Daily briefing: 2026-10-25
What’s new since yesterday in AI, security, the economy and finance, from this site’s automated collectors. Titles are the sources’ own; follow the links before relying on any of them. Full lists: AI and economy digest, KEV watch.
AI models and agents
- 2026-10-24 · hn_ai · Show HN: Perch, a calm Mac app for juggling Claude Code sessions
- 2026-10-24 · hn_ai · Show HN: Claude Code(and others) embedded in your app
- 2026-10-24 · hn_ai · Local inferencing in one JVM JAR, dependency free, faster than llama.cpp
- 2026-10-24 · techcrunch_ai · Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
- 2026-10-24 · simon_willison · battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map
AI safety and security
- 2026-10-24 · hn_ai · For the next two weeks, we’re covering $1M in security scans and fixes
Economy and finance
- 2026-10-24 · hn_ai · America Has Lost 200k of Jobs in Media, Film and the Arts. How Much Is AI?
- 2026-10-24 · hn_ai · Who Pays for AI Data Centers?
- 2026-10-24 · coindesk · Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
- 2026-10-24 · coindesk · Bitcoin’s wealthy holders turning to loans and yield as investment habits mature: Xapo CEO
Robotics
- 2026-10-24 · robot_report · Eka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots
Crypto and blockchain
- 2026-10-24 · coindesk · Crypto under weekend pressure, bitcoin slides below $80,000 on U.S. Middle East evacuations
- 2026-10-24 · coindesk · Why McDonalds, Microsoft and Google saying no to tokenized stocks isn’t a dealbreaker
Exploited vulnerabilities (CISA KEV)
First run: the catalog holds 1756 entries. Only the AI-related ones are listed; later runs list everything new.
| Added | CVE | Vendor | Product | Vulnerability | Ransomware | US federal due date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | CVE-2026-59822 | BerriAI | LiteLLM | BerriAI LiteLLM Improper Authentication Vulnerability | 2026-09-16 | |
| 2026-08-19 | CVE-2026-64849 | MLflow | MLflow | MLflow Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability | 2026-09-02 | |
| 2026-08-17 | CVE-2025-62593 | Ray-Project | Ray | Ray-Project Ray Code Injection Vulnerability | 2026-08-20 | |
| 2026-06-08 | CVE-2026-42271 | BerriAI | LiteLLM | BerriAI LiteLLM Command Injection Vulnerability | 2026-06-22 | |
| 2026-05-08 | CVE-2026-42208 | BerriAI | LiteLLM | BerriAI LiteLLM SQL Injection Vulnerability | 2026-05-11 |