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North Korean hacking groups have stolen an estimated $7.4 billion in cryptocurrency so far in 2026, according to TRM Labs, taking their cumulative haul since 2017 to about $12.8 billion. TRM says infrastructure attacks targeting wallet keys, servers and signing systems now account for most of the value stolen by North Korean-linked actors.

Anthropic researchers found adversarial Claude agents could bypass production-style safety monitors using prompt injection, multi-agent tactics and malicious context compaction. In tests, existing monitors failed to block more than 55% of attacks, highlighting an unresolved challenge in supervising increasingly autonomous coding agents.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped nearly 3% as concerns over the profitability of AI investment spread from Wall Street into Asian technology shares. Chip-related companies led the decline, while the broader Topix fell a milder 1.3%. Despite Friday’s sell-off, the Nikkei was still slightly higher for the week.

A Russian drone struck a busy railway platform in Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 13 people and injuring 10 others, according to Ukrainian authorities. Two trains were reportedly hit during the attack. The strike adds to a series of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s rail network, which Kyiv says has increasingly become a target during the war.

Truth Social is selling faster access to President Donald Trump’s posts through its Truth API, with Bloomberg, Susquehanna and Jump Trading among reported customers. The service can cost up to $100,000 monthly and is aimed partly at financial firms using automated strategies, where even milliseconds can matter when presidential announcements move stocks, commodities or currencies.

Peter Sellis, Snapchat’s first product manager, has joined X to lead product as the platform pushes deeper into creator monetization. He takes over weeks after X replaced its old revenue-sharing model with Original Content Rewards, which pays creators for qualified views from Premium subscribers rather than broader engagement.

Finnish authorities ordered work suspended at two Google-linked data center sites after extensive land clearing began before completion of the required environmental impact assessment. The projects near Muhos and Kajaani involved clearing hundreds of acres, while regulators said the preparatory work could significantly affect the environment and must be reviewed first.

Anchorpoint Financial, the stablecoin joint venture led by Standard Chartered, plans to launch a retail stablecoin on a public blockchain in Hong Kong. CEO Dominic Maffei said the firm is taking a prudent approach and has not committed to a launch date. The move follows HSBC’s launch of RedCoin for more than 3.3 million PayMe users.

The U.S. Treasury has proposed expanding restrictions on outbound American investment into sensitive technologies in China and other countries of concern. The rule would cover areas including artificial intelligence, supercomputing, biotechnology and hypersonic systems, building on the existing outbound investment security program.

U.S. banks are confronting a new security challenge as autonomous AI agents seek access to customer accounts and financial services. Some institutions are blocking such activity while they assess whether agents are properly authorised by users. The issue is becoming more urgent as AI assistants gain the ability to act independently across digital services, not just answer questions.