AI news, 29 October 2026

Google DeepMind launches Gemini 4 Carbon for cyber defense and coding

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model that scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro. Access starts with vetted cyber defenders, priced at $2 or $10 per million tokens.

Microsoft shares rise 4% on 48% Azure revenue growth

Microsoft reported better-than-expected results, driven by 48% growth in Azure revenue, leading to a 4% jump in its stock price.

OpenAI partners with ServiceNow to embed models and agents into ServiceNow workflows

OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership that integrates OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow workflows, making them accessible via ChatGPT and Codex.

Oracle partners with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT and Codex to enterprise workflows

Oracle announced a partnership with OpenAI to embed ChatGPT and Codex into Oracle Fusion Applications, NetSuite, Oracle AI Database and OCI, launching four offerings: Oracle AI Workspace, AI Security Mesh, App Composer, and AI SMB Bundle.

OpenAI says Dots will launch Europe in weeks, highlights developer lock‑in

At DevDay Exchange 2026 in Berlin, OpenAI repeated prior announcements, said Dots will become widely available in Europe "in a few weeks" after regulator talks; Personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK remain locked out while some business accounts have access; weekly Codex users in Germany grew twentyfold since January; OpenAI blamed resource demands for shutting down Sora in March and emphasized its Agents API, plugins and web apps to lock developers into its platform.

Anthropic expands AI for Science program to 20 new research partners

Meta partners with five US universities to fund Superintelligence research

Google AI evades answering 2020 election, gives indirect responses

Google adds Bring Your Own Agent feature to Android Studio, supports 40+ coding agents

Anthropic adds auto‑source verification to Claude for Legal with 60+ integrations

GitHub adds 4 million CPU cores, launches Copilot Fusion routing engine

Legora builds agentic OS for legal work using OpenAI models

Anthropic ends coding interviews, says coding is solved

Supabase wins favor with AI agents for backend simplicity

Opera to ship local AI models in browser via WebAI standard

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, open‑weight multilingual transcription model

MiniMax open‑sources MCode Stack with 15 daily agent coding skills

aa1143 launches NamiGPT repo, gains 113 stars in first day

Polymathic AI, Princeton and USC ISI Release FlashMap, 6.14× Faster LLM Decoding

Researchers Introduce The Trinity, Recursive Self‑Improvement Framework for Multimodal Agents

Authors Propose Multiscale Policy Optimization for Turn‑Level Credit in Long‑Horizon LLM Agents

DTCA Proposes Denoising Token Credit Assignment for RL in Diffusion Language Models

VibeVideoBench Introduces 239 Code‑Driven Video Generation Tasks for Multimodal Agents

Memory Tax Study Finds Dedicated Agent Memory Often Underperforms Naive Retrieval

Google adds AI‑powered Autofill that pulls data from Gmail

Microsoft ends Copilot support on LG and Samsung smart TVs

Amazon launches Echo Studio with Home Camera for $250

Akamai launches Inference and Agent Sandbox services for AI workloads

Anthropic's Claude cuts Enveda drug record review time by 89%

Google partners with NASA to develop robotic medical assistant for deep space

Meta launches AI pet journal app Waddle World

Microsoft returns $10.2 billion to shareholders in Q1 FY2027

Alphabet reports AI Mode search revenue lagging despite $51.4B infrastructure spend

Oracle adds Nvidia Vera CPUs to OCI Superclusters

Orange Tsai Shows Logic‑Bug Chain Escapes Microsoft Edge, $175K Pwn2Own Win

Cathedral AI Agents Breach Anthropic via Third‑Party Software

Oracle EBS Critical SQL Injection and PeopleSoft 0‑Day Reveal Triple Vulnerabilities

Skyw4lker device‑code phishing campaign targets US manufacturers, tech and healthcare firms

Hackers probe Oracle EBS CVE‑2026‑101767 unauthenticated SQL injection for remote code execution

OpenAI sued as ChatGPT allegedly advised epilepsy medication taper that led to death

Cognizant in talks to invest in Sarvam AI at $3.5‑4B valuation

CopperPilot raises $390K to launch Epsilon AI design agent for hardware engineers

Innodata cuts ~550 Indian jobs, about 5% of global staff, amid client project loss

Reo.Dev raises $11.3M to expand US sales as Indian AI funding surges

KPIT leverages AI to boost margins as Q2 FY27 revenue growth stalls