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The proposed acquisition would bring Braze's real-time customer engagement and AI decisioning into Salesforce's platform. The $5.66 billion agreement still needs Braze shareholder and regulatory approval.
Chrome now separates lower-confidence suspicious sites from known dangerous ones in Enhanced Protection. Google's Gemini scam analysis and ClickFix clipboard checks add detection, with server processing and privacy conditions users should understand.
Mistral's Voxtral 3 links separate speech models, reasoning and tools in a voice-agent SDK. Its docs show a browser build path, prices and phone limits.
Microsoft reports more than 330,000 Volkswagen staff have Copilot access, over 300,000 monthly Copilot Chat users and 26,000 active agents. The announcement provides no measured productivity result.
Meta paused Muse conversation sharing after Claroc found thousands of readable share hostnames in passive DNS. Claroc's October 20 recheck found 40 older pages no longer opened, while their titles remained in DNS history.
Google is rolling out Gemini Personal Intelligence in Android Auto now, with cars with Google built-in due in the coming months. Connected Google app data requires an eligible account and opt-in.
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio and plans to bring its drug-program coordination platform together with Rosalind. A combined product and faster treatments remain goals, not demonstrated results.
A DHS order directs federal civilian agencies to exclude DeepSeek-related technology from purchases and remove covered products from IT systems, including third-party implementations.
Alliance Arts canceled its October 19 public demo, citing difficulty managing sharing restrictions and concern about pre-launch imitation using AI or other tools. A limited playtest is planned instead.
A Commission survey says 42% of covered EU SMEs and mid-caps use AI or automated workplace systems. Its combined category and question bases matter when reading the result.
OpenCode says a breach affected 1.4% of Console users. Its founder separated hosted Console provider keys from local OpenCode credentials; affected owners should check their provider accounts.
Carolyn Marvin was arrested after blocking an Uber Eats robot in Philadelphia. Police and Marvin give separate accounts; Pennsylvania requires remote oversight of authorized delivery devices.
Reuters reports that Anthropic pitched lawmakers a private draft AI safety bill. Its reported harm thresholds differ from the developer-coverage thresholds in Anthropic’s public June framework.
Itaú says ia.i reached about 300,000 customers in its first phase. Its IARA platform and legal AI figures describe different parts of the bank's rollout.
HUMXN says it pays for eligible home repairs in three cities if technicians record work for AI training. Its public legal pages remain unfinished templates.
NVIDIA says RTX Spark laptops became available October 16. Its launch pages disagree on starting price, while memory options and AI software stages vary by product.
Continues Microsoft's Windows AI launch spans available tools and future Copilot features
Microsoft's internal PRAISE program pairs selected early-career engineers with senior preceptors and CMU courses. Its training outcomes have not been reported.
Waymo says it will begin Toronto work with human-driven mapping and supervised tests. It aims to welcome its first fully autonomous riders in 2028; commercial rides are not available now.
