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According to Bloomberg, investment firm Norwest, backed by Wells Fargo, has raised $4 billion for its latest fund. The fund plans to invest in early-stage artificial intelligence startups, focusing on areas overlooked by other market participants.Including this new funding, the total assets managed by the firm have reached $18 billion. This is the 18th fund established by Norwest, with a significant increase in fundraising compared to the previous $3 billion in 2024. Norwest has a 65-year history and has previously invested in industry giants such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Spotify Technology SA.

Ukrainian President Zelensky stated that the Ukrainian military discovered serious operational anomalies with the American "Starlink" system within Ukraine, with a speed limit of 161 kilometers per hour, affecting the entire front line.This has increased the difficulty for the Ukrainian military to intercept Russian drones. The Ukrainian side is communicating with the United States to clarify the situation.

China's largest flash memory manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies last week reported the possibility of delaying its listing, but according to reports, the company is still advancing its initial public offering plan, aiming to be listed on the Shanghai Star Market as early as the first quarter of next year.Bloomberg reported on Wednesday (November 11) citing informed sources that the Wuhan-based Yangtze Memory Technologies is still pushing forward with its listing plan, striving for a listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Star Market as early as the first quarter of 2027. Reuters reported on November 4, citing internal memos and informed sources, that Yangtze Memory Technologies' listing plan might be delayed by several months, with expectations for a listing in the first half of next year, depending on market conditions. Bloomberg's latest report indicates that relevant work is still ongoing.Yangtze Memory Technologies entered the next stage of the listing review in September this year, planning to raise 33 billion yuan (approximately 6.3 billion Singapore dollars). The Shanghai Stock Exchange issued the first round of review inquiries to the company in early September, officially launching the listing review process.

Elon Musk stated that the Starship Super Heavy rocket booster has been moved to the launch pad.

According to TASS, the Central Bank of Russia stated that the Russian exchange can start cryptocurrency trading from November 22, 2026, but must first reach an agreement with regulatory authorities on trading rules. The Russian Ministry of Justice has registered the Central Bank of Russia's directive regarding organized trading requirements for digital currencies and digital rights.According to the regulations, exchanges must register participants in cryptocurrency trading such as brokers, trust managers, and central counterparties, maintain records of orders and transactions, and monitor trading. They must also calculate current prices, weighted average prices, market prices, and closing prices, and report trading information to the Central Bank of Russia in the same manner as existing other assets.Previously, the Central Bank of Russia finalized the rules for retail cryptocurrency trading, which will be implemented starting November 17.

According to Fortune, AI sales startup Rox has completed a $100 million Series B funding round, with a valuation of $1.3 billion. This round was co-led by General Catalyst and March Capital, with Sequoia and GV continuing to invest, and Prosperity7 joining as a new investor.Rox stated that its AI agent can research customer accounts, recommend priority follow-up targets, and prepare customer outreach efforts.Rox co-founder Ishan Mukherjee said the new funds will be used for more AI research and product development, and the company plans to expand its sales, marketing, and business teams in the U.S. fivefold next year.

According to EU-Startups, Cambridge semiconductor startup Tendrils has completed a $30 million seed round financing, approximately €26 million, led by Benchmark, with participation from Visionaries Club, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, FR8, Antimatter, Cloudberry VC, Conviction, Embassy Ventures, and SV Angels, along with several angel investors.The company was founded in 2025 by CEO Nils Cremer and co-founders T6 and Hugo McNally, and is developing a universal processor architecture that allows thousands of cores to work in parallel.The new architecture is based on an interactive network computing model, representing programs as interconnected nodes, allowing independent operations to be executed simultaneously, attempting to break free from traditional shared mutable memory and linear instruction sequences. The company is also developing an open-source programming language called Vine, which has a syntax similar to Rust, making it easier for software to adapt to this parallel-first architecture. Tendrils stated that while GPUs have taken on large-scale numerical computations, AI agents still heavily rely on CPUs for irregular tasks such as executing code and retrieving documents. Jack Altman, general partner at Benchmark and co-founder of Lattice, will join the board.

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.

AI localization software startup General Translation has completed a total of $27 million in funding, with this round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Upfront Ventures. The specific round and valuation have not been disclosed.

On Tuesday, Google announced that its cutting-edge artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Carbon, is now open to paid developers and enterprise customers. Google stated that the model is capable of handling complex programming, cybersecurity, and scientific research tasks that involve multiple steps. Gemini 4 Carbon was released on October 28, having previously been available to select cybersecurity defense agencies through the Fairwind program. Following this opening, paid developers can use the model via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, while enterprise customers can access it through Gemini for business. Google AI Ultra subscribers will also gradually gain access to the Gemini application, Google Search AI mode, and Antigravity.In early tests, OpenCode software engineer Kit Langton reported that the team submitted a list of requirements to Carbon before the end of the workday, requesting solutions for consistency issues between the application interface and the existing UI framework. After running overnight, Carbon built a Rust UI library from scratch, rewrote the OpenCode desktop application, and provided a runnable demo version. The Wiz team under Google stated that while using Carbon for cyber to scan two large software service providers, the model identified zero-day vulnerabilities within two hours and subsequently collaborated with the affected agencies to complete the fixes. Google did not disclose the names of these service providers or the details of the vulnerabilities. Researchers also combined Carbon with other models, using the AlphaProof Code intelligent agent framework to complete the formal verification of the security properties of the underlying code of the Signal encryption protocol within weeks.In terms of pricing, Google set the initial experience price for Carbon's API at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, the same as Gemini 4 Argon. This offer lasts until November 30, after which the price will double, adjusting to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, applicable to the publicly available Carbon model. Google stated that Carbon ranked first in three benchmark tests: CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity WANDR, and Zapier AutomationBench, with the cost of single-task performance being less than half that of the next best external models. Google also mentioned that the model intercepted 99% of attack paths in a simulated cyberattack test, and achieved a 0% success rate in another prompt injection test.

Bitget IPO Prime Phase 3 project Anthropic is now open for public round subscription, available to all eligible users (including VIP users), supporting subscriptions using USDT or USDGO. The allocated assets will be delivered in rANT, relying on Bitget's RWA infrastructure to mirror the economic performance of ANT after its listing at a 1:1 ratio.The public round subscription period is from November 10 at 16:00 to 16:00 the day before the IPO (UTC+8), with an investment range of $100 to $25,000, and a total investment pool cap of $200 million, with an underwriting service fee of 5%. Distribution will occur 2 to 3 hours before the opening of regular trading hours on the day of the IPO.

After a field visit to the Yuanjing Star River base in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, the American semiconductor research organization SemiAnalysis stated that the construction cost of this Chinese AI data center park may be only one-fifth of similar projects in the United States. The first phase of the Star River base, with a capacity of 120MW, was completed and delivered in less than a year. On August 6 of this year, the infrastructure for the first phase was completed, and the wind power and energy storage company Yuanjing Technology announced that the base officially commenced production. After nearly three months of electromechanical debugging and deployment of computing power equipment, the first phase of the approximately 200MW project was fully delivered to customers by the end of October.The entire park is planned to reach an IT power supply capacity of 800MW by the end of 2027, comparable to the approximately 820MW planned for OpenAI's Stargate Abilene core park, which is expected to reach this scale by the end of 2026. Stargate is a data center construction plan covering multiple states, with an initial goal of implementing 10GW of AI infrastructure capacity in the United States by 2029. In April of this year, OpenAI announced that it had secured over 10GW of planned capacity ahead of schedule, but these data centers have not all been completed and put into operation.Yuanjing Technology integrates power generation, energy storage, power supply, and data center construction, having built two wind farms with a total installed capacity of 420MW and supporting battery storage, aiming for over 60% of the electricity used by the first two phases of the data center to come from its own wind power. In contrast, the American Stargate Abilene park mainly relies on the grid and on-site gas-fired power generation facilities for electricity. Yuanjing has already operated an 800V high-voltage direct current system in a 5MW machine room, directly converting 10kV alternating current into the direct current required for server cabinets. The park also employs a cooling design that does not require central chilled water units, allowing liquid-cooled and air-cooled servers to share a single water circulation system.

NVIDIA announced its investment in the South Korean company Point2Tech at the "AI Startup Collaboration Forum" in Seoul, and plans to further invest in Motif, Realworld, and Upstage. Upstage has thus gathered investments from Amazon, AMD, and NVIDIA.

According to the official announcement, the 165th Gate contract points airdrop will be available for collection from November 9th, 18:00 to 23:59 (UTC+8). This period sets up two major points redemption prize pools. Eligible users can use 15 points to redeem 0.018 QQQG, or use 20 points to redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher. The number of rewards is limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.In terms of specific rules, the QQQG prize pool requires users to have a contract points balance reaching a dynamic threshold of 120 to 90 points (decreasing), while the 100 USDT position experience voucher pool requires a points balance of no less than 40 points. After successful collection, the rewards are expected to be credited within 1 hour. Users can participate through the Gate App or Web version, with the App needing to be upgraded to version 8.13 or above. The relevant points are accumulated based on asset holdings and contract trading activity over the past 15 days.

According to Jinshi Data, during a telephone interview with CNN on Sunday local time, U.S. President Trump stated that as long as progress is made in negotiations regarding the Iranian nuclear issue and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, it is "extremely unlikely" that the U.S. will take military action against Iran again. He reiterated this judgment five times during the approximately 20-minute interview and stated that whether to take military action depends on whether Iran signs a very tough agreement.Trump also mentioned that the U.S. military is prepared for action. He stated that there are three aircraft carriers on standby in the Middle East, one of which has just arrived, and all are in a state of readiness. He also disclosed that power plants and 38 bridges have been listed as potential strike targets, stating that these bridges could be destroyed in about an hour, but he prefers to avoid destroying related infrastructure.Trump further stated that Iran's air defense equipment has been destroyed, and currently, only about 10% of its missile production capacity and about 15% of its drone production capacity remain. He also mentioned that Iran's inflation rate has reached 301% this year and stated that reaching an agreement remains a priority option, suggesting that further military action is most likely unnecessary.

Former Chief Financial Officer of Binance, Kaiser Ng, posted on the X platform that after serving as CFO for five years at Binance, he has decided to start his own business and hand over the position to the next CFO, Justin. Kaiser Ng stated that he will focus on multiple projects in areas such as sports and entertainment, covering basketball, music, GPUs, robotics, gold, and collectibles, planning to bring these real-world assets to the blockchain through tokenization, and welcomes interested individuals to join his team. He also mentioned that with the launch of TradFi assets and AI user interfaces, Binance will continue to grow and expand.

SpaceX stated that, pending regulatory approval, it plans to launch Starship as early as November 13. The launch window will last for 75 minutes and will open at 4:45 PM Central Time.This flight plan will attempt for the first time to have both the Starship and the Super Heavy booster return to the launch site and be recovered through capture devices.

OKX founder Star tweeted, asking everyone to temporarily avoid transferring funds directly from MEXC to OKX.OKX is taking special measures in response to FinCEN, managing risks according to prudent standards similar to financial sanctions. According to its compliance and risk control measures, funds from related platforms may be frozen for review, and related accounts may require further investigation.Although FinCEN provided a 30-day transition period, OKX has chosen to significantly strengthen relevant risk control measures in advance rather than wait until the deadline to take action. Protecting user interests and maintaining the safety and integrity of the financial system has always been OKX's top priority.

According to Star, the founder of OKX, the UIDs of different sites under the OKX brand must either remain globally unique or not allow users to conduct cross-site internal transfers solely based on the UID.Star stated that the UID is an account identifier, and if the same UID exists across different sites of the same brand but allows cross-site transfers via UID, it may lead to incorrect identification of the receiving account and misdirected funds.