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| • Binance says North Korean hackers stole $6.3B through a months-long scheme with fake LinkedIn job interviews and an ad campaign to deliver malicious software (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
• ChatGPT Consumer Product Lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is now ~20% of Google's (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
• Google plans to make it easier to restrict its AI tools for students in early 2027, but says schools that block AI entirely will lose student access to Search (New York Times)
• CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
• Sources: Anthropic has told investors in recent meetings that its 15-person chip design team is using Claude for engineering and design work on its custom chips (The Information)
• iPad mini (2026) review: great OLED display, it's waterproof and dustproof, and the A20 Pro is fast, but it's expensive, has no 120Hz display, and lacks Face ID (David Pierce/The Verge)
• New England-based autonomous submarine startup Corridian emerges from stealth with a $38M seed led by Point72 Ventures and plans to unveil its first AUV in 2027 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
• Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $3.74B, vs. $3.75B est., GMV up 29% to $119.15B, net income up 75% to $462M, and adjusted EPS of $0.49; SHOP falls 9%+ (Adriano Marchese/Wall Street Journal)
• US data center operators and power developers are repurposing jet engines to secure power in as little as two years, bypassing multi-year grid-connection delays (New York Times)
• John Ternus' first earnings call was a timid, scripted affair, as Apple faces a challenging Christmas quarter and a difficult 2027; AAPL falls 3%+ (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
• Chainalysis and Elliptic expect North Korean hackers to take months to launder the stolen Binance funds, using crypto swapping services and DeFi lending markets (Financial Times)
• OpenAI hires ex-US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to oversee national security modernization, as it pushes to secure government contracts and shape military policy (Gareth Vipers/Wall Street Journal)
• China plans to roll out broad AI safety standards covering development through deployment, targeting domestic AI model makers, after global security incidents (Bloomberg)
• The UK NCSC says AI is "transforming cyber operations" and expects China and Russia to "routinely use AI cyber to achieve their geopolitical goals" by 2028 (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)
• Google severs ties with and bans Android TV box maker Videostrong after finding it intentionally preloaded malware to open a backdoor to control the XCPE botnet (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
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• NASA's Swift observatory is expected to return to Earth on November 4
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