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Alphabet shares (GOOGL, Google's parent company) were priced at $293.52 in premarket trading on November 9 - 3.07% above Friday's close of $284.78. The reason is the announcement of two new systems on its own TPU chips, which Bloomberg called a escalation of the fight with Nvidia.
On November 8, Nvidia's board of directors announced an independent review concerning company head Jensen Huang. US exchanges are closed on Sunday, so crypto derivatives and OTC venues were the first to reprice the stock.
Block (Jack Dorsey's payment company, founded by the Twitter co-founder, owns the Cash App with Bitcoin purchases) has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to pay $764M and close the case over weak anti-money laundering controls. This is more than the company's entire quarterly profit of $566M.
Kraken has restricted access to some accounts while an investigation is underway: assets allegedly stolen from one of the crypto projects in Europe arrived on the platform. The amount in question is more than $133 million; the name of the affected project is not disclosed.
Michael Selig, chairman of the CFTC (the US derivatives market regulator), in an interview with CNBC on October 30 called the theft from Binance an argument in favor of federal rules for crypto exchanges operating outside the US.
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin suspended deposits and withdrawals on Monday, November 2, after its wallets were emptied across ten blockchains at once. Loss estimates from specialized security firms exceed $40M.
On November 2, it became known that the Turkish regulator has opened a case against Google (the service belongs to the holding company Alphabet, ticker GOOGL) on suspicion of violating competition rules in the field of artificial intelligence.
