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AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they fared
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward…
ProductsQualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom…
Voters rebuff data centers in every ballot measure except one during the 2026 midterms
Voters in the states at the heart of the AI data center boom pushed back on the buildout on Election Night.
IndustryUber Says AI Agents Booked Just Four Rides During Halloween Week
TechCrunch reported on November 4, 2026, that Uber logged just four AI-agent-booked rides and roughly 500 agent-placed Uber Eats…
webAI Releases TwIL-8B, an 8.8B Reasoning Model Scoring 98.2 on MATH-500
webAI released TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model post-trained from IBM Granite 4.2 8B. It posts 98.2 on MATH-500 and 81.6 on…
FundingMeta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired artificial intelligence coding startup Conductor in a deal first reported today by Axios.…
Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it’s not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing’s CEO said the product is designed to…
ProductsUCB Adds Cradle’s AI Platform to Antibody Discovery Projects
Cradle and UCB announced a strategic collaboration on November 4, 2026, to apply Cradle’s AI protein design and engineering…
Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
IndustryAI agents meet billable hours as Certinia rethinks services delivery
Certinia Inc. is bringing AI into the software firms use to sell projects, assign staff, deliver work and bill clients. AI’s…
ProductsNothing CEO reveals release date for secret AI-native device
For years, companies have tried to usher in the “post-smartphone” era with AI-native devices. Nothing has joined the race with…
FundingAgility Robotics Closes SPAC Deal Ahead of Nasdaq Trading
Agility Robotics announced on November 4, 2026 that it had completed its business combination with special-purpose acquisition…
IndustryApple is Putting Employees on an AI Budget
Apple is curtailing employee AI use to cut costs, reports Bloomberg. In October, Apple limited some engineers to $200 per day for…
Industry17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million
One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a…
IndustryArm Holdings 2Q Sales Climb 27% on AI Demand
By Katherine Hamilton Arm Holdings recorded 27% growth in revenue in its fiscal second quarter, as artificial intelligence demand…
OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while…
ProductsPerplexity Adds Live Web Grounding to Its Decisions API
Perplexity announced on November 4, 2026 that web grounding is available immediately for its Decisions API, adding optional live…
ResearchGenerative AI fills gaps in brain wiring maps where MRI scans lose signal
Researchers from the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of…
ProductsOpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Pierre Computer
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company Inc., a low-profile developer tooling startup. The…
ProductsApple Releases Xcode 27.3 Beta With Three New Features
Apple on Tuesday released the first Xcode 27.3 beta with three new features: GitHub Copilot support within the built-in coding…
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense open-weight LLM under Apache 2.0. It scores 80.5 on…
IndustryGoogle turns off AI for schoolchildren by default
Google has said it will switch off its artificial intelligence tools for schoolchildren by default, after drawing criticism for…
IndustryBig Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
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