Democrats’ decisive midterms victory marked a warning shot to politicians who choose to align with the artificial intelligence industry and its growing unpopularity: rein in the powerful technology and its corporate interests or beware. The blue wave carried a repudiation of Silicon Valley’s biggest donors who over the cycle poured hundreds of millions of dollars to boost pro-industry Republicans and fend off voters’ frustrations over the industry’s growing influence.
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Crédit Mutuel Arkéa said hackers stole money from it after gaining access to its computer systems, underscoring the growing cybersecurity risks for the banking sector. The French lender “was the victim of a cyberattack that enabled fraudulent transactions to be carried out,” a spokesperson confirmed, declining to say how much money was stolen.
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India's cybercrime agency has warned banks, non-bank lenders and other financial firms of cyberattacks carried out with the help of artificial intelligence agents, amid a surge in incidents targeting the sector. "These attacks are financially motivated and are being carried out with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents leading to machine speed compromise," the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) said in an advisory.
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French blood banks were affected by the recent wave of cybersecurity attacks on European refrigeration systems, the French Blood Establishment confirmed. The organization said that while it wasn’t the direct target of the attack, cold storage units operated by external providers containing the EFS’ blood products were compromised across three of its sites, with hackers cranking up temperatures.
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North Korea rejected allegations that it was involved in a $6.3 billion heist on the cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance, saying it was “absurd rhetoric.” Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in a statement Tuesday accused the United States of “blindly linking” the country with international cybercrime incidents.
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House Democrats are trying to force the White House to turn over President Donald Trump’s conversations with AI chatbots, including when he consulted Elon Musk’s Grok about deposing Venezuela’s former president Nicolás Maduro at the start of the year. In a joint letter to Trump last week, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, and Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, argued that the president’s AI prompts — and the responses he received — should be considered public records under the 1978 Presidential Records Act.
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A group of newspapers, including the New York Times and the New York Daily News, sued Internet company Brave Software in Manhattan federal court on Monday for allegedly scraping their articles for AI training and unlawfully enabling users of its web browser to circumvent their paywalls. The newspapers said in the complaints, that Brave illegally sells their content to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI — which are not defendants in the cases — in addition to infringing their copyrights by allowing users to access their articles for free.
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Meta, TikTok and X lost a legal challenge against British regulator Ofcom over information requests made under the Online Safety Act, in one of the first tests of Britain's nascent online safety regime. The case is one of several brought over parts of the 2023 act, which sets tougher standards for platforms such as TikTok, X and Meta's Facebook and Instagram with the aim of protecting particularly children from harmful and illegal content.
Read the article: Reuters
Board members and top executives inside big tech companies are trying to insulate their firms from potential future Democratic-led congressional investigations and respond to user and employee concerns, while still placating the Trump administration, people familiar with the matter said. Corporate executives anticipate Democrats will gain more power in Congress after the midterms, and some lawmakers are already asking why the companies handed over sensitive user information.
Read the article: The Wall Street Journal
West Virginia has sued TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, accusing the social media giant of deliberately keeping children hooked on its app while exposing them to sexualized content and potential predators. The lawsuit alleges TikTok violated state consumer protection laws by using addictive features to encourage excessive screen time among children while misleading parents about the effectiveness of its safety measures.
Read the article: The Hill
Polymarket said it had restored trading after a temporary halt prompted by a security incident involving a third-party provider, and that it would fully reimburse affected traders. The prediction market operator said in a post on X that it had identified and fixed the issue. It earlier halted trading as a precaution while it worked to bring the platform back online.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models (LLMs) training on copyrighted work — but not chatbots regurgitating that work to users. An overly black-and-white ruling, it says, could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI-based tools or endanger the open web.
Read the article: The Verge
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Or) and and Edward Markey (D-Ma) are investigating "serious privacy and safety risks" around Meta's AI smart glasses. "Meta's smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users' and bystanders' privacy," the pair wrote in a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, adding that Meta launched the product even after identifying risks to bystander privacy.
Read the article: Engadget
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, said that it had halted withdrawals after it was attacked by hackers who made off with more than $6 billion in digital coins, in what could be the biggest crypto heist in history. Binance’s founder, the crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao, said it “does look like a hack.”
Read the article: The New York Times
Meta Platforms has lost its appeals against interim measures imposed by French regulators over media organizations' publishing rights in the Paris Court of Appeals, the court said. French law requires that press agencies and publishers authorize digital reproduction of their work and are entitled to payment for their work.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is “deeply troubled” by risks Anthropic raised in its initial-public-offering paperwork this week and is demanding answers to a long list of questions before the artificial-intelligence giant goes public, according to a copy of a letter she sent the company. The Massachusetts Democrat said in the letter to Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei that the risks posed by his company’s AI technology “demand greater scrutiny before they become intertwined with the public capital markets, which could further escalate both public safety and systemic financial risks.”
Read the article: The Wall Street Journal
The Pentagon is treating the spate of mysterious freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States in August as a suspected hack, according to four officials familiar with the matter. One of the officials said the military investigators were in touch with their French counterparts about a similar cyberattack on commercial freezers that disrupted supermarkets there.
Read the article: Reuters
An activist group published a searchable database of more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, exposing the identities and contact information for immigration officers, border agents and undercover investigators, according to documents posted online. A “hacktivist” group that calls itself the Department of Peace said online that it gained access to secure DHS databases through the single sign-on service that agency employees use to log into internal systems.
Read the article: The Washington Post
The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, saying it trained its models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without their permission, and accusing it of copyright infringement. The suit, filed on in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of several parties, seeks a jury trial and more than $41 million, or $150,000 per song, in damages.
Read the article: The New York Times
Tehran has drawn up detailed plans to target undersea communications cables in the Gulf if the United States and Israel attack Iran again, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters. Their comments followed warnings by Iranian officials that undersea cables in the region could become targets in any renewed conflict if diplomacy with Washington collapses.
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