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TREE NEWS update: Gree Electric has won a centralized procurement tender for temperature-control equipment from China Mobile and China Tower, with the order value exceeding 300 million yuan. The winning products include air-cooled fluorine pump room air conditioners, chilled-water inter-column air conditioners, hybrid room air conditioners and base-station air conditioners, providing integrated cooling solutions for data centers and telecom base stations nationwide.

TREE NEWS update: Explosions and the sound of warplanes were heard in Yemen’s capital Sanaa around midday on the 7th local time, with reports saying the Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes on the city. No further details on casualties or targets were immediately available.

TREE NEWS update: Iran’s navy said an oil tanker struck a mine in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. No further details on the vessel, its cargo, casualties or the extent of damage were immediately provided. The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most important oil chokepoint, and any incident there carries implications for global crude flows.

TREE NEWS update: Pablo Hernández de Cos, one of two potential successors to ECB President Christine Lagarde, said monetary policymakers must stay vigilant about inflation risks from high energy prices. In an interview published Saturday, de Cos said second-round effects have not yet materialized, but hopes that the conflict would end quickly and energy prices would fall have not been realized. He said any rate hike should come only if central banks see risks to price stability in the latest data.

TREE NEWS update: The European Space Agency announced that an international research team using the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected anomalous hydrogen chloride gas distribution and surface fissures in the Arsia Mons region of Mars. The findings suggest that the Martian interior may still retain heat capable of supporting volcanic activity.

TREE NEWS reports: A whale withdrew another 3,300 ETH, worth about $7.42 million, from Binance, bringing cumulative withdrawals over the past six days to 13,080 ETH, or roughly $29.97 million. The transfers were tracked on November 7.

TREE NEWS reports: The US government is considering issuing an executive order that would designate certain nonprofit organizations as linked to terrorism, immediately suspending their tax-exempt status and potentially severely impairing their operations, people familiar with the matter said. The proposed order, reported on the 6th, would target groups accused of terrorist associations.

TREE NEWS reports: Wintermute has earned $222 million in cumulative profit on Hyperliquid, with current open positions of $125.87 million, of which $115.76 million is short, on-chain data shows. The market maker’s 30-day profit stands at $18.83 million, with $3.46 million in unrealized gains. Its largest short positions are ETH at $26.16 million, BTC at $19.79 million, HYPE at $15.23 million and SOL at $12.72 million.

TREE NEWS update: The United Nations Development Programme is setting up a center in Shanghai aimed at sharing China’s successful development experience, UNDP Administrator said, as the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda enters a critical phase amid multiple global challenges. The remarks came as China and UNDP cooperation marked new progress.

TREE NEWS update: Blockstream said in its Nov. 5 third-quarter business update that Bitcoin can prepare for future quantum computer attacks by adopting new digital signature schemes. The team’s August report compared three lattice-based options — Dilithium, Falcon and Hawk — and concluded that Falcon-1024 offers the best balance of data size, verification speed and maturity of its security foundation. “If we had to choose a lattice-based signature scheme for Bitcoin today, we would pick Falcon-1024,” the researchers said.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Commerce and Austria’s Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism co-hosted the first meeting of the China-Austria Entrepreneurs Committee in Beijing on Nov. 6. Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and Austrian Minister Hartmansdorfer addressed the meeting, which drew more than 100 representatives from the two countries’ business and political circles.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said on November 6 that the 2026 US midterm elections will not affect the company’s IPO plans, reaffirming its goal to list next year. Friar said the team is built to handle various scenarios and sees nothing materially impacting the company. She added that OpenAI will not stop investing in large data centers, which it is reframing as “compute campuses,” and that third-quarter revenue rose 70% with enterprise sales doubling.

TREE NEWS update: Apple’s research team submitted a paper titled “Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation” to the arXiv preprint platform on November 4, disclosing an autonomous humanoid robot control system called HALO. The system was deployed on Unitree Robotics’ G1 humanoid robot to validate that motions learned in simulation could be executed in unfamiliar real-world rooms, achieving an average success rate of 91%. The work calls on the Qwen model in testing.

TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek’s web and API services were partially interrupted for 45 minutes on Nov. 7, from 15:11 to 15:56, with users reporting a “server temporarily unavailable” message. The company’s official status page confirmed the issue has been resolved and services restored.

TREE NEWS update: Yemen’s Houthi movement said on the 7th that Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit the Bani Hashish area east of the capital Sanaa, causing multiple casualties. The coalition has not yet responded. The Houthis did not give a specific death toll.

TREE NEWS reports: Bets were placed on prediction markets shortly before the release of two recent New York Times/Siena political polls. The activity is being flagged as suspicious, though no further details on the size or direction of the wagers were provided. The report did not identify the platforms involved or the individuals behind the bets.

TREE NEWS update: Several European media outlets, including Sky News in the UK and Nova TV in Bulgaria, received bomb threats on November 6, prompting staff evacuations and disrupting broadcasts. The threatening letters warned of a detonation within 45 minutes, and the sender claimed to be one of the planners behind a series of bomb threats against European flights this week. European security agencies have not yet determined whether the threats against flights and media are linked.

TREE NEWS update: Three senior officials at the US Department of Justice have resigned following the conclusion of the 2026 US midterm elections. The departures come as Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress, leaving the Trump administration in a lame-duck position. Some Justice Department officials are expected to return to higher-paying law firm roles, making the exodus unsurprising, US media analysis said.

TREE NEWS update: SK Group is presenting full-stack AI hardware and software solutions at the 9th China International Import Expo, with member companies including SK Hynix and SK Telecom taking part. SK Hynix is displaying a full range of AI-oriented memory solutions spanning AI data centers, PCs and mobile devices.