Waymo's next robotaxi will be built by the world's largest automaker. Under a partnership announced on Friday, October 30, Toyota will manufacture the 2027 bZ4X electric vehicle and integrate Waymo's self-driving system at its Takaoka factory in Japan, putting the base vehicle and the autonomous hardware together under one roof instead of retrofitting finished cars after they leave the line.

Developers who use the Cursor code editor got a security warning that demands immediate attention this week. A trojanized version of Anthropic's Claude Code extension was distributed through Cursor's own extension marketplace as a routine update, and it tried to plant a persistent SSH backdoor on the machines that installed it. Cursor says at most 5,000 users received the malicious build during an exposure window of about eleven hours on October 29, from roughly 2:27 a.m. to 1:35 p.m. Pacific Time.

For a growing share of the world's software, the first draft no longer comes from a person typing at a keyboard. GitHub's annual Octoverse report, published on October 28, says that by September 2026 developers started more than 40 percent of pull requests with a coding agent's first draft, up from 17 percent in March. That is 110 million agent-started pull requests in September alone, about six times March's volume.

Publishers who want to keep their work out of AI training have spent years juggling a different switch for every company: one token for Google, another for OpenAI, another for Anthropic, and so on. On Friday, October 30, the four largest Western AI builders moved to end that patchwork, announcing they will all honor a single shared signal in a website's robots.txt file.

October is ending as the month the AI trade finally met its skeptics. Reuters reported on Friday that more than 2 trillion dollars in market value is set to be wiped from the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 this month, a loss slightly larger than the entire market value of SpaceX. The index has fallen more than 5.8 percent so far in October, as a week of big tech earnings intensified investor scrutiny of whether the billions being poured into artificial intelligence can generate returns quickly enough.

Foxconn, the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer, said on Friday that a new collaboration with OpenAI is in the works, even as it pushed back against growing talk of an AI bubble.

Chairman Young Liu told reporters at the company's annual technology showcase in Taipei that he had met OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman earlier in the day, and that there would be an announcement once details were confirmed. Liu did not elaborate on what the collaboration would cover, and no terms were disclosed.

Amazon's cloud business is accelerating again, and it is spending as if that acceleration is only the start. The company reported third-quarter results on Thursday that showed Amazon Web Services growing faster than it has in nearly five years, a record operating margin for the company as a whole, and a cash outflow large enough to send the shares down anyway.

The Canadian government is taking an equity stake in Cohere, joining a funding round that the Toronto-based AI lab says is the largest private financing ever undertaken by a Canadian technology company.

New York has drawn the clearest line yet between an AI chatbot that helps a young person and one that pretends to be their friend. Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law on Wednesday, October 28, that requires chatbot operators to verify the ages of their users and bars a list of companion-style features for anyone under 18 — one of the broadest state moves so far to regulate consumer-facing AI.

Alphabet reported third-quarter results on Wednesday, October 28, that captured both sides of the artificial intelligence boom. Revenue rose 25 percent to 127.577 billion dollars for the quarter ended September 30, up from 102.346 billion dollars a year earlier, a 13th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. Yet the Google parent missed expectations on revenue, earnings and operating income, and shares fell more than 8 percent after hours.