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Customers in Australia and New Zealand who preordered Apple's PROLED MacBook Pro, OLED iPad mini, M6 MacBook Pro or M6 iMac started receiving them on Friday, November 6. The 14-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch at $3,399, while the OLED iPad mini starts at $699. Australia is the first country where buyers can pick up the new products at an Apple retail location.

A few hundred young people dressed in black have clashed with police across France, Italy, Spain and Albania, smashing property and setting cars and buildings on fire. Political science professor Francis Dupuis-Deri said the movement began in Germany in the 1980s, drawing on the autonomia social movement. Italian MEP Mario Furore said Milan's looting involved very young people, many of them minors, and called it copycat behaviour.

Perplexity has rolled out Teammates, always-on agents that take on multiple roles in a workspace and pull in projects, skills and memory from the Perplexity tools users already use. Teammates can perform different jobs simultaneously, and users can track their progress in the Perplexity app or interact with them in Slack. The feature requires the $200-a-month Max plan, which makes Perplexity's version much more expensive than OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet.

Japan's Nikkei slumped almost 6% and South Korea's KOSPI fell 6.7%, while Taiwan's TAIEX dropped 4.5%, as investors dumped tech stocks. The rout followed more than $3.2tn wiped off Wall Street, where the Nasdaq fell 5.5% and the Dow dropped 1,833.06 points, or 3.44%. SanDisk slumped 22%, Micron and AMD each lost 17%, and Nvidia fell over 9%, while CMC Markets' Christopher Forbes called it 'a bit of a disaster'.

Asian stock markets tied to the artificial intelligence boom plunged on Friday, November 6, 2026, after an overnight tech sell-off on Wall Street, Reuters reported from Tokyo. The Korea Exchange imposed a circuit breaker in morning trading after the KOSPI fell 8.7% at one point. Investors fretted about possible delays to data center construction following a sweeping Democratic victory in the U.S. midterm elections.

On Thursday, flights from 16 countries, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Spain and Denmark, were diverted, delayed or given extra security checks after a wave of alerts. The alerts continued on Friday, with at least 17 flights disrupted by midday GMT and Prague airport confirming nine were affected. Security inspections have so far found no explosives or suspicious materials on board, and no passenger has reported being harmed.

Russia and the United States are moving to block proposals to negotiate a legally binding set of rules on autonomous weapons at a UN conference in Geneva from 16 to 20 November, attended by 128 countries. A diplomatic retreat starting Friday will show the scale of opposition, according to the report. Anna Hehir of the Future of Life Institute said states have never been closer to a global agreement on AI weapons, warning that some may back endless discussions on voluntary measures.

Anthropic is holding firm on its Super Bowl pledge to keep its chatbot free of ads, and its recent IPO filing did not mention selling ads at all. By contrast, OpenAI has over 100,000 customers advertising in ChatGPT since ads debuted there in February. Koah Labs CEO Nic Baird says AI-composed ads generate double the clicks, though users click on about 3 percent of Koah's ads.

Japan's Nikkei index slumped 6 percent, its deepest one-day drop since April 2025, as selling spread across Asia. Indices in South Korea and Taiwan plunged more than 8 percent after the opening bell before cutting losses, after the Nasdaq had sunk 5.5 percent and wiped $3 trillion off S&P 500 firms. Dong Baozhen of Lingtong Shengtai told Reuters that AI share prices had been built on rosy illusions about the future.

Binance said the record $6.3bn (£4.7bn) theft began when an engineer was lured into bogus job interviews through a legitimate job-hunting platform. Hackers then used his compromised computer and an internal AI tool to take control of two other engineers' laptops. Binance suspended withdrawals globally until Sunday and said 98% of impacted token assets had been replenished as of Saturday.

European markets opened lower on Friday as a rout in US tech shares spread across the Atlantic after the Democrats' midterm victory raised fears of an AI industry slowdown. The FTSE 100 fell 1.5%, or 166 points, to 10,615, while Japan's Nikkei 225 sank 6% and South Korea's Kospi tumbled more than 8%. On Thursday the Nasdaq slumped 5.5% in its worst day in 19 months, led by a 22% drop at SanDisk.

OpenAI announced today that its new cybersecurity model, ChatGPT Cyber, will go to the top tier of users in its Daybreak Red program. The company said the same model had scanned Linux kernel code and found 948 potential issues, plus 81 novel vulnerabilities in Firefox. Max Justicz, co-founder and CTO of Charge Robotics, said GPT 5.6 Sol found a severe Ubuntu server vulnerability in two hours, and he spent about $5,000 on subscriptions and tokens.

Equinix says its smaller data centers could be less exposed to possible U.S. construction restrictions, according to Asia-Pacific president Cyrus Adaggra. Its facilities typically range from 30 to 60 megawatts, versus the roughly 100-megawatt threshold U.S. proposals generally target. BMI says about 53% of projected U.S. hyperscaler growth sits in states whose newly elected governors could impose limits.

Bob McNally, CEO of Rapidan Energy Group, told CNBC the U.S. is likely to resume military action against Iran in coming days. He put the odds of renewed fighting at 80% and expects Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude futures to rise above $100 a barrel. The benchmarks are currently trading at about $100 and $91, respectively. Oil spiked above $100 before the midterms, when U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal Washington had carried out limited strikes.

India's benchmark Nifty 50 has risen nearly 9% over the last month, outperforming markets with heavy AI exposure such as the U.S., Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Foreign investors have turned net buyers over the past four days, investing over $2.3 billion, according to NSDL data. JPMorgan's Rajiv Batra said that if foreign long-only investors neutralize their underweight in Indian equities, this could translate into potential net inflows of around $115 billion.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 5.5% on Thursday, losing an estimated $2.5tn (£1.9tn), after US midterm elections raised concerns about slower AI development. Nvidia shares slid more than 9%, AMD and Micron each dropped more than 17%, and SpaceX and Tesla fell 8% and nearly 11%. The sell-off spread to Asia on Friday, when Japan's Nikkei closed down 6% and South Korea's Kospi ended down 6%.

Asian stock markets fell sharply on Tuesday after heavy losses on Wall Street, as investors dumped tech shares on fears about AI investment. Japan's Nikkei slumped almost 6%, South Korea's KOSPI fell 6.7% and Taiwan's TAIEX dropped 4.5%. The Nasdaq tech index slumped 5.5% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,833.06 points, or 3.44%, on Monday, with more than $3.2tn wiped off the US stock market. Christopher Forbes of CMC Markets called the action 'a bit of a disaster'.

Developing countries' debt rose to a record $9.4tn (£7tn) last year, with the poorest paying the highest interest rates since the late 1980s, according to the World Bank's annual International Debt Report. The 5.5% increase was the fastest in four years, driven by a rapid rise in private sector lending, and the poorest countries faced an average rate of 8.2% on new borrowing. Chief statistician Haishan Fu said access to finance had improved, but its price had not.

Asian markets plunged on Friday, 6 November 2026, tracking a sell-off in Western stocks. Investors feared that Democrats' US midterm victory could bring tighter AI regulation and greater resistance to data centre expansion. Reporting from Beijing, Al Jazeera said investors were reacting to possible tougher scrutiny of data centre construction and the AI industry.

Japanese and South Korean shares tumbled on Friday after a tech selloff on Wall Street, with Seoul's Kospi sliding as much as 8.8% and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 down 5.5% in early trade. The Kospi drop triggered a circuit breaker that halted trading for 20 minutes, while Taiwan's TAIEX fell more than 8%. On Thursday the Nasdaq fell 5.52%, shedding as much as $2.5 trillion (roughly €2.23 trillion), as investors grew anxious about AI spending plans.