1758: George Washington's campaign for Virginia's House of Burgesses served roughly 160 gallons of rum, punch, wine, beer and cider to 391 voters. A 1705 law already banned it. Hospitality, or buying votes?
#History #Voting #USHistory
Full sources: shadowfetchstudio.com/shorts…
GitHub Copilot Fusion is now generally available 🧩 Pick Standard, High or Max effort and Copilot routes each task to the right models, even letting one draft while another reviews. Paid plans get 30% off model costs for now.
#GitHubCopilot #AI #DevTools
github.blog/changelog/2026-1…
Spotlight on @DavidOndrej1 🌟 David's YouTube channel covers AI agents and AI tools. David also builds Vectal, an AI-native task manager, and Cloudroom, an open-source runtime for running coding agents in the cloud.
aipeoplewiki.com/people/davi…
#AI #AIAgents #DevTools
ChatGPT account switching is rolling out on iOS and Android 📱 Stay signed in to two accounts, like work and personal, and switch in Settings without logging out. Chats, memory and subscriptions stay separate.
#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI
help.openai.com/en/articles/…
Spotlight on Valentina Pyatkin 🌟 Researcher at the ETH AI Center working on LLM post-training for the Swiss AI Initiative. Earlier at Ai2, Valentina worked on Tülu 3 and OLMo and built the RewardBench and IFBench benchmarks.
aipeoplewiki.com/people/vale…
#AI #LLMs #OpenSource
Perplexity is hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure) in New York, NY, with other locations listed.
Listed pay: $250,000 – $485,000 per year, per Perplexity's careers board.
Role details on AI People Wiki:
aipeoplewiki.com/jobs/at/per…
PlanAssist, Google DeepMind's AI planning tool built with Gemini, is expanding to 12 more councils in England 🏡 In pilots it cut officer time on householder applications by up to 58%, and officers keep the final say.
#AI #GovTech #GoogleDeepMind
deepmind.google/blog/speedin…
Spotlight on Krithik Puthalath 🌟 Founder and CEO of Zyphra, an open superintelligence research and product company. Zyphra Research trains open multimodal models, and Zyphra Cloud is its AI platform built on AMD hardware.
aipeoplewiki.com/people/krit…
#AI #OpenSource #Founders
Apple Intelligence is coming to iPhone users in China, with Alibaba's Qwen built into Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence 🍎🤝 Testing starts Nov 4 in the iOS developer beta, rolling out in iOS 27.3 in December.
#AI #Apple #Qwen
english.news.cn/20261031/064…
Spotlight on Mido Assran 🌟 First author of I-JEPA and V-JEPA 2, helping AI learn from images and video by predicting in latent space. Formerly at Meta FAIR, now on the founding team of Advanced Machine Intelligence.
aipeoplewiki.com/people/mido…
#AI #WorldModels #ComputerVision
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honor one shared robots.txt signal for AI training 🤝 Sites can state their preference once with the __usage_ai-training token instead of a rule per crawler. Support rolls out into 2027.
#AI #WebDev #OpenWeb
openai.com/index/helping-web…
Spotlight: Nick Paine 🌟 Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik, builders of the Apollo humanoid robot. His UT Austin grad work produced the UT Series Elastic Actuator, and he was on NASA-JSC's DARPA Robotics Challenge team. Inspiring!
aipeoplewiki.com/people/nick…
#Robotics #Humanoids
Sperid Labs released Idol 🧊 Turn one image into a 3D object made of Gaussian splats, including the sides the picture never showed. At 0.66B parameters it runs in under 8 GB of GPU memory.
#AI #3D #ComputerVision
speridlabs.com/research/idol
Spotlight: Tim Dettmers (@Tim_Dettmers) 🌟 Creator of bitsandbytes and first author of QLoRA, he makes AI practical to train and use with modest compute, now a professor at Carnegie Mellon and research scientist at Ai2. Meet Tim: aipeoplewiki.com/people/tim-… #AI #OpenSource #LLMs
The Biological Computing Co. launched mischief 1 🧠🎬 An image-to-video model shaped by lessons from lab-grown neurons, built on Wan 2.2 and 5x faster than its base, from half a cent per second on fal and OpenRouter.
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIVideo
tbc.co/press-releases/neuron…
Spotlight: Shyam Sankar, CTO and EVP at Palantir Technologies (@ssankar) 🌟 He joined Palantir in 2006 and has grown through roles there ever since, now leading its technology alongside Alex Karp and Stephen Cohen. Meet Shyam: aipeoplewiki.com/people/shya… #AI #Palantir #Tech
Spotlight: Kristina Toutanova, research scientist at Google DeepMind and co-author of BERT 🌟 From a Stanford PhD with Christopher Manning to Microsoft Research to Google, Kristina's language work keeps lifting NLP. Meet Kristina: aipeoplewiki.com/people/kris… #AI #NLP #BERT
Adobe is hiring a Sr. Director, Enterprise Sales (Remote), leading its Content Supply Chain specialist organization.
Pay range: $352,500 – $615,150 per year, as listed on Adobe's careers board.
Full listing on AI People Wiki:
aipeoplewiki.com/jobs/at/ado…
Pika launched Pika H3 Flex 🎬 An open-weights video model post-trained on MiniMax H3 that makes clips with synced audio in six steps, takes up to 12 references and finishes at up to 4K via Pika's API.
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIVideo
pika.art/blog/pika-h3-flex

