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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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Info Edge announced its Q2 FY2026 results, with net profit up 87% year-on-year to Rs 649.8 million and revenue up 12% to Rs 903.9 million. AI and data products for recruiters and job seekers already account for a high single-digit share of recruitment business revenue, with annualized revenue of about Rs 240 million calculated on a Q2 basis. The company also announced that founder Sanjeev Bikhchandani will take over as Executive Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Group CEO on December 3, 2026,

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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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Alphabet reported adjusted earnings per share of $2.67 and revenue of $127.58 billion for the third quarter, both below Wall Street expectations, sending shares down more than 12% on the day and wiping out over $500 billion in market value. The company's free cash flow was negative $9.07 billion, far below analysts' expectation of $2.7 billion, while capital expenditures of $51.36 billion also came in below expectations. CFO Anat Ashkenazi maintained full-year capital expenditure guidance of $19

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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%

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South Korean inference chip startup FuriosaAI has completed a $620 million funding round at a valuation of $2.9 billion, led by the Korea National Growth Fund with a $280 million investment. The company says its TCP chip, based on the RNGD architecture, consumes less than half the power of Nvidia GPUs and is compatible with PyTorch and vLLM; this round of funding will be used to expand production capacity for its next-generation TCP chips, with plans to produce 20,000 units this year and double

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The Guardian interviewed several San Francisco startups, describing the actual experience after AI agents took over tasks such as scheduling, coding, marketing, and recruiting as "colleagues." Anything has 15 human employees and about 150 agents; Lindy cut one-third of its staff and used agents to fill the roles; a McKinsey survey shows that about 40% of large organizations used AI agents in some form between May 2025 and June 2026. Employees report spending large amounts of time correcting agen

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Two weeks after the release of Argon, Google announced its next-generation frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon, claiming significant improvements in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity defense. Carbon ranks first with 59 points on the updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, and rose 89 elo to 1769 points on WebDev Arena, ranking fourth. On safety, Google says Carbon reduces unsupported claims by about 2x compared with Argon, reduces excessive overreach behavior by 26%, and reduces u

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Mistral AI released the open weights of Mistral Large 4 (codename Le Chonk) on Hugging Face on October 29. The model has 100 billion parameters out of a total parameter scale of the 100-billion class, with about 4.9 billion parameters actually invoked per token, using a MoE architecture with 128 experts, of which 4 are activated each time plus 1 shared expert. Compared with the October 6 preview version, Mistral says it continued reinforcement learning over three weeks, raising the Terminal-Benc

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Apple released the new MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR display, its first Mac to support touch, and macOS has adjusted interface controls for finger input. When a finger moves over a menu bar item, that item enlarges; the window's red-yellow-green buttons also grow larger when touched, and swiping up from the bottom of the screen brings up the hidden Dock. The former notch area has been changed to the Dynamic Island, which hosts Spotlight, Live Activities, and Siri AI, and can be pulled down to ex

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Apple launches touch-enabled MacBook Pro, with the 14-inch model starting at $2,899 and the 16-inch model starting at $3,399, going on sale November 6. The new machines are equipped with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, up to 128GB of unified memory and 16TB of storage, and Apple says the M5 Max can run large language models with hundreds of billions of parameters entirely on-device. Touch functionality is integrated into macOS 27, with touch sensors built into the display panel, and apps such as Word,

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Factory releases Droid 1.0, the largest update yet to its agent framework, enabling programmatic tool calling (PTC) by default, which lets the model write JavaScript scripts to execute hundreds of tool calls within a single request in a sandbox. On Terminal-Bench 4, when paired with GPT-6.1 Sol, Droid scores 3.5 points higher than Codex at 12% lower cost; when paired with Claude Opus 5.5, it scores 3.0 to 7.6 points higher than Cursor, OpenCode, Devin, and Claude Code, at up to 24% lower cost. D

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Replit has launched Agent Habitat, allowing agents to access enterprise knowledge and systems within boundaries the company can control, building security governance around four principles: least privilege, fault isolation, auditable production changes, and traceable delegated work. Its credential broker retrieves credentials from the vault and injects them only after each request is authorized, so credentials never enter the agent's context; enterprise connector management supports SAML SSO, SC

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On The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, Titus Winters looked back at Google's 2010 large-scale refactoring of 250M+ lines of C++ code, which was maintained by 10,000 engineers at the time; the team completed it in seven steps—parsing, matching, code generation, coexistence of old and new APIs, sharding, banning old patterns, and deleting old APIs—all well before the LLM era. He also discussed how Google, because Search could not be released monthly, mandated that every change come with tests, and how

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At the Android Dev Summit, Google launched the Bring Your Own Agent feature for Android Studio Rabbit 2. Through the open Agent Client Protocol, developers can run more than 40 coding agents simultaneously within the IDE, including Claude Agent, Codex, and Google Antigravity, with direct access to project structure, the emulator, and Logcat. Google says that in internal tests, after agents rendered Compose previews in the terminal, they completed UI tasks 77% faster and cut token usage to as lit

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On October 28 local time in the US, XREAL opened overseas orders for the XREAL AURA, the world's first Android XR wired glasses, at a limited-time starting price of $1,099, with the first batch expected to ship in mid-November. Tencent and Visa signed a memorandum of cooperation, planning to deepen collaboration in areas such as cross-border payments, cross-border remittances, enterprise-grade AI, and AI agent commerce. Tencent also released Buddy One, a cross-application AI collaboration system

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After Alphabet announced its third-quarter earnings, its stock price fell sharply for two consecutive days, and its market value evaporated by about $500 billion. Net profit for the quarter fell 25% year over year to $26.2 billion, or $2.12 per share, below FactSet analysts' expectations; revenue rose 25% to $127.6 billion, and advertising revenue rose 11% to $82 billion. Google Cloud revenue rose 103% to $30.7 billion, and the company said sales of its self-developed TPU chips contributed signi

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Microsoft Research Focus Issue 97 presents several research advances: the self-improving agent framework ForkPilot achieves state-of-the-art performance on six benchmarks and mainstream AI models while reducing AI processing overhead by up to 59%. The CABRA framework finds that coding agents, although able to solve coding problems with the help of tools, still struggle when understanding unfamiliar codebases. An analysis of Copilot Chat activity shows that document editing accounts for more than

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