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Tom Westbrook / Reuters:
TRM Labs attributes the Binance hack to North Korea-based TraderTraitor, which drained ~$6.36B from Binance wallets across 10 blockchains, mostly in ~20 minutes  —  North Korean hackers were behind a $6.3 billion raid on cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to US blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs.
Financial Times:
Chainalysis says Binance hackers used automated money-laundering patterns not seen before; Elliptic: almost all of the $6.3B was taken in the first 30 minutes  —  North Korean hackers' attack on Binance takes crypto theft to an unprecedented scale  —  The largest financial theft in history took no more than 30 minutes.
Rajveer Singh Pardesi / Reuters:
Binance says it has reserved $6.34B+ in company funds, including $5B already held in impacted token assets, to deal with the fallout from the $6.3B hack  —  Binance said on Friday it has reserved more than $6.34 billion in company funds, including $5 billion already held in impacted token assets …
@binance:
Binance reveals that a follow-up investigation has found “additional points of breach” beyond a possibly compromised laptop and says this was a “complex attack”
The Block:
Binance says initial investigation suggests a compromised DevOps laptop may have enabled a ~$6.3B hack; Tether froze 1.5B+ USDT and Circle froze 800M+ USDC
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South China Morning Post:
Binance pledges to cover all losses from a ~$6.3B hack, potentially the largest crypto theft ever, surpassing the $1.5B Bybit hack in February 2025
George Steer / Financial Times:
Binance “temporarily suspended” all deposits and withdrawals as it investigates security issues and works with law enforcement; Binance.US says it's unaffected
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have a collective $3T+ in AI spending commitments over the coming years, including Alphabet's $1T and Meta's $800B  —  The five largest players in the data center race have committed more than $3 trillion in spending over the coming years …
Patturaja Murugaboopathy / Reuters:
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle returned just 9.3% of cash to shareholders in the first three quarters of 2026, a 15-year low amid AI spending  —  The biggest US technology companies generated record amounts of cash in the first nine months of 2026, yet returned the smallest share …
CNBC:
Intel stock closed down 28.58% on Friday, its worst day since the 1970s and wiping ~$12B off US government's stake, after issuing weaker-than-expected guidance  —  Intel shares plummeted 29% on Friday, their worst day since the 1970s, after the chipmaker issued weaker-than-expected guidance due …
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI now seeks ~$20B at a $1.25T valuation for its latest round, from $30B at a $1.4T valuation, as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff  —  ChatGPT maker is now seeking about $20bn at a $1.25tn valuation as it tempers its ambitions  —  OpenAI has slashed the target …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks  —  The ChatGPT maker's latest funding round values it at $1.25 trillion, less than its $1.4 trillion target
Caleigh Keating / CNBC:
Reddit closed down 29.27% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after it forecast weak Q4 revenue  —  Shares of Reddit cratered 29.22% on Friday, the worst drop since becoming a public company in 2024, after the company forecast weak fourth-quarter sales in its latest earnings report.
Reuters:
OpenAI tightens limits on the weapons-related information that ChatGPT provides teens, even when a question appears harmless, as part of new safeguards  —  OpenAI said on Friday it is tightening limits on the weapons-related information ChatGPT provides to teens, even when a question appears harmless …
More: NewsMax.com
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Filing: Vancouver, WA-based Powerlattice, which makes a power delivery chiplet to reduce AI compute power needs by 50%+, raised $86M, after raising $31M in 2025  —  Powerlattice, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup developing chips that cut the power demands of AI processors, has raised $86 million, according to an SEC filing on Friday.
More: Unite.AI
Claude / @claudeai:
Anthropic renames its $100 per month Max 5x plan as Max and the $200 per month Max 20x plan as Ultra, and removes the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts  —  We're renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you're a subscriber, there's nothing you need to do. We're also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts ke...

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Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users

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Kevin Collier / NBC News:
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