US Clears Nvidia H200 Chip Sales to Chinese Firm as House Seeks Brief
Semiconductor export oversight, consumer brand impersonation, and wireless network architecture dominated technology disclosures on…
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Go.AI Raises $85M Series A as OpenAI Tests Wet-Lab Biology AI
Enterprise and applied AI platforms recorded major funding and benchmarking milestones on November 7, 2026.
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OpenAI Raises $11B at $1.25T Valuation as AI Token Growth Moderates
OpenAI has secured $11 billion in new funding at a $1.25 trillion valuation toward a $20 billion round, while Meta's Muse reaches 10…
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Nvidia Unveils Vera CPU as Claude Adds Plaid and OpenAI Eyes 2027 IPO
Nvidia unveiled its Vera CPU architecture engineered for autonomous software agents, delivering 1.6x more agents per watt than the…
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Dropbox Buys Tigris for $350M as Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Dropbox has agreed to acquire cloud storage startup Tigris Data—which raised a $25 million Series A last year—for $350 million in a…
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Agility Goes Public at $465M as Qualcomm Eyes $15B Data Center Shift
Humanoid robotics developer Agility is going public through a special purpose acquisition company reverse-merger raising $465 million…
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Global Peace Forum Examines AI Risks as Paxton Clears 4.95-MW Solar
Norway House in Minneapolis will host the inaugural Global Peace Forum on November 19, 2026, with Thomas Friedman examining artificial…
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OpenAI Buys Pierre as Meta Acquires Conductor and Apple Tests Siri
OpenAI announced plans to acquire Git tooling maker Pierre Computer Company, rolled out Images 2.6 animated GIF creation across…
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OpenAI Expands Daybreak Red and Buys Pierre Amid APT29 and CISA Alerts
OpenAI launched Daybreak Red with GPT-5.6 Cyber in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and announced the acquisition of Pierre Computer Company as…
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Anthropic Unveils FlashProve as AI Data Centers Deploy Jet Turbines
Anthropic introduced FlashProve, an open-source cryptographic system for provable AI inference without exposing private model weights,…
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OpenAI Scales Hardware AI as DeepMind and Palantir Post Gains
OpenAI reported a 23-fold increase in hardware team token usage since February alongside GPT-6 Astra collaborations with Chip Ganassi…
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Heimstaden Scales OpenAI Codex as NVIDIA Expands Smart City AI
Residential real estate operator Heimstaden reached 50% employee adoption of ChatGPT Enterprise within 3 months and used OpenAI Codex…
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Anthropic Posts $17B Quarterly Revenue as OpenAI Debuts Pando
Anthropic reported $17 billion in Q3 2026 revenue, a $23.3 billion net loss, and $895.4 billion in compute commitments through 2032…
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OpenAI Debuts LifeVal and Qodo Plugin as Publishers Sue Brave
OpenAI introduced its LifeVal benchmark—built from a survey of 3,995 respondents—to measure ChatGPT’s performance on everyday tasks…
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OpenAI Debuts Grid Program as Omen AI Buys Aquatic Labs for $16M
OpenAI launched its Grid Protectors Program in Georgia with up to 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand response projected to save…
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Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots Herald Rise of the Agentic Web
Twenty-five years after Tim Berners-Lee proposed the Semantic Web in 2001, autonomous AI agents including Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots,…
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Family’s Love of LEGO Brings BrickRealm Convention to Santa Clara
The inaugural BrickRealm LEGO fan convention debuts Halloween weekend, October 31 and November 1, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Santa…
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Livermore’s Bankhead Theater Unveils November and December Lineup
Livermore Valley Arts has announced the November and December 2026 holiday season at the Bankhead Theater on First Street, featuring…
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Fremont Art Association Hosts Rachel Maple Chinese Painting Demo
The Fremont Art Association will host guest artist Rachel Maple on Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at its gallery at 37697…
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Fremont Cultural Arts Council Names Moon Writing Contest Winners
More than 150 visitors at Half Price Books in the Fremont Hub cast 581 individual votes in the Fremont Cultural Arts Council’s “Living…
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Chabot Space & Science Center Hosts Third Annual Science Drag Show
Chabot Space & Science Center hosted its third annual space-themed show “Science is a Drag!”
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San Ramon, Danville, and East Bay Cities Set 2026 Tree Lightings
Communities across San Ramon, Danville, Martinez, Fairfield, Dublin, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Concord, and Pleasanton have announced…
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Fruitvale Día de los Muertos Festival Set for Nov. 1 in Oakland
Oakland’s annual Día de los Muertos Festival returns to Fruitvale Transit Village on Sunday, Nov. 1, featuring a 34-foot La Catrina…
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Children’s Fairyland Stages Indigenous Puppet Show Through Nov. 29
Children’s Fairyland in Oakland has partnered with the urban Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to present the puppet show…
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Pleasanton Library Van Zippy Visits Ridgeview Commons Nov. 5
The City of Pleasanton Library and Recreation Department outreach vehicle, Zippy, will visit Ridgeview Commons Senior Community on…
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Tri-Valley Veterans Day parade and concert set for Nov. 8
The 29th Annual Tri-Valley Veterans Day Parade and Concert will take place Sunday, Nov. 8, starting at 1 p.m. at Veterans Memorial…
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Livermore's Civic Center trunk-or-treat returns Oct. 21
Free community Halloween celebration gathers civic agencies, emergency crews, and local families for costumed vehicle exhibits and…
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Northern California Grower Crowns 2,471-Pound Champion at 53rd Half Moon Bay Weigh-Off
Master horticulturists and autumn crowds celebrate colossal gourd victory in coastal San Mateo County ahead of Art and Pumpkin…
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Registration opens for Dublin Trail Challenge, Sept. 7 to Oct. 11
Registration remains active for the 2026 Dublin Trail Challenge, an energetic community initiative running from September 7 through…
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Great Elephant Migration opens in downtown Livermore, Oct. 10-Dec. 6
Downtown Livermore will transform into an open-air wildlife sanctuary from October 10 through December 6, 2026, as The Great Elephant…
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Pleasanton's cultural celebration series starts with Diwali Oct. 17
Diwali runs 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Pleasanton Senior Center, 5353 Sunol Blvd.
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Dublin Trail Challenge adds a 65-mile cycling option this fall
Participants have until October 11 to log 26 miles on foot or 65 miles by bike. Registration closes October 5.
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October in Livermore: kulintang at the library and three author talks
A five-instrument kulintang ensemble performs free at the Civic Center Library on Oct. 25 for Filipino American History Month.
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Dublin Senior Center celebrates Senior Center Month with four September events
September is National Senior Center Month, and Dublin has four dates on the calendar: coffee and donuts, an after-hours movie night, a…
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Dublin Senior Center celebrates Senior Center Month with four September events
September is National Senior Center Month, and Dublin has four dates on the calendar: coffee and donuts, an after-hours movie night, a…
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Dublin marks National Senior Center Month with four September dates
September is National Senior Center Month, and Dublin has four dates on the calendar: coffee and donuts, an after-hours movie night, a…
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Lyle Lovett headlines the Bankhead's opening night fundraiser Saturday
Livermore Valley Arts opens its 2026-27 season with its largest fundraiser of the year: an evening with Lyle Lovett, a live auction…
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September in Livermore: free library month and the Bankhead's opener
Diana Gameros plays the Civic Center Library free on Sept. 27, part of a month of free library programs.
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August in Livermore: onstage jazz, Jane Lynch and a magic show
Club Bankhead opens Aug. 7 with jazz played to an audience seated onstage. Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery follow Aug.
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June in Livermore: a new Filipino film festival and a chef contest
The inaugural Arte Film Festival screens three features and two Pixar shorts at the Bankhead on June 7, from $20.
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Five companies take Innovation Tri-Valley GameChangers awards
Pac-12, Inertia Fusion Energy, SavvyMoney, Calyxo and Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley are honored Thursday evening at The Roundhouse…
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May in Livermore: stage, gallery and Mother's Day weekend
The Glass Menagerie runs May 1-3 in the Bankhead's Stage Door Lounge, with the audience onstage.
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