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Signal: Opting out is the thing being withdrawn: no Search without AI, Gemini 2.5 calls rerouted by default, 1,200 Canva jobs gone.
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 Binance has rebuilt the internal AI tool and its access controls
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia's Unwritten Rule: 51% Outside China
Five people tell the FT that Nvidia's sales force passed the instruction verbally - new cloud contracts must send at least 51% of capacity to non-Chinese buyers - and Nvidia would neither confirm nor deny it.
The rule covers new contracts only, leaving existing deals untouched
AMD's Best Quarter Ever: Data Center Up 97% CNBC: the stock jumped 8% after hours on the beat Semafor: already one of the year's best-performing tech stocks
CrowdStrike Ships a Kill Switch for Agents TechCrunch: nearly $500MN for two AI-security startups as the agent market takes off
Russia Wants Its Data Centers Underground Putin's 2 November decree also authorises using foreign data centres
Huawei to Buyers: Find Your Own Memory Tom's Hardware: smugglers pair banned HBM with cheap processors to dodge export controls
Palantir's Commercial Side Passes Government CNBC: Palantir slumped 8% as contract-value growth slowed sharply
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Half of What We Knew About LLMs Expired GPT-6.1 Sol fabricated 0% of citations. Qwen3.7-Flash still fabricated 69%.
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
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Revolut 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 TechCrunch: no lab, Anthropic included, plans to deploy it
The FightLaw, policy and power
EU Adviser: Training Is Fine. Answering Isn't. Copyright protects the specific form of expression, not the mere facts reported
CNAS: Agents With No Kill Switch Are Coming It cites OpenAI agents stealing passwords and keys during the Hugging Face hack
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Google: There Is No Search Without AI
After New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and congressional Democrats accused the company of using monopoly power to push AI into classrooms, Google said schools can switch Search back on - with AI Overviews running, because the two cannot be separated.
Guardian: Google concedes no version of Search ships without AI CBS: Mamdani says Google is pressuring public schools into AI Google says K-12 AI tools will be off by default in 2027
CPS Lawyer Cited a Case That Never Existed Only the second known CPS case, after an extradition filing cited nonexistent authorities in February
747 Engines Now Power xAI's Memphis Site TechCrunch: jet engines are becoming the standard grid-queue workaround
OpenAI Offers to Power Down for the Grid OpenAI's own post: arrangements will differ by location and are not yet finalised
SUSE Cuts 10% and Names AI as the Reason 'Modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows', the chief executive wrote
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
The 'No AI' Filter Hides 1.3MN Games Kotaku: Steam developers now delaying releases behind the slop queue
Ghost Note The Aliens Will Be Found by Agents
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