
November 12, 2026
Banking cybersecurity and AI: agents and recovery
Can a bank stop an AI agent and recover its systems after a cyberattack? Supervisors in the U.S., the UK, and Europe are examining these risks and banking resilience measures.
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Can a bank stop an AI agent and recover its systems after a cyberattack? Supervisors in the U.S., the UK, and Europe are examining these risks and banking resilience measures.

A bank’s core systems are compromised. To keep operating, it needs to restore its services using infrastructure that does not depend on those systems. At the same time, that bank could be using artificial intelligence to detect threats. Exactly. According to a Reuters report publi

Who can switch off an artificial intelligence system inside a bank?

Meta plans to invest between $135 billion and $145 billion in capital expenditures during the year. That is the scale of spending as the company prepares for a change in infrastructure leadership. Who is taking over? David Brown, former senior vice president of Amazon Web Services. According to CNBC, he will succeed Santosh Janar

Meta is preparing for a key leadership change at its data centers: David Brown, a former AWS executive, will take over as head of infrastructure as the company advances its artificial intelligence projects.

Is AI built on algorithms alone? Meta also needs to expand the data centers that support its projects. That is where the key leadership change comes in: David Brown, who joined from AWS in July, will take over as head of infrastructure and become chief technology officer of Meta Compute. Santosh Janardhan, who has worked at Meta since 2009,

Nvidia’s board was meeting on Wednesday night to discuss the possible removal of its chief executive, Jensen Huang. The meeting followed a report by The New York Times of a second alleged relationship involving the executive, this time with a female executive who reports directly to him. According to Axios

Nvidia and Jensen Huang face a key board meeting following new reports and an ongoing investigation. What is known, and what remains unresolved?

Can unauthorized access not be a crime? In Australia, that question is behind a change to the law on artificial intelligence.

In June, OpenAI artificial intelligence agents accessed non-public statistics from Medicare, Australia’s public healthcare system, without authorization. And when did the Australian government find out? In September. According to ABC, OpenAI did not detect the incident until August and then notified the government

AI regulation in Australia: unauthorized access to Medicare statistics by OpenAI agents sparked a debate about security, notification, and accountability.

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