NPDev Daily AI Briefing - October 31, 2026
Forty-eight hours in which the AI buildout met its auditors: S&P cut Meta's outlook to negative, OpenAI's latest round landed at roughly a third of…
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Forty-eight hours in which the AI buildout met its auditors: S&P cut Meta's outlook to negative, OpenAI's latest round landed at roughly a third of…
Binance moved from crisis to remediation: it says roughly 90% of the stolen assets have been replenished, its ten largest tokens are fully backed…
The frontier labs spent the last 48 hours on control surfaces rather than new capabilities: OpenAI published the monitoring system it says would have…
Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion theft from its hot wallets — the largest in crypto history — and said it has $6.34 billion of company money set…
Microsoft cut its 2026 AI capex forecast to about $170B and Alphabet held guidance while posting negative free cash flow, both citing compute that…
The Federal Reserve held rates on a 10–2 vote with two officials preferring a quarter-point increase, and bitcoin slid to about $79,600 before…
Microsoft put roughly 60,000 jobs on the table to fund its AI build-out while Oracle moved ChatGPT and Codex into its enterprise stack, and SK hynix…
DTCC went live with a tokenization service for U.S. stocks, ETFs and Treasuries, with 20 banks signed up — the clearest sign yet that tokenized…
OpenAI cut mid-tier prices in half with GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast computer-use model that doubles its predecessor on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs $1/$5…
Bitcoin slipped below $80,000 into a Federal Reserve meeting and next week's U.S. midterms, while Ripple converted a year-old conditional charter…