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Google releases its new-generation frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon, just two weeks after the release of Argon. The model ranks first with 59 points on the updated ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index v5.0, and achieved scores of SEC-bench Pro 88.2%, ExploitGym 54.8%, and CWE-bench 71.0% in cybersecurity evaluations. Compared with Argon, Carbon shows significant improvement on long-horizon tasks, and frontier safety safeguards have also been strengthened; starting this week, it will first be opened

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Xreal Aura, the Android XR glasses developed by Xreal in collaboration with Google, is now on sale in the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea. The 12GB+256GB version costs $1,279 and the 16GB+512GB version $1,499, with promotional prices of $1,099 and $1,299 before the end of the year; shipping begins in mid-November. It weighs about 95 grams and uses a split architecture that puts the main computing unit and battery in a wired pocket host. It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Reality Elite chip

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Google releases the new model Gemini 4 Carbon, replacing Argon, which was launched four weeks ago; initially it is available only to U.S. intelligence agencies and cyber defenders selected through the Fairwind program. Google says Carbon improved from Argon's 42% to nearly 55% on the Exploitgym benchmark, leads GPT-6 Astra with about 88% on SEC-bench Pro, and reaches 71% on CWE-bench. Pricing is $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, with a 50% discount initially, and pub

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Police in Oulu, Finland, have launched a criminal investigation into suspected violations of environmental regulations in the construction of a Google data center. The Muhos site is accused of excessive tree felling and deficiencies in drainage and water management. Google subsidiary Tuike Finland has been ordered by the regulatory authority LVV to stop felling, earthworks and blasting, and must submit a water management plan by next week. Google plans to invest at least 13 billion euros in Finl

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Alphabet reported third-quarter revenue up 25% year-over-year to $127.6 billion, with operating profit of $40.6 billion and an operating margin of 31.8%. Google Cloud revenue rose from $15.2 billion in the same period last year to $30.7 billion, with backlog reaching $561 billion; search and other advertising revenue grew 12% to $63.4 billion, slowing from 17% and 19% in the previous two quarters. The Gemini app surpassed 1 billion users, the first-party model API processes nearly 32 billion tok

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On October 28, Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, calling it its most powerful AI model to date, with a focus on improving cybersecurity and coding capabilities; it can identify software vulnerabilities, assess security risks, and generate remediation code. The model scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym, and 71.0% on CWE-bench, and Google says these external security evaluations were run without guardrails. Carbon builds on Gemini 4 Argon, released two weeks earlier, and is initially

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On October 28, 2026, Google released the new model Gemini 4 Carbon, which improves coding and tool-calling capabilities over Gemini 4 Argon and strengthens cybersecurity defense capabilities spanning from vulnerability discovery and exploitability validation to remediation. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, Carbon scored 59, ranking first, while Argon scored 50; on Terminal-Bench 4.0, the cheating success rate was 0.0% and the attempted cheating rate was 0.4%. That week, the mo

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At Android Dev Summit 2026, Google announced that multiple core Android XR development tools have ended their preview phase and entered stable release, including the Jetpack XR SDK core libraries, the Android XR Emulator, and the Android XR Engine Hub. Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and the XR Runtime core libraries provide official product development APIs and support long-term interface stability and backward compatibility; the emulator allows development and debugging for XR glasse

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At the Android Dev Summit, Google announced that Android Studio and the Android CLI are open to third-party coding agents. Bring Your Own Agent now supports more than 40 agents that follow the Agent Client Protocol, including Claude Agent, Codex, and Google's own Antigravity, and has become stable in Android Studio Rabbit 2. The new android preview command lets agents render Jetpack Compose previews in the terminal; Google says it completes UI tasks 77% faster and reduces token usage by up to th

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Google has released the frontier large language model Gemini 4 Carbon, focused on complex programming and cybersecurity tasks. Google says internal testing shows its ability to generate secure code is more than twice that of the previous generation, that it surpasses the previous record on SEC-bench Pro, and that it can better patch discovered vulnerabilities; in Terminal-Bench 4.0, only 0.4% of problems involved attempted cheating, and none succeeded, while in the Gray Swan IPI Benchmark it blo

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Google DeepMind has released the paper "The Economics of Intelligence," proposing the use of two thresholds—competence (single-task capability) and coordination (agent collaboration capability)—to characterize AGI's impact on the economy. The authors argue that AI has already shown changes in leaner startups, flatter organizational structures, and slower hiring for some entry-level positions, but that mass unemployment has not yet occurred; most benchmarks test only a single model, whereas firms

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On October 29, 2026, Google added the ability to directly create, preview, and edit files to the Gemini app and web version, supporting documents (text, Markdown, LaTeX), PDFs, presentations, and spreadsheets. Users can select content and ask Gemini to modify text or visual elements, and can continue asking follow-up questions to make adjustments. Generated files can be downloaded in their original format, opened in apps such as Google Slides, or uploaded to Google Drive via the export button in

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After Alphabet announced its third-quarter financial results, its stock price fell nearly 10%. The company disclosed that revenue generated by AI search is lower than that of traditional search, even though overall search business revenue grew 12% year-over-year to $63.25 billion. Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said the slowdown in search business growth stems from the lower monetization capability of AI Mode. Company spending for the quarter reached $51.4 billion, about two-thirds of

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Google Gemini now allows users to generate and edit documents within the chat window; they can expand to a full-screen view for manual edits, or return to the conversation and let Gemini continue making adjustments. Chat-window editing for documents, PDFs, presentations, and spreadsheets is now available on the web and mobile, while editing for Google Docs, Google Sheets, Markdown, TXT, slides, and code is available only in the Gemini web app. Google also announced that Gemini can generate PDF s

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After the initial US test, ads in Google Search's AI Mode are being added in 10 new markets: Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Singapore, and US users will also see so-called "multi-turn ads" in follow-up questions. Google says research shows users are relatively receptive to ads in AI Mode, that click-through rates for sponsored and organic product listing items are already similar, and stresses that these ads do not affect Google AI'

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On October 22, 2026, Google announced the open-sourcing of the Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) plugin, which pairs Elephant, responsible for conversing with users and writing design documents, with Goldfish, which independently verifies the documents without inheriting the conversation history, to identify ambiguities and omissions in specifications. The plugin was first developed internally at Google for software engineers, and it is said that thousands of employees already use it daily to develo

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