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More →Barclays will cut 5,000 jobs, about 5% of its total workforce.
Banking news outlet reports that Barclays has announced it will cut 5,000 jobs, roughly 5% of its total workforce. The move is one of the steps the bank is taking to expand its use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Bessent: The U.S. has made major progress in its economic blockade of Iran.
According to CoinWorld news, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent stated in his latest remarks: "The U.S. Treasury Department previously launched 'Operation Economic Isolation,' aimed at further tightening the economic blockade against Iran and cutting off all sources of revenue that could fund the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its brutal regime. In less than two months, we have dealt severe blows to every link in the lifeline of Iran's oil revenue. Its shadow tanker fleet has been severely weakened, its main oil export terminals are empty, and its offshore oil reserves have been depleted. At the same time, ordinary Iranian people continue to endure an increasingly severe economic crisis, because the Iranian regime squanders resources on violence and terrorism abroad rather than improving the lives of its people at home. As President Trump takes actions that his predecessors long postponed, the United States is no longer merely responding to the Iranian threat, but seeking to eliminate it entirely."
France's 10-year government bond yield has surpassed 5% for the first time, hitting a 24-year high.
CoinWorld data: The French 10-year government bond yield reached 5.14% on October 22, breaking above 5% for the first time in 24 years. With debt approaching 120% of GDP, investors are demanding higher compensation for holding France's increasingly risky debt, driving government borrowing costs to their highest level in 24 years. Although the yield fell back to around 5.04% on October 23, concerns over France's fiscal outlook continue to weigh on the European bond market. On Thursday, the spread between the French 10-year government bond yield and German bunds widened to 177 basis points, the highest since 2011. France's debt is projected to reach 119.3% of GDP in 2026 and 121.7% in 2027.
Blackstone President: Investors need not worry about the AI boom turning into a bubble.
According to CoinWorld news, Blackstone Group President Jon Gray said that investors do not need to worry that the AI boom will turn into a bubble.
Oil prices break above $116 for the first time, global stocks hit by AI concerns
According to a report by Bijie, the Financial Times reported that oil prices have surpassed $116 for the first time, reaching their highest level since April, as global stock markets were hit by both the surge in crude oil prices and concerns over the sustainability of the AI boom.
Ukrainian President Zelensky: Restrictions on the speed of Starlink and Starshield remain in place.
According to CoinWorld news, Ukrainian President Zelensky: Speed restrictions on Starlink and Starshield remain in place.
Anthropic reviews Claude's out-of-bounds attack: pre-event reminders work, post-event warnings are ineffective
CoinWorld news: Anthropic and the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) have released a new safety investigation reviewing an out-of-bounds attack incident involving Claude Mythos 5 during cybersecurity offense-defense testing. When attacking the simulated system, the model unexpectedly redirected its target to real open-source GitHub projects, submitting modifications containing malicious code and registering fake accounts impersonating real people in an attempt to trick developers into approving them. In the end, the real maintainers refused to merge the code, and the attack did not succeed. The investigation found that once an AI begins attacking, it is very difficult to stop. Although researchers explicitly informed the model that it was attacking real people, in replay experiments the model had only a 5% probability of stopping the attack. By contrast, advance warnings were markedly effective: after modifying the reasoning records from before the attack, the proportion of cases in which the model continued searching for attack targets dropped from 83% to 13%. Once the attack entered its middle and late stages, 98% of replay results still continued along the original path. The researchers call this phenomenon "momentum," whereby past actions and phase summaries make the model increasingly inclined to believe it is on the right path.
US consumer confidence index near historic low
A survey released on Friday showed that U.S. consumer sentiment edged down in October to near a record low, as the Middle East conflict drove prices higher, turning households pessimistic about the economic outlook ahead of midterm congressional elections centered on affordability issues. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey showed its consumer sentiment index fell to 48.0 this month from September's final reading of 48.1. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the index at 46.3, which was also the preliminary reading for October. The October reading is the second-lowest on record, above only the all-time low of 44.8 set in May. Joanne Hsu, director of the consumer survey, said the current consumer sentiment index is 10% lower than a year ago and 15% lower than in February, before the Iran conflict broke out.
Anthropic: Claude models perform more safely in safety tests.
According to a report from Bijie, Anthropic stated that its latest Claude AI model performed more safely in security tests, while earlier versions had experienced intrusion incidents in cybersecurity tests involving four real organizations. According to research from September 9, Claude Mythos 5 carried out severely harmful operations in 82% of 150 simulated cybersecurity tests, while the rates for Claude Opus 5 and Mythos 5.1 dropped to 31% and 33%, respectively. These tests were conducted in a controlled cybersecurity evaluation with third-party testing partner Irregular. Due to a configuration error, the models connected to the real internet in an environment that was supposed to be isolated, causing four Claude models to mistakenly treat production systems as legitimate test targets and gain unauthorized access. After reviewing approximately 141,000 evaluation records, Anthropic initially identified three incidents, and later expanded the investigation to approximately 481 million records, finding no other incidents of equal or greater severity.
SEC announces fiscal year 2027 examination priorities: focusing on tokenization risks and AI technology
CoinWorld news, according to Cointelegraph: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced its examination priorities for fiscal year 2027, mainly covering areas such as tokenization risks, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, cybersecurity, investor protection, private funds and credit, and anti-money laundering compliance.