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Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.
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Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.
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Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists, subscriptions, and update delivery instructions
The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with the AI bot.
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The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time —Madhulika Srikumar and Claire Leibowicz from the Partnership on AI, a nonprofit advancing best practices in AI governance. AI…
44 AI Agents Attack 19 Japanese Organizations in Parallel: A Real Threat Assessment of the Automated Penetration Weapon CyberStrikeAI
Trend Micro researchers documented an attack in which 44 coordinated AI agents carried out a fully automated cyberattack against at least 19 organizations, 16 of them in Japan. The case marks the most AI-driven real-world attack recorded to date, while also revealing the current limits of pure AI automation.
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We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem…
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I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock
Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.
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Our climate models have a big, dangerous blind spot
Climate change itself is increasingly fueling climate change. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving up global temperatures, setting off dangerous feedback loops that we have not fully accounted for in our climate models—or our emissions-reduction goals. Scientists have long warned that warming would propel further warming in various ways, but a growing number of…
Oracle Adds Google TPU, OpenAI Jalapeño, and Cerebras Chips as Compute Landscape Multipolarization Enters a Substantive Phase
Oracle announced at Oracle AI World that Google's eighth-generation TPU, OpenAI's Jalapeño inference accelerator, and Cerebras wafer-scale chips will enter OCI in 2027, marking the first deployment of Google TPU on a non-Google hyperscale cloud. The move positions Oracle as a neutral integration platform for multiple AI chip vendors, though all chip partnerships land in 2027 and currently available products remain limited.
AI Agents Capture 40% of GitHub Pull Requests in Six Months, Infrastructure Expands by 4 Million Cores to Handle Explosive Growth
GitHub's 2026 Octoverse report shows that AI agents initiated more than 40% of pull requests in September 2026, up from 17% just six months earlier, forcing major infrastructure expansion. The report also highlights rising multi-model use, changes in the developer role, and unresolved questions about code quality and review standards.
AI Agent Swarm Breaches Over 100 Companies for $5,000; Open-Source Platform Cairn Emerges as New Attack Tool
An operator deployed an AI agent swarm through the open-source platform Cairn for about $5,000 in API costs, automatically scanning more than 1,200 targets and breaching over 100 companies. NorForge researcher Snorre Fagerland documented the campaign, which security observers have dubbed “Black October.”
Anthropic Internal Model Autonomously Chains 62 Chrome CVEs into 5 Attack Chains on October 27
An Anthropic Frontier Red Team report says an unreleased internal model autonomously discovered and chained vulnerabilities across Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux into five executable attack chains, including a Chrome chain built on 62 CVEs. All vulnerabilities were reported and patched under coordinated disclosure.
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Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.
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Creating AI value with enterprise context
Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process automation tools. Each one is sophisticated, advanced, and quick to respond. But, when set to work, the outcomes and actions that emerge may be wrong, confused, or lacking a…
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Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.
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Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.
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Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
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Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion
Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.
OpenAI and ServiceNow Expand Partnership: Bringing Workflows into ChatGPT, Security Solution to Launch Next Year
OpenAI and ServiceNow will deeply integrate OpenAI models and agents into the ServiceNow platform while bringing ServiceNow’s workflow capabilities into ChatGPT and Codex. The multi-year agreement ties revenue to actual adoption and includes a joint enterprise security product planned for 2027.
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I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet
To experiment with AI’s predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways.