AI News for October 29, 2026
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1The Verge04:03
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, citing gains in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, and a first-place result on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The model is an incremental update over Argon. Ars Technica also covered the launch and noted it is not yet available to general users.
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2TechCrunch23:00
Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
Nvidia released a free speech-to-text model that transcribes up to 40 languages. It handles recorded audio only, not live streams, which positions it for meeting and medical transcription while leaving real-time use to competitors such as ElevenLabs.
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3TechCrunch05:34
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft said commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, generated $10 billion in the quarter ending September 30. The figure is a rare public measure of how financially intertwined the two companies remain.
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4TechCrunch01:00
As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps
Google introduced a developer platform that lets businesses plug their services into Gemini and Search. The move could reshape how consumers discover and use apps as agents take over more browsing and transaction steps.
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5TechCrunch03:19
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
Anthropic released tooling that breaks down how enterprise customers' spending on its models is actually used. The company is giving buyers more visibility as it prepares for a planned IPO.
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6TechCrunch05:25
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row
Microsoft reported quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year and its tenth consecutive record quarter. Whatever the long-run outcome of the AI buildout, the spending has not yet slowed the company's financial momentum.
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7TechCrunch05:58
Microsoft just shared Azure's actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion
Microsoft disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue as a dollar figure for the first time, $33.2 billion, rather than only a growth rate. The disclosure makes it possible to measure how close its AI cloud business is to market leader AWS.
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8TechCrunch05:48
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
Google is rolling out ads inside its AI search experiences worldwide as growth in its core advertising business cools. The expansion was announced alongside Alphabet's third-quarter results, which showed revenue up 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
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9The Verge00:15
Meta says it'll probably delay its controversial new business terms again
Meta signaled it may push implementation of its new business terms past November 20th after publishers objected over AI training concerns. Communications head Andy Stone said on X that the company will not make policy changes without consulting industry groups and leaders.
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10The Verge22:44
xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise
A subsidiary of Elon Musk's xAI is offering to buy homes in a Southaven, Mississippi neighborhood on the condition that residents do not join a lawsuit over the company's data center and power plant, according to The Guardian. The offers show how the local costs of AI infrastructure are being settled out of court.
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11The Verge20:00
Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers
Opposition to data center projects is turning into a local electoral issue in Texas, with residents around Austin organizing against developments over land use, energy, and water. The backlash is becoming a real constraint on where AI infrastructure can be built.
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12Ars Technica01:46
Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
Google's AI answers avoid stating plainly who won the 2020 US election, according to testing by Ars Technica, while the same questions asked from outside the United States get more direct responses. The pattern points to geography-dependent guardrails on politically sensitive queries.
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13TechCrunch01:00
Chrome's AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms
Chrome's enhanced autofill will use Gemini with Personal Intelligence to pull flight confirmations, tracking numbers, and order details out of Gmail when filling web forms, with user permission. The Verge also reported on the rollout.
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14TechCrunch23:41
South Korea's financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks
South Korean financial institutions were hit by another wave of cyberattacks. The incidents are being read as a sign of the growing role of AI-assisted hacking across Asia.
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15The Verge02:36
Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
Microsoft is winding down Copilot on LG and Samsung smart TVs this year, less than two years after the assistant was announced for those platforms at CES 2025, according to Windows Central. Neither TV maker has made a formal announcement.
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16The Verge19:27
Meta quietly launched an 'AI pet journal' app
Meta has released Waddle World, a tamagotchi-style app in which virtual creatures chat with users and draw doodles based on the conversation. Store listings describe it as a daily journal disguised as a pet game, and it is built around talking rather than typing.
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17The Verge05:34
Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC
Akai has given modders and custom firmware developers early access to an as-yet unannounced MPC Sample Key that will ship with open-source firmware. The company is deliberately building around the wave of hobbyists writing modifications with AI coding tools.
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18The Verge07:05
Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a podcast interview that dislike of AI is widespread, not limited to young people and creatives, and is likely to intensify. The remarks come as platforms keep pushing generative features into consumer apps.
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19TechCrunch23:53
AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public
A TechCrunch commentary argues that executives who boast about using AI to communicate with their own families are poorly placed to judge what mainstream users actually want. The gap matters as labs shift from developer tools toward consumer products.
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