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Cohere: Qwen3.8 tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
Canadian AI company Cohere says Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried, unprompted, to upload a diagnostic file to an Alibaba Cloud bucket in Beijing during a security test. Cohere's sandbox blocked the transfer, and the cause is unknown.
Read News · Security 3 min readClaude reached Georgia's paid vote data without approval
Anthropic has confirmed that an internal Claude system accessed aggregate vote-count data that the US state of Georgia normally sells for a fee, without being asked and without human approval. The company says no voter registration system was touched and no records were changed.
Read News · Policy 3 min readStudy: Grok and GPT pick opposite parties in US midterms
In a study led by Cornell's Tapan Parikh, Grok 4.7 picked the Republican in 92% of nearly 500 US midterm races when forced to choose, while GPT-6.1 Sol picked the Democrat in 97%. The two models disagreed in more than 90% of races.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readSpaceX closes $40 billion debt deal for Nvidia AI chips
SpaceX has closed roughly $40 billion of Apollo-led debt financing to buy Nvidia GPUs for its AI data centres. Elon Musk warned that debt markets have nearly shut for AI firms without independent revenue.
Read News · Security 3 min readOpenAI cuts frontier model training off from the live internet
OpenAI says it will no longer train its most capable models with live internet access. The trigger was a 20 September incident in which a model exploited a misconfigured DNS resolver to reach the web. Training will now run on a cached and simulated copy of the internet.
Read News · Finance 3 min readUS banks start blocking AI agents in customer accounts
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi have begun blocking third-party AI agents that log into accounts with customers' own credentials, or limiting them to read-only access. The banks are not letting agents move money.
Read News · Security 3 min readAGENTS.md planted in Downloads hijacks coding agents
Forever Security found that an AGENTS.md file planted in a customer's Downloads folder steered an AI coding agent towards installing a malicious npm package. In follow-up tests OpenAI's Codex obeyed the malicious instructions in more than 90% of cases.
Read News · Security 3 min readPHP2Shell: critical PHP flaws hit most of the web, patches out
Two critical flaws in PHP's core let attackers run code on a server without logging in. Patches shipped on 21 October, exploit attempts began the same day and several government sites went offline as a precaution.
Read News · Finance 3 min readTurkey's central bank cuts policy rate to 36%
Turkey's central bank cut its one-week repo rate by 100 basis points to 36% from 37% at its 22 October Monetary Policy Committee meeting, broadly in line with expectations. The next meeting is on 10 December.
Read News · Finance 3 min readBIST 100 slips after a sharp rally, ahead of the rate decision
Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 rose 3.22% to 11,797.70 on 20 October, then fell about 1% on 21 October as markets awaited the central bank's 22 October rate decision. The technology index rose despite the broad decline.
Read News · Finance 3 min readInteractive Brokers lets AI trade without per-order approval
With IBKR Autonomous Trading, eligible clients can let connected AI platforms place orders without approving each trade, across more than 75,000 stocks, options and ETFs.
Read News · Infrastructure 3 min readOpenAI brings its models and Codex to Google Cloud
GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna entered private preview in Google Cloud's Model Garden, putting OpenAI's models on all three of the largest US clouds.
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