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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met 50 Samsung executives in South Korea on Oct 31 to discuss AI's future and secure RAM for data centers due to growing demand and chip shortages.

Elon Musk states Neuralink's second product, 'BlindSight', is ready to cure blindness and is awaiting regulatory approval.

Lenovo’s ThinkPlus FU100 fingerprint USB drive contained an unencrypted SD card; Codex also found fixed keys in other 'secure' USB products.

San Bernardino County deploys autonomous Seneca firefighting drones with 500-gallon foam payload to stop 90% of fires before 10 sq ft.

USAF successfully tested dropping SpaceX Starfall cargo drop pods from space, enabling U.S. forces to resupply quickly and safely.

Bolt Graphics successfully completed a test run of its simulation-centric Zeus GPU.

French lawmakers approved a €0.055/gigabyte internet tax, estimated to generate €10B annually, affecting Google, Meta, Netflix, TikTok.

Intel shifts capacity to server CPUs, expanding chipmaking in U.S., Ireland, Malaysia to meet AI data center demand amid a shrinking PC market.

Boom's supersonic airliner may be delayed as the company shifts focus to powering AI data centers, losing a customer.

Intel's gloomy PC outlook wiped $1 trillion from semiconductor market capitalization in one day, barely affecting Apple.

Google is testing a new Gemini 4 Carbon checkpoint on Arena, with early testers reporting it's faster and stronger for 3D/Three.js than Argon.

Nace AI open-sourced Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52, running locally on Apple Silicon.

DeepSeek open-sourced dsh-superagent, an MIT-licensed router-worker coding agent. Simulation showed p95 task completion fell from 29.5 to 15.7 minutes.

Factory released Droid 1.0, a coding agent harness, scoring 65.2% with Claude Opus 5.5 at $4.73 per task on Terminal-Bench 4.

Vercel Labs open-sourced agent-desktop, an Apache-2.0 Rust CLI, enabling AI agents computer use on macOS, Windows, Linux via accessibility trees.

Grok Bot 1.0.0 is downloadable; SpaceX AI develops Teams access, a Tasks tab, and potential texting support.

Privacy-focused AI assistant Ollie is shutting down in a week due to increased market competition.

AI spending boom faces scrutiny as Big Tech's billions in AI infrastructure lead to debt, negative cash flow, and investor skepticism.

Microsoft Research & UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that cuts coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench.

Samaya AI's 3B-Active Sterling model scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61/question, beating Claude Fable 5.1's 55.9% at $6.89, an 11x lower cost for finance research.

Alpine Linux rebuilt its GitLab server and reset passwords after hackers attempted an RCE attack exploiting a GitLab vulnerability on Oct 20-21.

A critical CVSS 10.0 flaw in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud allows attackers to impersonate trusted clients via HTTPS API with only their public certificate, bypassing private keys.

Hackers stole $2.7 million from Polymarket traders on Oct 29 by hijacking a DebugBear script, selling positions and moving funds. Polymarket is refunding.

Kaspersky details NetamLoader malware targeting custom government Windows 10 systems in Asia via a "highly sophisticated infection chain" using .NET injection.

Northflank security breach led to unauthorized use of customer AI API keys; customers must rotate all credentials.

Chainalysis confirmed a cyber intrusion accessed non-sensitive customer identity data, but not investigation content or credentials.

CISA added 2 Ivanti Connect Secure flaws, including CVE-2026-111357, to its KEV catalog, actively exploited for unauthenticated root access.

Anthropic researchers developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel flaw, allowing remote root attacks on MPTCP servers.

Two serious security issues hit Cursor, including a trojanized Claude code extension, highlighting risks for AI-powered IDEs.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers used AI-powered ARTEX, a Go-based pentesting framework, to target over 200 organizations globally. CrowdStrike attributed the activity.

Broadcom noted "novel vulnerabilities," granting TrueSource Spring Enterprise users early fix access.

Agentic AI incidents show real credentials & permissions led to unauthorized actions, highlighting complex design challenges.

Sovereign AI is a boardroom mandate, driven by digital independence, national security, and multi-billion-dollar government subsidies globally, redefining IT geopolitics.

Ransomware attacks on government agencies surged 91% in a year, according to Comparitech's observations.

Only 3% of companies report AI cost savings; over one-third of AI projects ran over budget, though leaders remain bullish on investment.

Oracle plans usage-based AI charges for its Fusion enterprise applications, billing per AI task completed instead of per seat, to grow revenue.

AI project governance is now a hidden cost, spanning IT, security, legal, risk & data. Late control retrofitting can add months of delays & double costs.

Governing the exploding workforce of AI agents is the new challenge, mitigating enterprise risk as agents become more active.

Gartner warns $3.5T in AI infrastructure spending by 2030 is at risk, predicting a potential bubble burst and consolidation.

Security leaders brace for public key infrastructure overhaul due to rising quantum risks, impacting cryptography, governance, and investment.

Visa and Senegal's Ministry of Telecommunications signed a two-year MoU for digital transformation collaboration.

Digital wallets in emerging markets need to support identity, savings, and remittances.

Bank of England aims to integrate climate risk into collateral management.

PE firm CD&R targets a buyout of payments processor Global Payments, valued at $40 billion, according to the Financial Times.

The ECB selected two network service providers to connect PSPs and national central banks to its digital euro service platform.

Ripple's Trust-Bank plans and their potential implications for XRP.

Goldman Sachs has joined Equilend's DLT-based securities lending platform, 1Source.

Visa and Tencent inked an MoU for agentic commerce and cross-border payments, following Visa's regulatory green light in China.

Bank of England consults on central counterparties (CCPs) accepting tokenized eligible collateral, supporting central clearing.

Former Swift CEO Lázaro Campos joined stablecoin firm OpenTrade as chair of its board of directors.

Solar and wind power are helping previously unprofitable cranberry bogs and other farmers become profitable, addressing agricultural challenges.

Europe saw record BEV demand in Sept 2026, reaching 31% market share with 422,000 registered cars, a 63% YoY increase.

Katoen Natie added two electric mobile harbour cranes at Port of Antwerp; fleet will have four 200-tonne & two 150-tonne, max 400-tonne lift.

Countries at COP17 in Yerevan completed the first "global review" of progress towards reversing nature loss by 2030.

A Tesla Semi caught fire on Interstate 880 in Hayward, California, raising safety concerns for EV Class 8 trucks.

By Sept 2026, over 16% of new utility-scale solar capacity added this year is co-located with battery storage, up from 2% in 2017.

Fuel from bamboo costs just $2.75 per gallon, highlighting its potential for internal combustion engines.

T&E supports the European Commission's pragmatic EU ETS transport proposal, including scope extensions and tech support for aviation & shipping, during its review of ETS and MSR.

Tech giant Meta backs low-carbon cement producer Fortera with a multi-year EAC (Emissions Avoidance Certificate) deal.

TPG raised $10.4 billion for climate funds, including $2.5 billion for the Global South, for its climate-focused strategies.

Salesforce reportedly acquired AI logistics startup Rune for $375M, strengthening its Missionforce defense platform.

AI law firm Crosby bids on the famed Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges as it faces demise.

This week's 10 biggest funding rounds include manufacturing startup Re:Build ($2.1B) and predictions marketplace Kalshi ($1B), led by physical AI.

Travel tech funding is nearing a multiyear low, with investor appetite cooling despite an AI push, according to Crunchbase data.

Hustle Fund advised a portfolio founder to shut down his company, crediting his early, honest updates as the reason he'd receive another check.

Keith Rabois' Vertical AI rules: leverage improving frontier models, use model routing for workflows, and own data loops & private data to recapture margin.

The behavior of 16,000 users in traditional Google search is a poor predictor of their behavior in AI Search.

Agent identity startup Mintive, founded by ex-Google Brain/Coursera engineers, landed investments from Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, Jeff Dean, and Andrej Karpathy.

AI megarounds mask a shrinking Series A market, leaving seed startups facing higher revenue expectations and longer timelines.

The 90% gross margin era is over for AI companies; they need new economics pitches as customer service costs are higher with AI.

Amazon's Q3 ad revenue growth decelerated due to Prime Day moved to June and a lack of NBA content. AI agents aren't disrupting it yet.

Over 25% of CMOs hired this year have AI skills, compared to 9% four years ago, reflecting a changing role per Findem & CMO Huddles data.

Algorithmic pricing based on shopper (personalized pricing) carries greater legal risk than dynamic pricing, affecting promo codes and retargeted offers.

Google's AI Mode sends 57% of product links to Google Shopping, with 46.5% of US product answers linking only to Google pages, keeping shoppers in its ecosystem.

Instagram launched long-form video. Brands should prioritize short-form Reels over 60 seconds to build audience & engagement before using the new format.

Warner Bros. uses Amazon's ad ecosystem for 'Cat in the Hat,' including a mobile game, Alexa integration, Twitch, Prime Video, and IMDb.

Meta attributes improved ad results to expanded processing capacity and AI enhancements, driving clicks and conversions.

Google's AI overhaul of search caused ad revenue growth to cool in Q3, despite a jump in query volume.

Disney plans a TikTok Shop holiday experience in November, featuring products from Disney Store, Old Navy, Crocs, and ColourPop.

Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs reshape US spending: 11% of adults use them, boosting clothing (26%) and jewelry (36%) sales, while fast-food spending drops nearly 9%.

Chainalysis reports Binance hack launders moved to Solana after draining $500 million on Tron across 1,000+ addresses and 3,000+ deposits.

Buying Pendle principal tokens at a discount can yield a return at maturity, while early selling introduces market prices, fees, and asset risk.

Binance opens phase one withdrawals after the $6.3 billion hack, which the FBI attributes to North Korea.

Kraken's June 2026 Proof of Reserves separates customer balance inclusion from wallet control, but neither guarantees solvency or withdrawal access.

The FBI blames North Korea for the record $6.3 billion Binance hack and seeks private-sector help to stop money laundering.

THORChain swaps are paused on 12 chains due to a refund error; outbound signing is enabled, but new swaps are blocked.

Binance has replenished 90% of stolen assets, targeting Sunday withdrawals, with less-liquid tokens making up the remaining shortfall.

The $6.3B Binance hack, the biggest crypto heist ever, sparked pre-election political clashes.

CFTC Chair Michael Selig states the $6.4B Binance hack highlights need for US oversight & cybersecurity standards for offshore exchanges.

Tether's Q3 profit hit $1.5B, nearly doubling excess reserves to $8B; Bitcoin reserves were $8.37B in Sept.

The University of Frontier Technology, Bangladesh and GoPlane Limited yesterday (31 October) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to improve the quality of higher education, expand research and innovation, and better align university education with industry needs. Representatives of both organ

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Sixteen Uzbek green technology startups presented their projects at the Green Youth Cup final, with three selected for a trip to Web Summit Qatar 2027.

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