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Google Says AI Mode Earns Less. Reddit Says It Sends No Traffic. What AI Answers Are Doing to the Open Web

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Google says fast growth in AI Mode weighed on search revenue because AI Mode earns less. Reddit’s CEO says it drives traffic to nobody. A fact check of the viral ‘Google admits AI Mode hurts revenue, -15%, $500B’ headline against Alphabet’s own documents, then what AI answers do to publishers, forums and shops, what regulators are doing, and what companies and users should do now.
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Intel’s Worst Day Since the 1970s Knocked More Than $11 Billion Off Washington’s Stake. What Went Wrong, and What It Means

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Intel’s stock fell about 29% on Friday, 30 October 2026, its worst day since 1974 by Yahoo Finance’s count, and the US government’s 433.3 million shares lost more than $11 billion in value in a day. From Intel’s filings and earnings call: why a strong quarter came with a weak forecast, how the AI boom lifts its server business while the memory squeeze hits PCs, how Washington’s stake works, and what it means for companies and users. Not investment advice.
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Anthropic Could Go Public With a “Junk” Credit Rating. What That Means, and What Is Actually Confirmed

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The FT reports that Blackstone now expects Anthropic to get a double-B, or “junk”, credit rating after its IPO. Anthropic and Blackstone declined to comment, and no agency has rated it yet. What the S-1 confirms, what junk means in plain words, why a fast-growing AI lab can still look risky to lenders, and what it means for companies and users.
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Google’s First Data Center Satellite Wrote a Haiku. What It Proves About AI in Space, and What It Doesn’t

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Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype ran Gemma 4 on a data center TPU in orbit and sent down a haiku. What flew (four TPUs, about 1 kW, one chip at a time), why AI compute could move to space, what Google’s own paper says a kilowatt in orbit costs, the limits from radiation and heat to repairs and debris, and what it means for companies and users.
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic Back One Opt-Out From AI Training. What It Covers, What It Doesn’t, How to Set It

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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic say they will honor one shared robots.txt rule against AI training, from an IETF draft published on 30 October. Anthropic says it has started, OpenAI aims for the coming months, Microsoft starts on 1 February 2027 and Google in 2027. What the signal covers, what it does not (AI answers, crawling, payment), whether it is binding, and how site operators set it.
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