The Daily Index — Monday, November 2, 2026 · TLDR Index

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SAMSUNG FOUNDRY CONFIRMS HYPERSCALER 2NM ORDERS AS FIRST GAA CHIPS ENTER PRODUCTION

Samsung confirmed new 2nm GAA chip production contracts with major cloud hyperscalers and AI companies during its Q3 2026 earnings call, marking a significant step in its foundry recovery. This move comes amid competition from TSMC, with Samsung emphasizing its first-to-market GAA transistor technology and improved yield rates. Samsung's foundry division remains unprofitable but expects future gains as it ramps up production and opens its US fab, aiming to capture market demand amidst supply constraints.

techtimes.com · 16 min

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SATLYT TAKES ANOTHER STEP TOWARD TURNING SATELLITES INTO SPACE DATA CENTERS

Satlyt's software successfully tested to distribute computing tasks among orbiting satellites on a NASA-funded project with the University of Houston. The software, already on three satellites, uses available compute resources and communication capacity to manage tasks, aiming to enhance data processing efficiency in space. Future plans include broader validation and integration, ultimately enabling developers to create space applications without rebuilding infrastructure for every mission.

techcrunch.com · 4 min

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SLAC CONFIRMS ALTERMAGNETISM IN MANGANESE TELLURIDE WITH POLARIZED X-RAYS, A MAGNET TYPE AIMED AT SPINTRONIC MEMORY

Altermagnets are a third kind of magnet alongside ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Like antiferromagnets, they have no net magnetization, so stray fields can't flip them, but they can still carry spin-polarized currents, so their data can be read out. A SLAC-lead team shot polarized X-rays at maganese telluride and saw a directional signal that a conventional antiferromagnet can't produce. This work, published in Science, targets a usecase within spintronic memory.

www6.slac.stanford.edu · 4 min

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INTEL'S FAB 28 EXPLOSION COSTS ABOUT $600M IN REVENUE AND SQUEEZES 10NM XEON SUPPLY INTO 2027

On October 14, an explosion at Intel's Fab 28 in Kiryat Gat, Israel, killed two workers and halted the plant for about two weeks. The fab makes 10nm-class server chips such as Xeon 6 I/O dies, and Intel expects about $600 million in lost revenue across Q4 and Q1. Wafers take roughly six months to finish, so scrapped work delays supply into 2027 on top of an already tight server market.

tomshardware.com · 4 min

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CHINA'S EMBODIED AI STARTUPS RAISED $13B IN H1 2026, FIVE TIMES LAST YEAR, AS ROBOT MAKERS SHIFT FROM MOVES TO BRAINS

After years of building humanoids that run, dance, and backflip, Chinese companies are pouring money into the AI that would make them useful across more jobs, meaning software that lets robots understand their surroundings and learn new tasks without per-job programming. Chinese embodied AI companies raised 93.5 billion yuan across 322 deals in the first half of 2026, five times a year earlier, with funding increasingly going to specialist robot-intelligence developers as well as manufacturers.

japantimes.co.jp · 3 min

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ALTMAN SAYS HOME AI INFERENCE WASTES SCARCE DRAM AND THE CLOUD IS THE BETTER USE OF IT

Sam Altman says that with silicon capacity constrained, it's poor global allocation for individuals to each hold a slice of the world's limited DRAM to run local models, and that utilization is highest in the cloud.

futurism.com · 3 min

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NASA ASKS INDUSTRY ABOUT REBOOSTING, SERVICING, OR DEORBITING HUBBLE BY 2032

NASA issued a Request for Information asking industry about reboosting Hubble to a higher orbit, servicing it, or disposing of it with a controlled reentry.

science.nasa.gov · 3 min

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TOYOTA AND WAYMO ADVANCE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING COLLABORATION FOR SAFER STREETS AND FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT FOR ALL

Toyota and Waymo will test autonomous Toyota bZ4X vehicles in Japan by 2027 and expand to the UK and other markets later.

waymo.com · 3 min

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K2 SPACE TARGETS 100 SATELLITES A YEAR AND SAYS A 165 KW SATELLITE CAN HOST ONE COMPUTE RACK

K2 Space's CEO says it wants to build about 100 high-power satellites a year, after a $500 million round at roughly a $7 billion valuation, and that its 165 kW satellite is the size where hosting a compute rack becomes possible.

satellitetoday.com · 4 min