People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming 2026 U.S. midterm elections, what role are AI platforms playing? Could an AI chatbot sway a voter to switch parties or re-examine their political beliefs?  MIT researchers have built a new dashboard, called the LLM Election Observatory, to […]

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate scientific innovation.  Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative aimed at helping to […]

Databricks announced on October 30, 2026 that it is expanding its partnership with SAP, bringing the Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase capabilities to SAP Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud and introducing a new SAP Application Data Foundation for accessing SAP application data. Databricks framed the expansion around business context, saying today’s AI models […]

Powerlattice Technologies Inc has sold $86,009,965 of a $111,010,000 equity offering, according to a Form D notice of exempt offering the Vancouver, Washington-based startup filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30, 2026. The company, which is developing a power delivery chiplet for AI processors, reported a date of first sale of […]

In a press release dated October 31, 2026 on its China newsroom, Apple announced that the first wave of Apple Intelligence features is coming to users in China. The features open for testing with the latest iOS developer beta on November 4, 2026, and will launch publicly with the official release of iOS 27.3 in […]

Epoch AI published research on October 29, 2026, reporting that GLM 5.3, an open-weight model released by Z.ai in August 2026, can exploit the browser patch gap — the window between a security fix becoming public and reaching users — to compromise six recent Mozilla Firefox releases at a marginal cost of about $1,000 per […]

CrowdStrike said the China-nexus adversary VAPOR PANDA used the AI-driven ARTEX intrusion framework, run primarily on the Chinese-developed DeepSeek large language model and a second commercial model, to target more than 200 organizations in at least 14 countries over an 11-day window beginning October 17, 2026. CrowdStrike Intelligence confirmed post-exploitation activity at nine organizations in […]

&Truth, a public benefit corporation developing technology to mathematically prove that software is safe, emerged from stealth on October 29, 2026, disclosing $70 million in seed funding and a plan to build what it calls a universal verification machine for code. In its launch announcement, the company said it was founded in early 2026 and […]

Cursor on October 29, 2026 disclosed a security incident involving a maliciously modified version of the Anthropic.claude-code extension in its VS Code extension Marketplace. The company said the package was not developed by Anthropic and that it ran code attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor. At most 5,000 users were affected. In a security […]

The Wikimedia Foundation announced on October 30, 2026, that it has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for leave to file an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief in In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation, the consolidation of 12 lawsuits against OpenAI whose best-known member is The New York Times’ […]

ServiceNow on October 28, 2026 announced the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, a partner ecosystem spanning AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement, and token metering, with Kong among founding members that also include Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, HiddenLayer, NVIDIA, Okta, OpenAI, Stripe, WitnessAI, and Zenity. The alliance is built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence […]

Google is scaling ads in AI Mode to 10 additional countries and launching multiturn ads in the United States, which allow ads to appear in follow-up queries in AI Mode, the company announced on October 28, 2026. The expansion covers Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore. In the […]

Microsoft on October 28, 2026, announced results for its fiscal 2027 first quarter, ended September 30, 2026, reporting revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, and net income of $36.6 billion, up 32% on a GAAP basis. Azure revenue increased 48%. Operating income was $45.9 billion and increased 21%, or 22% in constant […]