Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new AI model it says performs better at coding and cybersecurity tasks. It is giving a small group of cyber defenders access first while it tests safeguards before a wider release.
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Alphabet is due to report third-quarter earnings Wednesday, with analysts expecting $128.2 billion in revenue. Investors will look for signs that growth in Google’s cloud business can justify rising AI costs, even as search faces more competition.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is a newly available speech model that can transcribe 40 languages, identify speakers, translate speech, and answer questions about recordings. NVIDIA also released Granary v2, a multilingual dataset and data-preparation tools that developers can use to adapt speech models.
GitHub Copilot Fusion chooses and coordinates AI models to handle coding tasks. In independent tests, its top setting scored 60 against 62 for Claude Code using Opus 5.5, while costing $5.59 per task on average instead of $11.42.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law requiring AI chatbot companies to check users’ ages and limit what their bots can say to children. The rules bar chatbots from posing as people or encouraging self-harm, and companies could face penalties for violations.
Anthropic has added tools to Claude for Legal that check citations, compare laws and review contracts while linking findings to their sources. A lawyer then reviews the results, and legal teams can connect their own databases through integrations.
Google is updating Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill so it can use details from Gmail, such as booking codes and order numbers, to complete online forms. The feature is optional, and Google says sensitive information is encrypted.
Meta has launched Waddle World, an AI pet game currently available only in the Philippines. Players feed and play with their pets, write journal entries that get illustrated replies, and earn points for pet supplies through mini-games.
Google is expanding ads in its AI-powered Search features to markets outside the U.S. The move comes as growth in its main Search advertising business slows, with revenue rising 12% from a year earlier in the third quarter, down from 17% in the second.
Google AI did not directly name Joe Biden when asked who won the 2020 presidential election, instead pointing a reporter to official results. Tests by other staff members found that its answers to election questions varied by user and year.
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