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A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post)

How an obscure website became a force in America’s election information machine
Experts are concerned the new crop of influential AI-created sites could quietly spread errors to millions of voters.

How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, "not X, but Y" phrasing, and words like "delve", or add typos, to look human (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)

As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs (The Commanding Heights)
https://commanding-heights.com/#top

The Commanding Heights
An essay by Will Manidis and Joe Roberts. Technological revolutions are almost never born where they ultimately create wealth.

Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/ai

Anthropic renames its $100 per month Max 5x plan as Max and the $200 per month Max 20x plan as Ultra, and removes the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2116220869479428500

Claude (@claudeai) on X
We’re renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do. We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts ke…

DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent as a research prototype, a proactive coding agent it says can monitor group chats for coding issues and suggest solutions (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11…

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-…

Meta Built Humanoid Prototype With Chinese Startup To Ramp Up Robotics Push
Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version, as the social media giant steps up efforts to develop robots for people’s homes, according to people familiar with the initiative. Meta and Fourier built the roughly ...

Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deepgram-ac…

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.

Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g