ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions — Bill McDermott said rollouts now take “a month ... 30 days, 60 days” for large companies, as ServiceNow pushes into CRM.
Analysis: candidates backing a data center moratorium could win up to 15 of 36 US governors' races on Tuesday, including in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, and New York — As data centers have gone from obscurity to the top of voters' minds, midterm candidates are taking a stance on the issue.
Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash — Insurance software maker Guidewire (GWRE.N) said on Tuesday it would buy hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash and up to $400 million …
The FBI attributes the $6B+ Binance hack to North Korea's TraderTraitor hacking group, which the agency also previously blamed for the Bybit hack — The FBI said that North Korea was responsible for stealing more than $6 billion in cryptocurrencies in a brazen hacking attack on Binance.
Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% — Frustrated with hunting for information on political candidates, Ben Torres Ezrick set out to build a one-stop shop for voters.
Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link — A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it …
Anthropic renames its $100 per month Max 5x plan as Max and the $200 per month Max 20x plan as Ultra, and removes the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts — We're renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you're a subscriber, there's nothing you need to do. We're also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts ke...