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Binance co-founder He Yi posted that in recent days, the internet has been filled with scandalous rumors about Asian women and spies, and many female professionals in the industry have been passively drawn into various scandals, which makes her feel complicated. She believes that equality should be pursued, meaning that one should evaluate a person's achievements without regard to gender.She pointed out that opportunities for women in the workplace are not equal, and workplace harassment is also common. Female managers who can stand on their own often have to invest more time and effort than others.He Yi mentioned that accounts that create rumors by exploiting gender should be cleared from the industry. The legal department will provide legal protection for Binance's female employees, and she welcomes ambitious and down-to-earth women to join Binance, where the company will provide a fair and transparent workplace environment.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the Financial Security Institute (FSI), a financial security agency under the Financial Services Commission of South Korea, was hacked, resulting in the leakage of hundreds of pieces of information, including about 300 personal information records of employees from financial institutions.

According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Kayleen Fulton, the former head of protocol support at the Ethereum Foundation, sued the foundation's affiliated entities, co-executive director Bastian Aue, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, among others, on November 4.The lawsuit claims that Fulton disclosed her cancer diagnosis in writing to the foundation's leadership on March 24, and the next day organized a petition signed by 53 employees opposing a request to endorse an internal document that included a suicide pledge; on April 6, she and another organizer were terminated. She has made claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and interference with family medical leave rights. The above content is the plaintiff's assertion.

AI search company Perplexity officially launched Teammates, allowing AI Agents to be responsible for specific tasks long-term like employees. CEO Aravind Srinivas revealed that approximately 10,000 AI Teammates have been created internally in the last 30 days, which is 20 times the total number of human employees.Teammates are built on Perplexity Computer. After users assign roles, goals, and permissions to the AI, it can continuously track work progress, proactively identify issues, and call upon tools to address them. Multiple Teammates can also divide tasks among themselves and contact human colleagues via Slack. For example, a sales Agent can discover that a customer has not placed an order for a long time, automatically investigate the reasons, and prepare a follow-up plan; a development Agent can hand off the task of writing a fix code to another Agent after discovering a website bug. Each Agent has an independent working environment, retaining project memory and task history, allowing users to check progress, adjust direction, or take over operations at any time.Business Insider exposed Perplexity's internal Teammate tool in July this year, which was primarily used for software engineering tasks such as bug tracking and system monitoring. The product has now expanded to marketing, sales, customer service, and operations, adding long-term task management and cross-Agent collaboration. Teammates are currently available in research preview form to Max subscription users at $200 per month, initially supporting the web version, with native mobile and desktop versions to be launched later.

According to Decrypt, Hollywood film companies and production companies are issuing guidelines prohibiting employees from using insider information to bet on prediction markets. The regulations prohibit employees from betting on events such as film company earnings reports, casting decisions, and release dates, and also prohibit sharing information with friends and family for them to place bets. At least one company has set up an anonymous hotline for employees to report colleagues suspected of betting.Penske Media, the parent company of The Hollywood Reporter, updated its employee handbook in recent weeks to prohibit betting on award nominations, casting decisions, production schedules, and release dates. Joshua Mitts, a law professor at Columbia University who studies prediction markets, stated that many employers now have to consider insider trading rules from an ethical perspective, but enforcing these rules can be difficult, as transactions based on blockchain may be "virtually untraceable" if insiders use mixers and hide their identities layer by layer.

Binance co-founder He Yi responded on the X platform regarding discussions related to the Binance security incident and internal device management, confirming that the previously circulated news about an employee being fired for downloading iQIYI on a work computer did occur at Binance.He Yi stated: "The person who was fired for downloading iQIYI on a work computer was also from Binance. We acknowledge our mistakes and take responsibility, but we cannot make the same mistake again."

ByteDance recently introduced new internal management regulations for the use of AI tools, which will significantly restrict employees from accessing internal company data through external AI tools like Claude and Codex using personal accounts. It is reported that starting this month, ByteDance will implement a ban on external AI access for all L4 level code repositories and Feishu documents across the company, and AI accounts purchased by employees will no longer be able to access relevant internal resources.The notice was released internally at ByteDance last week, subsequently sparking discussions among some employees. The discussions mainly focused on the usage permissions of external AI tools, internal information security, and the relationship between the company's own AI products and third-party tools.ByteDance's relevant person in charge, Hong Dingkun, emphasized that internal information security is an important consideration for this adjustment, stating, "If L3 and above content is leaked, the consequences are very serious."

According to the insider trading policy document submitted by Apple, the company prohibits individuals bound by this policy from using confidential information obtained in the course of their work at Apple or other companies to bet, trade, or buy and sell event contracts on prediction markets or similar platforms.The policy also prohibits disclosing relevant confidential information to individuals who may participate in such markets, regardless of whether the relevant actions constitute insider trading or securities trading under applicable law; the ban applies in all cases. The policy covers Apple directors, executives, employees, independent contractors, and consultants, and the document indicates that the policy was updated in October 2026.

User jujudog69 claims to be a former employee of the on-chain visualization platform Bubblemaps and accuses it of signing a secret agreement with the tool platform Proxima, which helps bundled buyers evade detection. The user alleges that starting from April 2025, Proxima pays Bubblemaps $45,000 per month for consulting support such as clustering algorithm parameters, and has attached what is claimed to be contract evidence.Bubblemaps officially responded and refuted the above accusations, stating that the document is a forged AI-generated content. The vulnerabilities they listed include: the publisher is not a former employee and is actually promoting their own competing product; the CEO's email in the document is fabricated; the contract is dated April 2025, but the listed headquarters address is the current address that the team moved to later, which does not match public legal registration records.Bubblemaps stated that the team is small and is aware of the identities of all former employees, and called on the industry to be vigilant against malicious smear campaigns from competitors.

According to a report by Reuters, Binance stated that hackers used fake job interview attacks to compromise employee devices and steal cryptocurrency.

According to Bloomberg, Bill Winters, the CEO of Standard Chartered, stated at the Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit hosted by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on November 3 that the evolution of artificial intelligence is causing a "fear factor" among employees. However, he reassured anxious employees that the industry has previously undergone similar transformation processes.In response to questions about the evolution of AI, Winters mentioned that Standard Chartered currently has about 100,000 employees, which is roughly the same number as when he joined the bank 11 years ago; "We have automated approximately 25,000 positions during this process and replaced them with other roles."Bloomberg reported that AI may be impacting hundreds of thousands of jobs. Standard Chartered is headquartered in London, with a business network primarily covering the markets in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Winters joined the bank 11 years ago and has served as CEO since then.

According to a report by The Paper, in response to rumors circulating online about the preparation of an AI startup focused on Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) with a project valuation of up to $2 billion, Google DeepMind senior research scientist Yao Shunyu explicitly denied it, stating, "I have not founded a company and am still an employee of Google DeepMind," and claimed to have no idea where the related rumors originated.Previously, there were reports that Yao Shunyu's startup team had basically taken shape, intending to attract research and engineering talent from leading AI labs such as Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI. This is not the first time Yao Shunyu has responded to startup rumors. On October 12, he publicly stated that there are currently no plans to raise funds in China and urged the public not to waste time on related rumors.

According to an interview with the New York Post, U.S. President Trump stated that if Democrats follow through on their threat to sue his government staff, he is willing to offer preemptive pardons to those who have worked for his administration if necessary.When asked if this would apply to all who have worked for him, Trump said he would do so and mentioned previous pardons for those charged in the January 6 Capitol riot. Regarding the talk of arresting Musk, he said it was just speculation, but there is a need to protect the individuals involved.

According to TechCrunch, a hacker claiming to be from the "Department of Peace" has reportedly obtained a large amount of employee data from the Okta single sign-on system used by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was publicly released on Wednesday by the data transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) as the "Icepick" dataset. The leaked records exceed 40,000, accounting for about one-fifth of DHS's approximately 220,000 employees, involving names, positions, work emails, phone numbers, and office locations, along with information related to internal system permissions. Among these, approximately 21,000 records belong to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, while about 10,000 records involve the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with nearly 1,000 related to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).TechCrunch stated that it has verified the authenticity of some of the data, with timestamps indicating that the data was exported around mid-August. The hacker also provided the data to journalist and hacker maia arson crimew, who then forwarded it to DDoSecrets. Okta responded that its systems and data were not breached; a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has not yet responded to requests for comment. The report indicates that this is the third incident of data leakage from the U.S. government that has drawn attention in the past month, following the theft of Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel files and Pentagon personnel data.

According to a report by Financial Associated Press, Microsoft announced on October 26 local time that it will offer a voluntary severance compensation plan to approximately 60,000 employees to reduce costs and adjust its workforce for the AI era. More than a quarter of the total employee count is eligible, marking the company's third round of workforce adjustments this year.A spokesperson stated that some vice presidents and below in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom are eligible to apply, and those who accept the plan will receive benefits similar to standard severance packages. According to informed sources, departments such as Xbox, Windows, Copilot, and finance will fully participate, while some employees in data centers, sales, marketing, cybersecurity, and quantum computing will not be eligible. Chief Human Resources Officer Amy Coleman mentioned in an internal letter that the plan provides an option for employees considering leaving to transition with the company's support, and it is another way for departments to adjust their teams. The spokesperson also noted that if top talent accepts the plan, the company will attempt to retain them in some cases.In April this year, Microsoft launched its first voluntary retirement program for about 8,750 eligible U.S. employees, with over 30% ultimately accepting; in July, it announced layoffs of approximately 4,800 people, accounting for about 2.1% of the total workforce. The spokesperson expects the number of acceptances this time to be far less than the voluntary retirement program. As of the end of June, Microsoft had a total of 223,000 employees. According to the financial report on July 29, capital expenditures for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026 were $41 billion, a year-on-year increase of about 70%, and capital expenditures for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 are expected to be about $50 billion.

As of September 30, Anthropic had approximately 5,300 employees. The company's total operating expenses for the first half of the year as of June 30 were $16.98 billion.

Reuters reported on October 23 that Elizabeth Barron, the Executive Director of the non-profit organization PHP Foundation, which supports the open-source language PHP, stated in an email interview on Friday that the foundation is severely underfunded. She mentioned that recent events indicate a high reliance on PHP by businesses and governments, and given this reliance, PHP's funding is clearly insufficient.Barron noted that the foundation currently has only one full-time employee, which is herself, along with 14 part-time contractors, with funding coming from donations and grants. The increase in coding related to artificial intelligence has roughly doubled the foundation's workload. The number of code change proposals received by the PHP project is nearly double that of a year ago, but the number of contributors has not doubled. She stated that reviewing code contributions and bug reports requires a significant amount of manual input and expertise.Reuters reported that two serious vulnerabilities in PHP were discovered this week, prompting urgent patches for websites worldwide, highlighting the critical importance of this nearly thirty-year-old open-source language to the internet. The article stated that PHP may support approximately 70% of websites globally, and there is currently no evidence that these vulnerabilities were exploited before their disclosure. The report was filed by journalist Toby Sterling from Amsterdam.

OpenAI announced that Uber will provide the ChatGPT Enterprise version to all employees and will use OpenAI's cutting-edge models through ChatGPT Work.