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Coding Backdoors, OpenAI's Miss, and Binance's Heist — November 2, 2026
A sliver of poisoned training data, one tenth of one percent, hijacked a coding agent nine times out of ten. One compromised laptop let hackers drain $6.36 billion from Binance in twenty minutes. Different targets, same blind spot. We go through OpenAI's investors balking at its funding ask, Google's haiku-writing chip in orbit, Cisco's unlimited-token rewrite bet, and the new gated model built for drug discovery.
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