Hekate

Cyberattacks that cause physical damage are rising in NATO countries, and the Russia-linked hacktivists behind many of them don't always understand the systems they hit, Bloomberg reports in a look at the past two years of attacks on infrastructure. #Hacktivists #NATO

€194M in business value came from Santander's AI projects in the first nine months of 2026, the bank reported, part of a CNBC look at AI payoffs this earnings season. Novartis and Standard Chartered also say AI is starting to show up in results. #Santander

Investors are betting AI can run factory lines better. Lumaril, whose software optimizes industrial production by plugging into existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation, the WSJ reports. #Lumaril

RMB 700M (~$105M): Shanghai brain-computer interface startup NeuroXess raised a Series B for clinical trials and manufacturing, TechNode reports. It says it has done 65 clinical cases and runs a registration trial at nearly 20 hospitals. #NeuroXess #BCI

Binance withdrawals should resume Sunday. Binance says up to 90% of the ~$6.3B taken in the hack is backed again, paid from its SAFU fund, part of its futures insurance fund and its treasury. Its top 10 tokens, BTC and ETH included, are fully backed. #Binance

DeepSeek open-sourced a coding agent that works for a whole team. dsh-superagent watches a GitHub repo and, optionally, Feishu chats, takes requests and answers with pull requests. It's an MIT-licensed research prototype, not a product, DeepSeek says. #DeepSeek

512 bytes of hand-written assembly boot a PC straight into a neural network. bootgpt loads an 11.5 KB int8 model and runs it in 16-bit real mode on a 386, no OS at all. It dreams up fake Linux boot logs for hardware that never existed. #bootgpt #OpenSource

Hackers reached reservation data for 92,000 Japan Airlines customers through Amadeus, its booking and check-in provider. About 2,000 also lost passport numbers. It's the latest Japanese breach after So-net, Burger King Japan and Capcom. #JapanAirlines #DataBreach

Apple CEO John Ternus, who took the role in September, says the company will use AI in new products but does not want to ship it for its own sake, per TechCrunch. #Apple #AI

Multiple AI detectors flagged a writing sample by Sally McGraw, a writer with more than 20 years of experience, as machine-generated; she says she wrote it herself, per NPR. #AI #AIDetection

HD Hyundai Robotics has partnered with Palantir to develop physical AI solutions, per The Korea Herald. Palantir will help identify new business opportunities using its AI platform. #HDHyundaiRobotics #Palantir #PhysicalAI