The Handover
Tuesday 10 November 2026
The day in 7 stories, as Asia signs off and New York wakes up.
Geopolitics
AI funding strain meets data-centre uncertainty after US midterms
Trump defended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and said the FBI was investigating his alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Nvidia shares fell as much as 8%, briefly threatening a $350 billion loss in market value.
AI
Anthropic launches Fable 5.2 as potential IPO nears after CEO’s slowdown call
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, with outputs up to 30% faster than their predecessors. The company is preparing for a potential IPO as soon as next week, targeting a $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion valuation.
World
Russia's Novaya Gazeta closes Moscow newsroom after state pressure
Novaya Gazeta closed its Moscow office after Russian authorities designated it a 'foreign agent'. Nobel laureate Muratov said constitutional guarantees of political and civil rights had ceased to function.
Security
European supermarkets hit by remote freezer attacks
Hackers remotely raised freezer temperatures in dozens of supermarkets across at least 11 European countries on 2 November. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot blamed Iran and called for European sanctions.
Space
Caltech robot makes first autonomous assembly of part of a structure in space
A Caltech robot autonomously assembled a truss bay in orbit, the first autonomous assembly of part of a structure in space. The technology could eventually enable construction of giant telescopes, antennas and solar arrays.
Security
N-able takes hosted N-central offline after researcher publishes more than 30 alleged zero-day vulnerabilities
N-able took hosted N-central systems offline after researcher Sean Bales disclosed more than 30 alleged zero-day flaws. The company advised customers running their own servers to shut them down while it develops a hotfix.
AI research
Language models can reveal their ancestry without exposing their internal weights
Institute of Science Tokyo and RIKEN researchers identified 74% of language models' parents using fine-tuning examples, without inspecting model weights. Accuracy fell when original training examples were unavailable.
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