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TREE NEWS update: Anthropic agreed in late September to purchase 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty generators from San Antonio, Texas-based equipment supplier OnePWR Solutions for $3.4 billion, securing a procurement commitment that includes the engineering and construction capacity needed to install them. Anthropic did not acquire OnePWR itself, and no OnePWR employees moved to Anthropic. OnePWR ordered the generators from Caterpillar two years ago but needed financing to complete the transaction.

TREE NEWS reports: China Securities (CSC) kept a long-term bullish stance on North American and domestic AI compute supply chains in its 2027 communications sector strategy, noting OpenAI and Anthropic together reached about $124 billion in annualized recurring revenue by end-September 2026. The four major North American cloud service providers spent roughly $208.7 billion in Q3 2026, up 84.2% year on year. As of Oct. 30, the Shenwan communications index traded at a PE-TTM in the 60.45% five-year and 34.93% ten-year percentile, signaling valuation premiums have been digested.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said a third oil tanker exploded and caught fire on the 8th after attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz on an unauthorized route, bringing the total to three tankers since early that morning. The IRGC Navy said its Strait of Hormuz rules have been communicated repeatedly to all vessels and that any ship violating them by using unauthorized routes will face the same outcome.

TREE NEWS reports: Onchain investigator ZachXBT said Canada is one of the three worst-regulated jurisdictions globally, citing weak legal enforcement and rampant abuse. His Nov. 8 Telegram post followed the U.S. Treasury’s Nov. 6 sanctions on eight Canadian over-the-counter brokers, including Nia Nations (NNCE) and Million Exchange (MillionEx). ZachXBT said he had flagged the two to Treasury five months earlier, alleging they were used to launder crypto tied to violent home invasions and extortion.

TREE NEWS update: A senior Houthi source said Saudi Arabia and Syria recently agreed on a military cooperation arrangement involving the deployment of ground forces to the Saudi-Yemen border and inside Yemen to support Yemeni government forces. The source said the arrangement was reached during Syrian transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia, without disclosing details. Syria’s state news agency cited a Syrian diplomatic source denying any basis for reports of Syrian troops being sent to Yemen.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on April 8 that a US plan to form an “Iron Gate” task force cannot achieve its goal of applying economic pressure on Iran. IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini called the plan “nothing but wordplay,” saying Washington cannot use it to exert massive economic pressure and that Iran’s economy will not collapse.

TREE NEWS reports: Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is considering a run for president in 2028, and is also weighing a Senate bid in the same cycle. The dual consideration puts a prominent swing-state Republican in the mix for both the White House and a Senate seat.

TREE NEWS update: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said on X that he disagrees with the intense emotional reaction against the anti-data-center movement, arguing algorithmic progress means tasks possible in two years with more and larger data centers could be done within four years, or sooner, using existing facilities. He said the world needs time to strengthen defenses against cybersecurity and emerging biological risks, and that slowing compute hyperscale expansion overall likely does more good than harm, without relying on doomerism or recursive self-improvement arguments.

TREE NEWS reports: A suspected hacker moved 1,670 ETH, worth about $3.73 million, out of Tornado Cash and deposited it into Hyperliquid over a 20-hour period, then sold the entire amount and swapped it into ZEC, on-chain tracker Lookonchain reported on Nov. 8. The ETH was fully liquidated on the exchange before being converted to ZEC.

TREE NEWS update: The University of Cambridge has developed a new broad-spectrum avian influenza vaccine designed using artificial intelligence that showed protective efficacy against multiple bird flu variants in animal trials, the university said. The candidate, developed with a university spin-off company, uses AI to analyze global virus gene sequence data and design “superantigens” carrying common antigenic features. Professor Jonathan Heeney said the vaccine aims to provide broad protection against evolving variants, and AI tools can greatly accelerate vaccine design.

TREE NEWS update: Linyi authorities in Shandong issued a risk warning on November 8 about the “Global Stock Exchange” project, which lures investors with promises of high returns to buy virtual currencies. Officials urged participants to exit as soon as possible to avoid losses. The warning also cited a notice from the People’s Bank of China and other departments stating that virtual currencies do not have the same legal status as fiat currency.

TREE NEWS reports: Address 0x45d2…4029 ranked among the top five on Hyperliquid’s 24-hour profit leaderboard, earning $2.13 million in the past day and $72.85 million cumulatively, with current positions worth $145 million. The other top-five entries are market makers or asset management institutions, making the address the only individual trader in the top five.

TREE NEWS update: An administrative building belonging to Saudi Aramco in Riyadh was hit by debris in an “attack attempt” on the 8th, causing damage but no casualties. Witnesses in Riyadh’s financial district reported a visible gap blown in the building and white smoke rising from it.

TREE NEWS reports: Dutch police detained between 150 and 200 people for trespassing after protesters broke into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam. The detentions followed the occupation of the site, police said. The protest targeted the construction of the Microsoft facility.

TREE NEWS update: Russia’s central bank has finalized rules allowing trading platforms to offer bitcoin, ether and USDT to retail investors from Nov 17. Non-qualified investors may buy at most 300,000 rubles ($3,700) of crypto per year through each intermediary, while qualified investors face no cap; all must pass a mandatory test. The Moscow Exchange plans to launch crypto trading on Dec 1, and direct person-to-person crypto transactions will be banned from July 1, 2027.

TREE NEWS update: The US will release October CPI on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 21:30 Beijing time, with the Cleveland Fed model projecting a 0.24% monthly rise in headline CPI and 0.21% in core. October PPI follows on Friday, Nov. 13. About 10 Fed officials, including Waller, Williams and Jefferson, are scheduled to speak, and LSEG data puts the market-implied probability of a 25-basis-point Fed hike in December at about 80%. CoreWeave reports Nov. 10, with Nebius and Cisco on Nov. 12.

TREE NEWS reports: A single wallet swapped approximately 1.437 million TRX for about 460,700 USDT on SunSwap, the decentralized exchange on TRON. The trade moved roughly $460,300 in value at the time of execution. The transaction was executed on November 8.

TREE NEWS update: Binance co-founder Yi He warned users not to deposit funds tied to Myanmar business proceeds, Cambodia collections, discounted USDT from friends, or money routed through others’ accounts. She said Binance applies global compliance standards and its compliance team can easily identify such funds, with related addresses flagged before transfer. Once deposited, law enforcement may freeze the assets, and Binance has no authority to unfreeze them.

TREE NEWS update: Gnosis Pay’s data breach exposed full payment card numbers, expiry dates, CVV codes, names, addresses, linked wallet addresses, emails, phone numbers and nationalities, with some users’ IBAN and BIC banking details also leaked. The company said it detected unauthorized access to its legacy consumer card system on Nov. 3 and began containment within two hours, adding that user funds and the enterprise platform were unaffected. Gnosis Pay has rotated credentials and made 3D Secure mandatory for all online card payments until the system is retired on Dec. 20, without disclosing the number of affected users.