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November 2, 2026, 5:15 AM

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Zack Abrams / The Block:
Binance says net outflows were ~$3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $5.86B  —  The exchange said the outflows equal 2.1% of its assets and that withdrawal volumes have eased after an initial spike.
Bloomberg:
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SemiAnalysis:
SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an agentic capability benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score  —  A comprehensive benchmark spanning RSI, hardware design, cyber, bio, finance, legal, quant trading, chip design, software engineering, materials science, and alignment
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Rivka Galchen / New Yorker:
A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process  —  A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades.  Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.
Axios:
OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory “speed limits” for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as “AI compute campuses”  —  Right after Tuesday's midterms, OpenAI will unleash a policy and PR blitz to try to get in sync with the new Washington …
Jon Caramanica / New York Times:
How IShowSpeed became YouTube's top livestreamer with 62M+ subscribers, as his 24/7 “IRL streams” that last days mingle childlike wonder with teenage mischief  —  IShowSpeed in Las Vegas during the Speed Does America bus tour.  —  With seven minutes left in the second quarter …
Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it could take two to four weeks to restore service after a security incident; AO3 hosts 18M+ works and has 11M+ registered users  —  “Black October” comes for the fan fic.  —  The popular fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline Thursday, and its millions of users are freaking out.
Rahul Raj / EU-Startups:
The Hague-based Braid, whose API lets companies sell eSIM mobile plans under their own brand via 600+ carriers, raised a ~$38M Series A led by Octopus Ventures  —  Braid, a Dutch company that enables enterprises to launch their own branded mobile connectivity, has raised €34.13 million ($38 million) in a Series A funding round.
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