Tencent Holdings released a foundation model Wednesday, saying it joins the top tier of Chinese open-weight AI systems for the first time, according to Bloomberg.

Ethereum risk and assurance tracking platform L2BEAT has changed its name to ETHBEAT. According to ChainCatcher, the team said its work has expanded beyond Layer 2, though it will continue monitoring Layer 2 systems as one of several areas of focus. ETHBEAT will assess whether systems built on Ethereum deliver Ethereum’s guarantees to users, including by reviewing deployed smart contracts and tracking ecosystem data. L2BEAT launched more than five years ago to document the fast-growing Ethereum Layer 2 landscape, initially tracking total value locked before shifting to total value secured and adding activity metrics. ETHBEAT plans to apply its transparency and review methods across more of the Ethereum ecosystem, covering privacy, upcoming liquid staking, cross-chain interoperability, tokens, zero-knowledge proofs, native rollups and changes to the base layer. The team also introduced the CROPS guide, which lists projects aligned with censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy and security. Its stated mission is to help users understand and reduce reliance on intermediaries, including what those parties can do and whether users can exit if other participants leave.

Salesforce has become one of the most aggressive buyers in a broader deal boom, acquiring companies every week or two. According to Sina Finance, Dealogic data show announced transactions totaled $2.6 trillion year to date, up 66% from the same period last year. Salesforce’s recent purchases include AI call-center software maker Cresta for $2.7 billion and customer engagement platform Braze for $5.7 billion. It also completed its acquisition of Listen Labs, announced in September with no price disclosed, and bought customer AI agent company Fin for $3.6 billion. Over the past 12 months, Salesforce has spent or committed at least $25 billion across eight acquisitions, nearly all valued above $1 billion. The company has mostly paid cash for its recent deals. Its free cash flow as a share of revenue reached 35% in fiscal 2026, up from 20% in fiscal 2023. Other deals cited include Marvell and Lumentum, DoorDash and Instacart, Fox’s acquisition of Roku, and the Skydance Media–Warner Bros. Discovery transaction. The article links the deal pace to a currently lenient U.S. antitrust environment, which it says could change after a two-year window. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the company has become better at making acquisitions that add to earnings without diluting shareholders. The article also highlights election-related risks to data center construction. More than 20 gubernatorial candidates support pausing development, and candidates backing pauses could win in as many as 15 states. In Texas, Gina Hinojosa has proposed a stricter pause than Greg Abbott until lawmakers establish permanent rules. Georgia candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms has called for a pause and an impact review. In Florida, Byron Donalds has received support from political action committees linked to Anthropic and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, while David Jolly supports a pause. Alaska candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has also proposed a pause and AI regulations.

The euro area's preliminary, unadjusted annual Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) inflation rate was 4% in October, up from 3.8% previously. According to ChainCatcher, the 4% reading matched expectations.

According to Jin10, the eurozone's preliminary month-over-month CPI reading for October was 0.4%, matching the 0.4% forecast, compared with a previous reading of 0.60%.

Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH signed a licensing deal potentially worth more than $7 billion with China’s Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited and its subsidiaries for experimental cancer treatments, according to Bloomberg.

According to Jin10, the Eurozone's annual CPI rate flash estimate for October was 4%, compared with an expected 4% and a previous reading of 3.80%.

Tron founder Justin Sun is escalating his legal battle with World Liberty Financial, asking a California federal court to sanction the Trump family-backed crypto venture over what he describes as a delayed disclosure of UAE ownership ties that could undermine the court's jurisdiction over his lawsuit.

The Democratic Party swept both houses of Congress, resulting in $63 million in political donations to the crypto industry going down the drain. Stricter regulations on AI and data centers caused the market to briefly reverse its decline and rise.

BitMart has admitted it was hacked on 2 November 2026, with about $391,000 reportedly taken from wallets linked to the exchange and sent to an address also used in the Mercado Bitcoin attack. Mercado Bitcoin lost tens of millions of dollars that same day, and BitMart's founder believes the same group was behind both.

With the Democrats regaining control of both houses of Congress, two measures to ease sanctions against Russia will face hearings and legislative review, but the legal framework will remain largely unchanged.

AI companies are borrowing record amounts of money to finance their expansion, even as semiconductor stocks and some of the industry's biggest players suffer steep market declines.

More than $133 million in crypto was taken from an EU financial institution over a weekend, with most of it withdrawn through Kraken, Crypto.com and OKX accounts before being swapped and moved on. ZachXBT now says the victim is allegedly French bank Credit Mutuel Arkea, while Kraken says it has restricted the accounts and is working with law enforcement to recover the funds.

Democratic candidates are more inclined to halt new construction, while regulation of electricity prices and grid costs has received bipartisan support.

The key to the $6.36 billion theft from Binance was not the leak of private keys, but the signing of 50 EIP-7702 delegated authorizations in the signature system.

With the Democrats regaining control of the Senate, policy prospects in areas such as AI data centers, crypto assets, Federal Reserve independence, and clean energy are changing.

Bitcoin's four-year halving cycle is not the only time scale; a 75-month window can serve as a long-term reference for testing market turning points, but it must be confirmed by price structure.