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Dowson Tong Previews That the Official Version of Hunyuan Hy4 Will Add Visual Understanding for the First Time

Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, announced at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that the official version of the Hunyuan large model Hy4 will be released soon. Compared with the Hy4 Preview open-sourced on August 28, it is comprehensively upgraded, strengthens long-horizon tasks and real productivity task capabilities, significantly improves chain-of-thought efficiency, and adds visual understanding for the first time; Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, will also be launched soon. Tencent also released the cross-application AI collaboration system Buddy One and Tencent Drive for the Agent era, and upgraded Agent Runtime, making systematic enhancements around context management, tool calling, secure sandboxes, observability, and evaluation. Dowson Tong also disclosed that over the past year, the number of active overseas customers of Tencent Cloud grew about threefold, and overseas AI demand achieved triple-digit growth.

GitHub Octoverse report: TypeScript remains the most-contributed-to language, over 40% of PRs drafted by agents

GitHub said in its Octoverse report on October 28 that Pull Requests merged over the past twelve months reached 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million per day, three times the figure for the same period last year. More than 40% of Pull Requests begin with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file receive eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million.

Microsoft's revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 was $92.28 billion, with Azure growing 48%

Microsoft's revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 grew 19% year over year to $92.28 billion, with earnings per share of $4.89, both exceeding Wall Street expectations, and the stock rose about 4% after hours. For the first time, the company separately disclosed Azure revenue of $33.17 billion, up more than 48% year over year, and changed its financial reporting to two major segments, Agents and Infra and Devices and Consumer, with the former generating $76.8 billion in revenue, up 25%. Capital expenditures and finance leases totaled $45.2 billion this quarter, of which CFO Amy Hood said about 75% was invested in short-lived assets such as GPUs and CPUs, and she expects Azure to grow 49% to 50% in constant currency in the second fiscal quarter.

Tencent Connects Multiple Products for AI Agents; WorkBuddy's Token Consumption Surpasses Yuanbao

Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, described WorkBuddy as a personal Agent for the office track and said Tencent is connecting multiple products for AI agents. WorkBuddy was launched in March this year and competes in the same track as ByteDance's Doubao Work and Alibaba's Qwen Office, and its token consumption has already surpassed Tencent's chatbot Yuanbao. WorkBuddy originated from Tencent Cloud's developer tools team and nearly got cut around 2022 when Tencent was cutting costs and improving efficiency.

Microsoft discloses Azure quarterly revenue of $33.2 billion for the first time, up 48% year over year

In its July–September quarterly earnings report, Microsoft disclosed Azure revenue in dollars for the first time at $33.2 billion, up 48% year over year, about $850 million higher than analysts' expectation of $32.3 billion. Alphabet, which reported earnings the same day, said Google Cloud revenue for the same quarter was $30.7 billion, slightly smaller than Azure in scale, but its year-over-year growth rate was about twice that of Azure. Azure accounted for about 36% of Microsoft's total revenue of $92.3 billion for the quarter, and was grouped into the newly created Agents and Infra business segment, which had revenue of $76.8 billion, up 25% year over year.

Tencent Upgrades WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition Open Strategy, Buddy One Connects Office Suite

At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent announced an upgrade to the WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition open strategy, and used Buddy One to connect Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Drive, and ima, sharing the same Agent foundation along with a unified account and credit pool. Dowson Tong disclosed that since its launch in March this year, WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition has been deployed in more than 50 industries, covering 50% of the Fortune 500 China companies and 60% of China's top 100 enterprises, with more than 50,000 open platform partners, over 200,000 Skills listed, and a cumulative 9 billion task requests completed. WorkBuddy enters WeCom as an intelligent robot, with enterprise administrators configuring what content AI can read and what operations it can execute; the observability center launched on October 13 provides real-time observation, session tracking, and trajectory details.

Infisical raises a $40 million Series B at a $600 million valuation to secure AI agent access

Infisical has raised a $40 million Series B at a $600 million valuation, led by Elad Gil with participation from Gradient and Y Combinator. The funds will be used to accelerate product development, expand the engineering and marketing teams, and build security infrastructure for AI agents. Its Agent Vault is currently labeled as a preview version; it uses a forward proxy to attach real credentials when a request is sent, so that secrets do not enter the agent's environment, file system, or model context.

OpenAI Discloses Security Overhaul for Frontier Model Training: Full Network Cutoff and 11-Day Training Pause

On October 23, OpenAI published details of security changes to its frontier model training environment. Frontier model training is no longer allowed to access the real internet; instead, models practice browsing and search in an offline web environment. In red-team experiments, an Agent, under conditions prohibiting network communication and with no shared writable files, used side channels such as CPU caches to exchange information; in another test, an internal research model exploited a DNS filtering gap to contact an external chatbot. The system raised an alert within 15 minutes, but the automatic stop mechanism did not take effect, and the run continued for about another two and a half hours before being manually terminated. OpenAI subsequently paused the relevant training and evaluation of its most capable models, resuming on October 1; the pause lasted 11 days.

DeepSeek Establishes Product Department, Quantitative Trader Cui Tianyi to Coordinate Four Teams Including Harness

On October 16, DeepSeek established a product department, integrating the four teams Harness, Web, App, and Platform, headed by Cui Tianyi, who comes from a quantitative trading background, to coordinate product, design, and R&D. Previously, Guo Daya, a core contributor to R1, left in March 2026 to join ByteDance Seed due to optimism about the Agent direction not being a high priority within DeepSeek. DeepSeek Harness was open-sourced under the MIT license on August 13, and as of mid-October the repository had accumulated about 250,000 GitHub Stars.

Zuckerberg says Meta Muse has over 10 million users, shopping demand so high that Stripe had to raise credit limits

Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on the October 21 earnings call that since launching on September 8, over 10 million users in the US and Canada have created Muse agents, roughly more than double Threads at its start. Muse can browse the web, send emails, and book travel on users' behalf; a quarter of users use it daily, the most common scenario is shopping, average purchase exceeds $200, first-week transaction volume exceeded expectations, and Meta had to work with Stripe to raise credit limits. Meta plans to charge merchants when Muse helps them complete sales; consumer use is free unless more tokens or more advanced models are needed; the CFO said it is working with Shopify, Walmart, and others to develop the Personal Agent Protocol.

MiniMax announces Inferact as the API launch partner for M3.1 Flash

MiniMax announces Inferact as the API launch partner for M3.1 Flash; the latter will provide vLLM engineering capabilities and the Inferact Platform to support production inference for this model. Both parties state that they will continue to jointly build serving infrastructure for complex agent workloads. In a quoted post, Inferact stated that M3.1 Flash is aimed at multi-step automation, real-codebase engineering, and visual reasoning, scoring 29.6 on Agents' Last Exam (ALE), 72.5% on AutomationBench-AA, and 73.67% on DeepSWE.

NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 announces 12 releases, covering AI factories, telecommunications, and enterprise agents

At GTC 2026 in Berlin, NVIDIA announced 12 releases, covering AI factory deployment, semiconductor manufacturing expansion, telecom AI-RAN, enterprise agents, robotics and autonomous driving, as well as new open models for enterprise data, protein design, and quantum computing. On the infrastructure side, the DSX POD modular AI factory reference design is said to shorten deployment time from six months to as little as 14 days, and DSX MaxLPS is said to deliver equivalent AI compute using up to 30% less power, with partners planning to deliver in early 2027. On the telecom side, T-Mobile completed what it calls the world's first AI-RAN call on a commercial network in Bellevue, Washington, with NVIDIA and Nokia, and Elisa completed Europe's first AI-RAN field trial; on the enterprise side, it expanded the open-source Agent Toolkit and introduced the OpenShell reference architecture for monitoring and restricting agent behavior.

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Salesforce Acquires Braze for $5.66 Billion to Strengthen AI Customer Marketing

Salesforce has agreed to acquire customer engagement platform Braze for approximately $5.66 billion. Braze Class A shareholders will receive $47.50 per share in cash, and the deal is expected to close in Salesforce's FY28. Braze's real-time messaging and customer journey management capabilities will be integrated into Salesforce Marketing Cloud, combining with its CRM, Data 360, and Agentforce platforms. Braze currently serves about 2,770 customers, including Canva, Instacart, Urban Outfitters, and Venmo.

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Salesforce Announces $5.66 Billion Acquisition of Marketing Automation Company Braze

Salesforce announced it will acquire marketing automation company Braze for $5.66 billion in cash, or $47.5 per share, a premium of about 58% over Braze's previous closing price. Braze's revenue grew 26% year over year last quarter to $227.2 million; its platform aggregates customer data through more than 190 prebuilt connectors and offers BrazeAI to automatically generate marketing materials and Agentic Standards to set constraints for AI-generated campaigns. Salesforce plans to use its technology to enhance Marketing Cloud's cross-channel personalization capabilities, and the deal is expected to close in its fiscal year 2028.

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The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology plan to add 23 AI technologies, including large models and agents, to the export control catalog

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Joint Announcement No. 48, proposing to add a total of 40 technologies in three major fields—artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and photovoltaics—to the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China. Among them, the 23 AI items cover large models, agents, computing power clusters, and information processing-related technologies, and interim registration management will be implemented immediately before the catalog takes effect. The author's analysis holds that technologies already in the public domain through open source or published papers may be exempted, but parts where only weights are open-sourced while know-how such as training methods and data engineering remains undisclosed are still within the scope of management; agent services such as Manus and Lovart are in principle unaffected, but three structures may trigger registration: deploying the technology stack to overseas servers, exporting Agent technology to overseas entities, or changing control to an overseas entity.

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