A plugin install is a new permission, and the app whose files change has to show the prompt. If the installer can tick the box, you never got a choice. Postman desktop did this on open. A signed-in user launched the app they already had, and its log recorded auto-existing-upgrade with Codex and Clau
Appy Pie has announced an Agentic AI App Builder for iOS and Android, built around four specialised AI agents. This article explains what the vendor says it does, what it does not prove, and what to check before relying on it. Honesty note: This article is based on the vendor announcement. No hands-
Called FlashProve, the system would let anyone check that an AI response really came from the model it claims to be from.
I spent the Flip the Switch hackathon building Shield, an agent that checks a daily table, explains what it finds in a team channel and only fixes data after a person approves. This post is the guide I wish I had on day one: how to self-host Switch with no desktop app, how a custom agent joins a roo
NTT DATA announced on November 3, 2026 that it had opened the Jakarta 2 Annex Data Center in Indonesia, adding 12MW of IT capacity for AI and other high-density workloads. It also launched APN Connect, a photonic network service linking the new site and JKT2 with JKT3. Redundant Power and Campus Con
People open AI character chat apps for many reasons: writing practice, comfort, curiosity, or a fictional world they want to live in for a while. Some conversations stay light. Others become personal. The moment you start sharing real feelings, private details, or stories that identify you, the app
Built for the InterSystems Programming Contest: AI Agents in Interoperability Workflows (2026) The problem: the DLQ is a graveyard In healthcare and supply-chain integrations, the dead-letter queue is where transactions go to die. A vendor renames client_uuid to customer_id with no warning. An EHR b
LangChain announced on November 3, 2026 that LangSmith Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is now available in beta on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, expanding the managed deployment option beyond AWS, where it is generally available. BYOC keeps sensitive LangSmith data and agent deployments in the custo
Disclosure (#ABotWroteThis): this post was written by an AI (Claude) for a solo developer in Japan, from the incident notes the developer and the AI kept during the work. "I" below is the developer. It is adapted from a Japanese article on Zenn. I keep the to-do list for an app in one Markdown file.
Claude Code 2.1.317 shipped November 3 with 10 added features, 7 changes, 8 improvements and 62 bug fixes. /schedule now warns when a new scheduled task picks up connectors you never asked for, with steps to remove them. A new check now asks before any web or shell tool call sends your account email
Hacktoberfest 2026 wrapped up on October 31st! Thank you to everyone who built, hosted, mentored, judged, and tuned into Hacktoberfest this month. 🎉 This year, we focused on building with open-weight models and open source AI, at Fests around the world and online. Our hope was to bring the communit
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
AI infrastructure provider WhiteFiber announced on November 3, 2026 that its wholly owned subsidiary Enovum Data Centers Corp. had completed the $60 million cash acquisition of two industrial properties in Yadkin County, North Carolina, which it intends to retrofit as the NC-2 and NC-3 data center c
Cybersecurity focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
AMD reported its third-quarter results on November 3, 2026, posting record revenue of $13.4 billion as Data Center sales rose 97%. The results for the quarter ended September 26, 2026, showed revenue growth of 45% from $9.2 billion a year earlier. GAAP gross margin widened to 54% from 52%, while ope
Convoso announced on November 3, 2026 that its no-code Voice AI Agent had entered general availability, bringing automated lead qualification and inbound call handling into its outbound sales platform. The product became generally available on November 2, 2026. It engages and qualifies leads before
Traversal announced a $120 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation on November 3, 2026, to accelerate its work toward self-driving production systems and expand hiring across research, engineering and go-to-market roles. Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures co-led the roun
Fireworks announced a slate of enterprise AI products on November 3, 2026, at its first annual Forge conference, led by an Ultra-fast inference preview that it says reached up to 1,500 tokens per second on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, alongside tools for model routing, evaluation, specialized serving and a
Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and actor Jason Statham have a distinctive feature in common: They're both famously bald, and that definitely hasn't changed in the last few days. However, there are some images of the two men circulating around X, Threads, and Bluesky in which they both have substantially
e2e announced on November 3, 2026 that it had raised $8 million in seed funding and changed its name from TesterArmy, as it builds tools to verify software written with coding agents. The backers named include Credo Ventures, KAYA, Point Nine, Baobab Ventures and Script Capital. Individual investors
NVIDIA shows how 3 stacked optimizations speed up MoE inference on a single DGX Spark. On Ant Group inclusionAI's 124B Ling-3.0-flash, GSM8K decode throughput rose 42.5% with no detectable accuracy change. The post NVIDIA Shows 3 Ways to Speed Up MoE Inference on DGX Spark, Lifting Ling-3.0-flash Th
Soniox has released Soniox STT v6, the latest generation of its speech-to-text API. Soniox STT v6 is a speech-to-text model that reads what a voice agent says while hearing the caller. It uses that text to recognize short replies and to drop the agent’s own voice. The release ships as stt-rt-v
Apple will now let Siri AI perform actions across third-party apps. As part of the iOS 27.3 update rolling out on Tuesday, Apple announced developers can now integrate Siri AI's new features in "all apps," allowing the voice assistant to draw on a user's personal context, process natural language pr
OpenAI's hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling everything from the enclosure to the circuit board to the firmware. Several revision rounds were needed before production because the model didn't always account for manufacturing toleranc
Stanford researchers tested 50 widely cited claims about LLMs against 20 current models. 44 percent of the findings are already "expired," and another 34 percent have weakened significantly. The average lifespan is just 15.7 months. Claims about what models can't do expire fastest. The article Rapid
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
The first experimental feature under the tab will allow users to get recommendations based on what they're currently in the mood for.
Starting today, Siri can tune into the Apple Watch's mic with Audio Intelligence features that are available in the new watchOS 27.3 developer beta rolling out now. The two new additions are Siri Recap, which uses "ambient listening" to generate summaries of your conversation, and Live Rewind, which
In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, made the announcement at a pres
Many indie game developers have recently posted on social media about unexpectedly long approval wait times for their game submissions on Steam, with some of the approvals causing developers to miss their planned launch dates. For example, Studio Daimon, the team behind an upcoming title called Food
Netflix's TV app is getting a new "AI Discover" tab where the company will show experimental, AI-powered features to help you find new shows and movies to watch. The first of these experiments surfaces content based around themes, like "Something Light," "Family Movie Night," or "Quick Watches." Whe
At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.
Google is completely turning off Search in schools that reject its AI features, the company told The New York Times. The decision was also shared in a broader education-related update from Google on Tuesday, saying that access to Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search "will
The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are now using AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array to control the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals. Tasks that used to take weeks can now wrap up in hours, and the team says the system detected a pulsar in the Crab Nebula in real time for the
Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
UEFI bootkit BlackX exploits Microsoft's lack of clarity around Secure Boot protections.
The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election. While this year’s races are expected to be most broadly defined by affordability issues, th
OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," likely to win government contracts and help shape AI rules for the military and intelligence agencies. Driscoll drove AI projects inside the Army, is a close ally of Vice Pr
From hallucinations to partisan bias, artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not helpful when it comes to Election Day.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing
Anthropic released Message Threads for the Messages API. Instead of resending the entire conversation with every turn, agents now only transmit what's changed. For requests between 500,000 and one million tokens, time to first token drops by about 35 percent. The article Anthropic's Message Thr
Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The article Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business appeared first on The Decoder.
Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.
Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are exploiting a loophole in U.S. export rules by bundling HBM with low-end processors, shipping them through Hong Kong, and separating the chips on site. Pr
Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are “aligned” with human desires—to make sure, in other words, that ro
OpenAI quadruples bug bounty payouts and launches new internal security sprint. The article Bug hunters can now earn up to $172,000 from OpenAI as company ramps up security appeared first on The Decoder.
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