Chunking divides source material into retrievable units whose boundaries and metadata strongly influence what evidence a RAG system can find and present together. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Cisco Talos researcher Ryan Fetterman on October 31, 2026 published an analysis of VOLTA-AUTODOXER, a self-deleting Windows infostealer that follows a broad credential-theft pass with a large language model stage designed to rank each victim’s monetizable assets. Talos describes VOLTA as a mature stealer implant with an optional AI-integration layer, and says every observed endpoint…
A personal review of Rob May and his practical mental models for investors and entrepreneurs building durable AI businesses.
Flow matching trains a continuous velocity field that transports samples from a simple distribution to a data distribution along defined probability paths. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Google announced on October 30, 2026 that it plans to support a shared AI training control in robots.txt, giving website owners a single way to express training preferences across multiple AI providers. The commitment arrived alongside same-day announcements from Microsoft and OpenAI. How Google Will Apply the Control The plan was laid out in a…
Powerlattice Technologies Inc has sold $86,009,965 of a $111,010,000 equity offering, according to a Form D notice of exempt offering the Vancouver, Washington-based startup filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30, 2026. The company, which is developing a power delivery chiplet for AI processors, reported a date of first sale of…
In a press release dated October 31, 2026 on its China newsroom, Apple announced that the first wave of Apple Intelligence features is coming to users in China. The features open for testing with the latest iOS developer beta on November 4, 2026, and will launch publicly with the official release of iOS 27.3 in…
Databricks announced on October 30, 2026 that it is expanding its partnership with SAP, bringing the Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway, and Lakebase capabilities to SAP Databricks within SAP Business Data Cloud and introducing a new SAP Application Data Foundation for accessing SAP application data. Databricks framed the expansion around business context, saying today’s AI models…
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate scientific innovation. Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative aimed at helping to…
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…