October 2026

People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming 2026 U.S. midterm elections, what role are AI platforms playing? Could an AI chatbot sway a voter to switch parties or re-examine their political beliefs?  MIT researchers have built a new dashboard, called the LLM Election Observatory, to […]

Businesses can manage agentic commerce with greater confidence by verifying AI agent identities, enforcing human approvals, and blocking unauthorized or high-risk activity.Shufti launches Know Your Agent (KYA), an AI agent verification solution designed to verify autonomous AI agents acting on behalf of individuals and businesses. Agentic commerce enables AI agents to open accounts, place orders, and

Sorry to anybody who believes AI models deserve rights: the Pontiff is not on your side. In a lengthy thread on X-formerly-Twitter today, Pope Leo XIV issued a scathing rebuke of calls for “AI personhood,” or the argument that AI models should be granted rights through a process of legal personhood. This would effectively make

Big tech stocks falter as investors question whether billions being poured into AI can generate returns quickly enough A sell-off of tech stocks that began earlier this month and gained steam with disappointing earnings from leading tech companies drove US markets down by hundreds of billions of dollars Friday. In total, the decline has knocked

Google is adding Gemini-powered autofill to Chrome using information from Gmail. Learn how it works, who can use it, and what privacy concerns to consider. The post Google Unveils Gemini Suggested Autofill for Chrome: What Users Should Know appeared first on TechRepublic.

Mistral releases Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weight AI model targeting cybersecurity. Here’s what IT teams should know about costs and deployment. The post Mistral Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter AI Model for Cybersecurity appeared first on TechRepublic.

A new report from the analytics firm Quilty Space confirms that, outside of China, the world faces a significant shortage of rockets over the next five years. The firm estimates that between now and 2030, there will be a shortfall of about 150 launches compared to demand from satellite operators and civil space agencies. If

The US has charged five individuals as part of the first broad federal crackdown on “ghost students”—fraudsters who steal the identities of hundreds of Americans to pose as fake college students and steal student loans. In a press release Thursday, the Department of Justice said it had uncovered a large-scale scheme relying partly on AI.

In an announcement released Thursday, Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its production capacity fivefold for an unlikely beneficiary of the AI era: magnetic tape. Fujifilm attributes the surge in archiving demand to the spread of generative AI, which the company remarked is producing “exponential growth” in

China’s AGIBOT sets a Guinness World Record by deploying 110 humanoid robots to dance in sync, showcasing advances in robot coordination and fleet automation. The post 110 Humanoid Robots Dance in Sync as China Sets Guinness World Record appeared first on TechRepublic.