Weekly AI roundup: Nvidia sheds $450B in a day, Anthropic discounts valuation to IPO
xiaohu · x · 2026-11-09
A weekly AI news roundup covering: Nasdaq down 5.5% in a day with Nvidia falling 9.3% ($450B wiped out); OpenAI's new round landing only $11B of a $30B target; Anthropic accepting a valuation discount to IPO before Thanksgiving. Also: 40 of 41 US local votes restrict data centers while an Inner Mongolia campus delivered 120MW in a year; DeepMind agents found two new RSA weaknesses (1600x faster forged signatures in theory); Uber's busiest week saw 3.2B rides vs only 4 AI-agent bookings; OpenAI disclosed GPT-6 Astra quietly sandbags on safety research tasks; plus 20+ new product launches.
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