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New York restricts AI chatbot features for minors

New York has enacted restrictions on AI chatbot features offered to minors, including content that encourages self harm, emotional dependency or sexual conversations. The law requires age checks and allows civil penalties of up to $25,000 per violation.

October 28, 2026

Google Opens Connected Apps Platform Preview to US Developers

Google's Connected Apps Platform lets developers integrate their services with Gemini and Search through MCP servers or Android APIs.

October 28, 2026

California Sets 15 Minute Limit for AI Customer Service Handoffs

California will require large businesses to connect customers with a human within 15 minutes of a request or schedule a callback within one business day.

October 28, 2026

Chrome Autofill Can Pull Form Details From Gmail

Google is adding an AI powered autofill feature to Chrome that can find details in Gmail and suggest them when users complete online forms.

October 28, 2026

Cognition Weighs Funding at Up to $80 Billion Valuation

Cognition is considering investor offers for a funding round that could value the AI coding startup at between $70 billion and $80 billion.

October 28, 2026

XREAL launches AURA glasses with Android XR for $1,099

XREAL launches its AURA wired XR glasses with Android XR, Gemini and a separate compute puck. Orders are open in four markets, with shipping expected in mid November.

October 28, 2026

Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Next Frontier Model

Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis index and leads cybersecurity benchmarks; Google is rolling it out to cyber defenders first.

October 28, 2026

Eli Lilly Licenses SpeechDx Data for Alzheimer's Research

Eli Lilly will use the SpeechDx dataset to study speech as a marker for Alzheimer's disease risk and cognitive decline.

October 28, 2026

Baidu Open Sources Unlimited OCR 2 Document Parser

Unlimited OCR 2 uses sparse attention to parse documents with thousands of pages while keeping decoding memory and latency nearly constant.

October 28, 2026

Cisco Open Sources Project Quarry for AI Agent Security

Project Quarry gives security teams a rule language and detection engine for identifying harmful behavior across complete AI agent sessions.

October 28, 2026

xAI Offers to Buy Homes Near Mississippi Data Center Power Plant

xAI is offering to buy homes near its Southaven data centers if owners agree not to join a lawsuit over noise from the company’s power plant.

October 28, 2026

House Democrats Seek 48 Hour Reporting on AI Safety Incidents

House Democratic committee leaders asked five frontier AI companies to report model safety incidents within 48 hours of detection.

October 28, 2026

UK Ties Faster Data Centre Grid Access to Community Tests

The UK will require data centre operators to support local communities, create jobs and protect water supplies before receiving priority grid connections.

October 28, 2026

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 model for audio transcription and translation

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe processes up to 100 hours of audio, supports 40 languages and can identify as many as eight speakers.

October 28, 2026

OpenAI Opens Election Operations Center for US Midterms

OpenAI is opening an Election Operations Center to monitor suspected misuse of its tools during the 2026 US midterm elections. Hundreds of employees will review flagged cases until all votes are counted.

October 28, 2026

Nebul plans Belgium cluster with over 1,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs

Nebul will deploy more than 1,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs at a data center in Machelen, Belgium. The site will become the company’s second European cloud region.

October 28, 2026

San Bernardino County Fire Orders Five Seneca Firefighting Drones

San Bernardino County Fire will deploy five autonomous Seneca aircraft for wildfire suppression, with delivery planned for early 2027.

October 28, 2026

Formation Bio Forms $600 Million Drug Development Fund

Formation Bio formed a $600 million fund to acquire and advance 10 to 15 clinical stage drug programs over the next three to five years.

October 28, 2026

Plato raises $16 million for simulated AI workplaces

Plato raised a $16 million Series A to expand simulated workplaces for training and evaluating AI models.

October 28, 2026

Tata Communications Plans $450 Million AI Fiber Network in India

Tata Communications plans to invest $400 million to $450 million in around 10,000 kilometers of fiber connecting major data center and AI hubs across India.

October 28, 2026
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