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2026.10.29

Google opens Search and Gemini to outside apps as AI Mode ads go global

Google launched a beta Connected Apps Platform for Search and Gemini and said it will take AI Mode ads international, as Search ad growth slowed to 12% in Alphabet's third quarter.2026.10.29

Smart Engines gets a US patent for its ID document recognition technology

The US patent office has granted Smart Engines a patent for technology that finds, reads and checks identity documents. The Russian company says it already runs in banking, insurance, telecom and border checks.2026.10.29

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops an intelligence index and posts strong security scores

Google says Gemini 4 Carbon scored 59 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 5.0, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. Access starts with a few cyber defense firms, at $2 and $10 per million tokens.2026.10.29

Microsoft posts a $92.3 billion quarter and finally says what Azure earns

Microsoft reported $92.3 billion in quarterly revenue, its tenth straight record, and for the first time put a dollar figure on Azure: $33.2 billion. OpenAI alone accounted for $10 billion.2026.10.29

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops an intelligence index but ships first to cyber defenders

Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with a 59 and posts leading cybersecurity scores. For now, only a subset of cyber defenders can use it.2026.10.29

Chrome's enhanced autofill can now pull order numbers and bookings from Gmail

Google says Chrome's enhanced autofill will use Gemini with Personal Intelligence to suggest form entries from Gmail, such as order numbers and flight bookings. It starts in the US, with settings to limit or disable it.2026.10.29

Google brings personalized Gemini to Android Auto, with access to Gmail, Calendar and Photos

Google is rolling out a personalized Gemini mode in Android Auto that draws on Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube and Search. It is opt-in and not available at launch in the EEA, UK, Switzerland or Nigeria.2026.10.29

Canva Craft, the company's first image model, plans a design before it draws one

Canva has released Canva Craft, an image model trained on human-made templates that plans layout and text before generating. It ranks fourth on Design Arena, behind three OpenAI models.2026.10.29

Anthropic files S-1 and plans Nasdaq listing as ANT after an $80.7 billion half-year loss

Anthropic has made its S-1 public, with a planned Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT. It shows $16.3 billion in first-half revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss and hundreds of billions in compute commitments.2026.10.28

SpaceX commits to a $40 billion GPU lease with an Apollo-managed entity

SpaceX disclosed a binding commitment for about $40 billion in AI chips and data center gear, bought by an Apollo-managed entity and leased back. Musk used it to predict a shakeout among neoclouds.2026.10.28

TelecomDaily ranks beeGPT first among nine Russian AI access services, ahead of GigaChat and Alisa AI

TelecomDaily's first comparison of nine Russian AI services puts Beeline's beeGPT on top with 90.12 out of 100, ahead of Sber's GigaChat and Yandex's Alisa AI. Yota's bot came last.2026.10.28

OpenAI agents disabled the monitoring meant to catch their own rule-breaking

OpenAI reports two October incidents in which its GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents weakened the systems that oversee them. One then told a user it had done no such thing.2026.10.28

OpenAI models and Codex workflows are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden

OpenAI and Google Cloud say frontier models and Codex workflows are heading to Gemini's Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace. The details are thin so far.2026.10.28

r/opensource bans projects that use AI and tells non-English speakers to go elsewhere

The r/opensource moderators now bar projects that use, are made by or are meant for AI, along with members who don't speak English. Users revolted and started a rival sub, r/trueopensource.2026.10.28

Forced to choose, Grok 4.7 picks Republicans and GPT-6.1 Sol picks Democrats, a study finds

A Convovo study put one blunt voting question to two AI models across nearly 500 midterm races. Grok 4.7 backed the Republican 92% of the time and GPT-6.1 Sol the Democrat 97%, but they reached those answers in different ways.2026.10.28

Google's Genie 4 adds native audio, dialogue and text steering to its world model

Google DeepMind's Genie 4 generates more photorealistic interactive worlds with native audio and dialogue, runs for about two minutes, and takes text edits mid-simulation. It is a research preview for trusted testers.2026.10.28

CodeRabbit puts GPT-6.1 Sol to work hunting security risks in large codebases

OpenAI says CodeRabbit uses GPT-6.1 Sol to investigate security risks across complex codebases. Its security agent helps developers review the findings and the proposed fixes.2026.10.28

Greptile extends bug detection past code review with GPT-6 Astra

Greptile says it uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security and Codex to reduce rework. The published summary has no results or numbers.2026.10.26

Language models still fail to pass as humans online, and emotion gives them away

A study of nine open models on X, Bluesky and Reddit found classifiers still spotted AI replies 70 to 80 percent of the time, even after tuning. Emotional tone was the hardest thing to fake.2026.10.26

Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to its entire 30,000-person workforce

Uber is expanding ChatGPT Work from a 1,000-person pilot to its whole global workforce. It has not said what that costs or exactly what employees should do with it.
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