News, November 11, 2026
Apple's first touchscreen Macs are on sale, starting at $2,899
The OLED MacBook Pro adds touch for a $400 premium. A smart home hub and a new Apple TV follow on Friday.
November 2026
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Tech, AI and apps
News, November 11, 2026
The Justice Department now has a task force for AI misuse
The Super Intelligence Task Force will set priorities for AI-related prosecutions and take over the department's existing AI litigation work.
News, November 11, 2026
Two releases move AI agents closer to where the work happens
Mistral opened a hosted platform for building agents, and Microsoft's local toolkit can now run a coding model on your own machine.
News, November 11, 2026
Google plans a $17 billion data center that makes its own power
The Wyoming site would run on a 702-megawatt fuel cell system with carbon capture, built on the property.
News, November 11, 2026
Meta paused terms that would let it scrape its business customers' websites
The change was due on November 20. Meta shelved it after objections from publishers and regulators in Norway and Brazil.
Health and wellness tech
News, November 11, 2026
Samsung's sleep apnea feature now gives a number
An upgrade for the Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch 9 estimates how often breathing is disrupted. It launched in the US on November 4.
Markets and trading
News, November 11, 2026
The Nasdaq 100 fell 6.4% in one day. Here is what drove it
Two days after the midterms, investors sold the companies building AI data centers, and chip stocks took the hardest hit.
News, November 11, 2026
Prediction markets called the midterms. Now they face the winners
Kalshi and Polymarket priced in Democratic gains early. Politico reports the result may bring closer oversight of both platforms.
News, November 11, 2026
Mira Murati's AI startup is raising $5 billion at a $40 billion valuation
The reported round would roughly triple the value of Thinking Machines Lab, with Nvidia in talks to invest about half.
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