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…
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…