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Chatbots Got Voters’ Districts Wrong Nearly Half the Time, Washington Post Test Finds
The Washington Post’s test of 3,000+ AI voter guides found chatbots failed to name the right congressional district 48% of the time.…
VOLTA Malware Hands Stolen Data to AI to Rank Its Victims: What Cisco Talos Found
Cisco Talos found the VOLTA infostealer sending stolen data to AI models that rank victims by value. Here’s what it steals, how…
Chainalysis Breach: AI Agents Used to Break Into the Firm That Tracks Crypto Crime
Chainalysis says an attacker using ‘offensive agentic techniques’ accessed customer names and emails. What was taken, what wasn’t, and what to watch…
Apple Intelligence Comes to China on Alibaba’s Qwen: Beta Starts November 4, Public Release in iOS 27.3
Apple Intelligence comes to China on Alibaba’s Qwen: beta testing starts November 4, public release in iOS 27.3 in December. What’s included,…
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon Tops the AI Index at 59 — and Only Cyber Defenders Can Use It Yet
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59, but only vetted cyber defenders can use it for now.…
Google’s AI Chip Just Answered From Space: What Project Suncatcher’s First Haiku Really Proves
Google’s Project Suncatcher satellite returned its first AI reply from orbit — a Gemma 4 haiku from a TPU in space. What…
A Tampered Claude Code Extension Reached 5,000 Cursor Users: What Happened and What to Check Now
A tampered Claude Code extension in Cursor’s marketplace tried to plant an SSH backdoor on up to 5,000 machines. Here’s who is…
AI Giants Agree on One ‘Do Not Train’ Signal: What the New Robots.txt Opt-Out Means for Websites
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back one shared robots.txt opt-out for AI training. What changes, when it works, and what site owners…
OpenAI Tightens ChatGPT’s Teen Safety Rules: New Weapons Limits and a Community Safety Report
OpenAI announced new ChatGPT teen protections on October 30, 2026, limiting weapons information for under-18s and promising a twice-yearly Community Safety Report.
Canada Is Buying Into Cohere: Up to C$1.6 Billion for a Sovereign AI Champion
Canada will invest up to C$1.6 billion in Cohere, taking an equity stake tied to jobs, Canadian compute and a headquarters that…
Neuralink’s Telepathy Is Now Its First Product: What Musk’s October 30 Announcement Actually Means
Elon Musk named Telepathy as Neuralink’s first product on October 30, 2026 — but it is still in clinical trials, not on…
Mistral Opens the Weights of Its Trillion-Parameter Large 4: What ‘Le Chonk’ Changes for Open AI
Mistral AI has released the open weights of Large 4, its trillion-parameter coding and cyber model. Here’s what changed, what the licence…