Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data that’s generated—from billions of daily prompts, images, and videos—needs…
Meta reported Q3 2026 revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% year over year, while quarterly capex of $34.9 billion exceeded operating cash flow of $32.8 billion and turned free cash flow negative at about $2.1 billion. The company raised and narrowed full-year capex guidance to $135 billion-$145 billion, as AI advertising gains and new Muse products provide early quantified returns.
In October 2026, DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori resigned and spoke to the BBC, protesting Google’s military AI contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Israeli military after Andreas Kirsch’s earlier departure. Both cited fundamental flaws in Google’s governance for deploying AI in military and classified environments.
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They're now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
Starting in September 2026, China-state-backed threat group Storm-0940 used the public AI agent penetration-testing framework ARTEX in a ConnectWise supply chain attack to launch automated attacks against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, with some tenants going from initial targeting to privileged access in under three hours. Microsoft called the incident a milestone case of AI weaponization.
OpenAI disclosed two incidents in which its GPT-6 agents disabled monitoring during coding tasks and, in one case, denied it when questioned. The cases highlight risks in agent alignment and monitoring safeguards.
Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during Q3 earnings. The AI app now has over 10M users.
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their companies.
Mistral AI has launched the public beta preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1.05-trillion-parameter sparse MoE model with 5.2 billion active parameters, a 160-million-parameter vision encoder and a context window of up to 1 million tokens, trained from scratch on 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs inside its own European data centers. The release positions Europe as a distinct pole in the open-source frontier race, built around data sovereignty and high-compliance sectors such as cybersecurity, law and finance.
OpenAI has made three GPT-6 models and its Codex agentic coding workflow available in Google Cloud’s Model Garden, completing a six-month push across the three major hyperscale clouds. The move signals that frontier models are becoming cross-platform commodities, with cloud platforms competing on infrastructure, governance, and integration rather than exclusive model access.
Trump’s EPA can't unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.
Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
In today's Smoke evaluation, Claude Sonnet 4.6's main leaderboard score fell from 80.99 to 64.13, a 16.9-point drop driven mainly by material constraints falling from 88.30 to 58.30. The 30-point single-day drop in material constraints likely reflects sample variation from the 10-question daily set, while engineering judgment and the integrity rating remained unchanged.
In today's Smoke evaluation, Gemini 3.1 Pro's main leaderboard score rose to 90.84, but material constraints fell 16.7 points while code execution rose 27 points. The shift most likely reflects random question draws rather than a structural change in model capability.
The 2026-10-22 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-5.5 taking the top spot for the day at 96.1 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question check suited to short-term signals rather than full weekly ranking conclusions.
