Google says Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to developers, enterprises, scientists and consumers through Google AI Studio and Gemini for business, at the same introductory price as Gemini 4 Argon. Google reports it ranks first on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench, with more than 2X lower cost per task than the next best external model.

Anthropic set an IPO price range of $70–$78 per share for 825 million Class A shares, saying a top-of-range listing could imply a $1.404 trillion valuation. The Claude maker also agreed to privately sell $26 billion of non-voting stock to AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Nvidia and TSMC, with Google and Nvidia each investing $10 billion.

California voters rejected Proposition 40, a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of billionaires in the state. The measure, opposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and outspent by critics, would have sent most revenue to healthcare and 10% to education and food assistance.

Bay Area voters approved a regional transit funding measure expected to give BART roughly $310 million annually, avoiding planned service reductions. The sales-tax changes start in April 2027, but BART still faces an estimated $50 million gap next year and unresolved longer-term funding questions.

Nvidia's board has no designated chair, an arrangement a 2025 Fenwick report found unique among S&P 100 companies. After Jensen Huang admitted an affair, the board said it backed him and his leadership team, while the question of who might eventually succeed him remains open.

The article argues the next Congress should use the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill to repair military personnel policy, citing a survey in which 53 percent of active-duty respondents said they were considering separating early. It calls for protecting vetted officers from removal from promotion lists without notice or appeal and for barring gender-based exclusion from combat roles.

Aliya Rahman, a 44-year-old south Minneapolis resident, sued the federal government alleging assault, battery, false imprisonment and negligence after agents dragged her from her car during a Jan. 13 immigration enforcement operation. She filed the civil suit after the government did not respond to her April tort claim within six months.

One year into enforcement of the city’s camping ban, Portland has recorded zero convictions. Meanwhile, dozens of people have encountered repeated charges, missed court dates and jail time.

PHP's shared-nothing model gives each request an isolated heap that the Zend Engine clears afterward, preventing state leaks and containing crashes to one worker. The article traces compilation, OPcache bytecode caching, compact zvals, copy-on-write arrays, and PHP-FPM's master-worker pool.

Cloudflare has made Basin generally available, a managed analytics service that runs on Apache Iceberg tables and R2 storage and bundles ingestion, catalog upkeep and distributed SQL querying. It integrates with DuckDB, Snowflake and Apache Spark, with Cloudflare saying free data egress is key to the design.

Nvidia has hired the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to run an investigation into chief executive Jensen Huang's relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The FBI is conducting a separate probe, and the company's shares dropped sharply.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees he had been unfaithful to his wife, tying the admission to national security concerns raised in news reports; the board began an independent investigation and shares slid over 5%. U.S. officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, described as his romantic interest, is a Chinese spy, and three Republican committee chairmen sought a closed-door briefing.

Google released TPU Sync, an open-source C++ framework that moves data between accelerator memory, host DRAM, storage and the network to reduce AI inference latency. Google reports that in some tests time to first token dropped by more than 90%, though the APIs are still changing and support is limited to specific Cloud TPU versions and JAX/PyTorch requirements.

Physical Superintelligence says David Turturean used early access to Anthropic's Fable 5.2 to solve the 18-year-old Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture; Scott Aaronson says he believes the proof is correct though he does not fully understand it. The startup aims to commercialize AI-driven scientific discovery.

A study in Geophysical Research Letters finds that deep reefs between 90 and 150 meters are no longer reliably cooler refuges during marine heat waves. Using simulated daily temperatures for 1993–2023, researchers report that after 2010 heat waves increasingly reached deeper reefs, with 2020–2023 events affecting over 75% of tropical reef areas at all depths.

Anthropic reportedly plans to move ahead with an IPO, setting a valuation range this week and starting trading next Thursday or Friday, The Wall Street Journal reports. Investors are watching the listing to gauge the AI boom, while some institutional investors seek a valuation under the $1.5 trillion target discussed last week.

Los Angeles officials and community leaders delivered a letter to White Memorial seeking a written account of weekend ICE activity and new protections for emergency access, patient privacy and staff. The hospital says it has no special ICE contract and refused agents' request to enter a patient's room; signers set a Nov. 21 response deadline and say unresolved concerns will prompt a request for state attorney general review.

The Supreme Court appeared likely to reject Kekai Watanabe's lawsuit alleging that federal paramedic Francis Nielsen was deliberately indifferent to his fractured coccyx, a claim brought under Bivens and Carlson. The justices weighed whether the 1980 Carlson precedent still permits damages suits over inadequate prison medical care.

Russia and Ukraine held their first U.S.-mediated talks in nine months in Abu Dhabi, a nearly four-hour session with another planned for Wednesday. They discussed prisoner exchanges and security guarantees, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio cautioned that a swift resolution was not imminent.

Judge William Sullivan declined to dismiss the murder charges against Lindsay Clancy, ruling that the jury's deadlock justified a mistrial and that retrying her would not violate double jeopardy protections. Sullivan also refused prosecutors' gag order request and a defense bid to preserve first-trial records; the next hearing is Nov. 16.

ALMA observations of LMC P3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud revealed a cold molecular jet about 26 light-years long, with gas near 35 to 60 Kelvin. Researchers say interaction with a high-energy microquasar jet supports the possibility of a black hole origin for the gamma rays, though a neutron star remains possible.

Nvidia faces likely securities litigation after its shares fell following the board’s move to investigate CEO Jensen Huang over a relationship with an executive U.S. intelligence believed was spying for China. Lawyers expect claims over earlier company statements and possible board oversight failures, with damages tied to the stock decline.

The Boox Picco is a roughly $100 e-reader measuring 4.15 inches tall with a 3.97-inch screen and an optional magnetic case that attaches to Qi2 phones. It runs without Android or third-party reading apps, relying on a companion app for EPUB transfers, and the reviewer reports about a week of battery life at one to two hours of daily reading.