According to ChainCatcher, U.S. artificial intelligence company Nooks has received a $500 million commitment from General Catalyst, according to market reports. Nooks also officially launched its Revenue Agent Platform on November 4 to handle tasks from initial customer contact through renewals.

Wheat advanced as a weaker outlook for Russian exports heightened concern about global supplies, with Black Sea disruptions continuing to curb shipments from the key grain-producing region, according to Bloomberg.

Industrial facilities in Russia’s Ryazan region were damaged and caught fire after a large-scale overnight drone attack, Governor Pavel Malkov said on social media. According to Sina Finance, falling debris damaged power lines, causing power outages in parts of Ryazan. Ryazan is home to a Rosneft refinery with annual capacity of about 17 million tonnes, but Malkov did not specify which industrial facilities were damaged.

Toyota will establish a robotics division as part of a companywide restructuring. According to Sina Finance, Toyota views robotics as a key pillar of its future business, and the division will be led by Chief Production Officer Takefumi Shiga. The company will eliminate the Carbon Neutral Engineering Development Center and the Frontier Research Center, merging their related functions into other business areas.

According to Jin10, Canaccord Genuity lowered its price target on Uber (UBER.N) to $70 from $72.

According to HKET, The Korea Herald and UDN Money, Japan's Nikkei 225 reversed early gains and stood at 61,364.59 as of 04:33 UTC, down 824.04 points, or 1.33%, after rising as much as 465 points in early trade. Advantest fell 11.69% and Tokyo Electron declined 8.93%, while Sony gained 6.43%. Seoul's KOSPI was at 5,436.45 as of 04:31 UTC, down 247.35 points, or 4.35%. The Korea Exchange activated a sell-side sidecar at 10:16 a.m. local time, suspending program trading for five minutes after the index fell 4.67% to 5,418.15, as the Democratic Party's U.S. midterm victory raised concerns over tighter regulation of artificial intelligence data centers. Samsung Electronics fell 6.19% and SK Hynix dropped 8.81%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 739 points to 24,659 at the half-day close, after opening 397 points higher at 24,316 and climbing as high as 24,749. The Hang Seng Tech Index gained 4.8% to 4,124. Meituan rose 8%, Alibaba and Xiaomi each added 7%, Tencent gained more than 5% and HSBC rose 4%, while Lenovo fell more than 7% and PetroChina declined 3% as oil prices slid. Taiwan's TAIEX was at 41,815.67 as of 04:32 UTC, down 1,133.24 points, or 2.64%, after opening 282.78 points lower at 42,666.13 and falling below the 42,000 mark. MediaTek fell 5.25% and TSMC eased 0.44%. The New Taiwan dollar weakened more than 0.14 against the U.S. dollar, nearing the 33 level. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.10% to 3,689.79 at the midday break, the Shenzhen Component Index gained 1.44% to 11,498.77 and the CSI 300 added 0.36% to 4,115.93, as of 04:32 UTC.

The Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress has put considerable political pressure on Trump and has also brought new uncertainty to cryptocurrencies, which had previously benefited from Republican policy support.

Yields on short-term debt issued by Chinese banks fell to a record low after the People's Bank of China made the overnight repo rate its primary policy anchor, a shift markets viewed as de facto easing, according to Bloomberg.

The Democratic Party won a landslide victory in the US midterm elections, sweeping both houses of Congress and unleashing a long-awaited blue wave. However, the fate of A-shares and US stocks is not the same.

Arthur Hayes: Every major central bank, monetary and fiscal authority will print money to avert a crisis. That would be incredibly lucrative for Bitcoin and crypto hodler. But be patient.

Anthropic, OpenAI, IPO, computing power, financing. Anthropic's IPO has not been withdrawn, but the shrinking trillion-dollar AI bubble has scared Wall Street. Golden Finance: The largest IPO in tech history, is the bubble about to burst?

Bitcoin recovered above $80,000 following the Democrats' victory in the US midterm elections, but the political shift could complicate the cryptocurrency industry's efforts to secure clearer federal regulations.

OpenAI has added GIF creation to ChatGPT with its new Images 2.6 release, letting users turn a prompt or photo into an animation they can speed up, edit frame by frame and share. The update, launched on 4 November 2026, also brings faster image generation and two new developer models, though some accounts have yet to receive the GIF feature.

Regardless of who is in power, the US government will not stop printing money, which foreshadows a significant rise in the prices of various assets. Gold and Bitcoin are the most obvious examples, while money printing also benefits stocks and other major asset classes.

Analysis of the Democratic Party's sweep of both houses of Congress in the 2026 US midterm elections and its global strategic impact.

Binance, Bybit, hacker attack, cryptocurrency, North Korean hackers launch a fierce attack on the crypto world. Golden Finance: The openness and freedom of the crypto world always comes at a price, with someone silently bearing the consequences.

OpenAI announced its acquisition of Pierre, stating that the acquisition is to accelerate a vision of making Codex a place where teams build software together with AI.