Generating a short AI video can mean waiting through repeated attempts before a usable clip emerges. The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) is trying to shorten that loop with an unusual source of inspiration: measurements of living neurons. The company is launching TBC Mischief, an image-to-video model based on Wan 2.2, through fal.ai on October 30….
Enterprise AI is moving through a familiar cycle. At first, organizations went all in, reaching for the largest and most capable models because the technology was exciting and the bill had not yet arrived. When it did arrive, the response was equally predictable: teams began rationing access, reducing experimentation, and searching for less expensive models….
Pudu Robotics on October 30, 2026 announced the opening of its European headquarters in Neuss, Germany, bringing sales, product demonstrations, training, warehousing and after-sales services together in a single facility. The company said office operations, a product showroom, warehousing, training, sales, after-sales service and repair capabilities at the site are all now operational. A Regional…
Cognizant announced on October 30, 2026, the formation of its OpenAI Frontier Capability Group, a global delivery organization bringing together more than 25,000 professionals aligned to delivering OpenAI products, including Codex and ChatGPT, for clients. According to Cognizant, the group is designed to help enterprises apply OpenAI models to how they write software, serve customers…
The Wikimedia Foundation announced on October 30, 2026, that it has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for leave to file an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief in In re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation, the consolidation of 12 lawsuits against OpenAI whose best-known member is The New York Times’…
Cursor on October 29, 2026 disclosed a security incident involving a maliciously modified version of the Anthropic.claude-code extension in its VS Code extension Marketplace. The company said the package was not developed by Anthropic and that it ran code attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor. At most 5,000 users were affected. In a security…
&Truth, a public benefit corporation developing technology to mathematically prove that software is safe, emerged from stealth on October 29, 2026, disclosing $70 million in seed funding and a plan to build what it calls a universal verification machine for code. In its launch announcement, the company said it was founded in early 2026 and…
CrowdStrike said the China-nexus adversary VAPOR PANDA used the AI-driven ARTEX intrusion framework, run primarily on the Chinese-developed DeepSeek large language model and a second commercial model, to target more than 200 organizations in at least 14 countries over an 11-day window beginning October 17, 2026. CrowdStrike Intelligence confirmed post-exploitation activity at nine organizations in…
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…