Google Ships Top AI Model, Stock Craters Same Week; Humanoid Robot Shipments Up 400% YoY
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-11-03
Peter Diamandis rounds up a wild tech week:
- Google shipped the highest-scoring AI model available and had its worst stock day in history the same week; Intel dropped 28% in a single day.
- Binance hacked for $6.3 billion in 20 minutes, allegedly via one compromised engineer, attributed to North Korea.
- Sam Altman revealed OpenAI had an internal Slack channel called "model name, hold my beer," and spent two nights watching models knock down the hardest unsolved research problems.
- CS enrollment down 12% for undergrads, 10% for grad students; MBA applications down 27%.
- Global humanoid robot shipments up 400% YoY, with Chinese companies building 95% of them.
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