Welcome to another episode of the AI Business podcast, in which we are not going to talk about the US election.

But we are going to discuss the accuracy of the polls, the power of advertising, and QAnon.

Meanwhile, in our ongoing Chip Wars segment, we talk about the recently announced mega-deal in which AMD is buying FPGA chip designer Xilinx, bringing its decades-old rivalry with Intel to a brand new arena – since Intel owns Altera, the only other major FPGA vendor.