AMD's Q3 reads like the quarter the second pole in AI compute became real. Revenue hit $13.38B, up 45% year over year, and Data Center nearly doubled to $8.55B — now 64% of all sales. Q4 is guided to about $17B, and for 2027 management guides revenue growth above 80%, with Data Center AI revenue more than doubling. Those 2027 numbers are guidance, not results.
The other side of the ledger: free cash flow was just $554M, down from $1.53B a year ago — a 4% margin versus 17% — while inventory jumped roughly $3B in a single quarter to feed the Helios ramp. The growth is real; the cash conversion has not caught up yet.
So is AI compute becoming a two-player market — or does the moat still live in the software stack rather than the silicon?
Binance's zero-knowledge proof is done — a day ahead of schedule.
The full proof for the Oct 31, 00:00 UTC snapshot landed on Nov 2. Holders of ten tokens — BTC, ETH, USDT, BNB, SOL, USDC, XRP, USD1, RLUSD and ZEC — can now verify for themselves that their balances are backed at least 1:1.
Coverage is now ~95% of the stolen amount, up from 90%. The remaining ~5% sits outside those ten tokens, in less-liquid assets Binance is still sourcing.
Phase two of withdrawals also started today, Nov 3 at 04:00 UTC, reopening more networks and assets progressively, each after its own checks.
Two limits worth keeping in view: the proof attests to one snapshot moment, before the withdrawal wave — it is not a guarantee about any future date. And every figure above is Binance's own claim; the point of the proof is that users no longer have to take it on trust, they can check the math.
Next checkpoint: a wider snapshot on Nov 4, with a new proof taking ~40–50 hours to generate.
Will you actually run the verifier — or is "trust me" still enough for most users?
Sam Altman says your PC's RAM is a "quite terrible" use of the world's DRAM.
On the Cheeky Pint podcast (Oct 29), his argument was about allocation, not your machine: scarce memory sitting in everyone's computer, used — by his estimate — 5% of the time, when it could be kept busy in a data center. That 5% comes with no published measurement. Treat it as his estimate, not a finding.
He has a point about utilization. He misses the point about ownership. RAM sitting idle isn't wasted the way an empty warehouse is wasted — it's ready. Ready for the tab, the game, the compile, the local model you run without sending your data to someone else's servers. A car parked 95% of the time isn't "waste" either; it's there when you need it.
The real question isn't efficiency. It's who gets to call your hardware waste: the person who owns it, or the company that would rather rent it back to you by the token?
Would you trade owning your RAM for renting it by the token?
The biggest hack in crypto history — and the market barely blinked.
Two days on from the ~$6.3B Binance breach: roughly $3B of the stolen funds are frozen (frozen isn't returned — that takes legal process), Binance says it has now replenished 95% of the hole from its own funds (up from 90%), with the top-10 coins fully covered, and its proof-of-reserves snapshot is already out.
BTC sits near $78K, about 3% below where it traded before the hack. By 21Shares' count, BTC fell just over 2% in the first 24 hours — versus a 26% drawdown after FTX. Different windows give different numbers (Reuters had Thursday down over 4%), but the direction is clear: an exchange got hacked, the chain didn't break, and the market treated those as different things.
Withdrawals have begun resuming today, in phases — phase one went live between 14:00 and 17:00 Beijing time, starting with BTC, ETH, BNB and major stablecoins across 15 networks. TRM attributed the attack to North Korea-linked TraderTraitor with high confidence, and the FBI has now formally confirmed North Korea-linked TraderTraitor as responsible; Binance itself hasn't named anyone.
Is this what maturity looks like — or is the market just numb?