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NYU Langone embeds OpenEvidence into Epic EHR, covering 12.4 million outpatient visits per year

NYU Langone Health and OpenEvidence announced a collaboration to embed OpenEvidence's Patient Aware Clinical Intelligence into its Epic electronic health record system, covering the health system's 12.4 million outpatient visits per year. Clinicians can pose complex clinical questions in natural language within the Epic workflow and receive answers grounded in peer-reviewed medical literature and tailored to the patient's context. The deployment covers its hospitals, outpatient network, and Family Health Centers, and extends to trainees at NYU Grossman's two medical schools.

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Cohere Completes First Close of Series E, Targeting Up to C$7 Billion in Funding at a C$35.7 Billion Valuation

On October 29, 2026, Cohere announced the first close of its Series E financing, targeting up to C$7 billion in funding at a corresponding valuation of C$35.7 billion, led by a company under Schwarz Group, with Bell Ventures, Bullhound Capital, and the Government of Canada joining as new investors. Cohere said this is the largest private financing for a Canadian tech company, and the funds will be used to advance its model and product roadmap, verticalized AI solutions for regulated industries, and long-term compute infrastructure. The company also disclosed that as of Q3 2026, its annual recurring revenue grew 165% year-over-year, with global customers increasing to 300.

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OpenAI expands its misalignment monitoring system to cover training, evaluation, and external deployment

On October 29, 2026, OpenAI announced an expanded multi-layer misalignment behavior monitoring system covering training, evaluation, and internal use, and, after modifications, extended to external deployment. The system monitors every reinforcement learning run and evaluation for models at least as capable as GPT-6 Astra, with a four-layer architecture that escalates step by step from activation probes to safety and alignment investigation agents. In independent red team testing conducted by METR and Redwood Research from July 21 to August 11, two client-controllable request headers that could disable the new agent monitoring were found, along with a compression event gap from May to July 2026 in which approximately 10% of eligible internal Codex traffic was not monitored.

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OpenAI restructures Model Spec around five core behavioral values

On October 29, 2026, OpenAI released an updated version of the Model Spec, restructuring model behavior guidelines around five values: fidelity to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human autonomy, and care, and adding guidance on context, oversight, and autonomy, while retiring most detailed style guidelines. The document sets different levels of authority for instructions, with root-level rules that cannot be overridden by conversational context, and adds root-level rules prohibiting the pursuit of additional goals, requiring models to remain correctable, and limiting autonomous work to clearly defined scopes. OpenAI stated that its models do not yet fully embody the spec, that it is exploring new training methods, and that it is soliciting public feedback through a dedicated feedback site.

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Mintive Raises $7 Million to Provide Independent Identity and Permission Management for AI Agents

Mintive has completed a new $7 million funding round led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing total funding to $11 million. The company says it currently handles 2.5 million agent calls per day, serves more than 50 paying enterprise customers, and has processed over 200 million cumulative calls in seven months. Its platform assigns each agent an independent identity, scoped permissions, and traceable operation records; underlying service credentials remain within the gateway, agents access tools through short-lived tokens, and administrators can revoke an individual agent's token separately.

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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings to acquire ADT in an all-cash deal valued at $15.3 billion

ADT and Thrive Holdings announced on October 29, 2026 that they had reached a definitive agreement under which Thrive Holdings will acquire ADT in an all-cash transaction valuing ADT's equity at approximately $7.6 billion and its enterprise value at approximately $15.3 billion, with ADT shareholders receiving $10.00 in cash per share. The price represents a 45.6% premium over ADT's unaffected closing price of $6.87 on October 27, 2026. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027, subject to approval by ADT shareholders and U.S. antitrust review. Upon completion, ADT will become a private company and be delisted from the NYSE, and will serve as the foundation of Thrive Holdings' smart home security business; OpenAI announced on December 1, 2025 that it had taken a stake in Thrive Holdings and deployed research, product and engineering teams into its portfolio companies.

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CrowdStrike says VAPOR PANDA attacked more than 200 organizations using the DeepSeek-driven ARTEX framework

CrowdStrike's report states that the China-linked group VAPOR PANDA used an AI-driven intrusion framework called ARTEX, built primarily on the DeepSeek large language model with another commercial model as a secondary component, to target more than 200 organizations in at least 14 countries over 11 days starting October 17, 2026, and confirmed post-compromise activity at 9 of them. ARTEX consists of a main agent and planning and execution sub-agents that share a fact and goal graph; in a single intrusion the planning agent consumed about 1.4 billion input tokens, and operators issued commands in Chinese and intervened at key junctures. CrowdStrike also says the group deployed the BLOODALCHEMY backdoor at some targets, and predicts that China-linked adversaries will increasingly adopt such agent frameworks over the next 12 months.

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Google's Android XR development tools enter the stable phase, XREAL AURA released simultaneously

On October 29, at the Android Dev Summit 2026, Google announced that multiple core Android XR development tools have entered the stable phase, with the 1.0 stable versions of Jetpack SceneCore, ARCore for Jetpack XR, and XR Runtime released on October 21. On the same day, XREAL AURA, a wired XR glasses product developed in collaboration between Google and XREAL, was officially released, featuring a 70-degree field of view and a glasses body weighing less than 95 grams, with a limited-time launch price starting at $1,099; it is now open for pre-order in the United States, Canada, and South Korea, with shipments expected in mid-November. The article also outlines the expansion of the Android XR hardware lineup since its announcement in December 2024, as well as Gemini as a unified AI entry point spanning headsets and smart glasses.

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FuriosaAI Completes KRW 820 Billion Series D Funding at Valuation of Approximately KRW 3.8 Trillion

South Korean AI chip company FuriosaAI announced on October 29 that it had completed a KRW 820 billion Series D funding round. Due to strong demand from domestic and international investors, the fundraising target was raised from the original KRW 450 billion to KRW 750 billion to KRW 820 billion, with a post-money valuation of approximately KRW 3.8 trillion. The South Korean government's National Growth Fund contributed KRW 370 billion as the largest investor, while overseas investors include Infinitum, which previously co-led Groq's $650 million funding round, and Singapore-based QUDA Capital Partners. The funds will mainly be used to expand supply capacity for the second-generation NPU Renegade (RNGD) and to jointly develop a third-generation AI accelerator for the hyperscale data center market with U.S.-based Broadcom.

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CASBOT completes a funding round in the hundreds of millions of yuan (Series A++), with over 400 million yuan in shoe-making robot orders on hand

CASBOT recently completed a funding round in the hundreds of millions of yuan (Series A++), jointly invested by Zhilai Investment, Yonghua Investment, Maotian Investment, Yuanhe Chenkun, Guoke Kezhi, Luning Investment and others, with the funds used for mass production and delivery of products, research and development of embodied brain technology, and market expansion. The company said that the total value of embodied shoe-making robot orders on hand this year has exceeded 400 million yuan, with equipment production scheduling reaching thousands of units. Its self-developed embodied large model CAS-brain and the lightweight CASBOT PA perception-action model, the latter of which is planned to be open-sourced in the second half of 2027.

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Alphabet's Q3 2026 cloud revenue grew 103% year-over-year, with free cash flow at negative $9.07 billion

Alphabet announced its Q3 2026 earnings: revenue of $127.6 billion came in below analysts' expectations of $128.2 billion, while Google Cloud revenue grew 103% year-over-year to $30.71 billion. Net profit fell about 25% year-over-year to $26.17 billion, and free cash flow was negative $9.07 billion, further deteriorating from negative $5.9 billion in the previous quarter, with shares falling nearly 10% after hours. CFO Anat Ashkenazi said capital expenditures will increase significantly in 2027 due to AI technology development, and on the same day Alphabet released its new-generation model Gemini 4 Carbon.

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Sarvam AI Signs MoU with India's Integrated Defence Staff to Develop AI Systems for the Three Armed Forces

On October 27, Sarvam AI announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with India's Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) to establish a unified framework for AI projects for the Army, Navy and Air Force. Sarvam will design, develop and deploy AI applications for operations, training and decision support, with the three services and joint agencies sharing the same foundation models, agent infrastructure, and geospatial and perception systems. The work is handled by Chanakya, a firewall division focused on national security, and uses foundation models such as Sarvam 105B. The announcement did not disclose the signing date, signatories, contract value, funding and duration, or the specific project list, nor did it state whether any systems have already been deployed; neither HQ IDS nor the Ministry of Defence has independently confirmed it.

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Meesho says AI agents let one engineer do the work of a three-person team, with server costs rising to 2.3% of NMV

Meesho said on its Q2 FY2026-27 earnings call that AI agents have become its default way of developing software: one engineer leading a group of agents can take on the work of what used to be a three-person team, and 65% of teams are driven by a single engineer. The company said its internal productivity score rose 171% from March to September 2026, code review approval time fell 41%, and the time for a model to enter online testing shrank from 17 days to 3 days. At the same time, AI has also pushed up costs: GPU capacity increased 150%, and server costs as a share of net merchandise value (NMV) rose from 1.9% to 2.3%. The company plans to migrate some workflows to cheaper or open-weight models. Meesho also made clear it will not add a platform fee at the shopping cart stage, even though it loses about 2.4 rupees per order.

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Alphabet's Q3 revenue and EPS both fell short of expectations, with shares dropping over 12%

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 $195 billion to $205 billion and reiterated that the figure will exceed $300 billion in fiscal 2027. Google Cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion, and the Gemini app surpassed 1 billion users worldwide for the first time.

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Microsoft's revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 was $92.28 billion, with Azure growing 48%

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%. Capital expenditures and finance leases totaled $45.2 billion this quarter, of which CFO Amy Hood said about 75% was invested in short-lived assets such as GPUs and CPUs, and she expects Azure to grow 49% to 50% in constant currency in the second fiscal quarter.

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Samsung Confirms Record Quarterly Operating Profit for Tech Industry, Driven by AI Memory Chip Demand

Samsung Electronics confirmed third-quarter operating profit of 107.44 trillion won (about $80.5 billion), a record quarterly profit for the tech industry, with revenue of 195.25 trillion won, up 127% year over year. Profit came mainly from the Device Solutions division responsible for the semiconductor business, which posted revenue of 147.1 trillion won and operating profit of 106.5 trillion won. Samsung expects the global memory chip shortage to deepen in fiscal 2027, and its smartphone business posted an operating loss of 0.6 trillion won for the quarter due to rising memory costs.

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FuriosaAI Completes $620 Million Funding Round at a $2.9 Billion Valuation

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 that to 40,000 units in 2027, while also jointly developing a third-generation processor with Broadcom.

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Serval raises $150 million at a $3 billion valuation to push automation agents beyond IT

Enterprise service management startup Serval announced it has completed a new $150 million funding round at a $3 billion valuation, aimed at expanding automation agents from IT into departments such as HR, finance and legal. The funds will also go toward Catalyst, launched in August, an agent that scans tickets to identify repetitive tasks and drafts automation workflows, which go live after administrator review; at the same time, Serval is building a ProServal professional services team and plans to hire more than 100 automation engineers over the next 12 months to work on-site with major customers. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, bringing Serval's total funding to $277 million; its customers include Fox Corp., WPP and Live Nation, and it sees ServiceNow as its main competitor.

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Report: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Targeted by Chinese Intelligence Operation

The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been caught up in a Chinese intelligence operation involving Alice Huang (Huang Le), an executive at Singapore-based data center operator Megaspeed, whom the U.S. side believes to be a Chinese intelligence officer. The report said she built a close relationship with Huang and, a year later, facilitated Megaspeed's purchase of about $2 billion in GPUs from Nvidia, with the chips flowing to data centers in Malaysia and Indonesia that are suspected of serving Chinese customers. About two years ago, the U.S. Commerce Department found GPUs at a Megaspeed data center in Malaysia that had not been installed in racks and were still in their boxes, and subsequently launched an investigation; the Justice Department took over the case this year, and intelligence agencies placed Alice Huang under electronic surveillance. Nvidia responded that meeting with customers is part of the CEO's daily work and that allegations of transshipment against cloud service providers in the region were thoroughly investigated and rejected last year.

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Intel stock falls more than 22% after hours as Q4 guidance comes in far below expectations

Intel reported third-quarter revenue of $16.51 billion, up 21% year-over-year, and earnings per share of 52 cents, both beating Wall Street expectations. However, its fourth-quarter guidance was only about 25 cents per share on revenue of $15 billion to $16 billion, far below analysts' expectations of 43 cents and $17.1 billion, sending the stock down more than 22% after hours. Revenue from the Client Computing and Physical AI businesses fell 5% year-over-year to $8.1 billion, while revenue from the Data Center and AI segment grew 78% to $7.3 billion. CFO David Zinsner said the PC market slowdown will last at least through the first half of next year, and an explosion at a fab in Israel will also cause about $600 million in revenue losses over the next two quarters.

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