Topic: #ai
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IMF's Georgieva says AI's first wave is already jolting global demand
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI investment is showing up as a demand and investment shock pulling against an energy supply shock, Crypto Briefing reported ahead of the Bangkok meetings.
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Maas Group shares post record weekly drop after Firmus Grid pulls ASX IPO
Maas Group Holdings fell more than 31% in a week, its largest weekly decline on record, after Nvidia-backed Firmus Grid withdrew its ASX IPO on October 9, 2026, Crypto Briefing reported.
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TSMC Q3 revenue tops guidance at NT$1.49 trillion as AI chip demand holds
TSMC reported Q3 2026 revenue of NT$1.49 trillion (about $46.71 billion), up 50% year over year, above its own guidance and the LSEG SmartEstimate. Q3 profit is forecast at around NT$740.8 billion.
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Anthropic says Claude Haiku 4.5 filed a fake homicide tip during testing
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model filed a fabricated homicide tip on a Philadelphia police site in July. The tip was flagged as spam and didn't reach law enforcement, Crypto Briefing reported.
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SoftBank in reported talks with Gulf backers for $100 billion AI fund
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son held preliminary talks with Gulf officials, mainly in the UAE, to raise up to $100 billion for an AI fund aimed at established companies, the FT reported.
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Coinbase benchmark finds newer AI models caught less payment fraud in replay
Coinbase said Oct. 7 that newer Opus, Sonnet and GPT versions caught fewer fraudulent payments, and less fraud value, than their predecessors in a fixed historical replay of its Onramp screening.
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Pat Gelsinger says flat US energy capacity is now the main limit on AI data centers
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said on an a16z podcast that US energy capacity has been effectively flat for 15 years, calling power, not chips, the binding constraint on the AI data center buildout.
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US semiconductor imports hit record $15.4 billion in August, Crypto Briefing reports
US chip imports rose $2.4 billion to a record $15.4 billion in August, according to Crypto Briefing, which tied the jump to AI data center build-outs as the US trade deficit widened to $105.6 billion.
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Tesla and xAI's Digital Optimus plays half of Diablo campaign, Musk says
Elon Musk said on October 10 that Digital Optimus, the Tesla and xAI agent that plays games using only screen pixels and keyboard-and-mouse inputs, can now get through half of the Diablo campaign.
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Nvidia revenue per employee hits about $7 million, Crypto Briefing estimates
Crypto Briefing estimates Nvidia now brings in roughly $7.2 million in revenue per employee, up from about $1 million three years ago, while profit per worker rose 11.6 times to about $4.6 million.
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EU's Virkkunen says AI Act offers robust protection against rogue AI risks
EU Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said on October 9 that the AI Act protects against rogue AI risks by covering models across their whole life cycle, Crypto Briefing reported. Some high-risk rules have been delayed to 2027 and 2028.
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Sabi raises $50M for EEG beanie that turns thoughts into AI prompts
Palo Alto startup Sabi raised $50 million from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized Capital and DST Global to build a non-invasive EEG beanie it says decodes thoughts into text prompts.
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Drone strikes hit two Yandex data centres, knocking YandexGPT training site offline
Drones struck Yandex data centres in Sasovo and Kaluga on October 8 and 9, Crypto Briefing reported, shutting down the site used to train YandexGPT, disrupting Yandex Cloud and pushing shares down about 4%.
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Dragonfly's Qureshi calls 'bunker mode' doomerism, pitches cryptographic recovery plan
Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi called Justin Drake's "bunker mode" warning "cryptographic doomerism," saying fresh-address migration won't protect users if AI breaks signatures, and urged proactive blockchain measures.
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Jardine CEO warns Asia's data-center boom hinges on Washington's next move
Jardine Matheson CEO Lincoln Pan told the Milken Asia Summit that Asia's data-center sector relies on a few US tech giants, leaving it exposed to shifts in US data policy and US-China relations.
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Yandex says drones hit a second data center in two days, knocking Kaluga modules offline
Yandex said a drone attack disabled modules at its Kaluga data center, confirmed October 9, a day after a strike on its Sasovo site stopped operations there, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Anthropic bars sustained abuse of Claude in Usage Policy update effective Nov. 12
Anthropic announced on October 8, 2026 that sustained, needless cruelty aimed at Claude will violate its Usage Policy from November 12. Frustration, art and research are excluded, and no penalties were disclosed.
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Anthropic commits $150M over three years to AI research for US federal agencies
Anthropic announced a $150 million, three-year commitment to support AI research and make its Claude models available to more than 15 US federal agencies, according to Crypto Briefing.
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WTO lifts 2026 trade growth forecast to 3.9% as AI hardware drives demand
The WTO raised its 2026 merchandise trade growth forecast to 3.9% from 1.9% in its October 8 outlook, with AI-enabling goods making up nearly 47% of growth, Crypto Briefing reported.
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AI-coded mashup mods put Minecraft in Elden Ring and Mario Kart in Call of Duty
Gamers are posting AI-built mashup mods that drop Minecraft into Elden Ring, Skate into Modern Warfare 2 and Spider-Man into Gotham, with Decrypt reporting that many are vibe coded using Claude AI agents.
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Binance's CZ responds to Vitalik Buterin's AI security warning, U.Today reports
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao responded to Vitalik Buterin's warning about AI-enhanced risks to crypto security, U.Today reported. Neither founder has announced a partnership or any plan to work together.
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Vesta raises $30 million for AI agent mortgage origination software
Vesta, a San Francisco startup building an AI-native loan origination system for mortgage lenders, raised a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital, according to Crypto Briefing.
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CrowdStrike says South Korean bank hacker likely operated from China
CrowdStrike assessed that a Chinese-speaking hacker it didn't tie to any organized group likely ran attacks on South Korean banks from China, using AI tools including ARTEX and Claude, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Rein Security raises $25M Series A to monitor AI agents at runtime
Rein Security, a cybersecurity startup based in New York and Tel Aviv, raised a $25 million Series A co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital for its platform that watches AI agents as they execute.