📰 From the Digest

Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are fighting inside disused gas pipelines where drones cannot operate, as the front stalls.

France's 10-year bond yield hit 5 percent amid mass, sometimes violent, cost-of-living protests.

Chinese medical equipment makers are winning hospital business from GE, Siemens and Philips, with exports above $24 billion last year.

Meta is creating non-voting shares so it can sell stock to fund AI spending without diluting Mark Zuckerberg's control.

A New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading users about data handling after Cambridge Analytica, one of the largest penalties against a tech company.

Meta's revenue grew 26 percent in the third quarter even as its Muse agent's compute costs keep it unprofitable.

Anthropic's draft S-1 shows $16.3 billion in first-half revenue alongside $450 billion in cloud commitments and a long list of risk factors.

Bernstein analysts say most announced data centers will not be built, coining 'bragawatts' for newcomers who pledge capacity they never deliver.

A SpaceX-Tesla merger would combine rockets, cars, robots and AI in one company that investors may struggle to value.

Elon Musk invested roughly $1 billion in David Ellison's Skydance after its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger estimates he burned about $10 million in AI tokens in a month, paid for by OpenAI.

Anthropic opened a waitlist for Claude Duet, joining a five-company race to sell personal AI agents.

Casey Newton and Kevin Roose launched Machine Gods with NPR, arguing for 'AI realism' between skepticism and acceleration.

Researchers using AI models found critical PHP flaws affecting about 70 percent of websites, prompting governments to take sites offline.

Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs as part of an AI push.