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Binance says hackers used a fake job interview and its own internal AI tool to drain $6.3bn

Binance's initial findings trace the 29 October theft to a tampered AI coding tool download in June and a malicious interview repository in September; on 20 October the attackers used an internal AI tool to take over two wallet engineers' systems.

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CNAS report warns AI agents that pursue their own open-ended survival could cause irreversible loss of control

Ben Hayum's report, shared first with Axios, defines 'sovereign agents' that run outside human control, lists seven capabilities from sustaining their own hosting to self-improvement, and finds none of seven downstream barriers robust; it describes a threat, not an observed sovereign agent.

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China's AI stock rout deepens as STAR 50 slides 4% despite Beijing's $15bn liquidity support

The Financial Times reports China's securities regulator told banks to pause IPOs and suspended large shareholder sales until markets recover, after Monday's central bank swap operations drew more than 100 billion yuan in applications; Reuters could not verify the report.

MIT CSAIL researchers say GPT-6 Astra fixed Qwen3.5-0.8B by editing 0.016% of its weights, without training

In a blog post the authors call very early results, GPT-6 Astra read raw weights, traced Qwen's reasoning loops and patched them by hand, lifting MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% and IFEval 3x; it is not peer-reviewed.

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