Crypto exchange Binance has suffered a $6.3 billion hack, the largest to hit the digital-asset industry and the latest in a slew of security incidents afflicting the financial sector.
U.S. officials found that a Chinese businesswoman with close ties to Nvidia's chief allegedly passed intelligence to Beijing, according to The New York Times. The newspaper reported that President Trump was briefed but took no action, while Tom's Hardware identified the woman as Alice Huang, an executive at an Nvidia cloud partner.
Polymarket stopped trading on its international exchange on Thursday after it said that a third-party software provider was compromised.
The acquisition brings together the largest US restaurant delivery service and its biggest online grocery platform, expanding DoorDash’s grocery business through Instacart’s marketplace and retailer relationships. Most of the purchase will be paid in cash financed through borrowing, according to The Information, which reported that sale talks emerged just days earlier.
- Bloomberg reports DoorDash moved its earnings release forward by almost a week.
Chipmaker forecasts lower than expected PC chip sales and falling margins
The multimodal model is available on Hugging Face, and Mistral says it leads open models in agentic coding and cyber defense. According to The Next Web, the release follows a preview three weeks earlier and includes additional reinforcement learning guided by customer feedback during that period.
- Large 4 is also called Le Chonk.
- Mistral says the model was trained in Europe.
Joshua Kushner's Thrive Holdings will pay cash for the home security provider. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027 and remove ADT from public markets, according to The Verge. Bloomberg describes it as one of the largest investments by the offshoot of Kushner's venture firm.
Amazon's cloud signed deals with Meta and OpenAI during the quarter, helping revenue to exceed consensus.
The startup develops AI software that enables robots to perform real-world tasks. The proposed valuation would nearly double its previous value, according to Bloomberg. Quartz reports that Physical Intelligence is seeking at least $1 billion, with existing investors Avenir and Lux Capital discussing whether to lead the funding round.
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreement, which resolves a complaint from a coalition of 36 US attorneys general, requires GM to limit the driving data it collects and obtain "express consent" from
Rivian reported its third quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it ramps up production of its all-important R2 electric vehicle - which is now, for the first time, outselling all of Rivian's other EVs. Rivian said it brought in $2.155 billion in revenue, a 38 percent
The offering could include as many as 10 tranches with maturities of two to 40 years, according to Bloomberg, which said the final size could change with demand. Quartz reports that Microsoft's filing assigns the proceeds to general corporate purposes, while The Information links the fundraising to ongoing AI spending.
The site has such a passionate user base that, within two hours of the announcement, its status page's posts had garnered millions of views (and much panicked commentary) across social media.
The legendary British actor was known for his roles as Jean-Luc Picard in the "Star Trek" franchise and Professor Charles Xavier in the "X-Men" films.
Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF previews/editing works on both the web and mobile, all other file formats are only in
Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.
Customers can use Alexa to manage shopping lists and subscriptions through conversation. TechCrunch reports that users can create lists and add or edit items, while Amazon says the expanded capabilities also cover holiday gift lists, baby registries and refund tracking. Android Authority reports support for billing complaints as well.
Kalshi said it has raised $1 billion in funding at a $40 billion valuation after the investment in a round led by Wellington and Sequoia, confirming an August report from The Information.
Nvidia is in talks to provide Nscale, a young AI cloud provider, with billions of dollars in credit guarantees for debt to develop a 460-megawatt data center that Anthropic plans to use, according to people with knowledge of the deal discussions. The deal is not yet signed, and terms could change.
Cohere Inc., an artificial intelligence model maker, is in the process of raising a large funding round at a $20.5 billion valuation, roughly tripling its value from a year ago.
The commitments cover computing, energy and data centres and sit outside Alphabet’s balance sheet, according to The Next Web’s account of its quarterly filing. Bloomberg reports that more than a third of the quarterly increase in Alphabet’s backlog of unfulfilled cloud contracts came from a joint venture it partly owns.
The company is developing software that lets groups interact with AI agents to coordinate activities and make collective decisions, according to Bloomberg. Unite.AI reports that IVP led the funding round, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Forerunner and the Amazon Alexa Fund, as well as several individual investors.
- TechCrunch reports that Wabi now describes itself as a personal agent.
Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit the Remote Access SSL VPN service to force affected firewalls to restart, interrupting access. The vulnerability has a CVSS severity score of 8.6 and is being exploited in the wild. Cisco has released security updates for its Secure Firewall ASA and FTD software.
- SecurityWeek calls it the second exploited Cisco firewall VPN zero-day since August.
Investment in AI and consumer spending helped fuel economic growth, according to the Financial Times, which reported that the result exceeded forecasts. PYMNTS reported that real GDP growth accelerated, with gross private domestic investment, including information processing equipment, contributing to the expansion, citing Bureau of Economic Analysis data.
In September, Amazon blocked Meta’s popular new AI assistant from accessing its online store.
Daily develops Pipecat, an open-source framework for voice agents. Its team will join Deepgram, and the framework will remain free under its existing BSD V2 license, according to Unite.AI. That publisher reports that Deepgram announced the acquisition at its first Speak event in San Francisco on October 29, 2026.
The funding values the company at $3 billion as it seeks to extend its automation agents beyond IT, according to SiliconANGLE. Its platform lets employees describe workflows in plain language for AI agents to turn into automations, the publication reports. Sequoia led the Series C round, according to Unite.AI.
- Forbes reports Ramp and Notion use Serval for tasks including password resets and app access.
- According to Unite.AI, this was Serval’s third funding round in 12 months.
US military criminal investigators are examining the failure of food storage freezers across several military facilities, following similar outages in Europe caused by a cyberattack, an Army official said.
The streamer also has an Assassin's Creed series in the works, along with a Gears of War feature film.
OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.
S&P 500 futures fell 0.3% at 7:39 a.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg. The Next Web reported that Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 1.2% early Thursday as Alphabet shares fell and Microsoft rose following results, with investors weighing AI spending against how quickly it generates returns.
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
Ubisoft shared some updates on the franchise, including confirmation of a New Game+ option for Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Vertu Capital led the funding, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures participating. Solink uses existing cameras in stores, restaurants and warehouses to extract business information with AI. The Ottawa company aims to move beyond surveillance into broader business intelligence for physical locations.
- Solink serves 35,000 locations across 65 countries, according to The Next Web.
- The company began selling cloud video surveillance in 2009, according to SiliconANGLE.
The X symbol has been unused on US exchanges since Nippon Steel acquired US Steel last year, according to The Next Web. The outlet reports that SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a merger and investors see Musk as a potential claimant, though he has not announced plans to use the ticker.
- Only five single-letter US tickers remain available, according to The Next Web.
The Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive needs more work on its rules and balance, according to Engadget. Wccftech reports that the announcement ends a period of silence from the studio following an earlier release of information about the game after its closed beta held in August.
Attackers increasingly used short, frequent bursts rather than relying only on large traffic floods, Cloudflare's third-quarter 2026 report found. Network-layer attacks reached 18.2 million, more than triple the year-earlier total, while the largest attacks declined nearly 69%, according to SiliconANGLE's coverage of the report from Cloudflare's Cloudforce One threat intelligence unit.
The company is building a platform that uses specialists' judgment to evaluate and improve enterprise agents, including decisions about when to ask questions or escalate tasks. Benchstrength and Misneach led the funding round, with Analog Ventures and Pareto Holdings participating, according to SiliconANGLE's report on the launch.
- The company emerged from stealth on October 29 with an oversubscribed round, according to RuntimeWire.
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.
An AI company wants to build two underwater data centers that could negatively impact endangered whale populations.
Hey, that's not what Magic Eraser is supposed to do!
Bites delivers short lessons to frontline employees through mobile channels, with a focus on connecting training to business results. According to CTech, the platform converts company procedures into branded videos distributed through WhatsApp, Teams and other channels, and the company plans to expand in the United States.
The campaign used a platform feature rather than an exploit to distribute malware, according to The Next Web. Unite.AI reports that Pluto identified 31 malicious repositories across seven Hugging Face accounts and a ModelScope mirror. The campaign recorded 29,818 downloads, a count that does not establish infections or unique victims, according to Unite.AI.
- Including 13 linked repositories raises recorded downloads to 32,376, according to Unite.AI.
An MVNO arrangement would let SpaceX offer wireless service using another company's cellular network. According to Wccftech, T-Mobile's CEO sees no additional addressable market from such a deal and says the carrier still has substantial growth opportunities in US urban areas, where satellite coverage is limited.
- T-Mobile aims to be first to offer 6G in the US, according to Light Reading.
The US Federal Trade Commission and a group of eight states sued Toast Inc., alleging the restaurant management and financial technology company falsely told customers they could try its products for free before enrolling them in a subscription that was difficult to cancel.
The limited-edition Zelda 40th anniversary Switch 2 console and Pro controller launch today, according to Tom's Guide, which is tracking availability across major retailers. The Shortcut reports that Walmart is expected to receive a console restock today, rather than confirming that stock is already available.
Following last week’s release, Google is rolling out Android 17 QPR3 Beta 3 to Pixel devices today. It’s another big bug fixer. more
The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.
The platform will soon require users to log in to view its content to prevent scraping and better target ads.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed that it had been weaponized by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks targeting the U.S. legal sector.
The Hisense UR8 RGB MiniLED is more affordable than competitors and offers exceptional color accuracy, but is otherwise just OK.
Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the United States.
"Meta’s smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users’ and bystanders’ privacy," a letter sent to Meta from Ron Wyden and Edward Markey says.
Coinbase reported third-quarter revenue of $1.2 billion, down 35% from a year ago and roughly flat from its revenues in the second quarter, as trading activity in the broader crypto market cooled. Its prediction markets business surpassed $200 million in annualized revenue.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he wants to find a way "to do this that is as sensitive to the communities that have driven these fields forward."
The results, published in SpaceX’s last quarter results, sparked fears over the intense concentration of the tech market.
The malware targets network controllers and is designed to copy traffic encryption keys for later use, according to Cisco Talos, as reported by The Hacker News. That report says the flaw was fixed in February. Cyber Security News identifies it as CVE-2026-20127, which allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access.
- Cyber Security News reports a maximum CVSS severity score of 10.0.
- Talos describes the attacks as historical without specifying dates, according to The Hacker News.
Demand for memory chips used in AI infrastructure helped lift Samsung Electronics' quarterly operating profit to 107.4 trillion won, compared with 12.2 trillion won a year earlier. The Next Web says the third-quarter figures confirm preliminary results released earlier in the month. Samsung's shares nevertheless fell, according to Quartz.
Intel has agreed to acquire Israeli quantum software company Classiq, as CEO Lip-Bu Tan positions quantum computing as a "third pillar" alongside CPUs and GPUs. The deal, whose price has not been disclosed, is reportedly valued at about US$2.3 billion and is expected to close in the first half of 2027, according to Reuters.
Baseten released joey-1, a 2B open-weights “decision model” that returns an answer and a probability rather than text. It costs $0.01 per million tokens and answers in about 20ms, Baseten says.
The attacks in Bulgaria and Romania’s exclusive economic zones threaten a global shipping route and left two people dead, with at least 25 still missing.
Finnish police opened a criminal investigation Thursday into Google’s work on a planned data center in northern Finland after the company cleared hundreds of acres of forest without completing required environmental reviews.
The Hamburg startup targets components such as 3D-printed rocket engines and gas turbines, according to The Next Web. The publisher reports that its technology uses particles that penetrate materials blocking X-rays, and that the funding combines €3.5m from private investors with €3.6m in public support, including a Horizon Europe grant.
Users can earn rewards from thousands of U.S. brands, according to Android Authority, while Android Headlines reports that the Wallet perks also allow transfers to friends. Samsung's new virtual Cash Card provides a way to earn and pay within the app and is separate from the Galaxy Card, according to 9to5Google.
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M. Total federal support is now C$5.6M, and the programme has helped 30 firms since 2024.
The extensions had a combined 13.4 million reported installations and routed searches through tracking servers before sending users to Bing or Yahoo, generating advertising revenue. According to Cyber Security News, the campaign operated over a decade, with extensions presented as PDF converters, manual finders, safe search tools and AI search helpers.
The exchange has settled with the Financial Conduct Authority and stopped accepting deposits from British customers, according to CoinDesk. HTX, formerly known as Huobi, has also agreed not to target those customers with cryptocurrency promotions. The Economic Times reports that the exchange is barred from promoting its services in the UK.
Apple is lowering the commission that it collects in Taiwan to 26 percent, down from 30 percent. Apple plans to drop the rate for in-app purchase and paid app transactions on the iOS and iPadOS Taiwan storefront starting on October 31.
The Vetro platform will be installed in every operating room at Hospital Español de Veracruz. It uses cameras and sensors to build a live 3D model of the room, according to The Next Web. The publication says the agreement is the London-based startup’s first deal in Latin America.
- VitVio already has hospital deployments in the United States and Europe, according to Unite.AI.
Bethesda reportedly plans to re-announce The Elder Scrolls VI soon, finally confirming its full name and perhaps more details.
Add textbooks from OpenStax and S Chand to Google Gemini Notebook. Generate custom study guides and quizzes now.
Microsoft offered buyouts to 60,000 employees but expects few to leave. Insiders explain the strategy and why workers are worried.
A leftover component of Popcorn Time may remain active on Macs where the app was installed years ago, according to MacRumors. AppleInsider reports that the abandoned updater could allow attackers to take over affected machines remotely and execute malicious code with full system privileges on those computers.
- Eye Research detailed the discovery in its October 22, 2026 report, according to AppleInsider.
After having been announced all the way back in June of last year, the Trump Mobile T1 Phone finally became available in June of this year, with a new design and changed specs that still aren't anywhere near high-end. Oh, and the price has jumped from $499 to $749 at some point since the release.
"NASA desperately needs SpaceX, and SpaceX knows it, and Elon knows it."
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevents non-admin users from connecting to devices via Remote Desktop when the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled.
Strava expanded its AI integrations with Google Gemini this week, allowing subscribers to get personalized insights based on their workout history. Here are the details. more
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake desktop processors will be the first client product to use Intel's enhanced 18A-P node, CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed in the company's Q3 2026 earnings call.
The platform’s Threads Friends group is similar to Instagram’s Close Friends feature, and allows users to add up to 50 connections.
Some lucky users are reportedly receiving the Pixel 11 Pro Fold as a replacement.
Remote and hybrid employees feature prominently in reports about the decline in Gallup's measure of engagement among U.S. workers. CNBC identifies AI and remote and hybrid work as primary factors, while TechRadar reports that many workers blame AI, particularly those working remotely or on hybrid schedules.
GamesRadar+ recently conducted an interview with Blizzard Entertainment to talk about World of Warcraft: Forever
The layered system monitors for misaligned behavior and unauthorized agent activity so responders can intervene before incidents escalate. According to Unite.AI, coverage extends across training, evaluation, internal use and modified external deployment, following a Hugging Face incident that began during internal cybersecurity evaluations where misalignment monitors were not running.
The file-reading attacks combined clues in published security fixes with an unpublished flaw; Mozilla patched that flaw in Firefox 159, though Epoch has not tested whether the update blocks the attack.
Money to fund the build-out of data centers and GPU purchases
Today’s ( October 29, 2026 ) Google Home release notes detail what’s new in firmware updates for the Chromecast with Google TV and Nest Wifi Pro. more
MMC Ventures led the funding, with Lakestar, Pitchdrive and new investor Shapers also participating. Ravical aims to turn accounting firms' internal expertise into shared AI workflows usable across their clients, according to Unite.AI. The Belgian startup also develops software for tax firms, The Next Web reported.
- More than 100 European accounting firms use the platform, Ravical said, according to The Next Web.
Chinese robot maker Pudu Robotics has opened its European headquarters in Neuss, near Düsseldorf, as it builds out its business across the region. The Shenzhen-based company announced plans for the German site in September, following a showcase of its robots at the IFA trade fair in Berlin.
Ring’s new Battery Doorbell 2K drops to $44.99 on Amazon, with 2K video, 6x zoom, and a 140-degrees head-to-toe view.
Samsung expects memory shortages to worsen in 2027 and has sold its entire HBM supply for that year, according to Wccftech. The publisher reports that customers with long-term agreements have secured up to 70% of capacity, while Android Headlines links the continuing shortage to higher phone costs.
- Wccftech reports quarterly revenue of 195.3 trillion won, up 14% from the previous quarter.
Alpine Linux's Natanael Copa told RuntimeWire an "LLM agent" flagged that the Oct. 22nd upgrade left its GitLab exposed.
AssemblyAI founder Dylan Fox adds speech generation to its transcription platform for $15 per million characters. Production performance at scale remains unproven.
TechRadar describes its selection as the culmination of an ending era for phones. Android Authority contrasts the iPhone 18 Pro with Android’s emphasis on AI, expressing a preference for Apple’s approach while suggesting that the company may lag behind Google in artificial intelligence capabilities.
The enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with key security features turned off.
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger backs new revolutionary RAM technology, aiming to tackle the global memory crisis and end persistent supply shortages, in the long run.
Even emergency calls aren't safe from this silent threat.
AI data centres are creating a growing need for storage, and Fujifilm is betting that one of the oldest technologies in the business still has a place in the future. The Japanese company will invest ¥10 billion (€56 million) to increase its magnetic tape production capacity fivefold.
Most of the S26's AI tools now run on a two-year-old S24 Ultra