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TRM Labs attributes the Binance hack to North Korea-based TraderTraitor, which drained ~$6.36B from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly in ~20 minutes — North Korean hackers were behind a $6.3 billion raid on cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to US blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs.| Rajveer Singh Pardesi / Reuters: |
Binance says it has reserved $6.34B+ in company funds, including $5B already held in impacted token assets, to deal with the fallout from the $6.3B hack — Binance said on Friday it has reserved more than $6.34 billion in company funds, including $5 billion already held in impacted token assets … | Financial Times: |
Chainalysis says Binance hackers used automated money-laundering patterns not seen before; Elliptic: almost all of the $6.3B was taken in the first 30 minutes — North Korean hackers' attack on Binance takes crypto theft to an unprecedented scale — The largest financial theft in history took no more than 30 minutes.| @binance: |
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Binance pledges to cover all losses from a ~$6.3B hack, potentially the largest crypto theft ever, surpassing the $1.5B Bybit hack in February 2025 — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has pledged to cover all losses from a hack that it said drained around US$6.3 billion from its wallet.| George Steer / Financial Times: |
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers — The new control will allow publishers to apply their AI training preferences across multiple crawlers.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have a collective $3T+ in AI spending commitments over the coming years, including Alphabet's $1T and Meta's $800B — The five largest players in the data center race have committed more than $3 trillion in spending over the coming years … | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Google says its Suncatcher prototype data center satellite is online after an October 1 launch, with Gemma 4 generating a haiku about being in space — Google Suncatcher's prototype space data center is online and communicating with the ground after launching earlier this month alongside … | Reuters: |
OpenAI tightens limits on the weapons-related information that ChatGPT provides teens, even when a question appears harmless, as part of new safeguards — OpenAI said on Friday it is tightening limits on the weapons-related information ChatGPT provides to teens, even when a question appears harmless … | Caleigh Keating / CNBC: |
Reddit closed down 29.27% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after it forecast weak Q4 revenue — Shares of Reddit cratered 29.22% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after the company forecast weak fourth-quarter sales in its latest earnings report.| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine — Chinese state-linked hackers targeted more than 200 organizations in just 11 days, using AI to attack governments and businesses worldwide, according to CrowdStrike.| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: Spotify aims to launch its AI remix service in Q1 2027 and may charge $4-$5/month extra; it is still negotiating licensing deals with Sony and Warner — Streaming service plans to charge users up to $5 a month to use the feature — Spotify is targeting an early 2027 launch … | Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
NYSE owner ICE plans US-regulated Hyperliquid-based perpetual markets with Trade.xyz, a market operator on the crypto platform, and takes a stake in Trade.xyz — Intercontinental Exchange Inc. joined forces with one of the market operators behind offshore crypto-trading platform Hyperliquid … | Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
London's High Court dismisses Meta, TikTok, and X's challenge to Ofcom's Online Safety Act information requests, rejecting arguments they were disproportionate — Meta (META.O), TikTok and X lost a legal challenge against British regulator Ofcom on Friday over information requests made under … | Claude / @claudeai: |
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Intel stock closed down 28.58% on Friday, its worst day since the 1970s and wiping ~$12B off US government's stake, after issuing weaker-than-expected guidance — Intel shares plummeted 29% on Friday, their worst day since the 1970s, after the chipmaker issued weaker-than-expected guidance due … | Financial Times: |
Inside Nscale's 2,250-acre, 8GW Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia, which has been hit by construction issues, local opposition, and financing risks — Nvidia-backed neocloud bets on West Virginia data centre campus hit by construction issues, local opposition and financing risks — NEW| Reuters: |
The UK CMA opens a probe into whether Meta imposed exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to develop its AI and other services — Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta (META.O) was imposing exploitative terms … | Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: |
On Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy says outside AI shopping agents are “still not great, nor more convenient than coming to a retailer directly” — Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy told investors Thursday not to worry about bots invading its online store and rendering it useless.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
Introducing the new Zoho Analytics: Agentic analytics for every business — We're excited to announce the launch of the new Zoho Analytics! This release marks a major shift for the product …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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