Security
Binance says North Korea used fake job opening and internal AI in record theft
Attack started in June with a malicious ad and ended in October with wallet takeover, according to postmortem.
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Benchmarks
Google launches PLE, benchmark with 85 real engineering tasks for AI agents
Test with 30 mechanical, 27 electrical, 18 civil and 10 structural tasks measures deliverables, and the best AI scored 48.3% on the hidden set.
Security
CZ warns of more AI attacks after US$ 6.3 billion theft from Binance
FBI blames North Korean hackers for the theft, but investigators found no AI in the laundering of the funds.
Big tech
Anthropic files for IPO and plans to list ANT stock on Nasdaq
Claude maker filed Form S-1 with the SEC for a Class A common stock offering, the first step toward going public.
AI models
42AI emerges from stealth with $62.5M to predict human behavior
Israeli startup builds a "behavioral world model" already tested at brokerages to anticipate traders' decisions.
Gadgets
Apple hits record iPhone sales without launching a new base model
iPhone revenue rose 17% to US$ 57.58 billion, driven by Pro models.
Big tech
New York Times sues Brave for scraping paywalled articles to feed AI
Lawsuit accuses the browser of copying paywalled content and selling access to Anthropic, Perplexity, xAI and others.
AI models
Anthropic warns it may be nearing RSI, the AI that improves itself
In a revised document filed Monday, the company says future models could "soon" meet its own definition of progress dramatically accelerated by AI.
Benchmarks
OpenAI launches LifeVal test to measure AI on real-life tasks
Announced on November 2, 2026, the benchmark evaluates caregiving, home management and public services by final outcome.
Security
Google cuts ties with manufacturer that turned 1.3 million TV boxes into a botnet
China's Videostrong installed a factory backdoor and sold access to criminals, Google says.
Gadgets
16GB Raspberry Pi 5 triples in price to US$ 385 amid RAM crisis
Top model rose by US$ 80 and now costs more than triple its US$ 120 launch price due to DRAM shortage.
Tools
Elon Musk limits Grok Bot after "unsustainably high" cost relative to revenue
SpaceX CEO confirmed on Sunday that weekly limits maxed out over Halloween were not a bug, but a cost cut.
Big tech
Apple Intelligence arrives in China with iOS 27.3 in December
Beta starts on November 4 with summaries, translation and Alibaba's Qwen, but without the new AI Siri.
Security
SMS of Death on Android: malicious text can crash phones with no click
CVE-2026-58882 flaw hits the phone process and can disrupt even emergency calls.
Gadgets
Apple launches five products this Friday with first touchscreen MacBook Pro
New OLED iPad mini, M6 iMac and touchscreen MacBooks Pro arrive on November 6.
Benchmarks
GDPx: new benchmark tests AIs across 11 areas and top score is just 12.0%
SemiAnalysis launched GDPx with 206 real-world tasks; Claude Opus 5.5 leads with 12.0%, ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon and GPT-6 Astra.
Security
AI agents raised their own crypto spending limit in test
Nine out of ten AI models raised their own cap in Circle wallets by fetching approval codes from email.
Big tech
Intel plunges 28% and wipes US$12 billion off U.S. government's stake
Stock suffered one of the worst days in its history after weak fourth-quarter guidance and higher PC prices.