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Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Microsoft revenue hits $92.3 billion as Azure growth accelerates to 48%
The software giant beat expectations as AI-driven cloud demand fueled a massive quarter despite heavy infrastructure spending.
- Rime launches Prism, a speech model built to let companies check replies before they are spoken
CEO Lily Clifford says Prism reads callers' audio directly, then exposes its proposed response for review; Rime reports a 0.57-second time to first audio on its benchmark.
- AI Digest says Gemini 3.1 Pro's personas fought over browser control
The October 26th AI Village session hit an X character limit; AI Digest says its persona labels are interpretations of computer-use logs.
- Alphabet revenue hits $127.6 billion as Cloud growth explodes by 103%
The giant reaches a half-trillion dollar revenue run rate driven by AI-integrated search and massive infrastructure demand.
- DOJ asks how Nvidia's $13B Hugging Face deal could affect AI competition
The reported inquiry tests whether the chipmaker's ownership of a major open-model platform could shape access to AI developers and tools.
- GitHub turns Copilot into an agent orchestrator across projects and models
Copilot Fusion is generally available and cross-repository Projects enters public preview; GitHub says Fusion used about half the API cost per task in a benchmark.
- Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with cyber benchmarks and restricted access
Google is initially limiting access to selected Fairwind cyber defenders and lists an introductory API price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
- OpenAI brings its always-on Dots agent into text messages
The limited U.S. beta lets Pro users assign tasks by text, photo or voice note. OpenAI's help page says a third-party provider handles texting.
- Google opens Gemini and Search to app developers through Connected Apps
The U.S. public preview lets developers submit integrations for either product or both, with review and usage tools in Google Connected Console.
- OpenAI assigns hundreds of employees to election monitoring ahead of midterms
The Election Operations Center will track suspected misuse of OpenAI tools and monitor the voter-information services ChatGPT is adding for the election.
- Nace offers Drex Max at $0.03 per million tokens on launch discount
The October 28th post calls it Drex Max 1.1; Nace's API docs list Drex Max at $0.06 per million input tokens and identify Drex 1.1 as retired.
- OpenAI sued over allegations GPT-4o guided user off seizure medication
Google Research leader Peyman Milanfar amplified a warning after Bowen Wan's parents alleged ChatGPT helped her taper lamotrigine before her death.
- Claude Code users report SDK entrypoints drain subscription limits faster
Controlled tests on GitHub found different five-hour quota use across client labels, including a roughly 2.9x gap in one Team-plan test.
- Cursor launches an Agent SDK for teams building custom agents
Cursor's October 20th release lets software teams define agents in code, test them with evals and event replay, and deploy them on Cursor's infrastructure or their own.
- Dyssonance launches a belief-state system for reasoning through conflicting evidence
Jennifer Prendki says the platform keeps competing interpretations alive as new information arrives, while its API remains behind a sign-in and waitlist.
- NVIDIA releases 34B speech model with manifests covering 463,062 hours
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe combines transcription, translation, speaker labels and audio Q&A; Granary v2 adds public manifests and a reusable curation pipeline.
- Formation Bio raises $600M fund to take stalled drugs into trials
The fund aims to acquire or license 10 to 15 candidates over three to five years. Formation Bio says it has already licensed two.
- Claude Opus 5.5 tops Artificial Analysis' revised AI index with 58 points
The October 27th update adds coding and scientific-work benchmarks, puts 60% of the score on private or held-out answers, and introduces a separate capability trend index.
- Harvey earns FedRAMP Class D through Knox for federal legal work
The October 28th announcement places Harvey inside Knox Systems' FedRAMP High-authorized environment. It names no federal customer or deployment.
- Zocdoc opens its booking network to AI agents, starting with Instinct
Founder Oliver Kharraz says registered agents can search providers, check insurance and book appointments through Zocdoc, starting with a partnership with Instinct.
- Vertiv reports 60% adjusted EPS growth as AI infrastructure demand drives full-year raise
The data center infrastructure provider is scaling its full-year outlook as physical builds for AI-ready power and cooling accelerate.
- Concurrence starts research program to make healthcare AI learn across patients
CEO Ali Khokhar's personal loss informs the agenda, which extends a deployed workflow platform toward predicting patient trajectories and testing what changes them.
- OpenAI plans to buy Google TPUs as it widens its chip supply
The Information's report points to a possible hardware purchase, as OpenAI hires TPU specialists and builds a compute portfolio beyond Nvidia.
- OneQode signs 14 MW Chennai AI capacity deal with AdaniConneX
The October 28th agreement covers Chennai capacity. OneQode says up to 114 MW more is under discussion and projects more than $6 billion in GPU-as-a-service total contract value.