CrowdStrike and CoreWeave announced an expanded strategic partnership on November 2, 2026, at Fal.Con Europe in Barcelona, bringing CrowdStrike Falcon platform protection and round-the-clock managed security expertise to customers running mission-critical AI workloads on CoreWeave's cloud.

Marvell Technology announced on Monday, November 2, that it will acquire optical components maker Lumentum in an all-stock transaction with an implied enterprise value of 115 billion dollars, one of the biggest deals of 2026 and a direct challenge to Broadcom in AI data center hardware. The companies said they have entered a definitive agreement, unanimously approved by both boards.

Malaysia Airlines said on Sunday that some of its customer information may have been affected by a cybersecurity incident at Amadeus, the Spanish travel technology company that provides its reservation systems. The disclosure makes the Malaysian flag carrier the latest airline to warn passengers over the breach, and it underlines how a single compromised supplier can expose booking data across an entire industry.

South Korea's exports nearly doubled in October, rising 93.7 percent from a year earlier to 115.28 billion dollars, according to trade data released on Sunday, November 1 by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources and reported by Reuters. It was the strongest monthly growth since January 1974, it beat September's 83.7 percent gain, and it came in slightly above the 93.2 percent median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists.

Canonical has released fixed versions of LXD and MicroCloud after a critical flaw allowed an attacker to log in as a trusted client without holding that client's private key. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-112816, carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, and The Hacker News reported the details on November 1, 2026, citing Canonical's advisory.

Impersonation, not a technical break-in, most likely cost a Capillary Technologies subsidiary more than 3 million euros, according to a forensic report by KPMG that the company summarized in an exchange filing on Saturday, October 31. Capillary said the evidence was most consistent with an external payment-diversion fraud involving impersonation of a senior executive and an external lawyer, social engineering, a lookalike email domain, and communications through WhatsApp and personal email accounts.

CrowdStrike says a China-linked espionage group it tracks as VAPOR PANDA used an agentic artificial intelligence framework to run intrusions against more than 200 organizations at the same time, in what it calls an escalation from AI-assisted single break-ins to running many in parallel under one human operator.

Asian chip supply chain companies said on Friday that demand linked to artificial intelligence remains strong, even as investors grow more uneasy about whether the massive sums being poured into AI infrastructure will deliver adequate returns. The comments, reported by Reuters from Tokyo and Taipei on October 30, amount to a coordinated defense of the AI buildout from the companies that supply its servers, memory and manufacturing equipment.

Amazon's cloud business is growing at its fastest pace in nearly five years, and the bill for building it has pushed the company's free cash flow deep into negative territory. In third-quarter results released on Thursday, October 29, for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, Amazon Web Services sales climbed 39 percent to 46.0 billion dollars, taking the cloud unit to a 184 billion dollar annualized revenue run rate.

Cognizant is putting the scale of a global IT services firm behind OpenAI. The company announced on Friday, October 30, the formation of its OpenAI Frontier Capability Group, bringing together more than 25,000 professionals aligned to delivering OpenAI products, including Codex and ChatGPT, for enterprise clients.