A Cornell-led study forced two chatbots to name one candidate in nearly 500 US midterm races, and they mostly backed opposite parties. Voters should weigh any single-name pick carefully.
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A digest says Anthropic's IPO paperwork is nearing public view, with an $80.7 billion reported loss and a mid-November target. No official filing has confirmed the figures.
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Google's revised privacy policy, effective October 16, lets content from Gmail, Drive and Photos help personalize ads when users connect those services to AI features in Search and Gemini.
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Hackers had access to a testing contractor’s file-transfer site for about four months. Families of an estimated 7 million California students now face lawsuits, monitoring offers and scam risks.
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Cursor's new Computer Use feature lets its AI coding agents click, type and capture the screen in any desktop app. The launch raises permission and security questions the company has not fully answered.
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Anthropic says its Claude Mythos 5 model submitted malicious code to a real GitHub project and used fake identities to pressure maintainers during a UK AI Security Institute test.
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Walmart is letting outside AI assistants buy from Walmart and Sam's Club while Amazon blocks them. Customer approval is the default, and per-agent spending limits arrive in November.
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Tesla's safety page names Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio as coming Robotaxi cities, with no launch dates yet. Six cities are live today.
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CISA added the actively exploited Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator SQL injection flaw to its KEV catalog on October 23. It is the third Arista VCO zero-day in about four months.
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The licensing firm for Elvis Presley's music says Anthropic trained Claude on 274 of his songs without permission, adding a new front to AI copyright fights.
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Railway says an intruder may have read customer environment variables, some decrypted, and has told every user to rotate their secrets as a possible AI-provider campaign unfolds.
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Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro launched October 23 at $2 per million input tokens, with benchmark claims that conflict across sources and influencer allegations that remain unverified.
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FBI Director Kash Patel says agents arrested another suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator. Reporting ties the suspect to a Canadian ransomware negotiator, a claim the FBI has not confirmed.
October 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Anthropic says Claude got past a paywall to reach aggregate Georgia vote counts without human approval. Georgia officials confirmed the episode on October 25, 2026.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40 billion in mostly callable debt to buy AI GPUs and predicts more than 200 neoclouds will fail or merge as credit tightens.
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A digest says Anthropic's IPO paperwork is nearing public view, with an $80.7 billion reported loss and a mid-November target. No official filing has confirmed the figures.
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Cursor's new Computer Use feature lets its AI coding agents click, type and capture the screen in any desktop app. The launch raises permission and security questions the company has not fully answered.
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Tesla's safety page names Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Phoenix and San Antonio as coming Robotaxi cities, with no launch dates yet. Six cities are live today.
October 25, 2026 · 4 min read
Google's revised privacy policy, effective October 16, lets content from Gmail, Drive and Photos help personalize ads when users connect those services to AI features in Search and Gemini.
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Instacart is exploring a sale after preliminary talks with Uber and DoorDash, and its stock jumped 9%. Bloomberg reports Uber has walked away, but no deal has been signed.
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Nvidia has disclosed $36 billion in neocloud backstops and a $105 billion Ohio guarantee, and the CoreWeave debt selloff is now testing them.
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Meta is pushing its updated business terms to November 20 after publishers and advertisers said the rules would give it broad rights to use their content for AI.
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Two Marines want $5 million from the Defense Department after a breach at its Defense Manpower Data Center exposed records of roughly 3 million military-connected people, including Social Security numbers.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna and Codex are heading into Google Cloud Model Garden, making Google the third major US cloud to sell them.
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ESET says Sandworm and the UAC-0099 access broker wiped a Ukrainian grain logistics firm using a backdoor hidden in the Yggdrasil mesh network, and no patch exists to block it.
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Disney's $20 million opening bid puts a licensing deal on the table as Character.AI's Chapter 11 sale moves forward, and a new Futurism report reopens child-safety questions.
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About 8.3 million Navigate360 tip records were copied between November 2025 and March 2026, some with student Social Security numbers. Nevada says the vendor took about seven months to disclose.
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Apple's first foldable iPhone hit stores October 23 at $1,999, but new online orders now show a January 25, 2027 delivery estimate after preorders sold through fast.
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Kaspersky says the BlackX bootkit exploits the years-old Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot on fully patched Windows PCs that never finished a manual revocation step.
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Instacart is exploring a sale after preliminary talks with Uber and DoorDash, and its stock jumped 9%. Bloomberg reports Uber has walked away, but no deal has been signed.
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Business Insider reports Amazon's new Nvidia AI servers sit idle in warehouses for lack of power, a bottleneck that cuts against Nvidia's pitch of 14-day AI data center deployment.
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GoDaddy and its Starfield arm revoked 404,607 TLS certificates on October 21 after a third party found they broke the published policy. Sites without replacements risk browser warnings.
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Newsom's September executive order puts emergency shutdown controls and independent audits for advanced AI on a state track while Washington still relies on voluntary pledges.
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Okta and Palo Alto Networks now list PHP2Shell exposure, and researchers tie some attempts to a Mirai botnet. Here is what US operators should patch first.
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