Business
Big Tech Loses Nearly $900 Billion on AI Doubts
Amazon shares fell 7% and Intel fell 25% in premarket trading Friday, extending a weekly rout that has erased nearly $900 billion in Big Tech market value, with Alphabet losing $500 billion.
Friday, October 30, 2026 · 4-minute read
$900B Tech Rout, Binance Hack, and a $47M Dinosaur
Big Tech sheds nearly $900 billion on AI doubts, Binance reels from a record hack, and a rare Nanotyrannus fetches $47 million at auction.
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Politics & World
Early Voting Surpasses 43 Million Ahead of Midterms
More than 43 million Americans have voted early ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, which will…
Sources: NPR News, The Hill, Washington Examiner
Business
Binance Halts Trading After Record $6.3 Billion Hack
Binance suspended trading and withdrawals Thursday after hackers drained an estimated $6.3 billion…
Sources: Axios, CNBC, USA Today
$47.3million
The auction price for ‘Jodi,’ a rare Nanotyrannus skeleton, making it the second most valuable dinosaur ever sold. The sale came just a year after researchers argued the small tyrannosaur is its own genus — not just a teenage T. rex.
Source: Smithsonian
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What killed Weil Gotshal?
What killed Weil Gotshal, one of the most storied names in corporate law. (Read, paywall)
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Russia’s Next Mobilization Is Already Happening
How Russia’s next mobilization is already underway as the Kremlin quietly replenishes its ranks amid mounting casualties in Ukraine.
Foreign Policy · Alexey KovalevSubscription
Before Mountain Biking Became One of the Most Popular Recreational Sports, Adventurous Souls of the American West Had to Invent a Rugged Bike
How adventurous souls in the American West invented the rugged bike that turned mountain biking into one of the most popular recreational sports.
Smithsonian
- Today
Manhattan celebrates Harry Styles Appreciation Day, declared by the borough president to honor the singer’s Madison Square Garden run.
- Tomorrow
Halloween arrives on a Saturday, giving trick-or-treaters a full weekend evening and retailers a key read on seasonal spending.
Etcetera
- Mischief Night or Cabbage Night? What America calls tonight, mapped
- What trick-or-treating looked like in the 1950s
- Where to see the world’s creepiest dolls, if you dare
- Our solar system may have just gained a sixth dwarf planet
- Why Halloween is the busiest day of the year for Uber and Lyft drivers
- Denmark’s IKEA display beds have a backup purpose: emergency shelter
- Japan’s bear problem could take a decade to solve, experts say
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toThis Scorched Planet Celebrates ‘Halloween’ Every 11 Hours — and It’s Pure Cosmic Horror
On this day · October 30
The Historybook- 1938Orson Welles’s ‘War of the Worlds’ radio broadcast panics American listeners
- 1961The Soviet Union detonates Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested
- 1974Muhammad Ali defeats George Foreman in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ in Zaire
- 1995Quebec voters narrowly reject independence from Canada in a historic referendum
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Quote of the day
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
— Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’
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