Google has released its latest model, Gemini 4 Argon, saying it is aimed at complex real-world tasks and can perform reasoning, coding, and coordinate tools. The company provided 8 examples, including writing 5,000 lines of mathematical code from scratch with zero source material to render a 3D sunlit library, and, in Antigravity, processing more than 80,000 raw files from a NASA Mars mission and generating executive briefing slides.
Google has released the preview version of the Connected Apps Platform, where developers can build and manage Connected Apps for Search and Gemini applications on the same platform. Developers complete integration through a cloud-hosted MCP server or Android MCP combined with AppFunctions APIs, then use the Google Connected Console to register, test, and submit, and choose to launch on Search, Gemini, or both; after launch, they can view traffic, latency, and error rates. Google says Search and Gemini already have more than 50 Connected Apps, with integrations from Adobe, Experian, Localiza, and Peloton already live on Gemini and set to arrive in Search in the coming weeks, while Calm's integration will also launch on both.
Google has released the preview version of the Connected Apps Platform, where developers can build and manage Connected Apps for Search and Gemini applications on the same platform. Developers complete integration through a cloud-hosted MCP server or Android MCP combined with AppFunctions APIs, then use the Google Connected Console to register, test, and submit, and choose to launch on Search, Gemini, or both; after launch, they can view traffic, latency, and error rates. Google says Search and
Google and XREAL have launched the XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR. Orders open today in the United States, Canada, and South Korea, with sales in Japan starting November 2, at a starting price of $1,099. The glasses weigh less than 95 grams, use transparent lenses and a 70-degree field of view to project apps into the user's field of view, and offload heavy computing to a portable computing puck connected by cable; the puck is powered by the debut Qualcomm Snapdragon Reality Elite platform. Users can open multiple apps at once and pair them with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, or connect a laptop screen as a window via USB-C wired mirroring, and Gemini can provide assistance based on the content in the field of view and on the screen.
Google and XREAL have launched the XREAL AURA, the first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR. Orders open today in the United States, Canada, and South Korea, with sales in Japan starting November 2, at a starting price of $1,099. The glasses weigh less than 95 grams, use transparent lenses and a 70-degree field of view to project apps into the user's field of view, and offload heavy computing to a portable computing puck connected by cable; the puck is powered by the debut Qualcomm Snapdrago
IDC partnered with Anthropic to connect IDC Quanta to Claude through an MCP connector, enabling customers to directly access IDC's forecasts, market data, and research within the Claude app, Cowork, and the Microsoft Office add-in, generating cited analyses based on more than 15 billion data points. IDC is also rolling out Claude company-wide: engineers used Claude Code to cut the rebuild of an internal data warehouse from an estimated three months to three weeks, reduce code reviews from five days to about 30 minutes, and shorten planning sprints from three weeks to three days.
IDC partnered with Anthropic to connect IDC Quanta to Claude through an MCP connector, enabling customers to directly access IDC's forecasts, market data, and research within the Claude app, Cowork, and the Microsoft Office add-in, generating cited analyses based on more than 15 billion data points. IDC is also rolling out Claude company-wide: engineers used Claude Code to cut the rebuild of an internal data warehouse from an estimated three months to three weeks, reduce code reviews from five d
Alphabet's Q3 2026 revenue grew 25% year-over-year, with annualized revenue reaching $500 billion, and Google Cloud revenue up 103%. CEO Sundar Pichai said first-party model APIs process nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, 40% more than last quarter; the Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google's history. A new model in the Gemini 4 series, Carbon, was also released that day; it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59, will first be made available to select trusted cybersecurity defenders, and is being tested by the U.S. government.
Alphabet's Q3 2026 revenue grew 25% year-over-year, with annualized revenue reaching $500 billion, and Google Cloud revenue up 103%. CEO Sundar Pichai said first-party model APIs process nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, 40% more than last quarter; the Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google's history. A new model in the Gemini 4 series, Carbon, was also released that day; it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score
Claude Enterprise has officially rolled out three features: intelligent reports, in-app surveys, and team shared budgets. Intelligent reports analyze samples of team conversations, categorize them by workflow, and provide cost and improvement suggestions; team leads can also run reports for their own groups. In-app surveys collect member feedback in the form of short cards, and administrators can customize questions and export results. All three features are now generally available for Claude Enterprise.
Claude Enterprise has officially rolled out three features: intelligent reports, in-app surveys, and team shared budgets. Intelligent reports analyze samples of team conversations, categorize them by workflow, and provide cost and improvement suggestions; team leads can also run reports for their own groups. In-app surveys collect member feedback in the form of short cards, and administrators can customize questions and export results. All three features are now generally available for Claude En
Anthropic has launched directly usable legal artifacts for Claude for Legal; teams can adapt them with their own data and connectors and share them across departments. The legal gallery covers tasks such as contract review, regulatory change tracking, and business legal requests; each artifact comes with examples, and all outputs include source links. Since launching in May, more than 60 legal connectors have been added, including Bloomberg Law, Filevine, Ivo, Legora, and Patlytics.
Anthropic has released the Claude for Nonprofits plugin, built together with about 30 nonprofit organizations, covering operational work such as fundraising, marketing, and hiring. More than 25,000 nonprofit organizations already use Claude, and more than 75% of them have fewer than 10 seats. Anthropic also plans to expand the Claude Corps program through a partnership with Taproot.
15 Google Student Ambassadors shared the Gemini features they use most, including Study notebooks, which turn course materials into personalized short lessons; Gemini Live, for practicing interviews by voice; Guided Learning, for guided study; and generating study guides and custom quizzes. The student plan offers unlimited uploads of class materials, study notes, and images, and Audio Overviews can turn documents and slides into podcast-style conversations, making it easy to review on the way across campus.
15 Google Student Ambassadors shared the Gemini features they use most, including Study notebooks, which turn course materials into personalized short lessons; Gemini Live, for practicing interviews by voice; Guided Learning, for guided study; and generating study guides and custom quizzes. The student plan offers unlimited uploads of class materials, study notes, and images, and Audio Overviews can turn documents and slides into podcast-style conversations, making it easy to review on the way a
Google Research and the Stanford Learning Accelerator have launched Polar Peaks, the third course in the AI Quests series, aimed at students aged 11 to 14, letting them play the role of researchers scanning and mapping brain neurons, practicing data cleaning and model testing, and understanding that AI requires human oversight. The course was inspired by Google's more than a decade of connectomics research; AI Quests has completed over 400,000 quests in total and has been localized into 10 languages, and a companion teacher training module will launch next month.
Google Research and the Stanford Learning Accelerator have launched Polar Peaks, the third course in the AI Quests series, aimed at students aged 11 to 14, letting them play the role of researchers scanning and mapping brain neurons, practicing data cleaning and model testing, and understanding that AI requires human oversight. The course was inspired by Google's more than a decade of connectomics research; AI Quests has completed over 400,000 quests in total and has been localized into 10 langu
Google's partnership with Ignite Energy Access achieved more than 160 kT CO2e in emissions reductions in the first half of 2026, and has delivered 3.7 million solar devices in sub-Saharan Africa since 2023. The two parties use satellite imagery, the Open Buildings dataset and smart routing algorithms to locate remote households without addresses, and use a computer vision model fine-tuned on Gemini for Science to identify individual rooftop solar panels from space. The partnership has now expanded to modeling microgrids for rural households to support clean electric cooking solutions.
Google's partnership with Ignite Energy Access achieved more than 160 kT CO2e in emissions reductions in the first half of 2026, and has delivered 3.7 million solar devices in sub-Saharan Africa since 2023. The two parties use satellite imagery, the Open Buildings dataset and smart routing algorithms to locate remote households without addresses, and use a computer vision model fine-tuned on Gemini for Science to identify individual rooftop solar panels from space. The partnership has now expand
Google has partnered with USO to deploy HP Dimension 3D video communication devices powered by Google Beam to 20 USO sites worldwide, helping service members stationed abroad stay connected with their families through lifelike 3D video. The technology captures body language and eye contact in real time; it was previously piloted between Trzebień, Poland and Fort Bliss, Texas, and is now expanding to Grafenwöhr, Germany and Fort Hood, Texas. Google has also released a documentary directed by veteran Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, chronicling the reunion stories of four military families.
Google has partnered with USO to deploy HP Dimension 3D video communication devices powered by Google Beam to 20 USO sites worldwide, helping service members stationed abroad stay connected with their families through lifelike 3D video. The technology captures body language and eye contact in real time; it was previously piloted between Trzebień, Poland and Fort Bliss, Texas, and is now expanding to Grafenwöhr, Germany and Fort Hood, Texas. Google has also released a documentary directed by vete
Anthropic releases the research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent that runs continuously on a cloud computer, can read the inbox, draft replies, book appointments, and execute routines after you leave. Before sending sensitive messages, making payments, or deleting content, it displays the action, target, and content and waits for approval; operations such as securities trading and transfers between accounts are not permitted even with approval. A newly added safety classifier divides information into two levels: never share and share with consent; passwords, browser cookies, and login tokens do not pass through the model, and the browser runs in a separate virtual machine.
Anthropic releases the research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent that runs continuously on a cloud computer, can read the inbox, draft replies, book appointments, and execute routines after you leave. Before sending sensitive messages, making payments, or deleting content, it displays the action, target, and content and waits for approval; operations such as securities trading and transfers between accounts are not permitted even with approval. A newly added safety classifier divides in
Anthropic announced that the Claude Enterprise plan officially launches a unified Claude experience, merging chat and Cowork across web, desktop, and mobile, so teams can ask questions or deliver complete projects within the same conversation. Agent tasks run in Anthropic-hosted cloud environments, with each session using a separate virtual machine, network egress disabled by default, and connector credentials stored outside the sandbox. Administrators can control access by role and use the new Efficient mode to limit the experience to Sonnet and Haiku models, while also supporting spending limits at the organization, group, and member levels.
Anthropic announced that the Claude Enterprise plan officially launches a unified Claude experience, merging chat and Cowork across web, desktop, and mobile, so teams can ask questions or deliver complete projects within the same conversation. Agent tasks run in Anthropic-hosted cloud environments, with each session using a separate virtual machine, network egress disabled by default, and connector credentials stored outside the sandbox. Administrators can control access by role and use the new
Google releases new frontier model Gemini 4 Argon, stating it performs outstandingly on complex tasks such as coding, mathematics, and 3D world building, and surpasses other frontier models on benchmarks across multiple domains. The official showcase features 5 community projects, including a 3D Earth that maps wildfires and seismic activity in real time, a turbofan engine simulation with real-time data, a 3D carriage generated from a single image, and a multiplayer capture-the-flag browser game. The model has been widely available since last week.
Google releases new frontier model Gemini 4 Argon, stating it performs outstandingly on complex tasks such as coding, mathematics, and 3D world building, and surpasses other frontier models on benchmarks across multiple domains. The official showcase features 5 community projects, including a 3D Earth that maps wildfires and seismic activity in real time, a turbofan engine simulation with real-time data, a 3D carriage generated from a single image, and a multiplayer capture-the-flag browser game
Automakers building humanoid robots aim to incubate new businesses using the funding, real factory tasks, and supply chain capabilities of their automotive operations—first validating them in manufacturing and store scenarios, then pursuing external customers. Tesla's Optimus has already begun production at the Fremont factory, with external delivery targets still around the end of 2027, and plans to build 10,000 to 20,000 units for training; Figure 02 has accumulated more than 1,250 hours of operation at BMW's factory, and a forearm failure prompted a wrist structure change in the third generation. Hyundai controls Boston Dynamics, XPeng develops IRON in-house, and Mojia leverages Chery's channels—the approaches differ, but whether internal trials can translate into sustained paying external customers remains to be verified.
Automakers building humanoid robots aim to incubate new businesses using the funding, real factory tasks, and supply chain capabilities of their automotive operations—first validating them in manufacturing and store scenarios, then pursuing external customers. Tesla's Optimus has already begun production at the Fremont factory, with external delivery targets still around the end of 2027, and plans to build 10,000 to 20,000 units for training; Figure 02 has accumulated more than 1,250 hours of op
Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic-hosted) is now generally available. Google Cloud customers can use the full Claude Platform capabilities with their existing IAM credentials, billing, and committed use discounts, and new features and betas launch on the same day as the native Claude Platform. This version supports Claude Managed Agents (beta), code execution, computer use, Agent skills, MCP connector, Prompt caching, and other capabilities, and provides Claude Console; Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5 are already available, and Claude Opus 5.5's Fast Mode delivers up to 2.5x faster output speed, with input and output pricing at $8 and $40 per million tokens. Anthropic operates this service as the data processor and currently offers US and global endpoints; customers who require Google as the data processor or have regional data residency requirements can still choose the Google-hosted version.
Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic-hosted) is now generally available. Google Cloud customers can use the full Claude Platform capabilities with their existing IAM credentials, billing, and committed use discounts, and new features and betas launch on the same day as the native Claude Platform. This version supports Claude Managed Agents (beta), code execution, computer use, Agent skills, MCP connector, Prompt caching, and other capabilities, and provides Claude Console; Claude Fable 5.1,
In comparisons across multiple enterprise deployments, Anthropic's Applied AI team found that a single agent with skills often outperforms subagent architectures in quality, with lower per-task cost and latency, and presents a migration method for folding subagents into the main loop. The article notes that subagents remain suitable for scenarios where context bloat degrades performance, independent tasks need to be processed in parallel, or tool selection conflicts with instructions, and recommends first treating subagents as tool calls, then converting them one by one into skills and MCP tools, using end-to-end evaluations to compare performance before and after. The article mentions that Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models has been reduced by over 80%, accompanied by Claude API skills such as build-eval, prompt-audit, hillclimb, and cost-optimize.
In comparisons across multiple enterprise deployments, Anthropic's Applied AI team found that a single agent with skills often outperforms subagent architectures in quality, with lower per-task cost and latency, and presents a migration method for folding subagents into the main loop. The article notes that subagents remain suitable for scenarios where context bloat degrades performance, independent tasks need to be processed in parallel, or tool selection conflicts with instructions, and recomm
Anthropic has opened the Claude Duet research preview, an agentic app built on Claude Opus 5.5 that can proactively advance tasks. It is now available on iOS, Android, and claude.ai for Pro and Max users in the United States, who must join a waitlist. Every morning it pushes a cross-app highlights briefing, and it can continuously execute tasks in the background; it requires user approval before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting, and securities trading and transfers between accounts are not permitted even with approval. Claude Duet can invoke more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, and it follows the credential-handling approach of Claude Managed Agents, never directly touching users' passwords or login tokens.
Anthropic has opened the Claude Duet research preview, an agentic app built on Claude Opus 5.5 that can proactively advance tasks. It is now available on iOS, Android, and claude.ai for Pro and Max users in the United States, who must join a waitlist. Every morning it pushes a cross-app highlights briefing, and it can continuously execute tasks in the background; it requires user approval before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting, and securities trading and transfe
Artist Prune Nourry, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, used Google generative AI and image editing models to reconstruct the lost workshops of 19th-century Parisian women sculptors such as Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Jane Poupelet, and Camille Claudel, and built a custom tool based on Gemini to generate walkable 3D models from archival photographs. The project is accompanied by a 10-minute documentary honoring 18 women sculptors overlooked by art history. The "Visionaries" exhibition will be on view at the Petit Palais in Paris from October 20, 2026, to January 30, 2027.
Artist Prune Nourry, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, used Google generative AI and image editing models to reconstruct the lost workshops of 19th-century Parisian women sculptors such as Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Jane Poupelet, and Camille Claudel, and built a custom tool based on Gemini to generate walkable 3D models from archival photographs. The project is accompanied by a 10-minute documentary honoring 18 women sculptors overlooked by art history. The "Visionaries" exhibition wil
