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Friday1453 items

  1. Leikeji
    AI score31

    AI glasses diverge in 2026: what should you look for when buying smart glasses during Double 11?

    In the second quarter of 2026, China's smart glasses shipments fell 8% year-on-year, the first negative growth, but AI camera glasses grew 81.4% year-on-year and AR/XR glasses grew 123%, while audio-only glasses cooled due to homogenization. The article provides buying criteria for three scenarios—AI glasses with displays, AI camera glasses, and AR movie-viewing glasses—and lists Double 11 prices including RayNeo iO (34 grams, 2,499 yuan, 1,911.74 yuan after national subsidy), RayNeo V4, Huawei AI Glasses, Qianwen N1 Pro, and the RayNeo GT series.

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  2. CNETModel releases
    AI score76

    Mistral Releases Flagship Model Mistral Large 4 and Opens Weight Downloads

    Mistral AI has released its new flagship frontier model, Mistral Large 4, codenamed Le Chonk, making it available for download after ending its public preview. The model supports text and image processing, with a focus on strengthening defensive cybersecurity, agentic capabilities, and geospatial and grounding capabilities, and is said to achieve state-of-the-art results on agentic benchmarks such as SWE-bench and Terminal Bench. The model was trained on more than 160 languages and is available via Mistral Studio, the Mistral API, OpenRouter, Hugging Face open weights, Vibe Code, and Nvidia-hosted endpoints.

    Same story · 15 reports

    #Model releases#Open-source ecosystem#Agents

Thursday7 items

  1. TechCrunch AI
    AI score58

    Microsoft discloses Azure quarterly revenue of $33.2 billion for the first time, up 48% year over year

    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 revenue of $92.3 billion for the quarter, and was grouped into the newly created Agents and Infra business segment, which had revenue of $76.8 billion, up 25% year over year.

    Same story · 8 reports

    #Industry news#Microsoft#Google

  2. TechCrunch AI
    AI score66

    Google Expands AI Search Ads to Global Markets

    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 longer than traditional search.

    Same story · 6 reports

    #Industry news#Google

  3. TechCrunch AI
    AI score65

    Microsoft Discloses $10 Billion in Quarterly Revenue from OpenAI-Related Arrangements

    Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that it earned $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangements with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30, accounting for nearly 11% of its total quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion. Revenue from OpenAI for the full fiscal year 2026 was $24.1 billion, or roughly $40 billion annualized at the latest quarterly pace. As of the end of September, Microsoft's receivables from OpenAI stood at $7.2 billion, up from $6 billion at the end of June; Microsoft's stake fell from about 25% in June to 24% in September.

    #Industry news#Microsoft#OpenAI

  4. TechCrunch AI
    AI score60

    Microsoft reports record revenue for the 10th consecutive quarter, with quarterly revenue reaching $92.3 billion

    Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year-over-year, marking the 10th consecutive quarter of record revenue, with net income of $36.6 billion, up 32% year-over-year. Microsoft Cloud revenue was $63.9 billion, up 30% year-over-year, of which Azure contributed $33.2 billion, and revenue from OpenAI was $10 billion. Microsoft's capital expenditure this quarter reached $45.2 billion, also a new single-quarter high.

    Same story · 8 reports

    #Industry news#Microsoft#OpenAI

  5. TechCrunch AI
    AI score48

    Anthropic launches new reporting tools to help enterprises see what their AI spending buys

    Anthropic released a set of reporting tools that let enterprises view team output, token spending, and workflow bottlenecks by date range, along with improvement suggestions, and by default does not use data for model training. Anthropic also introduced shared team budgets to manage token spending. Jellyfish data on 276,000 customers shows that tools based on Anthropic models account for nearly one-third of committed code changes, with related spending growing 10-fold since the start of the year, about 2% of total engineering costs.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  6. TechCrunch AIProduct release
    AI score65

    Google Launches Connected Apps Platform, Opening Gemini and Search Access to Developers

    Google has released the Connected Apps Platform, allowing enterprises and developers to submit their own apps for integration with Gemini and Google Search, and to choose to launch on only one or both. The platform is currently available in beta preview to US developers; after launch, it will allow tracking of traffic, latency, and error rates, while retaining brand identity and verified accounts. Gemini already has more than 50 Connected Apps, including partners such as Adobe, Experian, Localiza, and Peloton; these apps will enter Google Search in the coming weeks. The meditation app Calm will also launch on Gemini and Search.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  7. TechCrunch AIProduct release
    AI score57

    Chrome's AI Autofill Can Read Gmail Content to Fill Out Forms

    Google announced that Chrome will launch an advanced version of AI autofill that can extract information such as flight confirmation numbers, membership IDs, shipping information, order numbers, addresses, phone numbers, or credit card numbers from users' Gmail to fill in online forms. This feature is an extension of Google Personal Intelligence; users can choose whether to enable it in Chrome settings, and sensitive data will be encrypted. The feature will first roll out to desktop users in the United States and will also arrive in the Gemini iOS and Android apps within Chrome.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Product updates#Google

Wednesday626 items

  1. TechCrunch AI
    AI score27

    Have AI executives become disconnected from the general public, making it hard for them to build products for ordinary people?

    In an interview, Marissa Mayer said her new app Dazzle generated birthday speech talking points for her 10-year-old daughter that were "empathetic, creative, and animal-loving," sparking criticism that Silicon Valley culture is out of touch with ordinary people. Pew research shows that 50% of U.S. adults believe AI will weaken people's ability to form meaningful relationships, while only 5% believe AI will make such connections easier. The article also mentions that Sam Altman said he cannot imagine raising a newborn without ChatGPT, and that Mark Zuckerberg predicted outsourcing emotional needs to AI therapists or AI companions will become more accepted.

    #English text is being prepared.#Industry news

  2. TechCrunch AI
    AI score43

    South Korean Financial Sector Hit by Another Cyberattack: Daishin, Mirae and Bithumb Affected

    A fresh wave of cyberattacks has hit South Korean financial institutions, involving brokerage Daishin Securities, Mirae Asset Global Investments and crypto exchange Bithumb. Daishin said the attack leaked the names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers of 38,490 customers, and that it has notified affected customers and is cooperating with the investigation. This comes about a month after the September wave of attacks targeting South Korean financial institutions, which security researchers linked to Artex, an AI penetration testing tool used by a suspected Chinese hacker.

    #Safety / alignment#Industry news

  3. TechCrunch AIModel releases
    AI score69

    Nvidia Releases Open Source Transcription Model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe

    Nvidia has released the free open-weight model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, which can transcribe audio in up to 40 languages, and simultaneously launched version 2 of the open speech dataset Granary. The model supports translation between 31 languages and English, processes recordings up to one hour long, and distinguishes up to 8 speakers; Nvidia claims it outperforms competing products on benchmarks such as the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. The model has 30 billion parameters and can run on Jetson AGX Thor, DGX Spark, and Blackwell data center chips, but it only supports recorded audio and does not support live streams.

    Same story · 9 reports

    #Model releases#Speech#Open-source ecosystem

  4. Shao MengProduct release
    AI score78

    LangChain open-sources Slack design Agent Content Studio and its harness

    LangChain has open-sourced Content Studio, a design Agent within Slack, along with the harness that supports it; after forking, teams can attach their own branding and deploy it to their team's Slack via Managed Deep Agents. The article states that since August it has delivered 3,000+ assets (including 80+ PPTs), the median model cost per request has dropped from about $8 in mid-September to about $0.50, and after migrating to Managed Deep Agents its own code volume was reduced by about 80%. In terms of approach, designer judgment is written into skills, a wiki, and code gates; each Slack thread is equipped with a persistent sandbox, and subtasks are dispatched asynchronously to avoid blocking the main thread.

    How we built Content Studio, an open-source design agent in Slack that makes on-brand videos, graphics and decks, and the harness that powers it. https://t.co/pevQsp0A4J

    Same story · 2 reports

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  5. Kazik
    AI score42

    Kazik uses CLAUDE.md rules to have Codex operate the browser on his behalf

    Digital Life Kazik, worried about Claude account bans, did not install the Claude browser extension; instead, he wrote browser operation rules into CLAUDE.md, letting Claude call the local Codex to perform actions in Chrome such as clicking, filling out forms, and logging into admin backends. The rules divide work by complexity: small tasks like local UI previews, reading documentation, and screenshot verification are handled by the built-in browser, while multi-step end-to-end workflows, login-required backends, and cross-website tasks are handed to Codex; only identity confirmations such as entering passwords and two-step verification codes are left for the user to do. Usage is codex-browser "task description"; to append instructions use --resume <session ID>, and time-consuming tasks are run in the background.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Tutorials / practice#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  6. Elon Musk
    AI score10

    Musk recommends hiring Grok Bot

    Musk reposted Pierre Ferragu's praise of Grok Bot and commented: "Hire Grok @Bot, you won't regret it." Ferragu said his Grok Bot has been promoted to a full team member, with access to the team's research, emails, models, Slack, and industry data, and is fast to respond with strong execution.

    Planchet, my Grok Bot is promoted to fully-fledged team member. He has access to all our thinking (research, emails, models, slack, industry data), he is incredibly resourceful - a mesmerizing get-it-done attitude, ultra-fast, receptive with feedback. It is mind-blowing.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#Agents

  7. Elon Musk
    AI score23

    Musk reposted Gavin Baker's claim that Grok Bot is the most useful

    Gavin Baker said that Grok Bot is the most influential AI product he and his company have used to date; he is currently using 17 Grok Bots and still thinks of new uses for them every day. Musk reposted the post and commented, "Grok @Bot rocks."

    Gavin Baker says Grok Bot is the most impactful AI product he and his firm have had yet, and reveals he’s up to 17 Grok Bots “I mean, as a user, Grok Bot is the most impactful AI product to me and to the firm that we’ve had yet. I glued together all this stuff with Claude Code, and I’m sure it was user error on my part, you know, 50 years old. I’m doing my best." "But Grok Bot, it just makes it so easy. I think I’m up to like 17 Grok Bots. And every day I think of a new one to add.”

    Same story · 2 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#xAI

  8. ScienceNetModel releases
    AI score78

    Google DeepMind Releases Research Preview of World Model Genie 4

    On October 27, Google DeepMind released a research preview of its new-generation world model Genie 4, extending the simulation duration for scene consistency to about two minutes—twice that of its predecessor Genie 3—and improving visual realism, physics simulation, and the naturalness of character movements. The model supports real-time changes to weather, viewpoint adjustments, or adding characters and objects via natural language instructions, and features native audio generation capabilities. Google also demonstrated an experiment in which Genie 4, in collaboration with Gemini 4 Argon, simulated Apptronik's Apollo humanoid robot playing checkers, and plans to open it to Google AI Ultra subscribers through Project Genie in the coming weeks.

    Same story · 28 reports

    #Model releases#Multimodal#DeepMind

  9. Yicai
    AI score38

    Goldman Sachs' non-AI index rose 12.4% last week, outperforming the S&P 500; Oppenheimer and Berkshire shift toward non-tech sectors

    Goldman Sachs' proprietary index that excludes AI-enabled stocks rose 12.4% last week, outperforming the S&P 500's 12% gain over the same period, while the S&P 500 technology sector fell about 7% this month. Large institutions such as Oppenheimer and Berkshire Hathaway have shifted their portfolios toward non-tech sectors; Oppenheimer favors business services and insurance, and Berkshire's Class B shares rose 8% this month.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.