• Markets: Stocks were mixed yesterday, with the Nasdaq rebounding like Wilt Chamberlain after suffering its worst day in 18 months the day before, as investors contemplated the Democrats’ midterm victories’ impact on the AI data center buildout. Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD, and Intel ended the day up, clawing back some of their recent losses.

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The most common reason for someone to start posting pictures from the highway will soon be no more. Tesla will stop producing the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory by mid-2027, Elon Musk said yesterday.

Musk said the move is meant to make room for the company’s autonomous Cybercab. The decision to nix what was once Tesla’s most hyped vehicle comes after the Cybertruck became a commercial flop, hitting just 10% of its sales goal.

Shattered window dreams

At the Cybertruck’s 2019 unveiling—when Tesla’s design chief broke its supposedly bulletproof window—Musk billed the futuristic pickup truck as Tesla’s “best product ever.”

Tesla bet the Blade Runner-inspired stainless steel design, planned $40,000 price tag, and a version with a 500-mile charging range would make it the first EV to dominate the lucrative pickup market. But like a brutalist municipal building, the head-turning creation looked more promising in the blueprint:

• After Covid delayed its initial release, the pickup’s late-2023 arrival in showrooms was met with lukewarm demand.
• It didn’t help that the Cybertruck was plagued by tech issues that led to several recalls, ended up costing $60,000, and never had a range that surpassed 325 miles.

Few takers: While Musk predicted yearly sales would reach 250,000 vehicles, just under 73,000 have been sold in total so far, per data from Motor Intelligence. The vehicle continues to have a cult following among Musk fans. But sales dropped sharply after he vocally backed President Trump, and it turned into a polarizing symbol amid the Tesla CEO’s controversial effort to downsize the government. US sales dropped to 20,237 in 2025 from 38,965 in 2024—and are down a further 28% this year.

Looking ahead: After the Cybertruck rides into the sunset, Tesla will have just two human-driven models in production, the Model 3 and the Model Y (its Roadster airborne sports car isn’t scheduled to start production until 2028). The company is going full throttle with plans for a nationwide rollout of its two-seater autonomous Cybercabs, which are already ferrying passengers in Austin.—SK

      

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📈 The US added more jobs than expected last month. Like your petite friend who has gotten into Hyrox, the labor market showed surprising strength, according to data released by the Department of Labor yesterday. The US added 165,000 jobs in October, trouncing estimates, while the numbers for August and September were revised upward. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate edged down to 4.1%. Those numbers point to a resilient job market, something the Fed is likely to consider when central bankers meet next month to decide whether to change interest rates to try to curb inflation.

🏛️ Trump taps Stephen Miller as new chief of staff. In the aftermath of his party’s midterm election losses, President Trump said yesterday he’d be replacing his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, with his longtime advisor Miller. “Sometimes in life you have to make moves,” Trump said yesterday. Wiles, who has been in the role since the start of the president’s current term, will move over to the president’s political operation. Miller, who currently serves as the deputy White House chief of staff and Homeland Security advisor, is the architect of Trump’s immigration crackdown.

📺 Courtroom drama: Appeals court OKs suit over The Pitt’s similarities to ER. A California appeals court ruled this week that the more recent TV show featuring impossibly good-looking doctors spouting rapid-fire medical jargon has enough similarities to the one that gave us George Clooney for a lawsuit filed by the widow of ER creator Michael Crichton to proceed. However, the court tossed claims against the star of both shows, Noah Wyle, and two other producers. The lawsuit, lodged before HBO even began airing The Pitt, claims the show is an unauthorized reboot. Warner Bros. Television, which produced both series, said it continues to maintain that The Pitt “is an entirely original series and that the claims against it are without merit.”—AR

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An Italian chef working in Australia claimed he was wrongly fired from his job for refusing to put pineapple on pizza, telling the country’s Fair Work Commission the dish is an “insult to his culture.”

The commission dismissed Davide Tamburella’s claim on the grounds that he filed it too late, not that he was wrong. The La Costa restaurant, located in Queensland, has since closed. The state produces 100% of the country’s commercial pineapples and is home to a 52-foot-tall pineapple called The Big Pineapple (makes sense).

But, just like a Chicago pizza, this goes deeper:

• Tamburella’s bosses cited his foul language and communication style as reasons for his firing in the ruling, which also included a claim that he broke his hand punching a metal railing.
• This was allegedly the third time in four years that he refused to put pineapple on pizza.

Most surveys show that Americans are split on the tropical fruit topping, but one poll in 2023 found that 72% of Australians love it.

In the end, Tamburella got a new job at another Italian restaurant in Brisbane that does not have pineapple pizza on the menu.—DL

      

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Have you heard...

Here’s everything that didn’t make it into this week’s newsletters but we immediately sent to the group chat.

➡️ The Onion wants to sponsor a college football bowl game with plenty of goofs and gags, but broadcasters aren’t interested. Bowl games are meant to be a sacred space for only superfans and uncles with nowhere else to go on Thanksgiving to enjoy.

➡️ Besides lining your coat with candy, the best way to prepare for the three-hour movies gracing theaters recently is to use the RunPee app to find out the best time to run out and use the restroom during the show, the Wall Street Journal reports. You could also always try asking everyone nicely to pause the film while you’re gone.

➡️ Fast-food chain Wendy’s created an online RPG that rewards players with items from its menu for playing. The burger spot will do anything to attract visitors—except bring back its gorgeous sunrooms of yesteryear.

➡️ One of the wildly difficult-to-ride Batpods used in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises will go up for auction with an estimated sale price of $1.2 million. One lucky tech billionaire is about to have an awesome midlife crisis.

➡️ Kellogg’s has admitted its new Rice Krispies recipe means the cereal’s snap, crackle, and pop sounds are quieter than before. The company received complaints that consumers’ breakfast routines have been interrupted, and they’re now being forced to focus all of their senses on smelling the coffee.—MM

News

What else is brewing

• Investors aren’t convinced Anthropic is worthy of a $1.5 trillion valuation in its upcoming IPO.
• Cornell’s faculty voted no confidence in the university’s leadership, reflecting concerns over the handling of an alleged gang rape at a fraternity in 2024.
• A federal judge blocked construction of President Trump’s planned 250-foot arch hours after it gained approval from a federal planning commission.
• Fox completed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku and pledged to continue the platform’s openness, even though there’s a new sheriff in Roku City.
• Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan Markle, was arrested and charged with possessing child sexual abuse material.
• Two oft-photographed desert rock formations collapsed amid flooding in the Southwestern US.

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Community

Crowd work

Last week, we asked, “What’s the most surprising biographical fact you’ve learned about a relative?” Here are some of our favorite responses:

• “My grandfather was exempt from the draft in WWI because his occupation, cheesemaker, was considered vital to the nation.”—Barbara from Minnesota
• “I found out that my great-great-great-great-grandfather was a stable boy who ran away with Queen Victoria’s First Lady’s maid. Queen Victoria wrote to Prince Albert: ‘I know I will miss her terribly, but I believe she may miss us more, may fate intervene and the heavens have mercy on her.’ So great-granny left a palace to breed horses! Our last name is Steed, so I guess it worked out.”—Sue from Idaho Falls, ID
• “My grandfather heard a ruckus outside his dry goods store and as a joke, ran outside with his fingers in the shape of a gun. To his surprise, he came face-to-face with the heavily armed John Dillinger Gang. They told him to put his gun finger away and get back inside.”—Kristina from North Carolina
• “My mother was an air raid warden during World War II. I still have the billy club she carried to ‘encourage’ people to keep their blinds drawn and lights out at night.”—Jim from Atlanta
• “I am the grandson of the butcher of Frankenstein. I’ll let that settle in for a moment. Now the explainers: the city of Frankenstein in Silesia (now Ząbkowice Śląskie in Poland) had absolutely nothing to do with the Frankenstein story. My grandfather’s shop was among the few butcher shops in town. It still exists, but is owned by a Polish family now.”—Michael from Wisconsin

This week’s question

What’s a book that had a big impact on you?

Sam’s answer to get the juices flowing: “Life and Fate, a War and Peace-like epic set in World War II by Ukrainian-Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, moved me deeply. The poignant prose that illuminates each character’s personal anguish and search for meaning amid major historical events informs how I contemplate my place in the world.”

Submit your response here.

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Open House

Welcome to Open House, the only newsletter section in search of a place to keep its herd of 400 Welsh ponies. We’ll give you a few facts about a listing and you try to guess the price.

Today’s property is in Hailey, ID, and while the 4,145-square-foot house itself is a stunner, the real star is its equestrian capabilities. Amenities on this 2.7-acre lot include:

• 4 beds, 5 baths
• 5,800-square-foot barn with four stalls
• Patio pre-wired for a hot tub

How much for the mountainous horse girl haven?

Answer

$3.5 million

Word of the Day

Today’s Word of the Day is: equestrian, meaning “relating to horseback riding.” Thanks to Joanna from Boston for a suggestion that had us jumping. Submit another Word of the Day here.