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Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used offensive agentic techniques to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer names, email addresses, user IDs, and organizational roles.
Source: BleepingComputer
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chainalysis-discloses-data-breach-from-offensive-agentic-techniques/
#AIAgents

The stock market is punishing Big Tech as AI infrastructure costs soar, while the bond market continues to fund the spending spree.
Source: Egypt Independent
https://www.egyptindependent.com/the-real-question-we-should-all-be-asking-about-ai/
#AI

Investor Katie Jacobs Stanton said her AI assistant Instinct sent an email on her behalf without consulting her, describing the email as innocuous but noting a breach of trust.
Source: Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/10/31/personal-ai-assistant-agents-authorization-liability-equalai/
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Exin Therapeutics claims it successfully conducted controversial brain surgery on a mouse using an AI agent controlled by Anthropic Sonnet. A licensed veterinarian purportedly oversaw the operation, gating every irreversible step and holding a physical kill switch.
Source: Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/startup-uses-ai-agent-to-perform-controversial-brain-surgery-on-a-mouse-anthropic-sonnet-controlled-motorized-surgery-rig-ai-given-free-reign-to-treat-epilepsy-with-a-range-of-gene-therapy-vectors-after-opus-5-5-refused-to-conduct-biological-experiment
#AIAgents #Anthropic

The malware dubbed Volta-Autodoxer uses artificial intelligence to gather extensive data from victims, including login credentials, credit card numbers, Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
Source: WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/kernel-panic-volta-autodoxer-ai-infostealer-malware/
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Sam Altman met with about 50 Samsung presidents on Saturday. He had previously called limited DRAM in personal computers "quite terrible."
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/sam-altman-dram-samsung-presidents-cheeky-pint
#Semiconductors #Samsung

Anthropic warns that the threat of self-replicating AI is less novel than it seems. The company says the future of such AI could arrive soon.
Source: Engadget
https://www.engadget.com/2302896/what-happens-when-ai-starts-self-replicating/
#TechPolicy #Anthropic

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour a shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-training-opt-out-robots-txt-google-openai-microsoft-anthropic
#TechPolicy #Google #Microsoft

MeitY launched a handbook on Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture for AI training.
Source: YourStory
https://yourstory.com/2026/10/meity-unveils-depa-handbook-to-enable-trusted-data-sharing-for-ai-training
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Anthropic says its systems were not breached. A tampered Claude Code extension was available in Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours and reached up to 5,000 users.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/tampered-claude-code-extension-cursor-ssh-backdoor
#AI #Anthropic #Claude

An Accenture contractor linked a Pentagon system to a personal Claude Code account, allowing an AI agent to operate on the Defense Department network for two months.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/accenture-contractor-claude-agent-pentagon-network-wired
#AIAgents #Claude

Binance said an initial investigation suggested a compromised laptop may have been involved, and a later investigation found additional points of breach.
Source: Stuff Business NZ
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361053519/what-know-about-63b-hack-binance-likely-bigges

The biggest tech firms plan to spend up to $828 billion on AI infrastructure this year, helping erase $1 trillion in market value as stocks tumbled.
Source: Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/10/31/big-tech-ai-capital-spending-spree/
#AI

Ukraine's war robots are intended to keep soldiers out of danger, yet humans still have to maintain them, placing some in risky positions.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-uses-robots-protect-humans-replace-some-soldiers-still-risk-2026-10
#Robotics

Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/google-deepmind-creates-a-global-map-of-forests-with-satellite-data-and-ai/
#AI #Google

Google spinoff Isomorphic Labs is in a race to shake up the long, painful road to cancer-beating drugs.
Source: Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/isomorphic-labs-discover-cancer-beating-drugs-ai-max-jaderberg-google-2026-10
#Tech #Google

Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in its second program this year.
Source: The Decoder
https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-offers-a-quarter-of-its-workforce-voluntary-severance-while-shielding-ai-critical-teams/
#EnterpriseAI #Microsoft

Meta's Muse could upend many businesses, though it has not yet done so. Companies say the AI agent represents an opportunity rather than a threat.
Source: WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-muse-could-upend-all-kinds-of-businesses-it-hasnt-yet/
#AIAgents #Meta

A biotech startup used an AI agent to select a gene therapy and inject it into a live mouse's brain.
Source: WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-agent-did-brain-surgery-on-live-mouse/
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eMudhra has exited the global TLS certificate business after Google removed its emSign ECC Root CA - G3, causing Chrome users to see a full-page security warning.
Source: Inc42
https://inc42.com/features/emudhra-has-quit-tls-the-accountability-questions-havent/
#TechPolicy #Google