Good morning. China’s state-sponsored hackers used artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the company said Thursday.

• Humans not needed (mostly): Hackers have been using AI for years now to conduct individual tasks such as crafting phishing emails or scanning the internet for vulnerable systems, but in this instance 80% to 90% of the attack was automated, with humans only intervening in a handful of decision points, said Jacob Klein, the company’s head of threat intelligence.
   
• Click-and-hack: The hackers conducted their attacks “literally with the click of a button, and then with minimal human interaction,” Klein said. Anthropic disrupted the campaigns and blocked the hackers’ accounts, but not before as many as four intrusions were successful. In one case, the hackers directed Anthropic’s Claude AI tools to query internal databases and extract data independently. 
   
• New threat: Stitching together hacking tasks into nearly autonomous attacks is a new step in a growing trend of automation that is giving hackers additional scale and speed.

How a Chinese AI company worked around U.S. rules to access Nvidia’s top chips.

President Trump made clear earlier this month that he doesn’t want Nvidia selling its most advanced artificial-intelligence chips to China.

But inside a tall, windowless building in Indonesia’s capital, about 2,300 of those chips are ready to do work for a Chinese AI company.

A Wall Street Journal investigation traced how a chain of deals across several countries got the chips inside the data center, which is wedged between a private school and an upscale apartment complex. A company that arranged the transaction is a subsidiary of a Chinese business on an American trade blacklist.

EU Parliament votes to narrow sustainability rules following U.S. pressure.

European Union lawmakers have voted to further narrow the scope of the bloc’s corporate sustainability rules, a move that follows pressure from the Trump administration, which has pursued a deregulatory agenda on climate issues, Risk Journal reports.

In a vote in the European Parliament on Thursday, members approved a bill that would increase the size a company needs to be before it is required to report on its impact on people and the environment, removing the obligation from around 90% of companies initially covered.

• The European Commission opened a new investigation into Alphabet’s Google over how the tech giant ranks news publishers in search results.
   
• Google submitted remedies to the European Commission after the bloc’s 2.95 billion-euro ($3.42 billion) fine over alleged dominance of the company’s advertising technology business, but stopped short of offering to sell parts of the business.
   
• From New Jersey to California, the Trump administration has installed handpicked federal prosecutors by sidestepping the customary confirmation process, drawing legal challenges that have clouded the cases they brought.
   
• The European Commission said it opened an antitrust probe into Red Bull over concerns the energy-drinks brand illegally hindered competition by persuading retail customers to stop selling or disadvantage rival products.
   
• Canada imposed sanctions on 13 individuals and 11 entities, including several involved in Russia’s drone program, as well as 100 vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced.

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U.S. sanctions family over alleged Sinaloa Cartel money laundering.

The U.S. is sanctioning what it calls a crime family with ties to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, and moving to cut a number of Mexican casinos from the U.S. financial system over money laundering concerns, escalating the Trump administration’s financial war on drug networks, Risk Journal reports.

The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it was working with Mexico to target the Hysa organized crime group, which it said is tied to the Sinaloa Cartel. Treasury imposed sanctions on members of the family, including Luftar Hysa, the alleged leader and a public face of the group, as well as on other entities in Mexico, Canada and Poland.

Under Trump, the U.S. has directed much of its extensive financial crimes enforcement infrastructure to target Latin American drug cartels, including by designating cartels as terrorist groups.

Banks increasingly worry about farm profits weathering climate risk.

Banks are growing increasingly concerned about their exposure to the harmful effects of shifting weather patterns on farms, according to a report from the Environmental Defense Fund.

The report said more frequent and severe droughts and heat waves, and the changes in growing conditions for crops overall, expose lenders to financial risks.

• Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s coalition came first in this week’s parliamentary election, but Iran-backed militias also had a strong showing, setting up what could be long negotiations over who will be the country’s leader.
   
• Adaptation and resilience finance are dominating the agenda at this year’s United Nations climate conference, as worries mount over the risk posed by extreme weather events from climate change.
   
• The eurozone’s industry returned to slow growth in September, reflecting moderate resilience at a time of trade uncertainty.

• It will be days—perhaps longer—before U.S. air travel snaps back to normal from the disruptions driven by the government shutdown.
   
• It may get a lot more expensive to be a billionaire in California.
   
• Baidu unveiled two artificial intelligence chips as Chinese tech giants ramp up their chip-making efforts amid China’s push for technological self-sufficiency.
   
• Ernst & Young nominated the executive behind its recent U.S. audit cleanup efforts as the new leader of its U.S. unit as the accounting giant navigates greater use of artificial intelligence.

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