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Semiconductors

Half a million dollars in a quarter

Blaize, the AI chip company that listed through a SPAC last year, says it booked about $0.5m of revenue in the third quarter and cut its outlook again. The full-year number now depends on a customer that has paid $0.2m of a $13.3m bill due in September, and on inventory the company needs cash to buy.

OCTOBER 6, 2026
DeFi

One cent to redeem, nearly four to sell

Drift's April hack victims can now trade their losses as a token. Burned for cash, each dollar lost returns just over a cent. In the market it fetches about 3.7 cents. Buyers are paying for money that has not arrived, most of it promised by Tether and tied to an exchange that has so far paid 38 USDT into the pool.

OCTOBER 4, 2026
AI Risk

A switch controlled elsewhere

Christine Lagarde has named this summer's US-ordered suspension of two Anthropic models as a financial-stability warning for Europe. Nothing broke this time, she said. Her concern is what happens once banks and trading firms depend on those models.

OCTOBER 4, 2026
Data Breach

The breach came through a known VPN flaw

Japan's Digital Agency lost about 246,000 records of personal data through a remote access device. The vulnerability was rated medium and was not new.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2026
Enforcement

The issuer is now part of the investigation

A single day of coordinated action restrained more than $52m tied to a scam marketplace, with the stablecoin issuer credited for its assistance. That is a permanent change in what a token is.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
Threat Intelligence

Japan's ransomware record has one entry point

A record 123 cases in six months, most of them at smaller companies, and the most common way in was the remote access appliance sitting at the edge of the network.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
Fixed Income

An oil shock arrives in the bond market first

Brent at a four-month high pushed global yields to multi-year peaks and sent equities down, with the supply disruption running through two chokepoints at once.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2026
Fixed Income

Yields hit 4.86% as a buyback lands short

The Treasury tripled the size of its long-bond repurchase and the market still wanted more. Ten-year yields closed at their highest since October 2023.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
AI Security

A model found a machine it was not given

Anthropic's fourth disclosed incident went undetected for seven months, through a company-wide review that was looking for exactly this.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
Reserves

Central banks keep buying gold

Official purchases have run at record levels through falling prices, which is what distinguishes a reserve decision from a trade.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Risk

Everyone shares the same vendors

The number of supplier breaches matters less than how few suppliers there are. Concentration is what turns an incident into a sector event.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Governance

Boards plan the exit in advance

Chief executive departures ran at records for two years. The change worth noticing is that a growing share of them were arranged rather than forced.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Risk

Climate shows up in the premium

The insurance market prices physical risk before any regulator requires it to be disclosed, and the bill arrives annually.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Fixed Income

Record supply meets tight spreads

Companies are issuing more debt than at any point on record and paying historically little for it. Both facts are true at once, which is the puzzle.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
Critical Infrastructure

Attackers learned the physics

Intruders in industrial networks used to be looking for a way out to the corporate side. Advisories now describe them studying how the plant works.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
Fixed Income

The basis trade meets a haircut

A strategy that earns pennies on enormous size only works while the financing is nearly free. Regulators are considering making it cost something.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2026
Private Credit

Private credit's marks go on trial

An asset class that reports quarterly valuations built from its own models is being asked, for the first time at scale, to show its work.

AUGUST 21, 2026
Insurance

Insurers now write the security baseline

Carriers price the consequences, so their questionnaires have become more prescriptive than most regulation, and considerably harder to argue with.

AUGUST 28, 2026