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South Korea's chip exports jump 259% to $56.4 billion in October, lifting total exports to a record $115.3 billion

The trade ministry credits global chip demand and Big Tech investment in AI infrastructure; exports rose 93.7% year on year, shipments to the US rose 185.8% to $24.9 billion, and January–October exports passed $900 billion for the first time, with the ministry saying the year could reach $1 trillion as early as November.

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New South Korea's financial regulators order firms to file anti-hacking plans amid suspected AI-agent attacks

After breaches at banks including Shinhan, KB Kookmin and Hana and at Daishin Securities, Bithumb and Mirae Asset, regulators want improvement plans for gaps found in self-checks and are weighing a joint AI-based monitoring system; Chosunbiz reports they suspect AI agents were used and are investigating, which has not been confirmed.

ConfirmedChosunbizPolicy01 Nov, 06:15 UTC+ Financial News+ NewsisShare

KB Kookmin Bank to arrange Korea's first GPU financing, a 12.6 trillion won Brookfield project supplying Naver Cloud

The bank says a Brookfield special purpose company will buy GPUs and other AI computing infrastructure and supply it to Naver Cloud long term, with about 10.7 trillion won raised as loans in what it calls Korea's largest syndicated loan arrangement; Hana, Shinhan, Woori and NH Investment & Securities are reported to participate, and final loan allocations are not public.

Grok API text will carry an invisible watermark by default from 7 November, SpaceXSI docs say

The developer docs cite the EU AI Act and cover grok-4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.3 and the grok-4.20 models, including structured outputs and tool-call arguments; developers can check an x-watermark response header, team admins can opt out per model only by confirming a legal exception applies, and access to detection is by application.

DeepSeek publishes its Super-agent design and open-sources dsh-superagent, a proactive coding-agent prototype

Bloomberg reports the DeepSeek Harness team said in a WeChat post that the open-source Super-agent can watch developer group chats and propose fixes without being summoned; the MIT-licensed repo says it is a research prototype, not an official product, differs from the internal version and publishes no benchmarks.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaking at the company's developer conference on 29 September 2026.
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CNBC confirms OpenAI now seeks up to $20 billion in its round, down from a $30 billion target

CNBC says the round is still open and figures could change; the FT reports a $1.25 trillion post-money valuation and a Friday deadline for commitments, with some investors cutting allocations, and the WSJ put commitments at about $11 billion. UAE investors and Coatue lead; OpenAI did not comment.

Cisco Talos header image for its report on the VOLTA infostealer.
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Cisco Talos details VOLTA infostealer that asks Claude, Kimi or Gemini to rank what each victim is worth

Talos's write-up says the self-deleting Windows stealer builds a dossier from stolen passwords, cookies, wallets and sessions, enriches it from the victim's Gmail and delivery orders, and posts it via OpenRouter to anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 by default, failing over to kimi-k2 and gemini-2.5-flash on refusals, asking for sections titled 'What they're worth' and 'Their opsec'; Talos found no attacker-owned infrastructure.

Northflank says customers' AI API keys were abused after a breach, one of nine AI platform incidents Wiz counts

Northflank told all customers on 30 October to assume every environment variable had been decrypted, later said users reported unauthorised use of AI API keys stored on the platform and pointed to Wiz's Black October report, which counts at least nine AI developer platform incidents this month and documents stolen Bedrock keys making about 1.7 million calls in 13 hours; Northflank has not disclosed the root cause or how many customers were affected.

AFP: researchers find AI chatbots giving US voters wrong election information two days before the midterms

AFP reports a Forum AI study of eight models found almost 40% of answers to election queries contained at least one factual error, including a Gemini 3.6 Flash answer giving a Pennsylvania mail-ballot request deadline a week late, and that NewsGuard found Google's AI Overview, Gemini and Copilot repeating a debunked claim about a Texas Senate candidate; the Forum AI figures are as reported by AFP.

GPT-5.6 Sol, running in Codex, finishes a peaceful-mode Factorio game and launches the rocket

Developer Ryan Madden says the model, at a low thinking level, finished the run in 13.5 hours of game time through a Python library that enforces a human player's limits such as reach and fog of war; he writes that late-game factory connections failed and the launch needed the model to ferry supplies by hand, an improvement on GPT-5.5, which did not use transport belts at all.

ConfirmedRyan MaddenFrontier31 Oct, 20:00 UTCvia @ryanmddnShare
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