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.
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.
ServiceNow on October 28, 2026 announced the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, a partner ecosystem spanning AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement, and token metering, with Kong among founding members that also include Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, HiddenLayer, NVIDIA, Okta, OpenAI, Stripe, WitnessAI, and Zenity. The alliance is built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower, which ServiceNow describes as a centralized control plane to…
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OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership on October 28, 2026, that brings more OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow products and connects ServiceNow workflows with ChatGPT and Codex, spanning application development, cybersecurity, voice-driven risk assessment, and new deployments inside both companies. The expansion builds on the multi-year agreement the companies announced on January 20, 2026, which made OpenAI a preferred intelligence capability on the ServiceNow AI…
The AI medical assistant is still being tested. Now the space boffins want to give it hands
An AI assistant can explain why a business system has failed without resolving the failure. The harder step is connecting that explanation to an authorised action, carrying it out and checking that it worked. Digitate is addressing that gap with ignio Hummingbird, a release that combines specialised IT operations agents, custom agent creation and connections to the AI tools enterprises already use. Announced October 27 and planned for availability in November 2026, Hummingbird introduces…
Sierra introduced Compliance Console on October 28, 2026, a set of configurable guardrails and controls built into its Horizon platform that the company says is designed to help AI agents follow the rules that apply to their outreach across channels, use cases, states, and countries. Sierra said agents have reached a tipping point in the last six months, moving from mostly reactive, one-and-done support conversations to interactions that can last weeks or months. Originating a loan, collecting…
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…
Why give people tests that AI aces?
Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today. "Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries," CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. "In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest […]
President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation on October 28, 2026, concurring with a Commerce Department finding that imports of robotics, industrial machinery, and their parts and components threaten to impair U.S. national security, and directing negotiations with trading partners to adjust those imports. The proclamation records that, within the preceding 90 days, the Secretary of Commerce transmitted a report on his investigation into the effects of these imports under Section 232 of the…
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over […]
Optimize your Next.js app's bundles with the next-bundle-optimizer agent skill, or explore them yourself with new Bundle Analyzer tools.
An AI agent that reads every security alert or log entry incurs a cost even when its conclusion is that nothing needs doing. At enterprise volumes, those uneventful investigations can become a substantial workload of their own. Kindo has launched Deep Hat Sift, a model designed to decide which incoming events warrant an agent run before the larger model starts processing them. Announced October 28, Sift learns from the verdicts of the agent it serves, then filters events that the agent would…
Anthropic made three Claude Enterprise features generally available on October 28, 2026: smart reports that analyze what teams accomplish with Claude and what that work costs, in-app surveys that gather employee feedback, and pooled group budgets that let administrators set one shared monthly spending pool per team. Smart Reports: Workstreams, Costs, and Privacy Guardrails An administrator starts a smart report by choosing a team, a date range covering up to the last 28 days, and the products…
Gemini 4 Carbon, Google's new frontier model, tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just two weeks after Argon.
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
Just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind is releasing Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points. Google says the model is built for extended agent workflows and the full cyber defense lifecycle. Because of those advanced security capabilities, access is limited to selected security experts at first. The article Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just two weeks after Argon with gains across the board appeared first on The Decoder .
The feature works with both iMessage and RCS messaging.
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, 2026, describing it as the company's strongest frontier model, and said it will reach users through a staged rollout that begins with a subset of cyber defenders rather than a broad release. In the announcement, Koray Kavukcuoglu, SVP of Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect at Google, characterized Carbon as the company's strongest model, with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. Carbon succeeds Gemini 4 Argon, which…
You can now run CI for your Turborepo with one line of configuration. In Vercel's internal repositories, our wait time from git push to "CI passed" is 2-6x shorter, dramatically improving our CI's ability to keep up with our coding agents. To get started, prompt your agent in your repo: Each task marked with a ci tag runs on every push. Vercel CI automatically takes care of: Only running CI that is affected by your code changes Task caching with Vercel Remote Cache Installing dependencies once p
Robot demand from automotive component manufacturers nearly doubled in Q3, as other sectors posted strong gains, reported A3. The post North American robot orders climb 24.8% in Q3 of 2026, says A3 appeared first on The Robot Report .
Symbotic’s growth with Walmart shows how an anchor customer can fund a robotics startup’s scale while creating risks around customer concentration, contractual restrictions and the challenge of building a diversified, repeatable business. The post What Symbotic’s Walmart growth teaches robotics startups about anchor customers appeared first on The Robot Report .
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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.
Stand up a governed, multi-account Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through the architecture and an open-source reference blueprint: the operating model, control plane, per-Workstream cells, separate inference and tool gateways, and a CI/CD evaluation pipeline that gates each agent before production.
The Ray Train Deep Learning Container ships the full CUDA-through-EFA stack, so you build no image. This post walks through a reproducible sample that fine-tunes Qwen2.5-1.5B with PyTorch FSDP across eight GPUs on two EFA-enabled g6.12xlarge instances on Amazon EKS, using the container exactly as published.
As QA test automation spreads across an organization, organizing tests and controlling who owns them becomes the real work. Part 3 of the QA Studio series on Amazon Nova Act adds applications that organize tests and report health metrics, plus team-based user management that controls who can see and change what.
Modern engineering projects increasingly combine human judgment with machine capability. An engineer can define a problem, then ask an artificial intelligence tool to search relevant research and technical standards, generate design options, test them in simulation, and compare the results. The engineer can then bring the results to specialists who understand the parts AI cannot judge on its own, such as whether a design can be built safely, whether it makes sense in a particular setting, or how
Is your pricey Claude Enterprise account worth it? Anthropic is trying to surface insights with three tools.
MIT engineers designed a robotic enteroscope that can inch through the hard-to-reach small intestine, making biopsies and drug delivery easier.
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Box Mount lets agents running in Vercel Sandbox read and write Box files through standard filesystem operations. It syncs a Box folder with a directory inside the sandbox. Unmount before you stop the sandbox, and everything the agent wrote is in Box after the sandbox is deleted. The contract-review example uses AI Gateway to review a synthetic contract in Vercel Sandbox and save the review back to Box. The sync process and agent run as separate sandbox users, keeping the Box credentials separate
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>We study hindsight self-distillation for multi-step financial reasoning on GPT-OSS-20B. The student finds its own first wrong step and writes a critique. A frozen copy, conditioned on the prefix plus the critique, is distilled back into the student under reverse KL. Notably, replacing the critique with a fixed generic feedback line <strong>matches</strong> the full gain of about 3 points, and critiques from a 6x larger model do not materially improve performance
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model that scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro. Access starts with vetted cyber defenders, at $2/$10 per million tokens. The post Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding appeared first on MarkTechPost .
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
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Apple announced a MacBook Pro with a touch OLED display, just one of the new devices from its "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles.
