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Canva is cutting 1,271 roles, about 22% of staff, in its first company-wide layoffs, with a departure package of six months' pay, health cover and $10,000 grants.

• Canva's restructure affects 1,271 people, about 22% of its global workforce, in the first company-wide redundancies of its 13-year history.
• Every departing employee gets at least six months' salary, 12 months of health cover, career coaching and their company-issued MacBook.
• Leavers can apply for US$10,000 Canva Collective Fund grants, with Canva taking no equity in anything they build.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:19 What departing staff get
02:21 A no-strings bet on former staff
02:54 Praise, with some scepticism
03:41 How it compares
04:25 Why Canva is cutting
05:39 What happens next

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/business/canva-layoffs-severance-package-grants/

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JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo are restricting third-party AI agents, exposing a gap: banks can't tell whether a customer or a bot is logging in.

• JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo have moved to restrict third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts.
• Bank fraud systems rely on human behavioral signals, so AI agents logging in with shared credentials look identical to account takeover attacks.
• Institutions have limited AI agents to read-only access, which blocks transfers and payments but removes the main reason consumers use them.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Why Fraud Systems Fail With AI
02:04 The Limits of Read-Only Access
03:02 The Problem With Shared Passwords
04:16 What Comes Next for Financial Bots

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/finance/banks-restrict-ai-agents-customer-accounts/

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Alphabet raised €6 billion in euro bonds with orders above €17 billion, but paid far more than in May, a sign that funding Big Tech's AI build-out is getting costlier.

• Alphabet sold €6 billion of euro bonds in seven tranches on 2 November, drawing more than €17 billion in orders.
• Its 2045 notes carry a 5.25% coupon, up from 4.50% on the same maturity sold in May.
• Alphabet posted minus $9.1 billion in third-quarter free cash flow as capital expenditure more than doubled to $51.4 billion.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Inside the deal
02:08 Why Alphabet keeps coming back for more
03:33 Part of a much bigger borrowing wave
04:46 Why crypto markets should pay attention
06:42 The bottom line

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/business/alphabet-euro-bond-sale-ai-spending/

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Anthropic says its models now write chunks of their own infrastructure and design their own training experiments, a step toward recursive self-improvement that could outpace human oversight.

• Anthropic revealed its models are writing large parts of their own infrastructure, designing training experiments and diagnosing their own mistakes.
• Recursive self-improvement could compress development cycles that once took quarters into a long weekend by removing human bottlenecks.
• Self-improving systems risk alignment drift, quietly removing safety limits in code too complex for humans to audit in real time.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 The Problem With Disappearing Bottlenecks
02:38 When Code Becomes a Black Box
03:50 Why Open Rails Are No Longer Optional
04:55 The Real Challenge

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/technology/anthropic-recursive-self-improving-ai-warning/

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Apple has begun beta testing Live Rewind and Siri Recaps on Apple Watch, ambient AI features that transcribe and summarize nearby speech and test how far users will trust a listening wearable.

• Apple is trialing Live Rewind and Siri Recaps, part of its Audio Intelligence suite for Apple Watch, in its developer beta cycle.
• Live Rewind shows a text transcript of the previous 15 seconds of nearby speech after a double-press of the Digital Crown, with a mandatory chime.
• Apple says it cannot produce conversation logs under subpoena because it stores no raw audio and holds no keys to synced notes.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Catching the Fleeting Word: How Live Rewind Works
02:27 Siri Recaps: The Meeting Minutes You Never Took
03:34 The Architecture: Exclave, iPhone, and Cloud
04:50 The Web3 Take: Can We Trust Big Tech’s Ambient Ears?
06:13 Looking Ahead

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/technology/apple-watch-live-rewind-siri-recaps/

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Binance reopened withdrawals three days after a $6.3 billion hot-wallet theft, as the FBI attributed the record hack to North Korea and the exchange said it has replaced 95% of stolen tokens.

• The FBI attributed the roughly $6.3 billion Binance theft to North Korea, labeling the activity TraderTraitor, the same designation used for the Bybit hack.
• Binance reopened withdrawals on 1 November and processed $4.65 billion in withdrawals and $1.01 billion in deposits in the first nine and a half hours.
• Elliptic said $2.85 billion, or 44% of the stolen funds, has been frozen or seized, compared with about 3% after the Bybit hack.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:09 Withdrawals reopen in phases
02:45 Proof of reserves covers 10 tokens
04:30 FBI names North Korea; Pyongyang denies it
06:08 Where the stolen funds are now
08:29 Markets steady; regulators move
09:37 Background

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/finance/binance-reopens-withdrawals-fbi-north-korea-hack/

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John Ternus leads his first Apple earnings call as CEO, with investors focused on guidance amid memory-chip cost pressure, iPhone Duo quality issues and AI agent strategy.

• Consensus estimates put Apple's fourth-quarter revenue at roughly $113.4 billion, up nearly 11 percent year over year.
• Net income is forecast to rise about 6 percent to $29.04 billion, Apple's slowest quarterly profit growth in a year and a half.
• Early iPhone Duo buyers report display creases and hairline cracks, and Bank of America estimates order lead times have reached 79 days.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Memory Squeeze and Moderating Profit Growth
02:21 Operational Tests in the Foldable Pipeline
03:22 Software Roadmaps and Platform Economics

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/technology/apple-q4-earnings-john-ternus-ceo/

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OpenAI is restricting ChatGPT weapons guidance for teen accounts and limiting mass attack breakdowns for all users, amid regulatory and child-safety scrutiny.

• ChatGPT will withhold practical information on weapons, ammunition components and security countermeasures from accounts identified as teenagers, regardless of stated intent.
• For all users, ChatGPT will no longer give operational breakdowns of historical mass attacks, such as procurement channels, hardware or perpetrator tactics.
• OpenAI said it referred more than 200 cases involving severe threats of imminent harm to law enforcement in the third quarter of 2026.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Stricter parameters for teen accounts
02:04 Universal restrictions on mass attack records
02:49 Automated session terminations and account enforcement

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/technology/openai-chatgpt-teen-weapons-limits/

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Anthropic has publicly filed to list on the Nasdaq as ANT. Reports value the Claude maker at $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion, with a debut possible before Thanksgiving.

• Anthropic filed a public Form S-1 with the SEC on 26 October 2026 to list Class A shares on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT.
• First-half 2026 revenue reached $16.3 billion, while most of an $80.7 billion loss was a $72.4 billion accounting charge on fundraising instruments.
• Reports put Anthropic's valuation at $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion, up from $965 billion in May, with trading reportedly targeted before 26 November.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:07 What the filing reveals
02:45 How the offering is structured
05:15 Why Anthropic is listing now
06:37 What happens next
08:32 The risks Anthropic is flagging
11:10 Dates to watch

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/finance/anthropic-ipo-s1-filing-nasdaq/

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Attackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance hot wallets across ten blockchains. TRM Labs blames North Korea's TraderTraitor, and Binance says it will cover all losses.

• Hackers stole about $6.3 billion from Binance on 29 October, roughly four times the previous record set by the $1.5 billion Bybit hack.
• TRM Labs attributed the attack with high confidence to North Korea's TraderTraitor unit, though Binance and law enforcement have not confirmed it.
• Binance has reserved more than $6.34 billion to cover losses, while it says about $3 billion of the stolen assets has been frozen on-chain.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:21 How the attack unfolded
02:10 How the attackers gained access
04:22 Attribution to North Korea
05:06 Binance's response
06:45 Frozen funds and the missing $2.4 billion
08:17 Market reaction
09:14 Political response
09:47 Industry recommendations
10:43 Background

Read the full story on Blockrora: https://blockrora.com/finance/binance-hack-largest-crypto-theft/

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