Daily Briefing Saturday 31st October

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0:37This is your Times Radio news briefing for Saturday 31st October. The cryptocurrency exchange company Binance says it will publish the findings of an investigation into how it lost$6.3 billion within the next two days. It hopes withdrawals will be possible by tomorrow morning. The exchange was hacked yesterday in what is thought to be one of the largest financial heists, But tech journalist Will Guyot told Times Radio there's been a team effort to recover what they've lost. It looks like within 24 hours, the Secret Service and Binance and their partners have managed to stop around$3 billion of those funds.

1:16They've managed to literally seize them back, put them into a state where they can't be traded or used. So they're already doing their best to try and claw as much of this back as they can. North Korea is expected of being behind the attack, which is being investigated by the FBI and the US Secret Service. The Chancellor's written in the Times that clean energy projects will be vetoed if all they do is add to a grid that can't handle the supply. Currently, consumers are paying to turn wind turbines off when the local cables can't handle any more energy. On Tuesday alone, this cost£47 million, according to Wasted Wind, a tracker run by Octopus Energy.

1:53Political reporter at Times Radio Ali Razamanji says this marks a change in approach to renewable energy. The push from various governments, from the Boris Johnson government onwards really towards net zero, has been to build green infrastructure to decarbonise the grid by 2030 and get us on a pathway where building these wind turbines and so on will basically fuel our energy in the future. Now the challenge for that is that the grid actually has to be updated to do that. And in many cases the grid has not been updated in time to do that. And really that means that even when wind turbines and so on are built, they basically don't have the network in place for that to really work.

2:29Andy Burnham said he's open to calls for a formal apology on behalf of the British state for its role in the transatlantic slave trade. The Prime Minister's said in The Guardian that sticking our heads in the sand has damaged the ability of the Commonwealth to function ahead of a meeting of leaders there next week. But he's said reparations are not the right answer, as British people today cannot be held liable for historical wrongs. Meanwhile, the King has arrived in Antigua and Barbuda for the same conference. OpenAI has hugely cut its funding target from investors from$30 billion to$20 billion because of a brutal sell-off of AI stocks and growing anxiety about the pace and extent of AI spending.

3:08According to the FT, some of its investors lowered their figures and it is now competing for attention with Anthropic, which is set to go public on the stock exchange next month. Senior figures in the Green Party are expected to call for a conversation about the party's future because of concern about the number of members leaving and its direction 18 ,000 members have left the party since May falling to about 212 ,000 after the conference from a height of 230 The Greens have faced criticism and division after a party vote to declare Zionism as racism For more stories like this, listen throughout the day to Times Radio

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