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The head of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, was suspended and police entered its grounds after clashes outside. President Karol Nawrocki cut short a trip to Senegal. Opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński called it an "attack" on the court. #Poland

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it's "quite terrible" that so much of "the world's limited supply of DRAM" sits in personal computers, "used 5% of the time." He said cloud data centers offer "maximum utilization" amid a memory shortage. #OpenAI #SuperIntelligence #AI

World in in last 10 days: 1. A startup claimed it made gold from mercury 2. China's STAR 50 tech index fell 40% from its peak 3. Alphabet lost $482B in a day, its worst ever 4. US and Israel reportedly drew up Iran strike plans 5. Binance lost $6.3B in crypto's biggest hack

Intel's stock plunged about 29% at Friday's open after the US chipmaker forecast Q4 revenue of $15 to $16 billion, below the $17 billion expected. It cited a PC slump and memory shortages. Its CFO expects the slowdown to last at least through the first half of next year. #Stocks

Update. North Korea is now suspected in the Binance hack, CNN reports. #Binance

France and Real Madrid star Kylian Mbappé apologised after a clip spread in China where his favourite meme was a video of his face on "a guy ... I think he was a Chinese dictator," Mao Zedong. Three Chinese brands dropped him and state TV suspended La Liga broadcasts. #Mbappe

Crypto exchange Binance says a hack had an estimated total impact of about $6.3 billion, the biggest crypto theft on record and four times Bybit's $1.5 billion in 2025. About $3 billion has been frozen. Binance says it will cover all losses and "User funds are safe." #Binance

Binance now puts the total impact at about $6.3 billion. That's about four times the previous record, Bybit's $1.5 billion hack in 2025.

Binance now puts the total impact at about $6.3 billion, CoinDesk reports. That's about four times the previous record, Bybit's $1.5 billion hack in 2025.

Binance now puts the total impact at about $6.3 billion, CoinDesk reports. That's about four times the previous record, Bybit's $1.5 billion hack in 2025.

Final results in Israel's election show neither PM Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc (53 seats) nor ex-army chief Gadi Eisenkot's bloc (48) has the 61 needed for a majority. Arab parties won a record 19 seats. Turnout was 77.9%, the highest in decades. #Israel

US food delivery giant DoorDash is buying grocery delivery rival Instacart for $17 billion. Together they account for about 77% of US delivery app spending. The deal is expected to close by mid-2028. #DoorDash #Instacart

Copper exports from Mongolia's Oyu Tolgoi, one of the world's largest copper mines, to China fell about 70% in two weeks due to slowdowns at a Chinese border crossing. Officials blame upgrades there, including facial recognition for truck drivers. #Mongolia #China

Google's parent Alphabet fell about 13% on Thursday, on course to lose nearly $500 billion in market value, its biggest one-day loss ever. Its ad revenue missed estimates and free cash flow was negative $9.1 billion as AI spending climbed. #Alphabet #Google #Stocks

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Apple's maxed-out Mac Studio, priced at $29,799, makes a Tesla seem "quite affordable." The top M5 Ultra model has 512GB of memory and 16TB of storage. The memory upgrade alone costs $15,500. #Apple #Tesla

AI company Anthropic spent $2.75 million on CEO Dario Amodei's personal security in 2025, more than four times his $654,167 salary, its IPO filing shows. Meta spent about $22.5 million protecting CEO Mark Zuckerberg. #Anthropic #AI #SuperIntelligence

Russia's President Vladimir Putin called SpaceX founder Elon Musk "a real genius" as Russia builds its own Starlink rival. Russia has launched over 30 satellites so far, while Starlink has close to 10,000. Putin said "this is just our first step." #Russia #Starlink

Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, has fled to Miami with his family after losing the runoff, despite an order to hand over his passports in a money laundering probe he denies. President Lula said "This act of leaving Brazil is shameful." #Brazil

Solidigm, the US memory chip unit of South Korea's SK Hynix, is in talks over a $45B US chip plant, possibly in New York. In return, it wants approval to ship equipment to upgrade its plant in Dalian, China, saying that would help fund the US site. #Chips #AI