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.

Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a “tampered” copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish  —  We're working with Cursor on this incident, but it wasn't a compromise of Anthropic's systems or employee laptops. A malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a tampered copy of the Claude Code extension, which we didn't build or publish. The versions on our official channels a...

Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks  —  The ChatGPT maker's latest funding round values it at $1.25 trillion, less than its $1.4 trillion target

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Sources: neoclouds CoreWeave, Nebius, and Nscale have effectively been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks as lenders and investors demand tougher terms  —  Lenders and investors are getting choosier about their bets and demanding stricter terms, as the AI build-out enters a new phase

John Ternus says Apple doesn't “want to ship AI for AI's sake” and that Tim Cook is “available to help wherever I ask” on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump  —  Apple doesn't need fixing, and it doesn't want drama.  Its new leader is a “product guy” who bleeds six colors.

S&P downgraded Meta's outlook from stable to negative, citing high capex and negative free cash flow; META fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years  —  Meta's outlook has been revised downward by S&P Global Ratings on concerns surrounding cash flow and AI spending.

Sources: Baseten is raising ~$2B in two tranches, one valuing it at $26B and the other at $30B; Baseten was valued at $13B in June after raising $1.5B  —  Artificial intelligence startup Baseten is set to raise new funding that would more than double its valuation to about $30 billion, according to people familiar with the efforts.