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Cogent Security introduced VR-1.1 on November 3, 2026, reporting that the vulnerability-repair model produced passing repairs for 57.9% of LiveCVEBench’s 190 tasks, compared with 45.3% each for Claude Code and Codex. The latest addition to Cogent’s VR family extends the remediation capabilities introduced with VR-1. Its evaluation compared VR-1.1 with Claude Code running Claude Opus…

CrowdStrike announced on November 3, 2026 that it intends to acquire Fiddler, whose technology will become Falcon Observe for evaluating and explaining AI-agent behavior. A separate announcement detailed plans to acquire Dreadnode and add automated AI security testing to the Falcon platform before systems reach production. Both announcements came at Fal.Con EU 2026 and describe…

Are we doomed? Is AI conscious? And why are AI companies opening cafés? These questions are vivid, unsettling, and—especially in the case of consciousness—genuinely difficult. They also share a knack for pulling us toward the most speculative or emotionally compelling parts of the AI story. Meanwhile, the less cinematic questions are already shaping people’s lives:…

Snowflake announced on November 3, 2026, new always-on bots for CoCo, its coding agent for data teams, and CoWork, its personal work agent for knowledge workers. The bots are designed to plan and complete work in the background rather than wait for individual prompts. The CoCo and CoWork Bots are coming soon to private preview….

LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced Accurint One on November 3, 2026. The new platform gives U.S. criminal justice agencies one investigative environment for company, partner and agency data, advanced analytics and governed AI. The product targets the fragmentation that arises when national databases, commercial providers, internal agency systems and other technologies hold different pieces of an…

Supermetrics announced on November 3, 2026 an expanded Claude marketing workflow covering analysis, campaign creation and editing, and reported that more than 6,000 customers have used the connector. The announcement names campaign creation or editing for Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft Advertising, TikTok, LinkedIn and Snapchat. Claude can draw on connected advertising, CRM, SEO, ecommerce, data-warehouse…

New England defense technology company Corridian announced on November 3, 2026 that it had exited stealth with a $38 million seed round led by Point72 Ventures to develop ultra-large autonomous underwater vehicles, build out its research and development facility and hire undersea engineers. Balerion Space Ventures, Harpoon Ventures, DCVC and Marlinspike also participated, alongside a…

Google announced on November 3, 2026 that Guided Learning is globally available in Google Classroom and will be piloted in Search at select U.S. schools later in November 2026, alongside plans to make several AI products opt-in for K-12 student accounts. Chris Phillips, Google’s vice president and general manager of education, introduced the updates around…

The term “ontology” is now en vogue. Why? Agents, and the LLMs that power them, need relevant business context. Before you buy into an ontology, ask the vendor: “When the ontology gets our business wrong, how do our people correct it—and what still depends on you?” The answer will tell you a great deal about…

Instruction tuning uses examples of instructions and desired responses to make a pretrained model more useful, controllable, and consistent in interactive tasks. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.