A union representing about 250 security staff at the US busiest ports agreed to extend contract talks two weeks to Nov. 20, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) said. PMA and ILWU Local 26 will continue negotiations; talks have been extended multiple times from an initial Nov. 1 deadline. PMA said it remains committed to negotiating a fair agreement to avoid operational disruption. Reports say a work stoppage at affected terminals could disrupt about 85% of cargo at the Port of Long Beach and

Apple researchers submitted a paper to arXiv on Nov. 4, Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation, detailing HALO, a humanoid autonomous-control system. They deployed HALO on Unitree’s G1 humanoid to transfer simulation-trained motions into unfamiliar real rooms and published data, training and deployment code covering motion generation, tracking, task sequencing and sim-to-real operation. In six unscanned real environments the team ran 360 single-task trials with an average success rate of 91%. In one real environment they ran three composite tasks 10 times each, averaging 70% success; the sequence duck-under-obstacle → walk-to-target → push-box succeeded 50% of the time.

Analysts say October US nonfarm payrolls were strong but effectively "old news," and the data reinforced market bets on a December Fed rate hike. They flag a larger near-term risk: the scale of an AI-driven equity selloff and whether it could trigger a deeper market rout — a new potential variable for the Fed. Equities appear largely unmoved: S&P 500 futures were roughly flat versus pre-release levels. Post-congressional-election investor attention remains focused on the AI valuation debate.