Summary

Every week is a busy week in the artificial intelligence industry, and this week is no exception. As voters expressed serious concerns about AI and data centers at the ballot box, OpenAI and Anthropic — makers of ChatGPT and Claude, respectively — each dropped new updates to make their chatbots a little more capable. All these changes come amid rapidly changing government and financial environments. The midterm elections, in which Democrats handily beat Republican candidates across the country, showed that anti-AI and anti-Big Tech campaigns resonated with voters.

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