A fake job offer. An AI tool. $6.3 billion gone.

Hackers took about $6.3 billion from Binance. A fake job interview got them in, and Binance's own AI tool helped them go deeper. Was AI the attacker? So far, there is no evidence of that.

In this episode, in simple words: the timeline from the fake AI-tool installer in June to the fake recruiter in September, the day the hackers used an internal AI tool to take over two more computers, and the day the money moved out; what investigators say about whether AI was used; and what we still do not know.

Why it matters: nobody broke the AI, they used it. An AI helper that holds the keys to your systems is a door. I explain how to treat AI tools like administrator accounts, and the oldest trick in the story, a recruiter who asks you to run a file.

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OpenAI says its research agents already do 3.1 workdays for every human workday. Anthropic says it may be about to cross its own line. What RSI is, and why the referee matters.

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Hello, and welcome to Tuesday. The biggest story today is a strange one: AI is starting to work on AI itself. An OpenAI model edited the weights of a Qwen model and raised its math score more than six times, and it was the top story on Hacker News. On the same day, TechCrunch reports that Anthropic warns it is very close to self-building AI.

Now put that next to the money. Anthropic's revised IPO filing shows $17 billion in quarterly revenue and $895 billion in commitments, so the lab that warns about AI speeding up will soon answer to shareholders. The attacks keep coming too: a second suspected cyber-attack on European supermarket freezers, a breach at WorkOS, and a paper on poisoning training data. When the builders themselves sound the alarm, I keep asking: what do they know, and who outside the lab is checking? The speed worries me more than any single story.

What to watch: the US midterms today, Apple's China beta with Qwen tomorrow, Friday's jobs report, and Congress back on November 9. And this week, check what your agents can access. Voilà, that is your homework.

Today's Morning Tokens:

1. AI that edits AI: Astra rewires Qwen, and Anthropic says self-building AI is close
2. Anthropic's revised IPO filing: $17B a quarter, $895B in commitments
3. Freezers, a breach and poisoned training data: the attacks keep coming
4. Apple Intelligence comes to China on Alibaba's Qwen, testing starts tomorrow
5. OpenAI offers to give power back to the grid, on election day
6. The New York Times sues Brave over AI scraping
7. Mika puts an AI agent on your Android phone, and Unslop fixes the AI look

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