WSJ tech columnist and author of How to AI, the no-nonsense guide to what AI actually is and how to actually use it, for the rest of us
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Election Day special Odd Lots:
@tracyalloway and I talk to @NateSilver538 about polls, polling error, predictions, prediction markets, and why everything is pointing to Blue Wave podcasts.apple.com/us/podcasā¦
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This is remarkable. Parts of Floridaās Space Coast have received up to *half a yearās worth of rain* in the last day and a half ā as much as 27 inches in 36 hours, about 50% of an average yearās rainfall (radar estimate through 5 p.m. ET Monday).
The most extreme totals occurred in the stretch from Palm Bay to Valkaria.
What contributed to this:
ā¢ A deep flow of moisture from record-warm waters in the southwestern Atlantic
ā¢ Weak winds through the middle atmosphere, which kept storms slow-moving
ā¢ Background moisture levels boosted by a record El NiƱo, riding the tailwind of a warming climate
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Are you someone who tried an AI agent like Muse but has given up on it? Gotten bored? Tried a few things but no longer have ongoing uses for it? I want to hear from you.....
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Wall Street is starting to call the shots in America's AI buildout:
āThe bar is going higher and higher in terms of proving to lenders that this investment will turn into sufficient revenue"
New from me, @RWhelanWSJ & @jackpitcher20
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33 dairy herds infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus in Washington. 3 cases in Washington, all since mid-October, all exposure to infected cows. We are playing with fire.
A person in Yakima County, Washington, who caught bird flu after being exposed to infected dairy cows has died following a severe illness, county health officials said on Sunday. cnn.com/2026/11/02/health/biā¦
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The price of Halloween candy has shot up 44% in the past 5 years, and the world's cocoa crop is in trouble.
But close to a dozen companies are racing to replace the chocolate in everyone's favorite treats, including with entirely vat-grown cocoa cells.
I tried it.
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Thereās another chip crisis: The world is running out of chocolate. Christopher @Mims explains how two groups of innovators are racing to meet growing demands in the face of the cocoa-bean shortage. š on.wsj.com/4f1SPnb
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A week before North Korean hackers raided Binance, its founder issued a warning: āNo crypto wallet is 100% safe.ā
Then, in about 20 minutes, hackers stole at least $6.3 billion from the worldās largest crypto exchangeāthe biggest heist ever.
As billions drained from Binance wallets, executives in Abu Dhabi and blockchain investigators scrambled to trace the stolen funds.
Stablecoin issuers including Tether, Circle and World Liberty Financial raced to freeze the money before the hackers could move it.
The hackers used Aave, a decentralized lending platform, to borrow ether against stolen stablecoinsāobtaining crypto that couldnāt be frozen.
Roughly $3 billion was frozen, but the hackers still held about $2.4 billion in assets beyond issuersā reach.
Binance says a compromised engineerās laptop may have helped attackers get in, but it has since found other points of breach. The company has pledged to cover all losses.
We reconstructed the frantic scramble behind what investigators say was a North Korean operation:
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Thereās another chip crisis: The world is running out of chocolate. Christopher @Mims explains how two groups of innovators are racing to meet growing demands in the face of the cocoa-bean shortage. on.wsj.com/4BAn4va
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Seems we're dealing with the biggest cyber heist of all time.
More: wsj.com/finance/currencies/bā¦
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āThis spring, the U.S. military faced a similar dilemma in the Middle East. According to a Reuters report that cited Pentagon documents, U.S. forces used Starshield to pilot their drones for strikes against Iran. When SpaceX found out, it raised the price for Starshield service in that region from roughly $5,000 per terminal per month to $25,000. The Pentagon agreed to pay.
In Ukraine, Musk could be attempting a similar upsell.ā
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The economy is booming... so why aren't we feeling it. Wonderful getting to talk with the great @LeilaFadel about GDP, affordability and why people aren't feeling the economy's success.
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A fascinating, deeply-reported tale of Elon Musk's dealings with Ukraine and how he now holds the fate of the country in his hands, from @shustry & @isaacstanbecker: theatlantic.com/national-secā¦
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This is the best piece of journalism published this year. Make sure you read it.
Itās a masterful piece of writing.
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New big turn in our Singapore chip-smuggling investigations: U.S. officials believe the mysterious business woman seen with Jensen Huang in Taiwan in recent years is a Chinese intelligence asset. Pres. Trump was briefed but took no action. nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/poā¦
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SCOOP: Both Moonshot and DeepSeek distilled #OpenAI's Astra when developing their latest models (Kimi K3.1 & V4.1-Flash 1017), after Anthropic intensified the crackdown on distillation recently. w/ @JuroOsawa @QianerLiu via @theinformation theinformation.com/articles/ā¦
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Some personal news: in two weeks I'm joining The @WSJ to cover @Tesla, one of the most incredible (and I mean that in just about every way possible) companies of our time.
It's a dream job, tbh, and I genuinely can't wait to get started.
I'll also be covering the actually-really-happening-now rise and spread of autonomous vehicles, which I expect will be one of the most fascinating technology, business, and labor stories that I'm likely to live through.
I can't wait to go deeper on companies like @Waymo and @Rivian, and see how this all shakes out in the coming years.
If you work/have worked at Tesla or one of these companies, or work in the industry more broadly, *or* just have a fun story to share, I want to talk to you! you can always reach me on Signal: okane.01 š«”
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"Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal governmentās counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s."
Incredible reporting here from @awinston
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Anthropicās āAdjustedā Profit Exposes Wall Streetās Earnings Game
by the peerless Jon Weil
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In a recent NYT debate, Paul Kedrosky claimed that 80% of Anthropic revenues come from 8 companies. He claimed Meta alone makes up 10%.
As Azeem Azhar pointed out, this concentration was declining over time and we'd have an answer in the S-1.
The S-1 tells us:
"No single customer represented more than 10% of our revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2026. Approximately 79% of our revenue came from customers outside of our top five customers for the three months ended September 30, 2026, up from approximately 64% for the three months ended March 31, 2026."
So that resolves it. Concentration is below the levels Kedrosky warned of, and falling.
nytimes.com/2026/10/16/opiniā¦
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