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CNBC reported on November 6, 2026, that Asian technology and chip stocks tumbled amid US data-center policy fears and Wall Street’s AI-linked selloff, with contract chipmaker TSMC down 9.6% and South Korea’s SK Hynix losing more than 8%. Investors were concerned that Democrats’ sweeping US midterm victory could produce tighter restrictions on data-center development. Timothy…

Reuters reported on November 5, 2026 that potential investors in Anthropic’s initial public offering are questioning whether the AI company can begin its planned roadshow in the week of November 9, 2026 and complete a November listing, citing four people familiar with investor discussions. Investors are pressing for a more attractive valuation before committing to…

Airbnb disclosed in a quarterly filing on November 5, 2026, a $7.1 million intellectual-property and expense transaction with a recently formed, privately held AI lab founded and controlled by CEO Brian Chesky, alongside rights to invest in future lab financing and license its technology internally. Under the IP Sale and Transaction Agreement entered in November…

Square Peg announced on November 6, 2026, that it is backing Future Secure AI, whose enterprise AI Co-Workers are designed to complete complex business processes alongside employees and inside customers’ existing systems. Future Secure AI designs, builds and runs these multi-agent systems. Each Co-Worker has a name, a face and a place on the organization…

Perplexity announced on November 5, 2026 that every Agent API effort level now costs less per query, and reported higher or unchanged research quality across the presets. Medium improved from 55% to 77% on BrowseComp and DSQA while its cost fell almost 90%, and a new ultra level is available for broad research. Effort levels…

Thinking Machines Lab introduced Inkling 2 Small on November 5, 2026, making its second-generation model available through Tinker with closed weights. The sparse Mixture-of-Experts system has 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters, targeting long-horizon autonomous work alongside coding, vision and knowledge tasks. At launch, Tinker Playground provides inference-only access, while Tinker supports…

Airbnb plans to begin rolling out an AI agent for trip planning and booking to guests in the first half of 2027, the company said in its third-quarter 2026 shareholder letter released November 5, 2026. The product remains in development. Airbnb’s longer-term goal is for the specialized agent to plan an entire trip across homes,…

Five9 announced on November 5, 2026 that it had entered a definitive agreement to acquire Level AI, valuing the customer-experience AI company at approximately $325 million in cash. Five9 plans to pay from its balance sheet, and its board unanimously approved the agreement. The transaction has not closed. Under the plan, Level AI’s applications would…

Meta Platforms completed a $15 billion, five-series senior notes offering on November 5, 2026, according to its current report filed with the SEC. The final prospectus supplement, dated November 3, 2026, estimates net proceeds of approximately $14.9 billion after underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses. Meta intends to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes….

Claimlane announced on November 5, 2026 that it had raised a €5.6 million Series A backed by Verb Ventures, Skagerak Capital and Vendep Capital. The funding will support development of AI agents for aftersales product resolution and expansion of the company’s US business. Chief executive and co-founder Anders Sommer has relocated to Austin to lead…