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Salesforce agrees to acquire Cresta for voice AI customer service · CrowdStrike introduces an AI kill switch in Falcon Guardian · MongoDB connects live Atlas data to Microsoft 365 Copilot
Salesforce announced a definitive agreement on November 2 to acquire Cresta and connect its voice agents and conversation intelligence with Service Cloud. Closing is expected in fiscal Q1 2028, subject to approvals, so the integration remains a planned expansion of its customer-service AI business.
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CrowdStrike announced its AI Kill Switch on November 3, allowing authorized administrators to stop agents, block relaunches and cut enterprise network access. The company says it is available initially at the gateway, with endpoint termination coming later, adding direct intervention controls for misbehaving agents.
Read at CrowdStrikeMongoDB announced general availability of its federated Atlas connector for Microsoft 365 Copilot on November 3. It queries live data through a managed MCP server with read-only, permission-aware access, helping teams answer operational questions without copying data into a separate index.
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Mayo Clinic Platform launched an AI-enabled decision-support solution on November 3 for Mayo and participating provider organizations, with EHR-integrated specialty chat and clinical calculators. It brings cited medical information into clinical workflows to assist, rather than replace, professional judgment.
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Stanford announced its Digital Brain Project on November 2, combining brain-imaging datasets with foundation models to predict brain activity. The research effort aims to accelerate neuroscience and the study of brain disorders; these are project goals, not demonstrated clinical outcomes.
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Ai2 introduced StateBench on November 3 to measure how models track changing information across long documents at four difficulty levels. Its experiments found frontier models faltering on harder, longer sequences, while directly trained recurrent and hybrid architectures generalized farther on several task types.
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IBM Research described Palette on November 3, a fine-tuned 20B open-weight model that separates slide planning from coding and checks rendered decks for layout errors. IBM reports strong results in selected PresentBench domains, illustrating how specialized training and repair tools can support self-hosted presentation generation.
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Collinear AI introduced CWE-bench v2 on November 3 with 100 public tasks covering 91 weakness classes and programmatic scoring. Agents must find and fix flaws in real repositories without breaking functionality, giving researchers a broader, reproducible test of defensive coding capabilities.
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Lumen and Microsoft announced expanded co-selling on November 2 to align enterprise networking with Azure cloud and AI deployments. They plan broader access to Lumen connectivity capabilities, addressing fragmented connections between data centers, clouds and business sites.
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Lazarus AI announced $43 million in funding on November 3 to expand partnerships, research and new products. Its enterprise platform supports document analysis, cybersecurity and legacy modernization in customer-controlled environments, emphasizing control over data, models and deployment.
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