AI and Tech News, 30 Oct 2026: Binance Hack, AWS, DoorDash

Here are the twenty-six biggest technology and AI stories of the day, from a suspected multibillion-dollar Binance hack and Amazon's cloud growth to DoorDash's deal for Instacart.

1. Binance Pauses Withdrawals After a Suspected Multibillion-Dollar Hack

Binance says it is investigating a potential security issue and that user funds are safe, while outside estimates of the losses range from about $2B to $5.7B and Tether and Circle froze more than $2.3B in stablecoins.

2. AWS Revenue Grows 39% to $46B, but Amazon Misses Earnings Estimates

Amazon's quarterly sales rose 12% to $201.9B, just below forecasts, and earnings of $1.89 per share missed the roughly $1.97 analysts expected, and its free cash flow over the past 12 months was negative $42.4B.

3. DoorDash Agrees to Buy Instacart for About $17B

DoorDash will pay $65 per Instacart share in cash, stock or a mix, combining the two largest US grocery delivery platforms, with closing expected by the end of 2027 or in the first half of 2028, pending regulatory approval.

4. Intel Shares Plunge More Than 20% After Hours on a Weak Forecast

Third-quarter revenue rose 21% to $16.5B, but Intel forecast fourth-quarter revenue of $15B to $16B, below the roughly $17B analysts expected, and said the PC market slowdown will last into next year.

5. Reddit Will Move to a Mostly Logged-In Experience

CEO Steve Huffman says the shift is meant to protect Reddit's content from AI scraping as search traffic falls, with tests starting outside the US this quarter and no global timeline yet.

6. Reddit's Revenue Jumps 53% to $895M as US Daily Users Slip

US daily active users fell 2% from a year earlier to 50.7M, and Reddit warned that falling search referrals could cut daily users by a low-double-digit percentage next quarter.

7. A Chinese Spy May Have Targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, The New York Times Reports

Sources say a Megaspeed executive who met Huang at business dinners may have fed Beijing information. Nvidia says their interactions were ordinary and involved no sensitive trade secrets.

8. Anthropic Is SpaceX's Biggest Customer, at About 34.5% of Quarterly Revenue, Bloomberg Says

SpaceX's filing names the buyer of its AI computing power only as Customer B. Anthropic declined to comment, and either side can end the compute deals with 90 days' notice after early 2027.

9. Thrive Holdings Will Buy ADT for $7.6B in Cash, or $15.3B Including Debt

The OpenAI-backed company led by Joshua Kushner will pay $10 per share, a 45.6% premium, and take the home security firm private, with plans to bring AI to its business.

10. Mistral Releases Open Weights for Large 4, Its 1-Trillion-Parameter Model

The French lab is pitching the model to governments and companies that want to run cyber defense on their own servers, and the weights are now available on Hugging Face.

11. Canada Will Invest Up to C$1.6B in Cohere's Series E of Up to C$7B

The round, led by Schwarz Group with Nvidia also investing, values the Toronto AI company at C$35.7B, and Cohere has committed to keeping its headquarters in Canada.

12. Korean AI Chipmaker FuriosaAI Raises $620M at a $2.9B Valuation

South Korea's National Growth Fund put $280M into the Series D, which will help FuriosaAI scale production of its energy-efficient inference chips, built to compete with Nvidia's.

13. Walmart Commits About $6B More to Symbotic's Warehouse Automation

The expanded deal covers Symbotic systems for 25 US regional distribution centers over several years, according to Symbotic's filing, with room for further purchases across Walmart's network.

14. Sandisk's Revenue Soars 378% to $11B, and It Announces an 8-for-1 Stock Split

Data center demand drove the beat over the $10.7B analysts expected, and the flash storage maker forecast next-quarter revenue of $12.2B to $12.6B.

15. Rivian's Revenue Rises 38% as the R2 Becomes Its Best-Selling Vehicle

Quarterly revenue reached $2.155B, ahead of Wall Street forecasts, and Rivian raised its 2026 guidance, though its car business is still losing money.

16. GM Will Pay $220M to Settle a 36-State Lawsuit Over Selling Driver Data

The states said GM sold driving and location data to data brokers that passed it to insurers. GM must now get drivers' express consent before collecting or sharing that data.

17. The FTC and Eight States Sue Toast Over Hidden Fees and Hard Cancellations

The complaint says the restaurant software company hid fees, charged for add-ons without consent and made cancelling difficult. Toast says it will fight the case in court.

18. Roblox Bookings Fall 12% and Daily Users Drop 9% After New Child Safety Measures

Bookings of $1.7B beat estimates, but 138M daily users fell short of forecasts and Roblox expects fourth-quarter bookings to fall 10% to 15%, sending its shares lower after hours.

19. Pinterest Misses Revenue Estimates, and Its Shares Fall About 8% After Hours

Revenue grew 12% to $1.17B, below the $1.21B analysts expected, even as monthly users rose 10% to a record 661M.

20. Coinbase Returns to Profit, Helped by Gains on Its Crypto Holdings

Net income rose 66% to $719M, largely from mark-to-market gains on crypto, while revenue fell 35% from a year earlier to $1.22B, in line with estimates.

21. Polymarket Briefly Halts Trading After Hackers Hit a Third-Party Provider

Losses from user accounts were estimated at under $3M before trading resumed, and Polymarket says it will reimburse affected traders.

22. Google Brings Ads in AI Mode to 10 More Countries

Ads now appear in AI Mode in markets including Australia, Canada, India and Singapore, with Brazil, Mexico and the UK to follow later this year, as Google works to make AI search pay.

23. Apple Cuts Its App Store Commission in Taiwan to 26%

The cut from 30% applies to in-app purchases and paid apps from October 31 and follows talks with Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission, matching the rate Apple uses in Japan and the EU.

24. Researchers Find Flaws in the Built-In Browsers of Five AI Coding Tools

Forever Security says flaws in Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop allowed code execution, file theft or address bar spoofing, and two remain unpatched.

25. AI Agent App Wabi Raises $55M at a $1.25B Valuation

IVP led the round, with the Amazon Alexa Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Forerunner taking part, for the app that builds mini apps from users' requests.

26. Fan Fiction Site Archive of Our Own Could Be Offline for Up to Four Weeks

The volunteer-run site went down during planned maintenance, and its operators say restoring service will take about two weeks and possibly up to four, though user data is reportedly intact.