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Microsoft has decided to end support for all Copilot features on TVs within this year. A pop-up notification on LG TVs states that the feature is "planned to be discontinued in 2026," with the specific date depending on Microsoft's schedule. LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their new smart TVs would integrate Copilot, allowing users to talk to it, ask about on-screen content, or get movie and TV recommendations. Previously, LG drew user complaints after a webOS update added a non-remova

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The Verge's Decoder podcast invited SemiAnalysis analyst Joey Brookhart to break down the S-1 filed by Anthropic, discussing its potential Nasdaq listing at a valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. Brookhart said Anthropic has achieved over $70 billion in ARR, with inference gross margins turning from negative 94% two years ago to positive 85%, and revenue per megawatt of inference at about $65 million, but revenue is highly concentrated in coding scenarios, and about 70% of compute is used

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Mistral has released the open weights for Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk), a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal model that continues reinforcement learning on top of the preview version, with improved coding and defensive cybersecurity capabilities. It scores 19.7% on FrontierCode 2.0 and 48% on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, roughly on par with GLM-5.3, but uses an average of 47% fewer tokens per task; on Terminal-Bench 4.0 it improves by 13 percentage points to 41%. The model sup

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The US Department of Justice has opened an inquiry into Nvidia's $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, assessing the deal's impact on AI competition, with the core focus being whether the transaction would give Nvidia control of a fundamental distribution point for AI models and software. Nvidia announced the acquisition on September 3, 2026, with consideration including approximately $11.9 billion in cash and up to $1 billion in employee retention equity incentives, and the deal is expect

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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 revenu

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Hugging Face released four talks, a panel discussion, and a Q&A, discussing practical approaches to training Agents in industry, with the core conclusion being that environment, evaluation, and reward design are harder than the model itself. Miles used 64×B300 fully asynchronous training on Terminal Bench 2, and after about 100 steps the reward rose from about 0.44 to 0.56; OpenEnv Arena, after filtering down layer by layer from about 90,000 findable RL environments, had only about 800 relativel

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On October 26, 2026, Anthropic submitted an S-1 to the SEC, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT," with an IPO valuation potentially exceeding $2 trillion. OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra the same day, priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens on the standard API, completing tasks more than three times faster than the flagship GPT-6 Astra. Google DeepMind launched a research preview of its world model Genie 4, achieving synchronized audio and video generati

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On October 27, 2026, Invesco announced a partnership with Anthropic to bring portfolio intelligence and practice management resources into Claude for Financial Advisors through the new Invesco connector. Advisors using Invesco Model Portfolios can access portfolio information directly in Claude and call on its proprietary practice management research. The connector is an extension of the Claude for Financial Advisors suite that Anthropic launched on September 14, 2026, when Invesco was already l

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Avante has completed a $30 million Series A funding round led by Frist Cressey Ventures, bringing total funding to $40 million, with the funds to be used for global expansion and agent platform development. The company has launched a beta version of Ava Agents that runs in the background and outputs for teams to review, and says it has more than 70 customer accounts within 18 months of launch, with the platform covering more than 385,000 employees and dependents. Its technology calls models from

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Apple has unveiled the all-new MacBook Pro, bringing the PROLED XDR display and touch operation to the Mac for the first time, available in 14-inch and 16-inch models. The new display uses tandem OLED technology, reaching peak HDR and SDR brightness of 2000 nits, a contrast ratio of 10000000:1, and support for a 120Hz variable refresh rate. The new machines are powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with up to 128GB of unified memory and 16TB of storage, battery life of up to 24 hours, pre-orders o

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Microsoft AI has released the image editing model MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, which ranks second on Artificial Analysis's AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard, behind only OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). The model outperforms MAI-Image-2.6 on all 7 evaluated editing actions, with the largest improvement in composition and framing (+57 Elo), followed by text or symbol editing +49 and scene and style editing +48, and it ranks first in 4 categories: scene and style editing, text or symbol editing, r

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Opera announced that its WebAI local AI capability has entered early preview in Opera One, Opera GX, and Opera Neon, supporting the Prompt, Decision, and Semantic Embeddings APIs, allowing developers to call various models directly within the browser, including open-weight models, without installing or configuring AI applications. Opera also provided six experimental extension examples, such as Project Lens, which colors article paragraphs by project relevance, and Got It?, which generates quest

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Anthropic has released Claude for Financial Advisors, connecting data from custodians, asset management and wealthtech platforms into Claude, and providing skills tailored to financial advisors' daily work. The suite includes connectors such as Addepar, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, Envestnet, FactSet, Orion and Wealthbox, as well as skills for meeting preparation, portfolio rebalancing review, post-meeting notes and follow-up, and compliance and AI policy checks; regulated steps such as investment

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Apple launched the new iPad mini ahead of its Mac event, featuring an 8.5-inch OLED display and A20 Pro chip, starting at $699, $100 more than the previous generation. Apple says the A20 Pro is 60% faster at multitasking and delivers 4.5x better AI performance, used to run Siri AI; the body is 5.4mm thick and weighs 255g, about 13% lighter than the previous generation. According to Bloomberg, Apple will also release its first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro this week, equipped with M5 Pro and M5 Ma

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