Pew Research found about 8% of surveyed US adults used AI chatbots to research candidates and policies ahead of the midterms. Testing by Forum AI found nearly 40% of chatbot answers on election topics contained factual errors, including Google's Gemini citing a wrong ballot deadline and Claude confusing a congressman with another person of the same name. NewsGuard separately found chatbots citing so-called 'pink slime' partisan sites nearly half the time when answering election-related questions.
wired.com
· 2026-11-03
An advocate general at the EU's top court said technology companies could be found to infringe copyright law when their AI chatbots draw on news articles to produce answers. The opinion is non-binding but is typically influential in how the Court of Justice of the European Union eventually rules on the matter.
wsj.com
· 2026-11-03
Apple announced new App Store content descriptors requiring developers to disclose whether apps include real-world location sharing or dating, relationship and sexual features involving real people or virtual companions. Apps with dating or relationship features will get a minimum age rating of 18, while location-sharing apps may see rating changes depending on regional regulations. The new questionnaire fields launch November 16th, with all developers required to complete declarations by January 12th, 2027.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-03
Three young hikers on Mount Shasta had to be rescued after planning their climb with help from Google's Gemini chatbot, leading to poor preparation and a dangerous overnight descent. Forest Service officials cited other incidents, including a woman camping illegally based on AI advice and a hiker with an inaccurate AI-generated map, while a teen in British Columbia was also rescued after using Anthropic's Claude to plan a trip.
wired.com
· 2026-11-01
CNET published an explainer describing open-weight AI models, which let users download a pretrained model's neural network weights and run their own copy locally rather than relying on a provider's servers. The piece contrasts these with closed models like ChatGPT and Claude, whose weights remain private, and quotes Mistral's VP of science, Pierre Stock, noting that once weights are released they spread across sites like Hugging Face and become nearly impossible to pull back.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-30
Democratic Representatives Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia sent a letter to President Trump requesting that all prompts and responses exchanged with AI chatbots like Grok during official duties be preserved. The letter, tied to reports that Trump consulted Grok before ordering the military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, asks for a briefing on the president's use of AI in executive decision-making by November 11.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-30
Alphabet reported quarterly results in which Google search revenue came in below Wall Street expectations, raising concerns about competitive pressure from AI chatbots. The company also posted negative free cash flow for the period, and shares are on track for a significant post-earnings decline.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-29
Alphabet reported search and other segment revenue grew 12% year-over-year to about $63 billion, missing analyst estimates for a second straight quarter even as the company said search query volume grew at its fastest pace in five years. Shares fell roughly 10% in after-hours trading after the company also posted negative free cash flow of $9 billion, triple what analysts expected. Executives attributed the revenue slowdown mainly to foreign exchange effects, which they said would weigh even more heavily next quarter.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-29
With US midterm elections approaching and early voting underway, CNET reports that some voters are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude to research candidates and ballot measures. The outlet warns these tools can suffer from bias, sycophancy and hallucinated facts, and advises voters to cross-check chatbot answers against official state and local election websites, especially for polling locations and ballot details.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-26
Hugging Face released Carbon-X, the latest model in its Carbon family, which lets researchers paste a DNA sequence and ask questions about it in plain English. Research scientist Lewis Tunstall said the model excels at predicting mutation effects and completing DNA sequences, and can run locally rather than through a cloud service. It can also be paired with other AI agents, according to Tunstall.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-22
Researchers at Cohere Labs tested AI chatbots using riddles grounded in specific local cultures to see if the systems understood more than just the languages they speak. They found that even the top-performing models frequently got the answers wrong, and rarely acknowledged uncertainty when they didn't know a correct response.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-21
Researchers led by Heydari et al. describe in Nature an AI system that analyzes an individual's personal health data to generate tailored health advice, and propose methods for evaluating such tools. The work responds to surveys suggesting roughly one-third of US adults and about 230 million people worldwide weekly consult chatbots like ChatGPT for health questions.
nature.com
· 2026-10-21
GoKawiil