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Apple has overtaken Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, closing with a market cap of about $5.03 trillion versus Nvidia’s $4.93 trillion. The shift came as Nvidia fell 4.2% amid a broader tech selloff driven by concerns over heavy AI spending and the pace of returns from infrastructure investment.

Apple will integrate Alibaba’s Qwen models into Apple Intelligence in China, with testing starting Nov. 4 and a broader rollout planned for December. According to China Daily, Qwen-powered features will be available for testing in the latest iOS developer beta starting Nov 4, with a broader rollout scheduled for December alongside the release of iOS 27.3. 

North Korean hacking groups have stolen an estimated $7.4 billion in cryptocurrency so far in 2026, according to TRM Labs, taking their cumulative haul since 2017 to about $12.8 billion. TRM says infrastructure attacks targeting wallet keys, servers and signing systems now account for most of the value stolen by North Korean-linked actors.

Anthropic researchers found adversarial Claude agents could bypass production-style safety monitors using prompt injection, multi-agent tactics and malicious context compaction. In tests, existing monitors failed to block more than 55% of attacks, highlighting an unresolved challenge in supervising increasingly autonomous coding agents.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped nearly 3% as concerns over the profitability of AI investment spread from Wall Street into Asian technology shares. Chip-related companies led the decline, while the broader Topix fell a milder 1.3%. Despite Friday’s sell-off, the Nikkei was still slightly higher for the week.

A Russian drone struck a busy railway platform in Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 13 people and injuring 10 others, according to Ukrainian authorities. Two trains were reportedly hit during the attack. The strike adds to a series of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s rail network, which Kyiv says has increasingly become a target during the war.

Truth Social is selling faster access to President Donald Trump’s posts through its Truth API, with Bloomberg, Susquehanna and Jump Trading among reported customers. The service can cost up to $100,000 monthly and is aimed partly at financial firms using automated strategies, where even milliseconds can matter when presidential announcements move stocks, commodities or currencies.

Peter Sellis, Snapchat’s first product manager, has joined X to lead product as the platform pushes deeper into creator monetization. He takes over weeks after X replaced its old revenue-sharing model with Original Content Rewards, which pays creators for qualified views from Premium subscribers rather than broader engagement.

Finnish authorities ordered work suspended at two Google-linked data center sites after extensive land clearing began before completion of the required environmental impact assessment. The projects near Muhos and Kajaani involved clearing hundreds of acres, while regulators said the preparatory work could significantly affect the environment and must be reviewed first.

Anchorpoint Financial, the stablecoin joint venture led by Standard Chartered, plans to launch a retail stablecoin on a public blockchain in Hong Kong. CEO Dominic Maffei said the firm is taking a prudent approach and has not committed to a launch date. The move follows HSBC’s launch of RedCoin for more than 3.3 million PayMe users.