Friday, 23 October 2026Global tech news & guides — what changed, and what it means for you.

CARLIY0S: The AI Agent Ring Robbing Latin America’s Banks

Illustration: a shadowy war-room with monitors showing bank vault schematics; four glowing AI orbs in a circle above a table with puppet strings down to a keyboard; faint red warning glow

In brief Security researchers at Straiker have published the first investigation of a criminal group running AI-orchestrated attack operations from inside its own working environment — a system called CARLIY0S, operated by the CyberCartel-linked Tr4nsHack Team against Latin American banks and payment providers. CARLIY0S is not one AI doing one thing: it is a role-specialized … Read more

Anthropic in Talks for a Second $45 Billion Nscale Deal: What It Means

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One week after Microsoft walked away from Nscale’s UK data center because the site could not get electricity, Anthropic is reportedly about to double down on the same company. Bloomberg reported on October 19 that Nscale is in talks to sell Anthropic another roughly $45 billion of AI computing power — a second deal on … Read more