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TThe Guardian Technology04:52

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Binance Discloses Details of $6.3 Billion Theft: Hackers Breached via Malware and Fake Interviews

Binance disclosed the attack chain behind the $6.3 billion theft: hackers first obtained team information through malware that an engineer mistakenly downloaded, then lured another engineer into downloading malware through a fake recruitment interview, and on October 20 used the compromised computer and an internal AI tool to take control of the systems of two wallet developers, triggering a malicious script on October 29 to carry out the attack. Binance said that of the $6.34 billion stolen, $2.85 billion has been frozen or intercepted. The FBI identified North Korea as the culprit behind the attack, and Kim Yo Jong called the accusation "absurd."

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99to5Google04:48

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Google adjusts AI settings for school accounts: disabling AI features will also disable Search

Google has introduced new AI settings for schools: Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search are off by default for K-12 student accounts and must be explicitly enabled by school administrators. Google says Search and AI are now deeply integrated, so in schools that disable AI features, students will be unable to use Search; in early 2027, two options will be offered—one enabling AI features such as AI Overviews, and the other replacing them with Guided Learning—leaving schools with only a choice between accepting AI features and giving up Search.

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#Product updates#Google#Safety / alignment

AAlex Heath04:43

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Sound Ventures announces investment in generative media inference company fal

Sound Ventures' Alex Heath stated that Sound Ventures has invested in generative media inference company fal, and praised its team and execution. The quoted original fal post stated that fal announced the completion of its Series E and Series F funding rounds, totaling $1.65 billion, with Series E led by Sequoia and Series F led by BessemerVP, with NVIDIA continuing to participate in the investment.

Quoted postfal · @fal

Today, we’re announcing we raised our Series E & F rounds for a combined total of $1.65B. Our Series E was led by @sequoia and our Series F was led by @BessemerVP with continued investment from @nvidia. We’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible even more next year and this funding will enable the team to build the way we want to.

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TThe Decoder04:18

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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week

OpenAI says its hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device that lets users converse with the Codex coding agent, completing it as a side project in under a week. Astra handled all stages including enclosure design, PCB layout with component selection and routing, firmware, and the user interface; a contract manufacturer produced a small number of prototypes in under a month, but because Astra did not always account for manufacturing constraints, tolerances, and assembly details, it went through several rounds of revisions. OpenAI also says an internal model with undisclosed details scored 0.875 on BenchCAD 2.0, while GPT-6 Astra scored 0.594 at its highest reasoning level; its hardware team uses Codex and ChatGPT in areas such as robotics and compute infrastructure to handle CAD models, manufacturing drawings, and simulations, with token usage up 23-fold since February.

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SSina Tech04:01

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Zhiyuan Genie G2 Works 24-Hour Consecutive Shifts at a Convenience Store; Two Robots Fail to Pass Probation

Starting November 2, six Zhiyuan Genie G2 humanoid robots worked 24-hour consecutive shifts at a normally operating convenience store in Xuhui, Shanghai. They were evaluated on criteria including on-duty hours, business completion volume, customer reviews, and task success rate. Ultimately, four passed probation; Sister Leng, who was responsible for table cleaning, and Juan Wang, who patrolled the shelves, have not yet passed probation due to minor shortcomings in on-duty initiative and job stability. The livestream also featured experience officers patrolling the venue, having the robots identify sugary and sugar-free cola, detour when their route was temporarily blocked, and complete cooked-food picking while a box was shaking. Zhiyuan says its embodied Agent framework Genie Master, as the unified scheduling brain for the six robots, in earlier testing raised the process success rate of Genie G2 on tasks such as cooked-food packaging, picking, and restocking from 28.6% on the first day to 85.7% by the fifth day.

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#Industry news#Embodied AI#Agents

TTechCrunch AI03:47

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AI inference startup Fal raises $1.3 billion, valuation doubles to $16 billion

San Francisco-based AI inference startup Fal has raised $1.3 billion in a new funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Nvidia, Sound Ventures and T. Rowe Price, at a valuation of $16 billion, double its $8 billion valuation in April. Fal also announced a Series E and a Series F, which together total $1.65 billion in funding, with the earlier Series E led by Sequoia. Fal hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, and its annualized revenue had already exceeded $800 million earlier this year; the original article notes that inference service providers such as Baseten, Fireworks AI and Modal are also growing rapidly, but their gross margins remain thin because of the high cost of purchasing or leasing compute.

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AArs Technica03:18

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The New York Times and other newspapers sue Brave, demanding it disable paywall bypass feature and end cooperation with AI companies

The New York Times and other newspaper companies sued Brave Software yesterday, alleging that the browser maker illegally bypasses paywalls and sells stolen news content to AI companies. The complaint states that AI companies pay Brave to provide real-time online content from the Brave search index for training models or responding to user queries. The complaint also cites Brave's official website, stating that the Brave Search API is used by AI companies such as Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity, and You.com.

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TThe Verge AI03:00

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OpenAI Says ChatGPT Search Volume Has Reached 20% of Google's

Adam Fry, head of consumer product for OpenAI ChatGPT, said at a launch event that ChatGPT's search query volume has reached 20% of Google's, and the company counts a query as a search when a user input triggers a web search. By comparison, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during Google's 2023 antitrust trial that Bing's market share was about 3% after more than a decade of effort. Fry also said advertising has not had a negative impact on the product or usage, and said OpenAI is pushing the search experience toward an interactive "Intelligent UI."

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#Industry news#Search#OpenAI

SSolidot02:15

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The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave for bypassing paywalls and providing content to AI companies

U.S. publishers including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel have sued Brave Software, alleging that it scraped website content without permission and, through its Paywall blocker feature, helped users bypass the paywalls of hundreds of news outlets. The complaint alleges that Brave provided its index database of scraped content, Brave Index, to AI companies such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. A New York Times spokesperson, Graham James, said that Brave disregards existing copyright law and has ignored repeated demands to stop infringing.

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SSolidot02:15

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Google disables AI features by default for US K-12 schools; once disabled, students will be unable to use Search

Google announced that software used by students in US K-12 schools will have all AI features disabled by default unless school administrators actively choose to enable them, responding to educators' and parents' desire to control children's interactions with AI. Chris Phillips, Google's vice president of education, said that Search and AI are now deeply integrated, and if schools disable AI, students will be unable to use Search. US K-12 schools widely use Google's Gmail, Docs, and Classroom, and Chromebooks are also the most commonly used laptops in schools.

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#English text is being prepared.#Google#Industry news

ZZhidongxi02:09

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Gartner Releases Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2027, with Non-Text AI and Agent Harness Making the List

Gartner Research Vice President Gao Ting interpreted the "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2027," listing ten trends: large quantitative models, voice reasoning models, world models, AI context platforms, coding agent harnesses, AI agent identity, autonomous exposure remediation, sovereign technology, disposable applications, and wetware-as-a-service. Gao Ting said that the speed of code generation has surpassed the speed of manual review, and that agent harnesses are listed as a priority for the next 1 to 3 years, but their importance may gradually diminish as model capabilities improve. The report also predicts that by 2030, more than 70% of enterprise voice interactions will be handled autonomously by voice models, and that by 2028, 25% of enterprise security vulnerability incidents will be traced to AI agent misuse.

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ZZhidongxi02:09

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OpenAI Uses Over 30% Discounts and Free Credits to Poach Anthropic Customers; Replit Annual Contract Exceeds $100 Million

According to The Information, OpenAI won over Replit with model price discounts of over 30%, with the contract valued at more than $100 million annually; Replit completed the code changes needed to switch from Anthropic in just a few hours. OpenAI also used methods such as free credits, engineers joining group chats for support, and account doubling to win over long-time Anthropic customers including Rippling and Atomicwork. In Rippling's programming work, the share of OpenAI models rose from 16% to 52%. Anthropic, meanwhile, lowered API prices for Opus 5.5 released on September 22, to $4 and $20 per million tokens for input and output respectively, and once again became the model provider with the highest customer spending on OpenRouter.

#Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

Ffal02:07

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fal Announces Completion of Series E and Series F Funding, Totaling $1.65 Billion

fal announced the completion of Series E and Series F funding, totaling $1.65 billion. Series E was led by Sequoia, Series F was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and NVIDIA continued to participate in the investment. fal stated that these funds will support the team in building products in its own way and further expanding the boundaries of its capabilities next year.

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TThe Verge AI01:59

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Google Shuts Down Search for Schools That Reject AI Features

Google told The New York Times that it will completely shut down Search for schools that reject its AI features. In an education-related update on Tuesday, Google said that unless administrators explicitly enable it, K-12 student accounts' access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search "will be completely turned off." Chris Phillips, Google's vice president of education, said search is deeply integrated with AI, and schools cannot disable Gemini features separately without turning off Search. Previously, Google had enabled Gemini by default in Google Classroom, which is used by more than 150 million teachers and students worldwide, and last month lawmakers pressured Google over the potential harms of AI products entering schools. Google will also embed the Guided Learning feature into Search's AI Overviews, testing it in some U.S. schools starting this month.

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CcnBeta01:59

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Google says search and AI can no longer be separated; schools that ban AI will lose Google Search

Google announced plans that, starting in 2027, Gemini, NotebookLM, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search-related AI features in school-managed K-12 student accounts will be disabled by default and will require school administrators to actively enable them. Chris Phillips, Vice President of Google's education business, said that search and AI are now deeply integrated, and that if schools completely ban AI, students will no longer be able to use Google Search and will only see a disabled notice set by administrators. Google also announced the promotion of Guided Learning, a new AI learning tool in education, which replaces direct answers with guided questioning.

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Hheise online01:53

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Palantir expects revenue of about $2.65 billion this quarter, up about 90% year over year

When Palantir reported earnings on Monday, it projected revenue of about $265 million this quarter, up about 90% year over year; in the previous quarter, revenue rose 96% year over year to $2.3 billion, and quarterly profit rose 49% year over year to $1.13 billion. Growth came mainly from the U.S. market, where U.S. government business grew 96% to $953 million and U.S. commercial business grew 148% to $984 million. The United Kingdom signed a $1 billion military products contract with Palantir in September 2025, and German Interior Minister Dobrindt is also evaluating the full use of its software in German security agencies.

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UUnite.AI01:53

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CrowdStrike Plans to Acquire Fiddler and Dreadnode, Expanding Its AI Security Product Line

On November 3, 2026, CrowdStrike announced plans to acquire Fiddler and Dreadnode, with both deals unveiled at Fal.Con EU 2026. Fiddler's technology will become Falcon Observe, used to evaluate and explain the behavior of AI agents; Dreadnode, meanwhile, will add automated AI security testing to the Falcon platform, covering more than 50 attack techniques including jailbreaks, prompt injection, and multi-turn attacks, and aligning with the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MITRE ATLAS, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. CrowdStrike plans to make Falcon Observe and Dreadnode generally available in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2027, and Dreadnode's test results will also feed into Falcon Guardian as policy recommendations.

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UUnite.AI01:53

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Binance Discloses $634 Million Theft Incident: Fake Interviews and Internal AI Tool Compromised

In preliminary investigation findings published on November 3, Binance said that fake recruitment interviews, malicious developer software, and a compromised internal AI tool together led to the theft of approximately $634 million in digital assets on October 29. Binance said it will bear the losses itself, has set aside coverage funds exceeding 100%, had restored 98% of affected token assets as of October 31, and has frozen or intercepted approximately $285 million. The attackers also used Ethereum's EIP-7702 authorization mechanism to establish malicious delegations, making it impossible to immediately revoke on-chain permissions by suspending withdrawals; Binance has rebuilt the affected wallet system and internal AI tool in a new environment and will bring in independent third-party security experts for review.

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TTechCrunch AI01:45

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Anthropic Updates S-1: Quarterly Revenue $17 Billion, Compute Costs 58% of Revenue

In an S-1 filing updated on Monday, Anthropic disclosed that revenue for the quarter ended September 30 reached $17 billion, up from $11.5 billion in the previous quarter, but compute costs rose from 48% to 58% of revenue, with operating losses widening in tandem. Compute spending for the quarter reached $10 billion, of which $5 billion came from short-term commitments, with costs significantly higher than comparable compute under multi-year contracts. The filing states that compute and infrastructure spending are expected to remain the largest operating expense for the foreseeable future, and that the company is building its own compute through the Anthropic Direct program, but demand growth means short-term neocloud contracts remain the primary choice.

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TThe Decoder01:14

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SETI's Allen Telescope Array introduces AI agents to control the telescope and analyze signals in real time

The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen have deployed AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California that can control the telescope and analyze radio signals in real time; researchers currently still need to manually enter commands. The system is based on NVIDIA's Holoscan platform, and NVIDIA says its hardware processing speed can reach 2.4 terabits per second; the team says work that used to take weeks can now be completed in hours. The team also says it has used AI to detect a pulsar in the Crab Nebula in real time, and plans to test an open-source solution that can run locally at the edge, aimed at future sensors on the far side of the Moon.

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