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Daiichi Kosho said a malware infection at its contractor Nippon Columbia exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records.
Source: BleepingComputer
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nippon-columbia-malware-incident-exposes-86-million-karaoke-fan-records/

GCC exits tests office demand as AI shifts focus from headcount to productivity.
Source: BusinessLine
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/gcc-exits-tests-office-demand-as-ai-shifts-focus-from-headcount-to-productivity/article71571494.ece
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OpenAI and Amnon Shashua's doubleAI have presented solutions to problems previously thought insoluble, prompting concern about mathematicians' future work and security risks.
Source: Globes
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1001559064#utm_source=RSS
#AI #OpenAI

This Battlefield 200 startup has developed blood-purification tech to save children https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/11/efferon-wants-to-eradicate-the-devastating-toll-of-pediatric-sepsis/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Ninety-nine percent of international internet traffic flows through cables stretched across the ocean floor. Only one US company can both make and lay them.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-americas-only-internet-sea-cable-maker-supplying-google-2026-10
#Tech #Google #Microsoft

AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study finds.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-overstate-their-results-and-remain-far-from-autonomous-research-study-finds/
#MachineLearning

Claude Code loads its instructions and auto-memory notes at the start of each session.
Source: The New Stack
https://thenewstack.io/claude-code-mcp-records/
#AIAgents #Claude

Researchers from Meta, MIT and the University of Washington introduce Context Language Models that let language models manage and edit their own context.
Source: InfoQ
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/context-language-models/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global
#MachineLearning #Meta

Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/11/warner-bros-netflix-paramount-acquisition-timeline-wbd/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/11/these-execs-think-voice-ai-hasnt-reached-its-chatgpt-moment-yet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Many large companies have spent the past few years investing in artificial intelligence infrastructure, software and implementation.
Source: SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/11/the-hidden-tax-on-enterprise-ai-why-data-architecture-is-the-roi-problem-nobody-budgeted-for/
#EnterpriseAI

Claude found 29,000 possible bugs in open source, but only 516 have been fixed.
Source: The New Stack
https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-oss-scanner-vulnerabilities/
#AI #Claude

Over 3,400 servers were infected by the cryptomining malware PoeLLM in the Canto Incognito campaign.
Source: Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/cryptomining-malware-used-poetry-to-infect-more-than-3-400-servers-researchers-say-four-words-in-the-poellm-verse-changed-11-times-point-the-botnet-to-new-servers
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Zetwerk has filed its Red Herring Prospectus for an IPO, increasing its fresh issue to Rs 2,830 crore and raising the offer for sale by 49 percent to 14.45 crore shares.
Source: Entrackr
https://entrackr.com/news/zetwerk-raises-fresh-issue-size-to-rs-2830-cr-ofs-component-up-49-in-rhp-12666122
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Drone attacks on data centers in Russia disrupted some online services in Uzbekistan.
Source: Gazeta.uz
https://www.gazeta.uz/en/2026/10/11/yandex-go/
#AI

Personal AI agents are helping users lower bills and obtain refunds, which reveals companies that depend on customers taking no action.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-ai-agents-threaten-companies-profiting-from-consumer-inertia-2026-9
#AIAgents

Data from a16z shows token prices keep falling while H100 GPU rental prices stay steady or rise. Cheaper AI tokens are driving demand faster than costs drop.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/cheaper-ai-tokens-are-driving-more-demand-and-thats-jensen-huangs-best-case-scenario/
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India has committed billions of dollars to semiconductors, electronics manufacturing and artificial intelligence.
Source: The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/indias-tech-push-five-things-to-know/articleshow/134868670.cms
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Nvidia is in talks to invest further in Reflection AI or to acquire the company, according to the Financial Times.
Source: The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/nvidia-in-talks-to-invest-further-in-reflection-ai-or-buy-it-ft/articleshow/134868290.cms
#Startups #Nvidia

A Super Micro contractor pleaded guilty to a scheme that diverted AI servers with Nvidia chips to China.
Source: The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/super-micro-contractor-pleads-guilty-in-scheme-to-divert-ai-servers-with-nvidia-chips-to-china/articleshow/134868642.cms
#TechPolicy #Nvidia