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
A letter in Nature responds to Marc Schmitt's argument that universities should train students to actively argue with AI models and grade that interaction. The correspondence contends that assessing only AI-assisted performance is incomplete, citing a randomized trial of secondary-school math students in which chatbot access boosted practice scores but reduced scores on a later unassisted exam.
nature.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
MIT professor Sherry Turkle has released a new book, 'Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines,' in which she shares insights on the risks of forming emotional attachments to AI systems. Turkle argues that relying on AI for companionship could erode people's capacity for the kind of meaningful connection found in human relationships.
fastcompany.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
Sidharth Ramsinghaney, Twilio's director of strategy and operations, discussed how the company is applying AI to connect customer interactions across phone calls, text messages, and chatbots. He emphasized that maintaining a strong focus on customer needs remains central to Twilio's approach to building these AI-driven tools.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-28
A commentary piece argues that AI safety debates focus too heavily on catastrophic risks while ignoring subtler, everyday harms—citing data that a third of teens now turn to AI companions for serious conversations, alongside chatbot-assisted schoolwork and engagement-optimized feeds. Separately, the piece notes NASA's 2024 announcement of Space Reactor-1 Freedom, a planned nuclear-powered spacecraft intended to reach Mars by the end of 2028 under a roughly $2 billion program.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-10-26
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