A digital heist of unprecedented scale has crippled Binance, with security researchers tracing the theft of at least $6.3 billion to North Korean operatives. The breach, executed in a mere 20 minutes, marks the largest cryptocurrency theft in history, forcing the world’s leading exchange to halt all platform transactions.
While the tech industry buzzes with predictions of autonomous commerce, the reality at DoorDash remains grounded. During its third-quarter earnings call, the delivery giant reported only several hundred orders processed through third-party AI agents, a negligible fraction compared to its massive daily volume of three million deliveries.
The TechCrunch Founder Summit, arriving at Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4, aims to replace accidental networking with structured peer-to-peer collaboration. By integrating the Braindate platform into the event, organizers are shifting the focus from casual coffee-line small talk to targeted, problem-solving discussions between founders, investors, and operators.
With only five days remaining before the TechCrunch Founder Summit convenes at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, organizers are pushing a final registration drive. The November 4 event promises a departure from traditional conference formats, favoring interactive roundtables and tactical breakout sessions designed to address the immediate hurdles of company growth.
Runware is pivoting toward an automotive-style assembly line to churn out modular data centers, aiming to reach 30 megawatts of daily capacity by 2028. The startup seeks to bypass the multi-year construction timelines typical of the industry by shipping factory-built pods that can be operational within 48 hours.
Toyota will manufacture electric bZ4X vehicles equipped with Waymo’s self-driving technology at its Takaoka factory, marking a major step toward international expansion. The collaboration targets robotaxi deployments in Japan and the United Kingdom, moving beyond the preliminary research agreements established eighteen months ago.
David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator and nontheistic Humanist, has successfully obtained a religious exemption from using artificial intelligence in the workplace. His case marks a rare instance where an employee has leveraged legal protections typically reserved for the devout to challenge the integration of AI tools into their professional duties.
Four years after the $8.5 billion acquisition of MGM, Amazon is reaping the rewards of its Hollywood pivot. CEO Andy Jassy confirmed on Thursday that Prime Video has reached a revenue run rate in the tens of billions of dollars, marking the streaming service’s transition into a standalone, profitable powerhouse.
“There has never been a business with a trillion dollars of annual revenue,” Andy Jassy declared during Thursday’s earnings call. The Amazon CEO remains convinced that AWS is on a path to reach that milestone within the next decade, despite investor anxiety over the massive capital expenditures required to fuel such growth.
A potential security breach at Binance has triggered a precautionary suspension of withdrawals across multiple networks, as reports emerge of billions in cryptocurrency being drained from the exchange’s hot wallets. While the company insists user funds remain safe, independent estimates suggest losses could climb as high as $5.7 billion.
Vladimir Putin offered a glowing assessment of Elon Musk at the Russia-Africa Summit, labeling the SpaceX founder a genius. The Russian president confirmed his administration is in contact with the billionaire, framing Musk’s vast constellation of over 5,000 satellites as the benchmark for Russia’s own nascent orbital internet project, Rassvet.
A massive $42.4 billion burn in free cash flow over the last year has rattled investors, even as Amazon’s cloud division outpaced expectations. The company is pouring capital into artificial intelligence infrastructure at a rate that now rivals its entire anticipated holiday-season revenue, signaling a high-stakes bet on future computing dominance.
A coalition of 36 state attorneys general has secured a $220 million settlement from General Motors over allegations that the automaker funneled private driving behavior and location data to third-party brokers. The deal mandates strict new consent protocols for how the company handles sensitive information collected from its connected vehicles.
Millions of readers and writers face a month of silence as Archive of Our Own, the world’s largest repository for fan-created fiction, remains dark. What began as a routine overnight maintenance window has spiraled into a prolonged service disruption, with administrators warning that restoration could take anywhere from two to four weeks.
Thrive Holdings, a private equity firm backed by OpenAI, has finalized a $7.6 billion equity deal to acquire the security giant ADT. The transaction, which carries a total enterprise value of $15.3 billion, signals a major shift toward integrating advanced artificial intelligence into residential and commercial physical security systems.
Volkswagen is bringing Rivian’s proprietary AI voice assistant into its vehicle lineup, deepening a $5.8 billion joint venture that centers on shared software and electrical architecture. The integration aims to modernize the German automaker’s software capabilities, with the upcoming ID EVERY1 hatchback emerging as a potential first candidate for the tech.
Rivian’s R2 SUV emerged as the company’s best-selling model in the third quarter, providing a crucial lift to the automaker’s financial outlook. On the strength of this early demand, Rivian raised its annual delivery guidance to a minimum of 67,000 vehicles, signaling a departure from a three-year plateau in production volume.
With search referrals plunging by over one million per week, Reddit is moving to wall off its platform behind a mandatory login requirement. CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the shift away from the open web, aiming to secure data against AI scraping and bolster advertising revenue amid declining U.S. user counts.
Jimmy Kimmel hosted, Charli XCX performed, and a red carpet unfurled in Los Angeles for an event that left the internet scratching its head. While celebrities like Serena Williams and Charlize Theron gathered for the inaugural Airbnb nonprofit gala, social media users questioned why a tech giant needed a formal ball.
A new AI-powered fashion application, Style Sketch, allows users to generate outfit combinations from their existing wardrobes. By tapping into Instagram photo archives or manual uploads, the tool creates virtual looks tailored to individual body types and skin tones, marking Meta's latest experiment in rapid software development.
Competition in the consumer voice AI market has intensified as meeting assistant Granola launches a system-wide dictation feature for Mac. This strategic shift mirrors a broader industry trend, where specialized transcription tools and meeting-focused applications increasingly overlap to capture a larger share of the user’s daily speech capture workflow.
French AI firm Mistral has released the weights for its trillion-parameter model, Mistral Large 4, granting organizations the ability to host sovereign AI systems on their own infrastructure. The move aims to challenge the dominance of closed-model providers by positioning open-weight technology as a critical tool for autonomous cybersecurity.
Alice Huang, a senior executive at the Singapore-based firm Megaspeed, spent a year under U.S. intelligence surveillance amid suspicions she acted as a Chinese operative. Investigators feared her access to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during regional business dinners provided a conduit for gathering sensitive trade secrets and geopolitical strategy.
Silicon Valley veterans Casey Winters and Ludo Antonov have raised $20 million to build SuperMe, a platform that synthesizes the knowledge of real-world experts into interactive AI profiles. Led by Forerunner’s Kirsten Green, the funding aims to bridge the gap between niche professional insights and accessible, on-demand AI guidance.
“We’ve gone from dial-up internet to super intelligent AI, but our ability to build the physical world around us has actually decreased,” Arjun Mathur notes. Alongside Andy Elder, the former Palantir executives are now launching Dream, a startup utilizing AI to streamline construction design and combat rising development costs.
With over 400 million consumers already using Alexa for shopping annually, Amazon is rolling out more than 100 new capabilities to its voice assistant. The update targets the high-pressure holiday season, aiming to turn the AI into a comprehensive tool for managing subscriptions, delivery logistics, and complex payment inquiries.
With a fresh $55 million injection led by IVP, Wabi has officially reached a $1.25 billion valuation. The startup, founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, is pivoting from a prompt-based app builder into a personal agent capable of generating custom interfaces for daily tasks like meal planning and fitness tracking.
With $11 million in total funding and a roster of heavyweight backers including Andrej Karpathy and Jeff Dean, Mintive is entering the crowded enterprise AI agent market. The startup focuses on governance and identity management, aiming to simplify the complex task of securing autonomous digital workers for corporate environments.
Social network Bluesky has begun flagging links to the nonprofit DDoSecrets as malicious, effectively preventing users from accessing a leaked dataset containing information on 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees. The move follows reports that a hacker compromised sensitive records, including contact details for agents at CBP and ICE.
DoorDash confirmed Thursday a $17 billion agreement to acquire Instacart, a move that merges the restaurant delivery leader with the grocery sector’s primary platform. By offering $65 per share, DoorDash aims to consolidate its logistics network with Instacart’s retail technology, creating a dominant force in the on-demand delivery market.
