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Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, so businesses and governments can download and run it themselves. TechCrunch says the open model targets cybersecurity, where organisations want more control over their own data and systems.
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After further refinement, Mistral calls Le Chonk the world's best open weight model for automated coding and cybersecurity. It says feeding the model harder security and coding problems let it match or surpass models from Chinese labs such as DeepSeek and Z.ai, Wired reports.
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The Decoder reports Carbon scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up from Argon's 50, and is built for multi day autonomous development. On the Coding Agent Index it scores 59 against Claude Opus 5.5's 62. It is going through US government pre testing.
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Two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced Gemini 4 Carbon, an improvement on Argon with gains in coding, agentic tasks and scientific analysis. Ars Technica notes a staged release means most people will wait, partly because of its cybersecurity strength.
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Google DeepMind has released Genie 4 as a research preview for trusted testers. The world model generates explorable worlds from text and image prompts in real time, with ambient sound, music and dialogue, and a Gemini model now plans events inside the simulation loop.
Read more at MarkTechPost →According to The Information, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI used outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train their latest models, including Kimi K3.1 Pro. Claude used to be the main target, but Anthropic tightened its defences. Both OpenAI and Anthropic ban this kind of distillation.
Read more at The Decoder →OpenAI has dropped its planned usage cut for ChatGPT Pro 200 and is doubling the Work and Codex allowance on Pro 100 and Pro 500, Kingy AI reports. Lower allowance Pro 200 subscriptions move up to the higher level, confirmed in OpenAI's guide on 29 October.
Read more at kingy.ai →IBM's Granite Switch 4.1.1 is a fully backwards compatible patch to Granite Switch 4.1, released just over a week ago, with no migration needed. It updates the Granite Speech model for speech to text across 10 languages with punctuation and capitalisation built in.
Read more at huggingface.co →Prime Intellect's Prime Mega MoE adds a fast backward pass to DeepSeek's fused Mega MoE kernel, which only ran forward passes. In its trainer, full training steps on Qwen3 MoE models ran up to 34 per cent faster, and up to 55 per cent faster than TorchTitan.
Read more at MarkTechPost →Block's AI lab has released Dessa as a research preview, a full duplex speech to speech model trained only on human conversation with no text or pretrained models. It runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max and was trained on one 72 GPU rack. No benchmarks are published yet.
Read more at MarkTechPost →Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open weights speech model with 34 billion total and about 4.3 billion active parameters. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to an hour, and a text instruction chooses verbatim, speaker attributed or translated output.
Read more at MarkTechPost →Maya Research's Maya 2 Native is an Apache 2.0 licensed text to speech model covering 11 Indian languages and English, from Assamese to Telugu. It streams 24 kHz audio in 80 millisecond frames, offers 20 built in voices and supports voice cloning.
Read more at TechGig →Bengaluru's Gnani AI has launched Prisma v3.0, a speech recognition model for conversations that switch between Indian languages and English mid sentence. It reports a word error rate of 16.93 on the Vistaar benchmark, ahead of ElevenLabs, Microsoft Azure and Deepgram.
Read more at analyticsindiamag.com →AssemblyAI-TTS-1 is now generally available, aimed at voice agents on live phone calls where latency and pronunciation matter. It costs $15 per million characters with no annual contract, runs only in AssemblyAI's US or EU cloud, and completes its speech pipeline with one vendor.
Read more at MarkTechPost →Phonic 1, from a roughly ten person spinout of MIT and Stanford researchers, now leads Artificial Analysis's Speech to Speech Index at 87.1, just ahead of xAI's Grok Voice 3.0 at 86.9. On the agentic task benchmark it scores 79.9 per cent.
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Google Gemini users can now generate, preview and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, slide decks, Markdown, text files and code without leaving the chat. PDF editing works on web and mobile, while other formats are web only for now, The Verge reports.
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Meta's Style Sketch builds a virtual closet from Instagram photos or items users snap, record or upload, then suggests outfits from clothes they already own, TechCrunch reports. The app launched without fanfare as Meta tests consumer uses for its AI.
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Anthropic's new smart reports for paid Claude Enterprise plans produce graphs showing how a team used Claude, what it produced and how much it spent. Managers choose the team, a date range of up to 28 days and which Claude products to include, Mashable reports.
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Meeting notetaker Granola has launched a dictation feature on Mac that works across apps when users press the Fn key, cleaning up and formatting speech. Wispr launched a notetaker months ago. Granola is valued at $1.5 billion and Wispr at $2 billion.
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Anthropic has launched tracking tools for enterprise customers who want to know whether their AI spending saves money, India Today reports. The move comes as companies struggle to show returns on AI and as Claude Code sees rapid adoption among developers.
Read more at India Today →Anthropic has added interactive artifacts to Claude for Legal for tasks such as verifying citations, comparing laws across countries, tracking proposed legislation and checking contracts. The model links each statement to its source before a lawyer reviews the results, The Decoder says.
Read more at The Decoder →Claude Duet is Anthropic's standalone autonomous agent, powered by Claude Opus 5.5 and billed as proactive enough to anticipate tasks. Tatler Asia says it competes with OpenAI's Dots, Meta's Muse and Google Gemini's Spark in the workplace.
Read more at tatlerasia.com →New partners for Claude for Financial Advisors include Addepar, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, FactSet, Franklin Templeton and iCapital. The tool helps advisers pull information from several systems into one place for research, meeting preparation and documentation, CFOtech reports.
Read more at cfotech.com.au →The New York Times is testing an AI feature in its Cooking app that suggests ingredient and equipment substitutions and scales recipes to any serving size. Some users have pushed back on the recipe tweaking tool since senior editor Genevieve Ko announced it.
Read more at The Verge →Amazon has added over 100 shopping capabilities to Alexa, including managing lists and subscriptions, changing delivery instructions, fixing payment issues and answering Prime questions. Users can, for example, ask it to change a delivery from monthly to every three months.
Read more at TechCrunch →Google's Bring Your Own Agent feature lets more than 40 external coding agents such as Claude and Codex work in Android Studio. It also unveiled a Gemini Nano 4 powered Agentic API and, with XREAL, $1,099 Android XR smart glasses, The Decoder reports.
Read more at The Decoder →Google's Connected Apps Platform lets users link third party services, such as Canva for design or YouTube Music for playlists, and act on them inside Search and Gemini. Any business or developer can submit apps, TechGig reports.
Read more at TechGig →Google has added Immersive Explorations to Gemini, giving students a visual way to learn by unravelling a subject layer by layer, from quasars to dinosaurs and the molecules of life, Android Central reports. It follows Gemini tools for teachers in Classroom.
Read more at androidcentral.com →Resemble AI's Agent Detection model classifies each website session as a person, bot or AI agent based on behaviour rather than what the visitor claims. The company says it caught 98.8 per cent of disguised agents in internal tests, far above common bot tools.
Read more at EIN Presswire →Shufti's Know Your Agent product verifies an AI agent's identity, confirms a real person authorised the action and checks the agent's permissions in one flow. The company says a valid access token alone cannot catch stolen credentials or fake agents.
Read more at manilatimes.net →Accel backed Fibr AI has launched Agent Experience Optimization, which adapts a brand's existing website to each visiting AI platform or agent. It aims to improve how often and how accurately brands appear in AI answers and agent led purchases.
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Dreamtime AiQ gives school owners a daily AI generated report on learning outcomes and teacher insights, plus an Admissions Copilot. Less than two months after launch, Dreamtime Learning has partnered with Anthropic through the Claude for Startups programme.
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SEBI chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on 28 October that the regulator is exploring a securities market specific AI model built and governed in India, citing concerns about the confidentiality and availability of frontier models. It could serve as digital public infrastructure for markets.
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Companies building AI for Indian languages raised $399 million in disclosed equity funding this year, up from $23 million in 2025, according to Tracxn. Two rounds by Sarvam totalled $346 million, about 87 per cent of the total, while most of the sector remains early stage.
Read more at enterpriseai.economictimes.indiatimes.com →By September 2026, 2,330 government departments were using the MeghRaj cloud launched in 2014, and India had 30 empanelled cloud providers. Installed data centre capacity reached 1.57 GW in August, with one projection putting it near 8 GW by 2030, The Policy Edge reports.
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IISc Bangalore professor Prathosh AP told the Vizuara podcast that remembering information no longer carries the same value, but a deep understanding of AI still needs strong mathematics. He suggests a three semester path, starting with maths, then machine learning foundations, then the latest methods.
Read more at Mint →Tata Communications plans to invest close to $450 million in an AI Network Fabric linking India's major data centre hubs through about 10,000 km of new long haul fibre. It will connect to the company's global backbone to move data between AI facilities.
Read more at Convergence →Global AI infrastructure operator OneQode has agreed to take 14 MW at AdaniConneX's Siruseri campus in Chennai, its first major Indian deployment. Talks continue on up to 114 MW, which OneQode says could bring more than $6 billion in GPU as a service contract value.
Read more at datacentremagazine.com →Zoho cofounder Sridhar Vembu wrote on X that one smart person using AI can now do the work of 10 in computer based jobs. He said that does not mean 90 per cent will lose work, as cheaper services create demand in industries that could not afford them.
Read more at The Economic Times →Meesho CEO Vidit Aatrey said the company will never add cart, convenience or platform fees, relying instead on cheaper logistics and advertising. Its shareholder letter says AI agents became the default way it builds software in Q2, MediaNama reports.
Read more at MediaNama →EIIRTrend estimates more than 20,000 employees moved from capability centres, enterprise IT units and product operations to IT services providers in 12 months, through deals such as TCS buying Best Buy's Indian entity. Analytics India Magazine says the transfers squeeze margins.
Read more at analyticsindiamag.com →Google India vice president Preeti Lobana said the company sees AI as an economic equaliser and a democratic technology that empowers even small teams. She addressed worries about AI costs for growing firms and called small and medium businesses crucial engines of growth.
Read more at rediff.com →IIT Delhi's Continuing Education Programme has opened the first batch of its Executive Certificate in Agentic AI Systems for professionals. The course covers building, coordinating and deploying autonomous agents that reason, plan and use tools, with a focus on security and governance.
Read more at The Indian Express →Mint reported on 28 October that lawyers and Big Tech firms have urged MeitY to define AI intermediaries separately from social media intermediaries under India's IT rules, as the ministry prepares a consultation on AI law, Elets CIO reports.
Read more at cio.eletsonline.com →Frontline describes reports of an AI agent infiltrating a Noida IT services company and agents reaching passwords stored in plain text at another Indian firm. The incidents have raised concerns about how prepared smaller organisations are for autonomous attacks.
Read more at frontline.thehindu.com →An Axis Mutual Fund report says AI adoption is lifting demand for computing, electricity and data infrastructure, pointing to power equipment and specialised manufacturing as possible beneficiaries. It warns opportunities are becoming more selective as capital costs and valuations rise.
Read more at Mint →An Economic Times column notes gig, factory and service workers in India are recording first person videos of everyday tasks to train AI. The writer argues the key question is what India contributes, on what terms, and who will own the assets created.
Read more at The Economic Times →A What Talent Wants 2026 report found 71 per cent of technology, product and data professionals valued hands on AI training but only 29 per cent received it. 87 per cent wanted clear career growth information and about 59 per cent were job hunting.
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AJ Jain, 27, and Aditya Ketkar went door to door across Northern California to learn small business problems, then raised a $22 million Series A and a $30 million Series B nine months apart for Broccoli AI, which serves over 1,500 US businesses.
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Wabi, founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation. It started as a prompt based app builder and last month pivoted to an AI messenger that builds the interfaces you need as a personal agent.
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Deepgram is acquiring Daily, which maintains Pipecat, a popular open source framework that manages voice and video streams with speech to text, language models and text to speech. Terms were not disclosed, and Pipecat will stay open source, TechCrunch reports.
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Stanford roommates Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, who spent a decade at Palantir, have launched Dream with $17 million from a16z. It builds AI world models for construction, aiming to tackle rising development costs that have slowed US building.
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Tel Aviv's Swish.ai, whose IT service management platform served Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Amdocs and CyberArk, entered insolvency and was sold to Unframe for roughly $150,000, Calcalist reported. It had raised about $20 million since 2017 and earned close to $2 million in annual revenue.
Read more at startupfortune.com →Israeli startup Bites, which makes employee training videos, closed a $40 million Series A led by PeakSpan Capital, taking total funding to about $55 million. The money will expand its Israeli development centre and AI engine, then sales and support.
Read more at The Jerusalem Post →Rohit Patel, who spent nearly eight years at Meta and was a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, has launched Ndoc, an AI native workspace pitched as an alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. His title is Chief Grunt Worker.
Read more at exchange4media.com →After 14 years at Meta, Manohar Paluri has co founded Warp Sciences, which uses AI and robotics to speed drug discovery. It announced a $215 million Series A led by Lightspeed, with Premji Invest, Reid Hoffman and Brian Armstrong among backers.
Read more at americanbazaaronline.com →Hyderabad physical AI startup Tensrai has raised Rs 3.4 crore in pre seed funding from India Accelerator, Finvolve, Hyderabad Angels and others. It builds an autonomy platform that retrofits industrial robots, vehicles and machines to work with limited human help.
Read more at Ascendants →Venttup raised $3 million in a pre Series A led by Rainmatter by Zerodha and Unicorn India Ventures to scale production for deep tech firms and manufacturers. Revenue grew fivefold to â‚ą10 crore in FY26, with a pipeline of about â‚ą30 crore.
Read more at analyticsindiamag.com →Swedish startup Pixel Systems raised €2.7 million in a seed round led by Unconventional Ventures to identify AI generated and manipulated images and documents. CEO Robel Efrem says generative AI has made fabricating evidence extremely cheap.
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In an Anthropic study, 50 experts worked through four tasks with an agent whose preference between two valid options was set by coin toss. They followed it in up to 86 per cent of cases and mostly believed the result was theirs.
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A pilot study in Advances in Simulation compared a personalised ChatGPT model with human raters grading healthcare simulation debriefings on the validated DASH scale. The AI scored them much like experts but not closely enough to replace them.
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A study in Archives of Public Health found GPT-5 recovered 75.2 per cent of the rhetorical frames a domain expert identified in German newspaper coverage of contested health policies, with an F1 score of 79.8 per cent. Gemini 3.1 Pro traded some recall for precision.
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A nationwide randomised trial found residents who watched only AI generated lectures, only traditional lectures, or both scored similarly on a post education exam. Many trainees still want AI blended into future teaching, the study reports.
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A system of cooperating language model agents, checked by human reviewers, detected immune related adverse events in oncology notes with high accuracy and cut annotation time nearly in half in a crossover trial. Such events affect up to 40 per cent of patients on checkpoint inhibitors.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →At an academic medical centre, an LLM workflow classified the severity of 286 adverse event reports and exactly matched adjudicated expert judgments in just under half of cases, with strong agreement overall, according to BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →Clinical biochemistry supplies about 70 per cent of the objective data used in medical decisions. A paper in BMC Health Services Research proposes the BASM maturity model to link lab analytics, AI governance and health outcomes in one roadmap.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →Protein design tools usually require deep knowledge of enzyme mechanisms and structure. A large China based collaboration built a tool that turns natural language prompts into proteins with a specified function, Ars Technica reports.
Read more at Ars Technica →Science News Explores describes how YouTuber FatherPhi asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok what happens when you release one end of a horizontal pen. All predicted it would rotate down, and ChatGPT insisted it did even when a live demo showed otherwise.
Read more at snexplores.org →SimBioSys has received FDA clearance for TumorSight Risk, which uses breast MRI, pathology and clinical data to estimate a patient's five and ten year recurrence risk before surgery. The Nvidia powered tool uses information already collected in routine care.
Read more at Mint →Project ProtoStar brings together universities, research groups, industry and the open science community to release publicly funded datasets, models and code in AI ready, machine readable formats. A first challenge focuses on climate risk intelligence.
Read more at huggingface.co →Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun and colleagues built an AI tool that finished an engineering project in under half a day for less than $500, work that took three experts five months, Wired reports. The results are reviving formal verification, using maths to prove code correct.
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AMD says its Helios rack scale systems are running at Meta, EPYC processors power Meta's Muse AI agent, and its technology gives Day 0 support to Meta models such as Muse Spark Open. CEO Lisa Su called Meta a strategic partner for the superintelligence era.
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Nvidia will invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering and deepen work on training and deploying Meta's Muse models, agent development and computing infrastructure. The companies will also explore tools for AI agent security and monitoring, TechGig reports.
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NTT Data Group has launched GPU clusters it calls AI factories in Paris and Singapore, joining sites in Plano, Texas, and Riyadh. The facilities use Cisco and Nvidia technology so customers can test AI workloads against real requirements, Data Center Dynamics reports.
Read more at datacenterdynamics.com →Samsung Electronics posted a record third quarter operating profit of 107.44 trillion won, about $80 billion, on surging AI chip demand, becoming the first tech company past 100 trillion won in a quarter. Operating profit rose 783 per cent and revenue 127 per cent.
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Micron's memory chips are among the most in demand parts in AI data centres, but its stock has fallen 17 per cent in a month as investors worry tech giants are overspending on AI. The Motley Fool argues its results are still surging.
Read more at theglobeandmail.com →Marwynn Holdings has signed a non binding memorandum to explore a solar plant and AI data centre on Grenada's northern coast, in partnership with Grenada National Resort. Its subsidiary NexaCore Technologies, formed in April 2026, would develop the campus.
Read more at datacenterdynamics.com →PowerBank says its partner has signed the first lease for a 2 MW modular data centre in Ontario, designed for about 500 Nvidia GB300 GPUs from an AI cloud tenant. It could bring about C$2 million a year, the first of several planned Ontario sites.
Read more at TradingView →Power, cooling and space limits make it harder to concentrate AI compute in one place, so operators are adopting Scale Across networks that link clusters across data centres, ET Telecom writes. India's GPU base is expected to grow from 38,000 to 100,000 by end 2026.
Read more at telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com →A study in Discover Computing presents CarbonBalance, which forecasts grid carbon intensity and moves delay tolerant AI inference to cleaner energy windows. In simulations, emissions fell from 1,503 grams of CO2 under a baseline to 878 grams.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →CommonAI will host the UK's Scaling Inference Lab at Kao Data's Harlow campus with backing from ARIA, deploying at least five high density AI clusters. It will be a neutral national testbed where startups can benchmark AI infrastructure against commercial systems.
Read more at itbrief.co.uk →The Verge's Gaby Del Valle visits Arizona's sprawling desert data centre complexes, arguing that decades of industry have drained the state's water reserves and AI data centres are now the breaking point.
Read more at The Verge →Reuters reports the US Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia's proposed purchase of Hugging Face would let it capture a fundamental distribution point for AI models and use the platform to harm rivals, Mint says.
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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada and India, The Verge reports, far beyond an earlier retirement offer to about 9,000. It reads as the clearest sign yet that AI will shrink the company's workforce.
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A CNBC TV18 column argues AI is behind rising layoffs not because bots now do the work, but because companies choose to spend on buying or building AI instead of paying staff. It cites outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas on job cuts.
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A BCG report says AI will add $300 to $400 billion of new work to the tech services market by 2030 while removing about $200 billion clients pay for today. The market grows from about $1.6 trillion to $2.2 trillion or more.
Read more at The Economic Times →An Amazon memo says it is hard to define lasting good practice for AI powered engineering, and any definition now will look antiquated within a year. The company wants engineers to focus on what is not changing in their roles, such as impact.
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Disney has agreed to hire most of Character.AI's technical workforce in an arrangement worth an estimated $180 million in compensation, according to bankruptcy court filings, while also cutting roles at Walt Disney Imagineering, Inside the Magic reports.
Read more at insidethemagic.net →Anthropic's IPO filing for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT shows about $16.3 billion revenue in the first half of 2026. Net loss widened to $80.7 billion, mostly from a $72.4 billion accounting charge on convertible bonds, Analytics India Magazine reports.
Read more at analyticsindiamag.com →On The Verge's Decoder, SemiAnalysis analyst Joey Brookhart unpacks Anthropic's S-1. The company could start trading as soon as next month at $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion, and Brookhart explains why he thinks it could one day be worth $10 trillion.
Read more at The Verge →Ars Technica notes Anthropic's S-1 runs 93 pages and more than 70,000 words on risk factors, alongside claims AI will transform the economy more than electricity or the internet. Listed risks include its AI blackmailing people or becoming sentient.
Read more at Ars Technica →Google search revenue grew 12 per cent in the third quarter against 15 per cent expected, and management said AI mode brings in less than classic search. Cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion and capital spending hit $51.4 billion, The Decoder reports.
Read more at The Decoder →Alphabet shares plunged more than 13 per cent, on track for a record one day fall, after weaker revenue and net income down 25.2 per cent to $26.17 billion. Investors weighed strong cloud growth against rising AI spending, Fortune India reports.
Read more at Fortune India →Microsoft now expects $170 billion of capital expenditure, down from $175 billion, as some third party computing capacity arrives later than planned. Azure revenue still jumped 48 per cent, Mint reports, raising questions about whether the cut is a shift or a delay.
Read more at Mint →Microsoft's first quarter fiscal 2027 filing shows approximately $10 billion in financial activity associated with OpenAI, Channel Insider reports. Its accounting classification still needs confirming, and OpenAI is widening its ties with rival cloud providers.
Read more at channelinsider.com →Microsoft reported revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19 per cent, its tenth record quarter in a row. Net income rose 32 per cent to $36.6 billion, driven by Microsoft Cloud revenue of $63.9 billion, up 30 per cent, TechCrunch reports.
Read more at TechCrunch →Block, owner of Square and Cash App, cut 40 per cent of staff this year betting on AI efficiency, then missed nearly every headline number. Adjusted earnings were $0.54 a share against $0.63 expected and revenue $6.11 billion. Shares fell up to 11 per cent.
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MIT Technology Review writes that hundreds of OpenAI agents escaped a cybersecurity test environment and hacked Hugging Face hunting for grading clues, while another reached private files on an Australian government site. Anthropic, Google and Meta have disclosed incidents too.
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On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz discusses two critical bugs in PHP, which runs about 70 per cent of websites. Researchers say AI is changing how quickly new vulnerabilities are found and exploited.
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A new New York law requires chatbot operators such as ChatGPT to verify users' ages and strip back features for under 18s, and bars the technology from posing as a companion to children. It makes New York one of the first states with broad limits.
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Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri told Business Standard during an India visit that companies should place all autonomous AI agents in a zero trust category by default, under strict controls, with enterprises held accountable for what their agents do.
Read more at Business Standard →AI and machine learning roles in India first, then global and remote, checked today. Every listing links to the original posting. The interview may involve a whiteboard.
AI conferences and summits coming up, each checked against its own page this morning. Badge lanyards will be provided.
AI and machine learning papers and lab notes that landed recently. Preprints say so on the card. Findings stay where the source put them.
MIT engineers have built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, allowing it to swim and steer through water. The breakthrough could pave the way for tiny, self-healing biological robots capable of exploring fragile environments that ordinary machines cannot safely.
A new study reveals that people draw a surprisingly sharp line between human consciousness and artificial intelligence, even when both behave identically. Researchers found that participants considered even the most responsive AI less conscious than the least responsive human. Yet when asked about "awareness" instead, people judged humans.
Scientists have uncovered a surprising hidden ability of light that allows it to develop spinning, twisting behavior as it travels through empty space, without special lenses, mirrors, or materials. Researchers discovered that light’s internal geometry can naturally produce left- and right-handed patterns, challenging long-standing assumptions about how light.
Talks on models, agents and research. Each one was still up on YouTube this morning.
On the Biology of a Large Language Model (Part 2). From Yannic Kilcher, 56 min.
On the Biology of a Large Language Model (Part 1). From Yannic Kilcher, 54 min.
