Tests: AI chatbots lean on little-known, AI-built voter sites for midterm answers

The Washington Post tested AI chatbots on questions about the US midterm elections. It found they rely on three obscure voter-information sites that were themselves built with AI. Microsoft's Copilot cited one of them, Ballot Brief, in 75% of tests, and OpenAI's ChatGPT cited it in 22%. The Post calls Ballot Brief error-prone.

AI lab DeepSeek releases Super-Agent, a coding helper that watches team group chats

DeepSeek has open-sourced Super-Agent as a research prototype. DeepSeek says the agent acts on its own: it can monitor group chats for coding problems and suggest fixes. Bloomberg reports the release is part of DeepSeek's effort to challenge Anthropic's Claude Code.

Voice AI firm Deepgram buys Daily, maker of the open-source voice tool Pipecat

Deepgram, which sells voice AI tools to businesses, is acquiring Daily. Daily has raised more than $62 million and develops Pipecat, an open-source framework for building voice AI apps. The price was not disclosed. TechCrunch says the leading voice AI companies are buying and partnering to strengthen their position.

Insurance software maker Guidewire buys AI pricing firm Hyperexponential for $1.7B

Guidewire says it will buy Hyperexponential, which makes AI software that helps insurers decide whom to cover and how to price policies. Guidewire is paying $1.7 billion in cash, and Reuters reports up to $400 million more could follow.

Nvidia quietly lowers the memory speed of its Rubin AI chip as shipments begin

Nvidia has posted its final shipping specifications for the Rubin data-centre GPU, ServeTheHome reports. Memory bandwidth drops from the 22 TB/s first promised to 19.2 TB/s, about 11% less. The NVLink chip-to-chip link drops from 3.6 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s, about 17% less. Networking to other servers rises from 0.4 TB/s to 0.45 TB/s. Compute stays at 50 PFLOPS for FP4 inference, and memory stays at 288GB of HBM4. The Vera Rubin NVL72 rack changes by the same amounts. Nvidia has not said why.

FBI blames North Korea for the $6 billion Binance hack as withdrawals restart

The FBI says North Korea's TraderTraitor hacking group stole more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange. The agency had earlier blamed the same group for the roughly $1.5 billion hack of Bybit. Binance says it has now covered 95% of the roughly $6.3 billion in stolen tokens, including bitcoin and ether, and plans to resume withdrawals in phases starting Sunday.

Russia-linked hackers have caused physical damage in NATO countries, Bloomberg finds

Bloomberg looks at a campaign by Russia-linked hacktivist groups over the past two years. Their cyberattacks have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries. Bloomberg says such attacks are rising, and that the hackers do not always understand what they are doing.

Discord's public servers get web pages on 16 November; you can opt out now

Discord says every Discoverable Server, its public servers with at least 1,000 members, will get a Server Web Page from 16 November 2026. These pages may show summaries of discussions in public channels, and some messages from public channels may appear on the pages and in web search from mid-December. Admins can opt channels out in Server Settings > Web Presence. Users can stop their own messages being shown in User Settings > Data and Privacy. Usernames and avatars will not be shown. Private servers and direct messages are not affected.

Data centres have become a midterm election issue, even at a Brooklyn tech event

A TechCrunch reporter describes a pre-election event in Brooklyn where AI and data centres dominated almost every conversation. She cites a Data Center Watch report that almost $200 billion of data centre projects were delayed, stalled or blocked in the first half of 2026 because of political and community opposition. States including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, New York and Virginia are considering more rules on data centres. Panellists described anger over secret deals with local officials and doubts about how many lasting jobs the sites create.

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