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MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel stated to shareholders that Bitcoin mining remains the core business of the company. Bitdeer Chief Strategy Officer Haris Basit mentioned that the company does not wish to rely on any single market cycle. Amid the sell-off of artificial intelligence stocks, some large Bitcoin mining companies that had previously shifted towards AI infrastructure are re-emphasizing their cryptocurrency business.After the Bitcoin halving in 2024, mining profit margins are being squeezed, and several mining companies are expanding their business into AI infrastructure. Recently, IREN and CoreWeave's stock prices have plummeted, with CoreWeave's bond yields reaching junk bond levels, and Bitcoin prices have also fallen from the historical high set in October 2025.

The Kremlin announced that Putin and Trump plan to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Backpack announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with the Japanese digital bank Minna Bank. Minna Bank is part of one of Japan's major regional bank groups, FFG. Both parties will utilize Backpack's on-chain infrastructure to explore the provision of digital banking services related to cryptocurrency assets in Japan. Backpack is positioned as a cryptocurrency trading platform and multi-chain wallet. According to RootData, the project completed a strategic financing of 20 million dollars in 2022 and will complete a Series A financing of 17 million dollars in 2024.

IBM announced the next-generation superconducting quantum processor IBM Quantum Nighthawk r3, designed to accurately perform 10,000 quantum operations on 520 programmable qubits. This processor contains 2,034 physical qubits, continuing the square lattice connectivity and fast operation architecture of Nighthawk r2, and adds 10 inter-chip connections called l-couplers. IBM plans to connect two Nighthawk r3 processors into a single 1,040 qubit system by 2027.The currently deployed Nighthawk r2 is equipped with 120 programmable qubits, 218 couplers, and 120 reset elements, capable of executing over 100,000 circuits per second, with a throughput approximately 25 times that of Heron, and a maximum speed increase of 19 times for partner workloads, with E.ON reporting a 15 times increase. IBM previously connected two Nighthawk r1 processors using 4 l-couplers, achieving a quantum state transfer fidelity of up to 99.3%, averaging 99%; the two connected cryogenic modules cooled down to below 15 milli-Kelvin within 5 days.

According to Bloomberg, the prediction market platform Polymarket has recently laid off some employees and terminated contracts with several contractors.Previously, CEO Shayne Coplan, responding to investor demands for stronger company management, brought in several senior executives, including hiring former Amazon finance chief Warren Jenson as Chief Financial Officer and recruiting executives from Goldman Sachs, DoorDash, and Robinhood. Polymarket stated that as the business expands and new management joins, the company is adjusting its organizational structure, involving personnel recruitment, position adjustments, and layoffs, but did not disclose specific numbers.

tZERO Group, a financial market infrastructure provider, announced that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved its wholly-owned subsidiary tZERO DCM, LLC to register as a designated contract market (DCM), allowing it to operate a regulated derivatives exchange. Previously, on October 16, the CFTC approved tZERO DCO, LLC to register as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO). Currently, tZERO can support derivatives trading and clearing through its regulated entities.The two registrations will be incorporated into tZERO's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) business, developing trading and clearing services for financial institutions and other market participants. According to the merger agreement signed between tZERO and FG Imperii Acquisition Corp. on October 31, both DCM and DCO have been approved to constitute the first contingent milestone condition, which has now been met. tZERO's existing regulated securities infrastructure includes broker-dealers, alternative trading systems, digital asset securities custody, transfer agents, as well as clearing and settlement services.

Spider Digital Technology Ltd., a cryptocurrency mining pool operator headquartered in Singapore, announced that it has signed a definitive business combination agreement with Starlink AI Acquisition Corporation, a blank check company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (stock ticker OTAI), on October 30, 2026. The agreement sets the valuation of Spider Digital at $250 million to determine the merger consideration. Upon completion of the transaction, Spider Digital and Starlink AI will become wholly-owned subsidiaries of Spider Digital Technology Group, which is expected to go public in the United States after meeting applicable listing requirements and obtaining approval.According to the agreement, PubCo's wholly-owned subsidiary Merger Sub I will merge with Spider Digital, after which Merger Sub II will merge with Starlink AI, and both companies will continue to exist after their respective mergers. The completion of the transaction is subject to approval by both parties' shareholders, the effectiveness of PubCo's F-4 registration statement, approval for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, and other customary closing conditions. Spider Digital claims that it operates its own mining pool system and has independent block production capabilities, without sharing pool control or hash power scheduling rights with third parties. The company's founder, chairman, and CEO Chen Hua, along with Starlink AI's chairman and CEO Gus Liu, both commented on the proposed merger.

On November 10, AI company Anthropic disclosed in its IPO roadshow video that the company believes it can achieve an adjusted operating profit margin of 35% or more in the long term, up from 15% in the third quarter of 2026, but did not provide a specific timeline for achieving this. Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao stated that the company plans to improve its long-term cost structure by enhancing computing efficiency, increasing the proportion of directly leased chips and data centers, and expanding the share of its inference business. The ratio of computing and infrastructure expenses to revenue aims to decrease from 58% in the third quarter to 45% to 50%; the proportion of sales, marketing, and partnership expenses is expected to drop from 14% to 7% to 10%, and adjusted personnel and other operating expenses are expected to decrease from 13% to 7% to 10%.As of the end of September, there were over 11,900 enterprise customers that contributed more than $100,000 in revenue to Anthropic over the past 12 months, including over 1,900 customers contributing more than $1 million and about 250 customers contributing over $10 million. The net revenue retention rate for enterprise customers is approximately 900%, with more than half of the enterprise customers using both the Claude Platform and at least one Anthropic proprietary application. The roadshow also showcased application cases from clients such as Eli Lilly, Rakuten, Salesforce, and Walmart. The company measures computing efficiency by the ratio of revenue to computing and infrastructure expenses, which increased from 0.40 times in the first quarter of 2025 to 1.72 times in the third quarter of 2026, approximately 4.3 times higher than before, but lower than the second quarter's 2.08 times. The company stated that it used about $5 billion in short-term computing in the third quarter, with costs significantly higher than those for computing procured under multi-year agreements.In terms of actual performance, Anthropic reported third-quarter revenue of $16.956 billion, adjusted operating profit of $2.463 billion, and an adjusted operating profit margin of 15%, down from 19% in the second quarter. Under GAAP standards, the company still recorded an operating loss of $567 million in the third quarter. The adjusted metrics exclude expenses such as equity incentives and non-cash charitable donations and cannot be equated to GAAP earnings. As of the end of October, the company's annualized revenue run rate was approximately $81 billion, not the actual revenue achieved for the full year. Additionally, Anthropic disclosed long-term commitments for computing and infrastructure of about $90 billion, of which approximately $45.16 billion is expected to occur by the end of 2030, with related commitments maturing in the next 12 months amounting to about $7.07 billion. As of the end of the third quarter, the company held approximately $96 billion in cash and cash equivalents and about $36 billion in short-term investments.

Cryptocurrency trading platform Uphold announced that the previously encountered issue of cryptocurrency withdrawal interruptions has been resolved. The interruption was caused by a failure in its trading monitoring service provider, and the platform implemented measures during the outage.Uphold stated that during the process of addressing the issue, fiat currency deposits, fiat currency withdrawals, and trading functions continued to operate normally and were not affected by the interruption.

According to official news, Animoca Brands' digital identity project Moca Network announced a strategic cooperation with OKX Ventures, and both parties will jointly screen and support Moca Network ecosystem projects. OKX Ventures has committed to allocating part of its MOCA token reserves for joint investments in projects that develop consumer applications based on digital identity infrastructure such as AIR Kit and Moca Chain.OKX Ventures will also provide support for selected projects, including OKX payment, fiat deposit, and OKX Wallet integration. As the projects gradually mature, Animoca Brands and OKX Ventures may also increase their investments.

Anthropic has reached agreements with partners such as AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and TSMC.

According to an interview with "Daily People," a data center operations engineer who has worked in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia for 5 years stated that local AI data centers are still under large-scale construction, but the hiring demand at his company has significantly decreased. The company hired thousands of people in 2025, but by the time of the interview in 2026, only 3 new hires had been made.The engineer, who goes by the pseudonym Zhang Liwei, originally worked on an assembly line at an automobile factory. When he first switched careers, his internship monthly salary was 2,000 yuan, which increased to 4,500 yuan after graduation. After 5 years of job hopping and promotions, he currently earns over 10,000 yuan per month. In April of this year, DeepSeek was hiring senior operations engineers and senior delivery managers for its data center in Ulanqab, offering a monthly salary of 15,000 to 30,000 yuan, with 14 months' salary. These positions require extensive experience in data center operations and project management. According to Zhang Liwei's observations, local ordinary duty staff still earn around 5,000 to 6,000 yuan per month, while assistant engineers can earn over 10,000 yuan.The entry barriers are also rising. In 2024, some data centers were still hiring newcomers without relevant professional backgrounds; however, this year, some companies have required candidates to have a relevant degree and work experience, and there is even a 35-year age limit for basic duty positions. Zhang Liwei mentioned that a former colleague has started a training class for operations, charging nearly 20,000 yuan per student, and classes only start when there are 60 students, with a single session fee approaching 1.2 million yuan. The so-called internal recommendations are mostly just to help students secure an interview opportunity.

The Threshold tBTC cross-chain bridge has resumed on-chain operations, but the application still suspends new deposits, minting, and Bitcoin redemptions, and the Aave-related reserves remain frozen.

The European Commission decided to establish a dedicated sanctions office during the tenth high-level sanctions measures meeting of the European Union, and to form a cryptocurrency working group within the office, responsible for addressing Russia's use of digital assets to evade sanctions. The working group is expected to operate for 12 months, with support from Ukraine and the United Kingdom.The sanctions office will coordinate member states' implementation of sanctions measures, covering policy design, implementation, enforcement support, and anti-avoidance work. The working group will focus on relevant networks, including the A7A5 digital ruble stablecoin; this stablecoin previously had a trading volume exceeding 100 billion dollars.

According to reports from the Financial Associated Press, Berkshire Hathaway's operating profit for the third quarter was $12.71 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 5.8%. The net profit attributable to shareholders for the third quarter was $22.112 billion, compared to $30.796 billion in the same period last year; the net earnings per Class A equivalent common share for the third quarter were $15,502; the net investment income for the third quarter was $9.407 billion, down from $17.311 billion in the same period last year.As of September 30, the company's cash holdings for the third quarter were $356.9 billion; cash reserves increased from the previous quarter to $377.4 billion, setting a new record. The company repurchased $9.6 billion in stock during the third quarter. Additionally, Berkshire Hathaway stated that as of September 30, 65% of the total fair value of the company's equity investments was concentrated in Alphabet, American Express, Apple, Bank of America, and Coca-Cola.

According to official news from Gold House, the parent company of the social platform Gold House has reached a strategic cooperation with the Canadian MSB licensed company LUMINOUS FINANCE LIMITED. The two parties will collaborate on digital currency exchange, fiat currency exchange channels, cross-border fund transfers, and merchant payment settlement, exploring the application of digital assets in global payment and commercial settlement scenarios.This cooperation will combine the resources of both parties in the digital asset ecosystem, financial services, and related compliance businesses, improving Gold House's business layout in the field of digital asset payment and settlement, and providing users and merchants with more digital asset settlement service solutions.

On November 7, Tencent's Q&A community Sogou Wenwen and Wenwen Mall officially ceased operations. According to the official shutdown announcement released in October, both will stop services at 23:59 on November 7, 2026. At that time, the related pages will no longer be accessible, and the question bean redemption function will be closed simultaneously; after the shutdown, user accounts will be automatically canceled without manual operation.The official previously reminded users that the questions, answers, and personal content accumulated in Sogou Wenwen need to be screenshot or copied for backup in the personal center before the shutdown; after the shutdown, all content on the platform will be deleted or anonymized in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China and other relevant laws and regulations. Sogou Wenwen is a knowledge application product and Q&A interactive platform under Sogou, formerly known as the interactive Q&A community SOSO Wenwen under Tencent, covering dozens of categories such as computer digital products and games, with over 100 million users.

Binance founder CZ retweeted a warning about a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Paint, stating: "The application cannot protect you from operating system vulnerabilities, please update your operating system immediately."It is reported that Microsoft has disclosed a Windows Paint vulnerability numbered CVE-2026-83844, with a CVSS score of 8.1, affecting versions of Microsoft Paint below 11.2605.91. The vulnerability stems from an out-of-bounds read issue, which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute malicious code without user interaction. Microsoft has released a security patch, and there have been no confirmed reports of the vulnerability being actively exploited. CZ uses this to remind users that application layer security measures cannot replace the security updates of the operating system itself, and system and software patches should be installed promptly.