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TREE NEWS update: Kayleen Fulton, a former Ethereum Foundation employee, has filed a lawsuit alleging disability discrimination and retaliation over her firing, naming Vitalik Buterin and Bastian Aue as defendants. The suit claims her termination was linked to the foundation’s mandate. The filing does not specify damages sought.

TREE NEWS update: Fireworks disclosed a security breach that exposed billing data, datasets and incomplete model weights. The company disabled self-service dataset transfers for batch inference and dataset-based training, and said it found no detected impact to its Inference service or Training SDK. The disclosure did not specify the number of affected customers or when the breach occurred.

TREE NEWS update: U.S. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said the appropriations process rests with the chairs of the appropriations committees, Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Sen. Patty Murray, when asked whether he would use the December funding deadline to try to end the war with Iran. Jeffries did not say he would leverage the deadline, pointing instead to the two lawmakers who oversee spending.

TREE NEWS update: House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner cannot be a reliable partner. Jeffries made the remark in a statement, without elaborating on the context or the specific negotiations involved. Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has served as a Middle East envoy.

TREE NEWS update: Metaplanet’s US bitcoin treasury subsidiary Super League purchased an additional 16 BTC ahead of a transaction closing, bringing its total holdings to 31 BTC. Metaplanet is set to gain access to capital markets on two continents soon.

TREE NEWS reports: CBOT soybean futures fell 0.63% to $11.87 a bushel on Monday, Nov. 9, while lean hog futures rose 4.58%. Corn slipped 0.62% to $4.3875 a bushel and wheat lost 0.51% to $5.8750. Live cattle gained 1.02% and feeder cattle 1.95%, while New York cocoa dropped 2.92% to $5,113 a metric ton.

TREE NEWS reports: North Korean hackers created six memecoins on the NEAR blockchain to launder funds stolen in the Binance hack, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said. The hackers used liquidity pools tied to the new tokens to obscure transfers between wallets, Elliptic traced. The tokens were created as part of a laundering operation that moved stolen crypto through NEAR-based DeFi pools.

TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump said this week’s Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi could produce a breakthrough. The talks are scheduled to take place in the UAE capital this week. Trump did not provide further details on the negotiations.

TREE NEWS update: President Donald Trump defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against an impeachment effort, stating that he himself had “won two wars.” The remarks push back on moves to remove Hegseth from his post. No further details on the impeachment action or the wars referenced were provided.

TREE NEWS update: US House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said the minimum wage must be raised, with the issue to be discussed once Democrats take full control of Capitol Hill. He also said immigration issues tied to President Trump require bipartisan cooperation to resolve. Jeffries did not specify a proposed wage level or a timeline for the discussion.

TREE NEWS reports: The ICE U.S. Dollar Index fell 0.61% to a session low of 101.642 in late New York trading on Monday, Nov. 9, extending a decline that began in Asian trading and erasing more than half of Friday’s nonfarm-payrolls-driven gain. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index dropped 0.51% to 1,221.38, trading between 1,226.95 and 1,221.13 during the day.

TREE NEWS update: SpaceX plans to launch the USSF-266 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 16 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The company disclosed the schedule without giving a specific liftoff time or further mission details.

TREE NEWS reports: New York gold futures climbed 2% intraday on Monday, trading at $4,156.45 per ounce. The move extends gains in the precious metal, with the front-month contract holding above the $4,100 level.

TREE NEWS update: Google introduced two new AI chips, the TPU 8tx and the dual-chip TPU 8i Max, aimed at sensitive AI workloads and memory-hungry AI agents. The TPU 8tx is designed to protect privacy-sensitive AI processing, while the TPU 8i Max targets agentic AI systems that require massive memory. The launch positions Google’s in-house silicon as a rival to Nvidia in the AI hardware market.

TREE NEWS reports: Sable Offshore Corp. (SOC) shares fell 58% to around $0.81, after dropping as much as 73.57% in early U.S. trading to an all-time intraday low of $0.51 since its U.S. IPO. The oil and gas company’s sole customer has temporarily stopped purchasing oil. Sable said it will have difficulty repaying its short-term debt.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang plans to attend Semafor’s “Silicon Valley and the World” event, people familiar with the matter said. The appearance would put the head of the world’s most valuable chipmaker at a forum focused on the intersection of technology and global affairs. No date or further details of his participation were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Sen. Elizabeth Warren is setting her sights on oversight of prediction markets and the Trump family’s crypto businesses as she takes the Senate Banking Committee chair. The focus adds a new front to Washington’s scrutiny of digital-asset markets and the president’s family ties to the industry.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic will begin marketing its Nasdaq initial public offering on Tuesday, the company said. The AI developer is moving ahead with a listing on the Nasdaq exchange, with the marketing process for the IPO set to start on Tuesday. No pricing terms or valuation were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Mexico’s headline inflation accelerated to 3.75% year-on-year in the latest data, above the 3.65% forecast, while core inflation rose to 3.80% versus a 3.78% estimate. The figures reinforce expectations that Banxico will hold its benchmark rate steady for an extended period after last Friday’s surprise 25-basis-point cut to 6.25%. The peso gained 0.15% to 18.5785 per dollar and Mexican stocks rose 0.9%.