The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani told New Yorkers at Webster Hall that AI adoption is not inevitable and cited school and housing rules as city-level response.
Homeland Security ordered civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products over data risks, extending earlier Commerce, Navy and New York restrictions.
Cloudflare released Clairic in preview on Workers AI, a System One model that returns typed values in under a second at $0.10 per million input tokens.
fal released FLUX 3 Max on October 19, 2026, reporting 1,139 Elo in image-to-video tests and 10.95 seconds for a 10-second clip.
A year after buying Cognigy, NiCE positions itself as an AI platform, with AI ARR up 52% and API volume up 7.5 times in two years.
Monday. com launched Harmony, a voice AI platform that calls leads with 200-millisecond replies and is live in four markets.
0G CEO Michael Heinrich describes a decentralized stack for verifiable AI and Compute Finance, as hyperscalers commit over $500 billion in AI capex for 2025.
NorForge identified more than 20 exposed Cairn panels holding over 1,100 attack projects aimed at e-commerce and payment systems.
Investors argue Nscale should target $16B to $19B for its NYSE listing, citing contract concentration and site delays.
Pax8 launched 8os and 8bot for 47,000 IT partners serving 800,000 small businesses, with early access now and release early next year.
Anthropic is consulting law firms on fair negotiation norms for AI agents that will haggle over prices and contracts.
Meta allows its adults-only Muse agent to hold explicit text chats while OnlyFans creators report restrictions on Instagram, raising questions about moderation and AI training.