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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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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.
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The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]
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Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]
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Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
GPT-6 Luna Smoke Evaluation: Main Leaderboard Plummets 19.8 Points, Code Execution Drops from 100 to 75
GPT-6 Luna’s main leaderboard score fell 19.8 points in today’s Smoke evaluation, from 86.95 to 67.17, driven mainly by a 25-point drop in code execution. Material constraints also declined, while engineering judgment remained stable.
Grok 4 Material Constraint Score Plunges 17.4 Points; Code Execution Rises 7.9; Smoke Main Leaderboard Down 3.5
In the Smoke evaluation, Grok 4's material constraint score fell 17.4 points while code execution rose 7.9 points, pulling the main leaderboard down 3.5. The shift appears driven by question sampling rather than a uniform capability decline.
Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6.1 Sol Tie at 87.36: 2026-10-29 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The 2026-10-29 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6.1 Sol tying for first place at 87.36. As a daily 10-question quick test, Smoke is suited to short-term signals and is not equivalent to conclusions from the Full weekly ranking.
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AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public
Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.
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Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms
The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission.
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As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps
A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.
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Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
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Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like ElevenLabs.
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South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks
South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.