Deezer Can Scan Spotify, Not Its Royalty Ledger
Deezer’s AI music detector scans playlists across 20 services despite finding no platform licensees. In April, AI-generated tracks made up 44% of its daily uploads but only 1%–3% of listening.
NYSE’s Proxy Test
OKXICE seeks approval for tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed companies, while 16 issuers object. Nasdaq is preparing a separate, DTCC-settled pilot.
Digital Realty’s $7.8B Deal Meets the Meter
Digital Realty plans to buy a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers at a $7.8 billion asset valuation. PJM has cut about 4 GW of proposed regional load from its 2027 forecast, without identifying these sites.
Ledger's Authorized Reseller Sold an Implanted Wallet
Bitkey opened preorders in more than 95 countries with a planned US price of $150. Ledger confirmed an implant in a wallet sold by an authorized reseller whose devices were linked to theft exceeding $86 million.
Binance’s $6.36 Billion Theft Tests Crypto Custody
TRM Labs reported roughly $6.36 billion moved from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly within about 20 minutes. Binance’s preliminary DevOps-laptop finding puts custody’s software controls under scrutiny.
NIST Analyzed 199 of 3,370 CVEs in March 2024
More than 40,000 CVEs were reported in 2024. NIST’s 2026 priorities favor exploited flaws while AI tools accelerate findings that still need verification.
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 says it has covered 90% of its hack losses, having set aside $6.34B+ of company funds; the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Saturday that it was able to cover 90% of the amount stolen during its recent hack.
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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 t...
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.
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.
When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and “being used 5% of the time”
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.
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.
As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs
Scarce, controllable positions of Economic Power whose holders durably capture the gains of Increasingly Capable and diffused intelligence.
How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, “not X, but Y” phrasing, and words like “delve”, or add typos, to look human
As AI transforms writing and detectors like Pangram police what counts as machine-generated …
Anthropic renames its $100 per month Max 5x plan as Max and the $200 per month Max 20x plan as Ultra, and removes the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts
Binance says initial investigation suggests a compromised DevOps laptop may have enabled a ~$6.3B hack; Tether froze 1.5B+ USDT and Circle froze 800M+ USDC
At 20:24 UTC on 29 October 2026, a Binance hot wallet on Ethereum sent …Bloomberg:Binance Estimates $6.3 Billion Hacked in Crypto's Biggest HeistJose Antonio Lanz /Yahoo Finance:Elon Musk, CZ Trade Bl...
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 …
London's High Court dismisses Meta, TikTok, and X's challenge to Ofcom's Online Safety Act information requests, rejecting arguments they were disproportionate
Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units
Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version …
Binance “temporarily suspended” all deposits and withdrawals as it investigates security issues and works with law enforcement; Binance.US says it's unaffected
If you haven't seen the headlines today, Binance just got hit by what is tracking to be the largest …
Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link
A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it …Forums:Hacker NewsForums:Hacker News:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts
A look at growing bipartisan opposition to AI data centers in drought-stricken Arizona, where TSMC's chip fabs were welcomed but newer projects face backlash
Industry has drained the state's water reserves for decades. Data centers are the breaking point. — AA hulking gray giant rises from the desert.
Sources: Google is in talks with the DOD on a new effort to secure the data that feeds into software being built for the Golden Dome missile defense program
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is in talks with the US Defense Department to work on a new data security effort underpinning …
Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50%+, raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025
Powerlattice, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup developing chips that cut the power demands of AI processors, has raised $86 million, according to an SEC filing on Friday.
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
Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $201.94B, vs. $202.31B est., net income down 2% to $20.7B, forecasts Q4 revenue below est.
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
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 …
Binance reveals that a follow-up investigation has found “additional points of breach” beyond a possibly compromised laptop and says this was a “complex attack”
Hackers made off with around $6 billion in digital currency …Reuters:Explainer: Gone in 20 minutes: How the biggest heist in crypto history unfoldedAmethyst Martinez /The Financial News Network:North ...
FEC data: AI-oriented PACs spent nearly $80M on the 2026 US elections, mostly before the primaries; pro-regulatory PACs outspent Leading the Future's network
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
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NAND maker Kioxia reports FY Q2 operating profit up 22x YoY to ~$12.7B, in line with est., but forecasts Q3 operating profit of ~$12.7B, below ~$14.9B est.
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
CXMT reports Q3 revenue of ~$16.7B, up 613.2% YoY, and a net profit of ~$8.17B, swinging to profitability on the back of rising AI-driven memory chip prices
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
Sources: OpenAI now seeks ~$20B at a $1.25T valuation for its latest round, from $30B at a $1.4T valuation, as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff
ChatGPT maker is now seeking about $20bn at a $1.25tn valuation as it tempers its ambitions — OpenAI has slashed the target …
Coinbase reports Q3 revenue down 35% YoY to $1.22B, in line with est., and net income up 66% to $719M, its first profit in a year, on unrealized crypto gains
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
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle returned just 9.3% of cash to shareholders in the first three quarters of 2026, a 15-year low amid AI spending
The biggest US technology companies generated record amounts of cash in the first nine months of 2026, yet returned the smallest share …