October 2026

Hackers have stolen about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, in what analysts call the biggest crypto theft ever recorded. The funds were moved from Binance-controlled wallets across 10 blockchains, with most transfers happening in roughly 20 minutes. Blockchain investigators TRM Labs and Chainalysis say the attack shows the fingerprints of TraderTraitor,

Google has made a strong comeback with its new AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon. It has scored 59 on a major AI intelligence ranking,  placing it  just ahead of Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. This is a big improvement for Google, especially after spending much of 2026 trying to catch up with its rivals. Carbon is specially

Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 is a world model: instead of merely making a video, it creates an explorable digital world in real time. You can move through it, change the weather, add characters, or alter the scene simply by typing a prompt. It is a major step beyond AI tools that only generate a fixed

Anthropic has formally filed its S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, planning to list its Class A shares on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The filing moves the company from private AI-lab competition into the public-market arena, ahead of OpenAI in this round. The financial disclosures are striking: Anthropic

Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K3.1 Pro has   jumped to fourth place in an independent AI ranking, scoring 55 against 58 for the top proprietary model. If its weights are released as planned on November 4, it would become the strongest openly downloadable AI model  so far. The result shows how quickly Chinese labs are moving

AI coding tools can now create a working app in minutes, leading many to claim that traditional software companies are finished. SAP’s CTO Philipp Herzig disagrees, saying this confuses the ability to build an app with the far tougher job of running it. Building an expense app is easy;  operating it across many countries is not.

Microsoft’s new AI system, MAI-DxO, has shown that it can diagnose difficult medical cases more accurately than generalist doctors in research tests. It works like a virtual team of doctors: one AI suggests possible illnesses, another selects tests, and others challenge the conclusions until a final diagnosis emerges. On 304 very complex cases from the

AI agents are software programmes that can perform online tasks for a person—such as checking balances, paying bills, comparing offers, or contacting customer support. In banking, they are meant to act like a digital assistant, but only within the limits set by the customer. The problem is that some agents have been logging into bank

PHP, the software language powering an estimated 70% of websites, has rushed out patches for two critical security flaws. Researchers found the bugs with help from OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model. The US NSA has urged organisations to update immediately — or take vulnerable systems offline. The flaws, called PHP2Shell, sit in PHP’s core engine, not merely

Sam Altman has reportedly told OpenAI staff that the current approach—testing AI models, releasing them, and flagging concerns—is only pacing 1.0.  As AI grows more powerful, he says the world may have about a year to choose a stronger safety model. The core message is that AI safety *cannot remain optional* or limited to one country.

The “singularity” means a point when AI improves so quickly that it starts making discoveries faster than humans can understand, check, or control. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told IMF and World Bank policymakers that this phase has “now begun,” citing rapid gains in AI’s ability to solve difficult science and maths problems. Why are experts talking