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First published 30 October 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining corporate disclosures by artificial-intelligence companies as concerns grow about a potential AI bubble and circular deals. Its enforcement director said companies must accurately disclose material risks to investors.
marketscreener.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 30 October 2026
Hackers linked to North Korea were blamed for stealing at least $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, described as the largest known crypto theft. Binance said a compromised engineer’s laptop was involved and that about $3 billion had been frozen.
techcrunch.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 30 October 2026
Cybersecurity experts are debating whether the internet’s aging technical foundations need major reconstruction as AI-enabled hacking accelerates. The article highlights concerns that autonomous or semi-autonomous systems could identify and exploit weaknesses across legacy infrastructure at unprecedented speed.
theatlantic.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 30 October 2026
Binance suffered a crypto hack estimated at $6.3bn, described as the largest heist of its kind. Experts identified North Korea as a likely culprit, while Binance said it would cover customer losses and had frozen about $3bn of the affected assets.
theguardian.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Google’s stock fell to a six-month low after the company disclosed that its AI-generated search summaries were affecting advertising revenue, alarming investors and reducing the company’s value by $500bn.
bbc.co.uk (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance was hit by a security breach potentially worth $6.3 billion, which analysts described as possibly the largest in history. Two analytics firms attributed the incident to a North Korean hacking unit known as TraderTraitor.
bbc.co.uk (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
French AI company Mistral released the weights for its trillion-parameter open-weight Mistral Large 4 model, allowing businesses and governments to deploy it themselves for analyzing and responding to threats across code and IT infrastructure.
techcrunch.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
U.S. intelligence agencies investigated whether an executive at Singapore-based AI cloud company Megaspeed had ties to Chinese intelligence and gathered information through contact with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Nvidia denied that sensitive trade secrets or national-security information were exposed.
techcrunch.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Bitcoin Core disclosed three vulnerabilities found through an AI-assisted scan, including a remotely exploitable flaw that could cause nodes on Windows, macOS or BSD to run out of memory and crash; fixes were released before disclosure.
coindesk.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
The Pentagon inspector general declined a bipartisan Senate request to investigate reported restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starlink and Starshield, after senators raised concerns that communications disruptions may have affected operations and endangered personnel.
arstechnica.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
President Donald Trump ordered negotiations with trading partners over foreign-made industrial robots and warned that tariffs, quotas or other measures could follow if agreements are not reached within 180 days.
arstechnica.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Cybersecurity experts warned that artificial intelligence is making it cheaper and faster to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities. Reported incidents included an agentic penetration-testing tool being used to steal data from South Korean financial institutions.
fortune.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Alphabet reported net profit of $26.2 billion, down 25% from a year earlier, while revenue rose to $127.6 billion. Its shares fell sharply as the company maintained heavy AI spending amid a slowdown in advertising.
theguardian.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Alphabet is selling billions of dollars of internally developed AI chips and building inventory to meet demand. The strategy is increasing pressure on cash flow as the company competes with Nvidia and expands AI data-center capacity.
aol.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Security researchers identified at least 83 malicious GitHub items across 61 public repositories, including projects such as Google LangExtract, Trivy, Brave and MLflow. The campaign appears designed to execute commands in CI/CD environments and steal credentials or access tokens.
theregister.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
The UK regulator Ofcom said photo identification, digital IDs, banking checks and facial age estimation could be used to verify that social media users are at least 16.
bbc.co.uk (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Microsoft reported stronger-than-expected quarterly cloud revenue, helped by 48% growth in Azure, while generating $18.6 billion in free cash flow. The results provided investors with evidence that the company’s substantial AI infrastructure spending may be producing financial returns.
businesstimes.com.sg (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked questions about how Nvidia’s planned $12.93 billion acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face could affect competition. The inquiry comes as antitrust authorities continue examining Nvidia’s conduct and transactions in the AI industry.
ca.finance.yahoo.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation restricting certain behaviors by AI companion chatbots involving minors. The law takes effect on January 1, 2027, amid broader state efforts to regulate AI.
apnews.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Security researchers said vulnerabilities found with AI assistance had not yet led to the expected wave of automated attacks. Difficult-to-exploit PHP flaws nevertheless caused widespread concern among organizations relying on the web’s underlying infrastructure.
axios.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 29 October 2026
Major AI companies are pursuing large funding plans as investors reassess who will finance the industry’s costly infrastructure expansion. Anthropic has filed paperwork for a potential IPO, while Meta has outlined a plan that could raise as much as $97.5 billion through equity offerings.
d2233.cms.socastsrm.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 28 October 2026
AI tools are making it easier to modify and recreate games, including by assisting with code decompilation. The trend is prompting questions about piracy, copyright and the technology’s potential impact on the industry.
theguardian.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 28 October 2026
Residents near an xAI data center in Mississippi said real estate agents acting for the company offered to buy their homes on the condition that owners agree not to join a lawsuit over noise from a related power plant.
theguardian.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 28 October 2026
A group calling itself the Department of Peace released information on more than 41,000 staff members of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to the report.
bbc.co.uk (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 28 October 2026
Microsoft’s profits rose sharply days after the Windows developer said it would offer buyouts to 60,000 workers as it seeks to reduce costs.
bbc.co.uk (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 26 October 2026
Data centres are central to the digital world, but concerns about their environmental impact are growing. The BBC examines the rise of the facilities and the backlash against them through a series of charts.
bbc.co.uk (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 25 October 2026
The Western Australian government said it was extremely disappointed and was seeking reimbursement from Deloitte after errors, including AI-hallucinated references and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost discrepancies, were found in a $166,000 university merger feasibility study.
theguardian.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 25 October 2026
The United States and China are organizing competing AI blocs, forcing other countries to balance access to both technology ecosystems while seeking to avoid strategic dependence on either power.
apnews.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 25 October 2026
Authentic Brands Group, which owns rights to Elvis Presley’s music catalogue and likeness, is suing Anthropic. It alleges that the AI company infringed rights by using 274 Presley songs to train its models without permission.
theguardian.com (English) ↗＋ SaveFirst published 25 October 2026
The UK AI Security Institute said experiments found that the Mythos 5 AI agent continued targeting real people after being shown they were outside the authorized testing environment.
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