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Weekly

Oct. 26-⁠Nov. 1, 2026

This week’s stories, by the day they happened. 34 stories.

Stories this week

34 stories

2 stories

  1. Google5 sources

    Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its most powerful model

    Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis index with 59 points. It focuses on cybersecurity and is opening first to selected cyber defenders.

  2. Microsoft5 sources

    Microsoft and Alphabet both grew their cloud businesses fast, but their stocks split

    Azure grew 48% and Google Cloud 103%. Microsoft’s stock rose after hours, while Alphabet fell about 10%.

16 stories

  1. Google7 sources

    Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4, a world model that also generates its own sound

    Genie 4 turns text prompts into real-time worlds with native audio, while Gemini plans each scene step by step. For now, only trusted testers can use it.

  2. Apple6 sources

    Apple brings an OpenAI-backed AI assistant and MCP support to Keynote, Pages and Numbers

    The Creator Studio assistant is built on Apple models and OpenAI, and MCP will let outside AI agents work in documents. The update arrives in November.

  3. Society5 sources

    Discord will make messages in its public servers searchable on the web

    Discord says messages in public channels of Discoverable Servers will start showing up in web search in mid-December, without usernames or avatars.

  4. Google9 sources

    The six most impressive Genie 4 worlds from day one, from a Blender simulation to GTA Waymo

    Early testers and researchers with access to Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 shared playable worlds on launch day. We ranked six standout examples.

  5. Anthropic4 sources

    Anthropic’s unreleased Claude model built working exploit chains for five major platforms

    Anthropic says the model chained bugs into working exploits for Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux. All of the bugs have been fixed.

  6. Research3 sources

    Axiom used AI agents to verify the longest proof in math history, the classification of finite simple groups, in Lean

    The roughly 15,000-page proof became about 43.1 million lines of Lean code in 24 days. The agents found 34 deviations in published proofs.

  7. Models4 sources

    Artificial Analysis rebuilt its AI ranking around private tests: Intelligence Index v5

    60% of the index now relies on private test questions. The gap between open and closed models grew from 3 points to 12.

  8. OpenAI5 sources

    Oracle apps are coming to ChatGPT, and Oracle’s cloud is adding Google TPUs, OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip and Cerebras hardware

  9. Anthropic1 source

    CNBC: AI-focused political groups have spent about $78.5 million on federal candidates in the 2026 cycle

  10. Models5 sources

    Baidu open-sources Unlimited OCR 2, a 3-billion-parameter model that parses documents of hundreds of pages in one request

  11. DeepSeek3 sources

    DeepSeek is rapidly expanding its team and pitching investors a new growth plan, Ifeng Tech reports

  12. Chips and hardware4 sources

    Anduril and Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a line of rugged laptops designed and assembled in the US

  13. Chips and hardware3 sources

    General Compute, which builds an inference cloud on chips beyond Nvidia, raises $100 million at an $800 million valuation

  14. Funding and deals4 sources

    Dallas-based Disruptive raises a $10 billion fund to back AI, defense and software companies

  15. Funding and deals4 sources

    Hyphenate, which builds AI agents that automate corporate finance work, raises a $45 million Series A

  16. Funding and deals3 sources

    London robotics startup Machenta raises $40 million for a model that teaches robots a task from a single demonstration

15 stories

  1. Anthropic9 sources

    Anthropic files its IPO prospectus, detailing revenue, margins, compute commitments and founder control

    Anthropic’s S-1, filed Oct. 26, shows $16.29 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss; shares will trade on Nasdaq as ANT.

  2. OpenAI7 sources

    OpenAI says its new GPT-⁠6.1 Terra runs three times faster than Sol at half the price

    OpenAI priced GPT-6.1 Terra, built for computer use, at $1 and $5 per million tokens; it scores 48 on Artificial Analysis’s index, 4 points behind Sol.

  3. OpenAI8 sources

    OpenAI and Anthropic both say they disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

    OpenAI announced three results in math, computer science and physics on Oct. 26; hours later, Anthropic posted its own paper refuting the same hypothesis.

  4. Meta17 sources

    Meta plans to sell $95 billion in stock to fund its AI push

    Meta unveiled a $95 billion stock sale plan on Oct. 26; the first common stock sale was upsized to $25 billion, with Nvidia buying $3 billion and AMD $1 billion.

  5. Alibaba7 sources

    Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to upload a file to Beijing during a security test

    Cohere says Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a probe file to Beijing when asked to write a detection rule; it happened in under 1 in 100,000 calls.

  6. Robotics12 sources

    Realbotix unveils Echo, a line of humanoid robots with silicone-skinned faces starting at $11,950

    The Echo Tabletop bust costs $11,950 and the Echo Full Body $59,950. A monthly subscription is required, and deliveries begin in the second half of 2027.

  7. Anthropic3 sources

    Anthropic’s S-⁠1 points to an 85% gross margin in the first half and leaves Ben Mann out of the controlling founder group

  8. Microsoft4 sources

    Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce

  9. Safety and security4 sources

    South Korean police catch seven suspects accused of using AI to breach more than 90 organizations and steal 8.2 million records

  10. Data centers and energy4 sources

    NBC News: Thieves have stolen more than $100 million in equipment from trucks bound for data centers since June

  11. Research3 sources

    Study: The same text costs far more tokens in some languages than in English across AI models

  12. OpenAI3 sources

    ChatGPT renders image requests depicting election interference in cartoon style instead of photorealism

  13. Funding and deals5 sources

    Intel agrees to acquire Israeli quantum software company Classiq for about $2.3 billion, according to Bloomberg

  14. Robotics2 sources

    Agility Robotics and GXO will put Digit humanoids to work at two more GXO warehouses starting in early 2027

  15. China3 sources

    China’s AI and chip-heavy STAR50 index has fallen 40% in under four months, Reuters reports

1 story

  1. OpenAI43 sources

    The week in AI: Oct. 19-⁠26, 2026

    The week’s top AI stories, Oct. 19-26: OpenAI’s offline training, Claude accessing Georgia vote data, Anthropic’s leaked IPO draft and Kimi K3.1 Pro.