Arena announced that Connectors are now available in Agent Mode. Users can connect external tools such as Vercel, Linear, GitHub, Supabase, Notion, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar within the same task, thereby completing more complex real-world tasks end to end. Arena said the first batch covers the most requested services from the community, and the list will continue to expand.
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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 generation for the first time and doubling its consistency duration to two minutes.
t 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 generation for the first time and doubling its consistency duration to two minutes.
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Anthropic is preparing for an IPO, with a valuation estimated at up to $2 trillion, and the prospectus published this Monday disclosed details on security, customer dependence, and corporate governance. In the first nine months of 2026, about 5% to 7% of revenue came from customers found to have violated usage policies; the top five customers contributed about 25% of revenue, and in the first half of 2026, 48% of revenue was obtained through platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Existing and planned AI infrastructure agreements total about $657 billion, of which about $417 billion is non-cancelable, and spending could rise to $806 billion after including hardware capacity still under negotiation. After listing, the seven founders will collectively control 50.1% of ordinary shareholder voting rights. The specific listing date has not yet been determined; according to The Wall Street Journal, the target is the week of November 16.
to have violated usage policies; the top five customers contributed about 25% of revenue, and in the first half of 2026, 48% of revenue was obtained through platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Existing and planned AI infrastructure agreements total about $657 billion, of which about $417 billion is non-cancelable, and spending could rise to $806 billion after including hardware capacity still under negotiation. After listing, the seven founders will collectively control 50.
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Avante has completed a $30 million Series A funding round led by Frist Cressey Ventures, bringing total funding to $40 million, with the funds to be used for global expansion and agent platform development. The company has launched a beta version of Ava Agents that runs in the background and outputs for teams to review, and says it has more than 70 customer accounts within 18 months of launch, with the platform covering more than 385,000 employees and dependents. Its technology calls models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rather than developing its own foundation models.
Ventures, bringing total funding to $40 million, with the funds to be used for global expansion and agent platform development. The company has launched a beta version of Ava Agents that runs in the background and outputs for teams to review, and says it has more than 70 customer accounts within 18 months of launch, with the platform covering more than 385,000 employees and dependents. Its technology calls models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google rather than developing its own foundation models.
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Mozilla has added two features to Smart Window, Firefox's AI browsing experience: AI form autofill and web monitoring, now available to desktop beta users. Form filling uses Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite to extract information from other tabs and generate answers, while web monitoring uses Qwen to detect changes in price, stock, or job listings, with up to 15 tasks and 5 web pages per task. Both features are currently limited to English-speaking users in the United States and Canada.
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In the Google Ads podcast Ads Decoded, Shivani Mohan, Vice President of Search Data Science and UXR, and Ginny Marvin, Google Ads Product Liaison, discuss how AI Overviews and AI Mode are changing the search habits of billions of users. The episode focuses on her team's research into the modern search experience and what the long-form query trend means for businesses.
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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, leading in four of the 9 evaluations: HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench-Science, AA-Omniscience, and AutomationBench-AA. On the Coding Agent Index, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) paired with the Antigravity CLI scores 59, trailing Claude Code paired with Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 62 points) by 3 points. The model has a 1M-token context window, supports text, image, video, and speech input, and is priced at a standard rate of $4/$20 per million input/output tokens; it is currently available to select users with a 50% discount.
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, leading in four of the 9 evaluations: HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench-Science, AA-Omniscience, and AutomationBench-AA. On the Coding Agent Index, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) paired with the Antigravity CLI scores 59, trailing Claude Code paired with Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 62 points) by 3 points. The model has a 1M-token context window, supports text, image, video, and speech input, and is priced at a
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Alphabet's Q3 2026 revenue grew 25% year-over-year, with annualized revenue reaching $500 billion, and Google Cloud revenue up 103%. CEO Sundar Pichai said first-party model APIs process nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, 40% more than last quarter; the Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google's history. A new model in the Gemini 4 series, Carbon, was also released that day; it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59, will first be made available to select trusted cybersecurity defenders, and is being tested by the U.S. government.
Alphabet's Q3 2026 revenue grew 25% year-over-year, with annualized revenue reaching $500 billion, and Google Cloud revenue up 103%. CEO Sundar Pichai said first-party model APIs process nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, 40% more than last quarter; the Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google's history. A new model in the Gemini 4 series, Carbon, was also released that day; it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score
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The Google Developers Blog demonstrated the eval loop of Agents CLI v1.8.0: eval generate runs test cases, eval grade scores them, eval compare compares two runs, eval analyze clusters failures, and eval optimize automatically optimizes prompts. The example baseline averaged 4.0/5, and after accidentally swapping in a chef persona prompt it dropped to 2.75; the evaluation caught this regression before it reached production.
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Databricks' Lakeflow Connect offers native, fully managed connectors for sources such as Atlassian (Jira, Confluence), Microsoft SharePoint, Google Workspace (Drive, Outlook, Gmail), GitHub, and OpenAI, Anthropic, with data landing directly in Unity Catalog. Unstructured files, pages, and emails land as governed tables, with no need to build or maintain data pipelines, and can be used for enterprise knowledge bases, AI agents, and developer productivity dashboards. Toyota Finance Australia uses its Jira connector to achieve zero-maintenance pipelines, and VaxCare uses its Confluence connector to provide knowledge base support for its chatbot.
Databricks' Lakeflow Connect offers native, fully managed connectors for sources such as Atlassian (Jira, Confluence), Microsoft SharePoint, Google Workspace (Drive, Outlook, Gmail), GitHub, and OpenAI, Anthropic, with data landing directly in Unity Catalog. Unstructured files, pages, and emails land as governed tables, with no need to build or maintain data pipelines, and can be used for enterprise knowledge bases, AI agents, and developer productivity dashboards. Toyota Finance Australia uses
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15 Google Student Ambassadors shared the Gemini features they use most, including Study notebooks, which turn course materials into personalized short lessons; Gemini Live, for practicing interviews by voice; Guided Learning, for guided study; and generating study guides and custom quizzes. The student plan offers unlimited uploads of class materials, study notes, and images, and Audio Overviews can turn documents and slides into podcast-style conversations, making it easy to review on the way across campus.
15 Google Student Ambassadors shared the Gemini features they use most, including Study notebooks, which turn course materials into personalized short lessons; Gemini Live, for practicing interviews by voice; Guided Learning, for guided study; and generating study guides and custom quizzes. The student plan offers unlimited uploads of class materials, study notes, and images, and Audio Overviews can turn documents and slides into podcast-style conversations, making it easy to review on the way a
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Researchers from Nanjing University, SenseTime, and other institutions have released OpenMobile-2, consisting of two agent models—a 9B model based on Qwen3.5 and a 27B model based on Qwen3.6—and have publicly released the training environment, data, and reproduction instructions. The team recreated 35 applications including Taobao, JD.com, DiDi, Meituan, Slack, and Google Drive; the practice environment covers more than 110 applications and generated about 11,600 example workflows and more than 2,000 practice tasks. The larger model rose from 67.1 to 79.9 points on AndroidWorld and from 31.9 to 59.6 points on SPA-Bench on real Android devices; the researchers say this is the best result among open-source models.
.6—and have publicly released the training environment, data, and reproduction instructions. The team recreated 35 applications including Taobao, JD.com, DiDi, Meituan, Slack, and Google Drive; the practice environment covers more than 110 applications and generated about 11,600 example workflows and more than 2,000 practice tasks. The larger model rose from 67.1 to 79.9 points on AndroidWorld and from 31.9 to 59.6 points on SPA-Bench on real Android devices; the researchers say this is the best
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At CASPA's 35th Annual Conference, SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel and Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon discussed the outlook for AI infrastructure investment, arguing that with the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield breaking above 5% and unsecured bonds from emerging cloud service providers yielding close to 15%, financing capacity is becoming a key constraint on expansion. The two judged that substrates and memory are bottlenecks harder to scale than power, that HBM requires roughly 3 to 4 times as many wafers as DDR5, and that if new capacity is concentrated in releases after 2028, memory prices and profit margins could come under pressure. Nvidia still supports its pricing through performance gains, but Google TPU, Amazon Trainium, and the custom chips of OpenAI and Anthropic are eroding its share and bargaining power.
is becoming a key constraint on expansion. The two judged that substrates and memory are bottlenecks harder to scale than power, that HBM requires roughly 3 to 4 times as many wafers as DDR5, and that if new capacity is concentrated in releases after 2028, memory prices and profit margins could come under pressure. Nvidia still supports its pricing through performance gains, but Google TPU, Amazon Trainium, and the custom chips of OpenAI and Anthropic are eroding its share and bargaining power.
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WIRED reported that the newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities are collectively called PHP2Shell, and within hours of disclosure Cloudflare recorded millions of exploitation attempts, but the PHP Foundation said it has not yet seen a successful exploit. Researchers at security firm Calif, using frontier models from OpenAI's Patch the Planet project combined with PHP expertise, first discovered and constructed an exploit in early August, and researchers from OpenAI and Google's Wiz subsequently also independently discovered similar vulnerabilities using AI. Multiple researchers believe AI has not introduced entirely new attack methods, but has amplified the existing pace of vulnerability discovery and disclosure.
t yet seen a successful exploit. Researchers at security firm Calif, using frontier models from OpenAI's Patch the Planet project combined with PHP expertise, first discovered and constructed an exploit in early August, and researchers from OpenAI and Google's Wiz subsequently also independently discovered similar vulnerabilities using AI. Multiple researchers believe AI has not introduced entirely new attack methods, but has amplified the existing pace of vulnerability discovery and disclosure.
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gihyo.jp reviews multiple releases and reports from late October, organizing AI-era defense challenges along two lines: vulnerability remediation implementation and permission management. Anthropic Deputy CISO Jason D. Clinton says that within about 18 months, high cyber capability will spread to small, cheap models, but fixes still need to be applied to running systems. The article cites OpenAI's discovery of Brotli's CVE-2026-111497 during testing in an isolated environment, and introduces remediation and credential control solutions such as AWS Continuum, Google Agent Compute Engine, and 1Password for Agents, as well as Microsoft's report on Storm-0940 using AI to automate attacks.
opic Deputy CISO Jason D. Clinton says that within about 18 months, high cyber capability will spread to small, cheap models, but fixes still need to be applied to running systems. The article cites OpenAI's discovery of Brotli's CVE-2026-111497 during testing in an isolated environment, and introduces remediation and credential control solutions such as AWS Continuum, Google Agent Compute Engine, and 1Password for Agents, as well as Microsoft's report on Storm-0940 using AI to automate attacks.
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Meta launched its personal AI Agent Muse last month. It has an independent virtual computer and browser and can send emails, book travel, and shop on behalf of users. It reached about 2.8 million downloads within two weeks of launch, and at the October 21 earnings call it was announced that more than 10 million people had activated it. Less than two weeks after launch, Muse was blocked by Amazon from accessing its shopping site. Amazon said AI Agents should identify themselves and respect whether the service provider permits entry. The article argues that the two sides are fighting over who controls the subsequent search, comparison, decision-making, and payment after consumers form purchase intent, while Google keeps intent-to-execution within its own system through its own ecosystem such as Universal Cart.
had activated it. Less than two weeks after launch, Muse was blocked by Amazon from accessing its shopping site. Amazon said AI Agents should identify themselves and respect whether the service provider permits entry. The article argues that the two sides are fighting over who controls the subsequent search, comparison, decision-making, and payment after consumers form purchase intent, while Google keeps intent-to-execution within its own system through its own ecosystem such as Universal Cart.
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Simon Willison used prompts to have Claude Opus 5.5 High build Quick Study: after opening a photo, it draws a version of that photo within seconds using a canvas element and a simulated paintbrush. The tool uses Sobel edge detection and depends on no external libraries other than Google Fonts.
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In its 2026 comparison article, Databricks argues that its open lakehouse architecture stores 100% of customer data with Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, unifying BI, ETL, stream processing, ML and AI, whereas Oracle uses proprietary formats and relies on PL/SQL and Exadata. Databricks separates storage and compute; SQL Serverless warehouses cost nothing when idle and are billed per second; Oracle bills by ECPU and autoscales up to 3x base capacity, making costs harder to predict. Databricks also offers Unity Catalog unified governance, Genie natural language analytics and OpenSharing cross-platform sharing, supporting AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
nifying BI, ETL, stream processing, ML and AI, whereas Oracle uses proprietary formats and relies on PL/SQL and Exadata. Databricks separates storage and compute; SQL Serverless warehouses cost nothing when idle and are billed per second; Oracle bills by ECPU and autoscales up to 3x base capacity, making costs harder to predict. Databricks also offers Unity Catalog unified governance, Genie natural language analytics and OpenSharing cross-platform sharing, supporting AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
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Doron Zauer, partner at Earth & Beyond Ventures, believes that competition at the AI application layer is intense and easily commoditized, while physical infrastructure such as silicon architecture, advanced materials, and connectivity technologies are long-term advantages that are hard to replicate. Israel has deep accumulated strength in chip design, photonics, and high-speed communications, and entrepreneurs can target the architectural bottlenecks encountered by giants such as Nvidia, Apple, Intel, and Google. Commercialization success depends on yield, reliability, and system integration, and early validation with industrial buyers and design partners is crucial.
silicon architecture, advanced materials, and connectivity technologies are long-term advantages that are hard to replicate. Israel has deep accumulated strength in chip design, photonics, and high-speed communications, and entrepreneurs can target the architectural bottlenecks encountered by giants such as Nvidia, Apple, Intel, and Google. Commercialization success depends on yield, reliability, and system integration, and early validation with industrial buyers and design partners is crucial.
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MiniMax open-sources M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE with 23B activated parameters, gaining day-one support from Together, SGLang, vLLM and NVIDIA NeMo. OpenAI's Decisions API is officially available, powered by GPT-6 Luna, with classification and decision speed improved by up to 10x, at an input price of $0.10 per million tokens. Anthropic's Claude models are officially available on Google Cloud, and starting next week, Claude sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans will run in auto mode by default.
niMax open-sources M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE with 23B activated parameters, gaining day-one support from Together, SGLang, vLLM and NVIDIA NeMo. OpenAI's Decisions API is officially available, powered by GPT-6 Luna, with classification and decision speed improved by up to 10x, at an input price of $0.10 per million tokens. Anthropic's Claude models are officially available on Google Cloud, and starting next week, Claude sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans will run in auto mode by default.
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