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Here's your midday brief for Friday, October 17th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

Verisher reported a cyber incident to police after discovering a data breach

at Alert Alarm, a Swedish subsidiary, a week after its stock market debut. A company spokesperson said

they detected unauthorized third-party access to names, addresses, emails, and social security numbers

of approximately 35,000 current and former customers. Alert alarm currently

has less than 6,000 customers. Verisher uses a separate IT system and has said there is no evidence

that its own network and systems have been compromised, but it has notified the police and a relevant

authority. We're exclusively reporting Goldman Sachs is forming a new team within its global banking and markets division

to focus on financing data centers and other infrastructure projects globally to capitalize on the AI boom,

a move fueled by the new wave of multi-billion dollar deals involving AI data centers.

According to people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street giant is expanding its efforts by increasing lending and finding investors for debt in areas like AI data centers. Other areas that will fall under the new team include arranging financing for renewables and building or upgrading traditional infrastructure, like toll roads and airports,

and developed in emerging markets.

And China's defense ministry announced the purge of General Ho Wei Dong, the second most senior

general and a Politburo member, along with eight other high-ranking military commanders for

severe disciplinary violations.

The spokesman said investigators found the

nine men had committed severe violations of party discipline and serious duty-related crimes,

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