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Wednesday, November 4, 2026
The day’s AI news — with the affected tickers and a bullish / bearish read on every story. Skim the takes in two minutes, or settle in with a coffee. ☕
The day’s reads: 5 bullish, 2 bearish, 3 mixed across 10 stories. Lead story: AMD smashes Q3: $13.38B revenue, data-center sales nearly double, 2027 growth over 80%.
Menlo Ventures estimates enterprise AI spending reached $176.8 billion by September 2026, up 5.4 times from $33 billion in 2025 — and AI agents now generate 80% of tokens on OpenRouter.
Google will invest $15 billion in Malaysia in 2027 and 2028 on datacenter campuses, clean energy, water security and worker training, Alphabet and Google president Ruth Porat said.
Micron closed November 3 at $855.10, up 2.58%, and SanDisk at $1,126.52, up 4.78%, rebounding after Monday's rout as Apple's warning about rising memory costs reframed the memory trade — with AMD's earnings beat, released after the close, adding a follow-through signal.
Oil gave back its November 3 rebound at the close: Brent settled at $103.60 and WTI at $96.09, a second straight down session, and both opened lower on November 4 despite a reported US inventory draw.
Regal Rexnord swung to a $12 million quarterly loss after a $119.3 million write-down on its warehouse-robot unit — then said it is exploring a sale of that unit, even as its shares rose about 11% on a guidance raise.
A federal judge ruled the Navy improperly eliminated Saildrone from its $2.1 billion drone-boat competition, ordered a re-evaluation, and capped Navy spending on the program at $1.5 billion until that review is done.
Tencent released Hy4 on November 4, its first Hunyuan model with vision and computer use: a 770-billion-parameter system that can read charts and documents and operate software interfaces.
Voters faced 41 datacenter measures in 10 states on November 3, and by Wednesday 33 local measures restricting datacenters had passed or were leading — with only one measure going the industry's way.
WorkOS, an identity and authentication vendor, disclosed that an attacker using the ARTEX AI offensive framework broke into an internal sales application on October 30, exposing business contact details and excerpts of customer conversations.
Shareholders of Churchill Capital Corp XI approved the merger with Agility Robotics, with more than 84% of votes cast in favour — clearing the way for a Nasdaq debut as AGLT on November 5.
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