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Ben's Bites author Ben Tossell published a post reflecting on his struggle of being overwhelmed by AI tools and multiple agents and repeatedly overturning his direction, and announced that for the next 30 days he will only use agents for things he finds interesting, will not introduce new tools that don't solve real pain points, will not summarize long articles, and will not do things for the sake of making money. He also mentioned that Google released Gemini 4 Carbon and the world model Genie 4

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Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model aimed at cybersecurity and long-horizon coding tasks, topping 15 of Google's own 17 benchmarks, but it has not yet been made public and is available only to some cybersecurity defenders. It scores 59 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, surpassing Claude Opus 5.5 and up 9 points from Argon four weeks ago; on long-input reasoning it leads OpenAI Astra and Opus by 24 points. The introductory API price is $2 per million input tokens and $

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The 2026 Li Auto i6 has launched, with an official price of 249,800 yuan, unchanged from the 2025 model, and a first-sale-period benefit price of 239,800 yuan. It switches to a 96kWh self-developed Lianshan 5C ultra-fast-charging battery, a self-developed Mach M100 smart-driving chip, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8797 cockpit chip. CLTC range for the rear-wheel-drive version rises from 720 km to 780 km, and for the all-wheel-drive version from 660 km to 710 km, and it debuts Mach VLA 2.5. Li Xiang

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ElevenLabs has released its next-generation sound effects model SFX v3, now live on ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI. According to the company, in benchmark tests it handles prompts describing multiple sounds more reliably than SFX v2, generates music and voices more convincingly, and produces less noise in sound effects such as gongs, bells, and whistles. Users can generate sound effects via text prompts in Flows, the Sound Effects tab, Studio, and Music Editor, and developers can access it through

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At Alphabet's Q3 earnings call, Google announced it would expand ads in AI Mode to international markets and launch multi-turn conversational ads. Alphabet's quarterly revenue was $127.6 billion, up 25% year over year, but search ad revenue growth slowed from 19% in Q1 and 17% in Q2 to 12%, and the stock fell 8% after the earnings report. Google says the click-through rate on sponsored product listings in AI Mode is now comparable to organic results, and the average AI Mode query is 3 times long

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ElevenLabs has released a guide introducing the use cases and benefits of conversational AI in banking: NLP-based agents can handle routine inquiries, identity verification, and payment disputes 24/7, escalating to a human agent only when they cannot resolve the issue or when the customer requests it. The article compares the differences between IVR, rule-based chatbots, and conversational AI agents, and lists high-value scenarios such as account opening, repayment reminders, dispute intake, and

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Google DeepMind has released the Genie 4 world model as a research preview to trusted testers; it can generate explorable worlds in real time from text and image prompts, and natively generate ambient sound, music, and character dialogue. The model introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash as a planner within the simulation loop, responsible for breaking down goals, inspecting frames, and replanning, which DeepMind calls an early step toward hybrid world models. Genie 4 is hosted only on Google's platform and

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A beauty company's FDE implementation project processes text, image, audio, and video data collected from Xiaohongshu, Douyin, WeChat Channels, and Weibo through eight steps: defining data specifications, preserving original content, mapping data relationships, multimodal normalization, conflict and quality cleaning, generating structured data, performing acceptance checks, and ingesting according to rules and versions. The original article emphasizes that cleaning results must not overwrite the

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At CNCC 2026, Tianjin University's Zhang Changqing presented the report "Generalized Multimodal Fusion Technology," introducing the team's research on multimodal representation, dynamic trustworthy fusion, and the general-purpose prediction foundation model Fusion Anything Model (FAM). The TMC method uses evidence theory to estimate uncertainty, raising crystal structure recognition accuracy from about 58%–59% to around 93.9%. FAM was tested on 18 real-world datasets, 12 modalities, and 11 types

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Liu Rui, the first director of Huawei's Xiaoyi Large Model Application Lab, proposed that AI assistants must move beyond the chat box and shift from passive response to proactive service. The conversational photo-editing technology he previously failed to get approved as a project at SenseTime has already been unveiled at the 2025 Huawei Mate 80 launch event. The lab has also launched the Aura streaming video understanding model, which supports real-time video interaction and proactive service,

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Jio Platforms has launched India's largest-ever IPO, planning to issue up to 27 crore new shares, representing about 2.93% of post-issue share capital, with RIL's stake to be diluted from 66.43% to about 64.4%. Meta affiliate Jaadhu Holdings holds a 9.98% stake, and Google International holds 7.73%. As of June, the company had cumulatively filed 7,220 patent applications, of which 1,043 were granted; in FY26, 11 subsidiaries were loss-making, rising to 15 in Q1 FY27, with a combined loss after t

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Aidan Gomez shares the results of ada cx using Cohere Embed on Model Vault: median retrieval latency of 77 ms, 2.7x higher throughput per dollar for offline embedding, 4x smaller vector storage footprint with no significant drop in retrieval quality, and a top-10 recall rate of 90.7%.

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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, Liquid AI released the LFM3 series. All six 2B-parameter-class open-weight models branch from the same LFM3-1.7B-Base, covering text, vision, audio, omni-modal, and decision models. LFM3-1.7B has 1.73B parameters, a 256K token context, supports 16 languages, and adopts a Tri-Hybrid architecture with 13 layers of gated short convolutions, 5 layers of sliding-window attention, and 6 layers of global attention. It is available under the LFM Open License v1.0 on Hugging Face, the Liqu

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Brilliant Labs has launched the $399 Halo smart glasses, built around the Noa assistant and an adaptive game called Narrative, divided into three experience categories: Ask, Make, and Play. The hardware includes a full-color microOLED display, dual microphones, a bone conduction speaker, and Bluetooth 5.3, weighs slightly over 40 grams, and the company claims up to 14 hours of battery life, powered by the Alif Balletto B1 processor and Ethos-U55 NPU. Noa and miniapps include daily usage limits;

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Geely Automobile's Q3 2026 revenue reached 99 billion yuan, up 10% year-on-year, and core net profit attributable to parent was 5.21 billion yuan, up 32% year-on-year, with both single-quarter revenue and core profit hitting new highs for the same period. In the first three quarters, total sales exceeded 2.235 million vehicles, total revenue was 272.6 billion yuan, and core net profit attributable to parent was 14.9 billion yuan, while overseas sales surged 169% year-on-year to 798,000 vehicles.

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In the heise bestenlisten Robot Vacuum Top 10 ranking, the Roborock Saros 20 Sonic was rated the test winner, featuring 36,000 Pa suction power, 4,000 vibrations/minute mopping, an ultra-slim 7.98 cm body and obstacle-climbing capability of up to 8.8 cm, currently priced at around 920 euros. The Dreame Matrix 10 Ultra ranks second; it is the first model to support automatic mop pad replacement and comes with three-compartment detergent dispensing, currently priced at 689 euros. The Ecovacs Deebo

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