Epoch AI published research on October 29, 2026, reporting that GLM 5.3, an open-weight model released by Z.ai in August 2026, can exploit the browser patch gap — the window between a security fix becoming public and reaching users — to compromise six recent Mozilla Firefox releases at a marginal cost of about $1,000 per…
ADT Inc. and Thrive Holdings announced a definitive agreement on October 29, 2026, under which Thrive Holdings will acquire the security and smart home provider in an all-cash transaction. ADT is valued at approximately $7.6 billion in equity value and $15.3 billion in enterprise value under the agreement. ADT stockholders will receive $10.00 per share…
Coveo announced on October 29, 2026 that it has acquired Anglera, a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed company whose AI agents enrich product data for manufacturers, distributors, and enterprise retailers. The acquisition adds Anglera’s agentic enrichment platform to Coveo’s Commerce offering. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Companies and the Rationale Anglera was founded…
Amazon.com on October 29, 2026 announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2026, reporting net sales of $201.9 billion, up 12% from $180.2 billion in the third quarter of 2025, as AWS segment sales climbed 39% to $46.0 billion. Third-Quarter Results North America segment sales increased 6% year-over-year to $112.9 billion, and…
Reddit announced on October 29, 2026, alongside third-quarter results showing revenue up 53% year-over-year to $895 million, that it will shift the platform to a primarily logged-in experience, with full testing of a logged-in-only version set to begin in select markets outside the United States in the fourth quarter of 2026. Co-founder and CEO Steve…
Rivian disclosed on October 29, 2026, that it expanded its joint venture with Volkswagen Group, licensing elements of its AI Voice Assistant technology as part of the companies’ broader electrical architecture and software partnership. The disclosure appears in Rivian’s third-quarter 2026 earnings presentation, which the company published that day on its investor relations website and…
Google announced on October 29, 2026 that Gemini app users can now generate, preview, and edit documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets, code, and other files directly within a chat. The update, detailed in a post on the company’s Gemini App blog, extends the file-generation capability Google first introduced in April of this year by adding in-place…
Collective, the developer of an AI-native financial operating system for solo businesses, announced $100 million in new funding on October 29, 2026, structured as a $40 million Series B equity round and a $60 million growth facility from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. The Series B was led by General Catalyst, QED Investors, and Gradient…
Large language model agents now answer support tickets, query databases and plan trips. When they go wrong, they usually return a confident answer and a success code. A growing body of research explains why these failures are hard to see, and how engineering teams are learning to measure them. A Failure That Looks Like Success…
Eclypsium has demonstrated how compromised computing infrastructure can change an AI model’s behavior during inference while its original files remain intact. The research, published October 29 in Trusted AI Requires Trusted Infrastructure, shows why checking a model’s signature or file hash does not establish the integrity of the model executing in memory. In a controlled…