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TREE NEWS update: Yemen’s Houthi movement said the Saudi-led coalition carried out 85 airstrikes and missile attacks on Yemen in the 24 hours to the evening of the 13th, hitting Lahij, Taiz, Saada, Al-Jawf, Marib and Amran provinces. The group said the total number of coalition airstrikes and missile attacks since the latest escalation began has reached 4,948.

TREE NEWS update: MEGA has disclosed a 20% staff reduction, with departing employees having worked on its chain, wallet and ecosystem. The disclosure comes three days after the company pledged $30 million to product development. The company did not specify how many positions were affected or which teams were hit hardest.

TREE NEWS reports: David Bailey’s Nakamoto sold 184 bitcoin in the third quarter and now holds 4,283 BTC. The company ranks 21st on the Bitcoin 100 list of largest corporate bitcoin holders.

TREE NEWS reports: Two Bitcoin mining rewards from September 2010 were moved minutes apart, transferring coins now worth $6.9 million. The wallets had been dormant for 16 years, and the coins are worth nearly 1.15 million times their original market value.

TREE NEWS reports: WTI December crude futures settled down $0.18, or 0.20%, at $88.56 a barrel, posting a weekly loss of nearly 2.50% for a second straight weekly decline. NYMEX December natural gas settled at $3.23 per million British thermal units, while December gasoline closed at $2.6214 a gallon and December heating oil at $4.2585 a gallon.

TREE NEWS update: Injective has launched a pre-IPO market for Anthropic, allowing users to gain exposure to the AI company before its Nasdaq listing, the protocol said on X. The market is live on Injective and accessible with one click, it said. No listing date or pricing details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: MEGA, formerly the MegaETH Foundation, has cut 20% of its workforce just days after rebranding and announcing a $30 million push into AI inference products. The restructuring follows the organization’s name change and expansion into AI services.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia’s board said the company has not yet selected a permanent successor to CEO Jensen Huang. The statement, issued by the board, addresses the question of long-term leadership succession at the chipmaker. No timeline or candidate was named.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei identified securing compute as one of the company’s biggest challenges, telling JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon that rapid technological change makes it hard to predict how compute needs will translate into business value. Anthropic is seeking to raise up to $64.4 billion in an IPO and $26 billion in a private placement, with committed spending climbing to nearly $901 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is expected to leave his post, though his plans have not been officially announced. Treasury Secretary Bessent or Zervos is expected to succeed him. The timing and confirmation of the departure remain unannounced.

TREE NEWS update: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the US Starshield system used to strike targets on the front line and in Russian-controlled areas has still not returned to high-speed operation. He called the continued restrictions a “bad signal” and said he hopes Ukrainian ministries and US officials will resolve the issue.

TREE NEWS reports: Pennsylvania’s Department of Health reported 305 hospitalized measles cases and seven measles-related deaths in the state as of Nov. 13. The figures were posted on the department’s website. Measles is a highly contagious viral respiratory illness that can cause severe complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis, and can be fatal, especially in young children and immunocompromised people.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase Assets will adjust the index benchmark for its Anthropic pre-IPO perpetual contract at 18:00 Beijing time on November 16, switching from an index based on a $100 billion valuation to a per-share price index based on 1.3116 billion shares. Trading will be temporarily suspended during the adjustment and all unfilled ANTH orders will be canceled. Existing ANTH perpetual positions on Coinbase Markets will be migrated to economically equivalent ANT perpetual positions via zero-fee block trades; ANTH will then be delisted and ANT will open for trading.

TREE NEWS reports: The onshore yuan closed at 6.6726 per dollar at 03:00 Beijing time, up 19 pips from the previous Thursday night session close. Trading volume for the session totaled $52.831 billion.

TREE NEWS reports: The Hang Seng Index main futures contract closed up 0.62% at 23,722 points in the night session. The Hang Seng Tech Index main futures contract closed up 0.97% at 3,836 points.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase Assets will adjust the index benchmark for its Anthropic pre-IPO perpetual futures at 18:00 Beijing time on Nov. 16, switching from a valuation index based on 1 billion shares to a per-share price index based on 1.3116 billion shares. Trading will be temporarily suspended and all open ANTH orders canceled during the adjustment. Existing ANTH positions on Coinbase Markets will be migrated via zero-fee block trades to economically equivalent ANT perpetual contracts, after which ANTH will be delisted and ANT will open for trading.

TREE NEWS update: US lawmakers have requested information from Microsoft regarding a service outage. The request follows an incident that disrupted Microsoft services. No further details on the scope of the outage or the specific lawmakers involved were provided.

TREE NEWS update: The US Supreme Court will consider whether to keep President Donald Trump’s asylum ban at the southern border in place. The court’s review concerns the policy restricting asylum claims at the US-Mexico border. No date for the review was given in the material.

TREE NEWS update: CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said disputes over whether event contracts constitute gambling should not put prediction market executives at risk of jail, accusing states of trying to “lock up” founders. His remarks weigh in on the jurisdictional fight over prediction markets, where state regulators and the federal agency have clashed over oversight of event-based contracts.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia shares were on track Friday for their worst weekly performance in more than 18 months, falling as much as 4.7% and extending the week’s decline to about 14%, the steepest since April 2025. The chipmaker has lost more than $620 billion in market value this week, a loss exceeding the individual market capitalizations of 97% of S&P 500 constituents. The stock has remained under pressure following Jensen Huang’s departure from the company.