as 13 per cent, and quarterly results are due on 17 November.
Google has expanded its eighth-generation TPU line with TPU 8tx, for confidential inference and small-scale training, and TPU 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context inference. It also open-sourced TorchTPU and TPU Sync. Availability dates for the new chips were not given.
NPR reports that a group calling itself Cyber Isnaad Front, which Israeli incident responders attribute to Iranian military hackers, has sabotaged industrial refrigeration systems from a food plant in Israel to roughly 300 French supermarkets and, in early November, retailers across six more European countries. Internet-exposed Danfoss controllers were a common entry point.
Brent crude fell more than 16 per cent to $98.32 in the week to 6 November as traders bet on a US–Iran agreement, even as tanker attacks in Hormuz continued at near-record pace. For AI operators the energy shock matters most through gas-linked electricity prices in Europe and Asia and through the cash Gulf states have left to invest.
Iran's forces said at least five tankers were damaged in the Strait of Hormuz on 5 November, with UKMTO confirming a separate projectile strike north of Qatar and admitting it can no longer count attacks accurately. For the technology sector the strait's throttling matters most through Qatari helium, LNG-linked power and twelvefold war-risk premiums.
Dream Research Labs has tied an Iran-nexus espionage cluster, DarkBlinders, to an August–October campaign that compromised a high-profile individual in Israel and a government cloud environment in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. Lures included a fake videoconferencing app and recruiter personas impersonating Dubai Airports with trojanised coding challenges.
Anthropic has publicly filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of Class A common stock, intending to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market as ANT. Share count and price range are not yet set; Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are named on the preliminary prospectus.
