Bithumb held its first in-house artificial intelligence contest and identified 107 AI use cases applied to day-to-day work, including outage response, information-leak monitoring and trading strategy verification. The contest, held Aug. 17 to 31, drew 110 employees. After document screening, 13 cases advanced to presentations and seven judges selected winners. First prize went to an IT team leader for a real-time monitoring tool for Claude Code usage and cache performance.

Security concerns are spreading after vulnerabilities were found in widely used internet software, including PHP, the Node.js JavaScript runtime and the open-source proxy LiteLLM. Anxiety has grown after a critical flaw was discovered in PHP, prompting some countries to block websites when patches are difficult or impossible. Reports also say hackers began seeking targets days before fixes. Separately, AI-focused hacking attempts are increasing, with attacks using AI agents reported across multiple regions and industries.