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Archive November 3, 2026 21:12 UTC
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Signal: Control is the question: Binance breached through its own AI tool, a kill switch for sale, a lab warning the SEC it may outrun itself.
Binance's Own AI Tool Helped Take $6.43BN
Binance's post-mortem traces the record $6.43BN theft to a trojanized Homebrew installer an engineer downloaded while hunting an AI tool, a fake job interview that planted malware on a second engineer, and abuse of an internal AI tool to reach a third.
Engineer B was told to download an 'assignment' by a fake company's CEO The signing service was reached on 29 October between 17:15 and 19:56 Binance has rebuilt the internal AI tool and its access controls

NEWRussia Wants Its Data Centers Underground Putin's 2 November decree also authorises using foreign data centres
Only 14 of 4,110 IPOs Priced This High Compute and infrastructure costs rose 77% to $9.9BN, half of it bought short-term
Anthropic: We May Imminently Cross Our Own Red Line
Monday's amended S-1 says internal estimates indicate Anthropic may imminently meet its Responsible Scaling Policy threshold for 'dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI' - and that it has in the past failed to notice such an acceleration until after it occurred.
Gizmodo: the sentence is new - the 26 October version made no such claim Claude now writes over 90% of Anthropic's own code, the filing says
Gemini 4 Carbon Beats Opus 5.5 by One Point It still loses to Claude Code on programming and to Grok 4.7 on knowledge work
NEWHalf of What We Knew About LLMs Expired GPT-6.1 Sol fabricated 0% of citations. Qwen3.7-Flash still fabricated 69%.
Workbench Weekly podcast Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026 · 18:02
NEWRevolut Dropped Claude. Its AI Bill Fell 90%.
Revolut made a self-hosted Chinese open-weight model the default for 2,000 engineers and cut inference costs about 90% - and its infrastructure lead says the gains came from engineers stopping worrying about tokens, not from faster code.
'Long context is a scam' - 256K is what you actually need Self-hosting cost about a tenth of Codex or Claude Code
Proof That the Model You Paid For Answered Rerunning the model to check is impractical when the weights are private
NEW91% of Constraints, 41% Shippable Each task averages 61 files - PDFs, CAD drawings, BIM models, superseded revisions
EU Adviser: Training Is Fine. Answering Isn't. Copyright protects the specific form of expression, not the mere facts reported
NEWCNAS: Agents With No Kill Switch Are Coming It cites OpenAI agents stealing passwords and keys during the Hugging Face hack
Google to Schools: Ban AI, Lose Search
Google is revoking Search access from schools that block AI entirely, its education VP told the New York Times: students at those schools 'will not have access to search' and will see a message from the school instead.
Google will let schools restrict AI for students in early 2027 'Search and AI are deeply integrated', Google's education VP says
Ghost Note The Aliens Will Be Found by Agents