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Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year?

MIT professors Adam Berinsky and Chara Podimata discuss a new project to track how AI chatbots are responding to questions about the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. 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…

OpenAI to Honor Shared Robots.txt Signal for AI Training Preferences

OpenAI announced on October 30, 2026 that it will honor a shared signal in robots.txt, the file websites use to express preferences about how their content is used, so that site operators can communicate a single AI training preference to multiple participating providers at once. A Voluntary Signal Shared Across…

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow through on a prompt to create a haiku about being in space: Blue…

DailyAI Briefing: Amazon burns $42.4bn on AI, plus 4 more

Amazon spent $42.4 billion more cash than it made in a year as it built for AI, and a report says Chinese labs trained on GPT-6 Astra. Plus Mistral's free trillion-parameter model, a less flattering free ChatGPT, and Reddit's AI Mode traffic loss. The post DailyAI Briefing: Amazon burns $42.4bn…

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Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%

Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, with no change to the agent. The post Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9% appeared first…

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation. Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.

Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job. In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes the surge in…

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore "experiences that recognize participating customers as they arrive, present personalized digital menus, and make payment more effortless,"…

AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare

Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprove, then patch loop. Here is how they differ, plus 12 more tools. The post AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare appeared first on MarkTechPost.…

Project Suncatcher’s Orbiting TPU Delivers Its First AI-Generated Haiku

Google said on October 30, 2026, that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite returned its first AI response from orbit: a haiku generated by an onboard Gemma 4 open model running on a data-center-class Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). Travis Beals, Senior Director of Paradigms of Intelligence at Google, announced the milestone…

Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry. The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says

Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up. The US has charged five individuals as part of the first broad federal crackdown on “ghost students”—fraudsters who steal the identities of hundreds of Americans to pose as fake college students and steal student loans. In a…

AI Readiness Starts with Trusted Product Data

Manufacturers are investing heavily in AI, digital thread initiatives, automation and enterprise modernization to improve productivity and decision-making. Much of the conversation focuses on AI models, infrastructure and integration. But many organizations are overlooking a fundamental prerequisite for these efforts: confidence in the underlying product data and business rules that…

Sapan Pandya, Senior Software Engineer and IEEE Senior Member – Interview Series

Sapan Pandya is a Senior Software Engineer and IEEE Senior Member based in New Jersey, with more than ten years of experience in resilient distributed transaction systems. His work spans transaction integrity, integration between software and physical devices, production troubleshooting, and deployment validation in regulated environments. He holds a master’s…

OpenAI Announces Community Safety Report and New Teen Weapons Limits

OpenAI on October 30, 2026 announced a Community Safety Report on violence prevention that it will update every six months, alongside new protections that restrict weapons-related information for teens and tighten how ChatGPT handles questions about past mass attacks. The company said it made more than 200 law enforcement referrals…

Free ChatGPT Now Flatters Less but Makes More Errors, OpenAI Says

OpenAI has made the free version of ChatGPT shorter and less flattering. Its own tests show the update also made more factual errors on all six accuracy measures. The post Free ChatGPT Now Flatters Less but Makes More Errors, OpenAI Says appeared first on DailyAI. OpenAI has changed how ChatGPT…

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’

The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations. The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising…

Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’

Pope Leo XIV says AI systems should be "disarmed," adding that humans "have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications." In Friday's Papal Address, Pope Leo encourages United Nations member states to "take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons" during their meeting in Geneva next…

Amazon Burned $42.4 Billion of Cash in a Year as It Built for AI

Amazon's spending on data centres and chips outran the cash its businesses brought in by $42.4 billion over 12 months. Sales and profits are still growing. Investors are less sure. The post Amazon Burned $42.4 Billion of Cash in a Year as It Built for AI appeared first on DailyAI.…

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At TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, happening November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, networking powered by Braindate is designed to make those conversations easier to find, whether they are in 1:1 or small-group on-site meetings. Register before the event starts to save up to $100 on your pass, plus…

DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers. DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.

Silicon Valley wants you to invest in miracles

Investing in any stock is kind of like gambling in the sense that you're betting your money on a company's future performance. But how do you bet on a technology that could, in the worst-case scenario, "pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," or best case, "bring forth an age…

Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop

After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he sympathizes with researchers struggling to make sense of it all. But he has no intention of stopping - and hints there could be much more to come from the company's stockpile of…

5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

5 days to save up to $100, plus a second pass for free to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on November 4. Register now. 5 days to save up to $100, plus a second pass for free to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on November 4. Register now.

Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out

Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale. Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether…

Mistral Gives Away a Trillion-Parameter AI as Google Locks Its Own Up

Mistral has released the weights of Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model anyone can download, as Google keeps its top cyber model for vetted defenders. What that means, and who can really use it. The post Mistral Gives Away a Trillion-Parameter AI as Google Locks Its Own Up appeared first on…