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According to Euronews, MEPs are presenting a report on the planned EU Cloud and AI Development Act to reduce dependence on foreign providers.

Singapore-based cloud firm Megaspeed, a Nvidia partner, is under US scrutiny over suspicions that it helped send restricted chips to China.

Google opened Gemini 4 Carbon on 10 November 2026, presenting it as its strongest model, notably in cybersecurity and agentic workflows.

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Sheets, an AI-equipped spreadsheet resembling Excel and Google Sheets, as its stock market listing approaches, according to Bloomberg.

A charter published on 11 November commits its signatories to guaranteeing a high level of safety, privacy and security by design.

France's Council for AI and Digital Affairs was due to publish a report on 10 November on how AI services exploit users' vulnerabilities.

Anthropic has set a price range of $70 to $78 per share and aims for a diluted valuation of up to $1.4 trillion, CNN reports.

CoreWeave's results, far above expectations, reassured financial markets about the pace of artificial intelligence investment on 11 November, according to Boursorama.

Simon Willison released version 0.36 of his llm-gemini plugin on November 10 and tested Google's latest Gemini model with three reasoning effort levels.

According to the video of its IPO roadshow, Anthropic ported Claude to AMD in three days using Mythos, with almost no human intervention.

Meta is offering its Muse Ember, Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Wonder models on Google Cloud, available through Model Garden via managed API.

According to the New York Times, Trump was warned about Jensen Huang's relationship with an alleged Chinese spy before letting him board Air Force One.

On November 10, Governor Kathy Hochul launched an AI research center at SUNY Binghamton bringing together more than 80 scientists.

According to Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs analysts project Anthropic revenue of $685 billion in 2030, including $586 billion from enterprise customers.

Anthropic launched its initial public offering roadshow on November 10, with an expected price range of $70 to $78 per share.

According to The Information, OpenAI told its investors that its third-quarter revenue reached about 10 billion dollars, an increase of roughly 50 percent.

Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to paying developers through the Gemini API and to enterprises, with an introductory price until November 30.

Australia plans an AI safety regulator that would impose binding obligations on developers of frontier models, including the reporting of incidents.

Governor Kathy Hochul is launching an AI safety research institute in New York, attached to Binghamton University and staffed by more than 80 researchers.

TechCrunch traces the revelations about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy, against the backdrop of a government investigation.

OpenAI is rolling out a beta Business Hub in ChatGPT, letting companies create and verify their profile and update their product information.

At its MAX conference in Miami, Adobe announces new AI features in Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign, along with an MCP server.

According to Reuters, CoreWeave's results lifted Nebius, Iren, Oracle and Applied Digital by 6% to 14% and also supported Nvidia.

According to a Reuters investigation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, on the US export blacklist, bought two Nvidia H200 chips last month.

Google Cloud unveils Gemini for healthcare, an agentic AI solution designed for the healthcare sector and initially offered in preview.

TSMC's board of directors has authorized up to $1 billion in investments in AI labs, split evenly between Anthropic and OpenAI.

According to the Financial Times, Anthropic is spending $3.4 billion on gas-fired generators, about 1.7 GW, to power its data centers.

Anthropic updated its IPO filing, with a valuation of up to $1.404 trillion implied by the price range per share.

Anthropic introduces Claude Meetings, a visible video-call participant that turns discussions into tasks, along with Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets.

Anthropic is launching Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, which reportedly allowed 1,000 agents to build an operating system prototype in eight days.

A Goldman Sachs economist estimates that the next recession could trigger a wave of AI-related layoffs, affecting one worker in eleven.

Orange is launching a single app giving access to models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Mistral, open to everyone, including people who are not customers.

French President Emmanuel Macron wants to ban the uses of artificial intelligence that pose a danger to minors, particularly chatbots and connected toys.

Ten AI companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and Mistral AI, have signed the Paris Appeal on AI safety announced by the Élysée.

Anthropic has set a price range of $70 to $78 per share for its IPO, with first trading targeted for November 19.

Google has opened Gemini 4 Carbon, its most powerful model, to paying users through the AI Ultra subscription or the paid API.

The European Commission is deploying internal AI tools to help draft and simplify legislation, according to the annual report presented on 4 November.

Director Sylvain Chomet says his six-minute animated short for Dior, accused online of being AI-generated, was entirely drawn by artists.

Questioned by the Senate on 4 November, minister Anne Le Hénanff presented a strategy built on French players, public procurement and computing infrastructure.

Companies and start-ups are using AI to recreate payroll or customer-management software and avoid costly subscriptions, according to La Tribune.

OpenAI and Ligo present BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw laboratory data from routine experiments.

An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would let ministers regulate the deployment and reporting of AI agents in certain organisations.

Minister Satvir Kaur told the House of Commons she wants to restrict sales of smart glasses to certain users, citing women filmed without knowing.

Cursor now lets developers talk to their coding agents in a real-time voice call powered by Grok Voice, available in the IDE, web and iOS.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC that AI demand is real, despite voters' message against data center construction in the midterm elections.

According to the Acsel barometer, 50% of French people use AI for health, and 38% of clinicians have had a diagnosis challenged.

Democrats preparing to take control of Congress in January intend to introduce many bills targeting AI systems and data-center development, lawmakers and aides say.

Speaking at the Baron conference, Elon Musk said Tesla will probably rent Optimus humanoids, whose build cost should start around $30,000 and fall toward $20,000.

An AI agent identity registration and resolution platform was unveiled in Wuzhen, and twenty organizations signed a self-discipline convention for agents.

Google Cloud launched Agent Compute Engine, a service running each AI agent in a hardware-isolated microVM while keeping credentials outside the sandbox.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi expects about 700 robotaxis on the platform by the end of the year, growing to over 2,000 in 2027.

Lyft CEO David Risher says self-driving cars could benefit the company, after a third quarter marked by a one-time net loss.

According to Juozas Kaziukėnas, OpenAI is building a dashboard showing verified businesses daily ChatGPT mentions and clicks to their websites, though nothing is announced.

Gentle Monster has released a teaser for the campaign film of its first intelligent eyewear collection, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Joaquin Phoenix.

A Havas Market study finds 39% of French people have used or plan to use AI for Christmas shopping, up from 36% in 2025.

Mira Murati's startup is reportedly raising $5 billion at a $40 billion pre-money valuation, with Accel leading the round, according to sources.

OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to version 2.6 with GIF and reference-image support, while Krea relaunches its video platform with new tools.

Prospective buyers are now discussing an Anthropic valuation of $1.2 trillion to $1.3 trillion, Bloomberg reported, after a sharp selloff in AI stocks.

Weta FX chief Daniel Seah says major studios have moved from banning generative AI to shunning visual effects vendors without an AI strategy.

OpenAI announced new commitments to communities hosting its data center projects, including a pledge not to use non-disclosure agreements with public officials.

Kling AI announced on November 4 access to Kling 4.0 Flash via its website, an API, automation tools and Adobe plugins.

EDF intends to convert former coal and fuel-oil power plants into data centers, La Lettre reports, with a land operator launching by January 2027.

Accenture will correct and reissue its report on AI in African agriculture after GPTZero flagged fake references, which the firm blames on human error.

Meta has introduced spaces in its Muse app, custom experiences users build by describing an idea, available starting today everywhere Muse is offered.

Meta is rolling out specialized versions of its models, trained with Muse Wonder, to Muse and Meta AI users, with Active Memory and Active Focus.

Microsoft is applying undisclosed usage caps to more Copilot Chat features for Microsoft 365 customers without a paid Copilot licence, nudging them to upgrade.

Google's pricing page schedules a doubling of input, output and context-caching rates for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.6 Flash from January 1, 2027.

Baidu has published the weights of ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, but its license bars use in the EU, the United Kingdom and South Korea.

Ant Group released Ling-3.2-flash on November 5, a native multimodal model with 560 billion parameters and a one-million-token context window.

Abu Dhabi is partnering with OpenAI to become the first AI-native government by end-2027, backed by a Dh13 billion digital strategy.

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman announced a partnership with JPMorganChase and said the company could be ready for an initial public offering in 2027.

Thales and Google Cloud joint venture S3NS makes model inference services available on PREMI3NS, billed at an hourly rate with unlimited tokens.

Cursor lets users ask a cloud agent to build an app with database and authentication, then deploy it behind a shareable link.

Devin Review 2.0 becomes the default pull request review tool when working with Devin, with per-PR costs down 82% since August.

France failed to secure a G7 high-level group to test frontier AI models, as the White House called the proposal unnecessary bureaucracy.

Votes for candidates and ballot measures opposing data centers could rein in AI's expansion in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Mondelēz International and Accenture are transforming the snack maker's Order-to-Cash process with agentic AI, aiming to speed up payment collections and improve operational visibility.

China has blocked SoftBank's planned $5.4 billion acquisition of ABB's robotics division, the Financial Times reported, and ABB confirmed the decision in a statement.

Salesforce says Agentforce Coworker has more than 185,000 users, with usage up 21 times in three months, and adds new capabilities and integrations.

Perplexity launches Teammates, always-on AI agents for work that require its $200-per-month Max subscription and integrate with Perplexity Computer and Slack.

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit humanoid, now trades on Nasdaq as AGLT following its merger with SPAC Churchill Capital Corp XI.

Cloudflare argues that hosted AI agents blur the relationship between sites and users, calling for new mechanisms of identity, reputation and accountability.

Mercedes-Benz is installing Liquid AI's conversational features over the air in North America, running them mainly on the vehicle itself.

A Capgemini survey finds 59% of financial institutions are piloting or deploying multi-agent AI, yet only 10% have achieved enterprise-wide orchestration.

Baidu has unveiled Apollo World, a world model creating interactive virtual traffic environments to train and validate the driving systems of its Apollo Go robotaxis.

Samsung's Android XR smart glasses will open for preorder on November 12, with first deliveries expected in mid-December and no price announced yet.

World Labs releases Frameboy, a research preview streaming worlds generated by its Atlas model to the browser in real time at up to 15 fps.

Amazon offers third-party retailers a free portal, Merchant Workspace, to sync their e-commerce sites directly with Amazon search and Alexa for Shopping.

Airbnb committed to releasing its AI travel agent in the first half of 2027, built around a travel-specific interface rather than a conventional text chatbot.

Visa released an online tool open to everyone that evaluated 22 AI models from 12 providers across 15 realistic shopping scenarios.

Clorox's litter brand produced three 15-second spots with agency RECE in 30 days, at one-tenth the cost of traditional production.

YouTuber Gossip Goblin announces a Grimes cameo in his AI-generated film through a Times Square campaign, ahead of its December 4 release.

Runway published research on serving its roughly 57B-parameter video diffusion transformer in real time, which now runs each session on four H100 GPUs.

Meta has released a Mac version of Edits, its CapCut rival, offering a multi-track timeline and finer editing controls than the mobile app.

On November 5, a massive sell-off in technology stocks erased about $2.5 trillion from US markets, pushing the Nasdaq into correction territory.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says the company could be ready to go public in 2027, with enterprises now making up most of its sales.

Google Vids now runs on Omni 1.2 Flash, letting anyone with a Google account generate up to three 15-second videos per month at no cost.

Google rolls out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, a video model generating native 15-second clips, with a price cut of 30% versus Omni 1.1.

Cognizant has formed an OpenAI Frontier Capability Group of more than 25,000 professionals to build and support enterprise systems using ChatGPT and Codex.

The European Commission unveiled the European Chip Design Platform on Wednesday, a €525 million initiative to support start-ups designing semiconductors under the EU Chips Act.

Prada, Hermès and Anthropologie are showcasing hand-drawn or hand-animated human work to stand apart from the AI-generated content flooding the internet.

DoubleVerify's Global Insights 2026 report finds 39% of French consumers view brands negatively when their ads appear beside low-quality AI-generated content.

Moonshot AI has published the weights of its flagship multimodal model Kimi K3.1 Pro on Hugging Face, making it available for independent deployment.

Meta is rolling out real-time voice conversations and expressive avatars in its Muse app on mobile, web and Mac, starting in the US.

Microsoft says Anthropic's Claude models in Copilot will be processed inside the EU Data Boundary by the end of 2026 for EU and EFTA organisations.

ElevenLabs said music created with ElevenMusic can now be published directly on SoundCloud, with three months of ElevenMusic Pro offered to SoundCloud Artist Pro users.

Claude's share of UK consumer AI subscription spending rose from 7.4% to 29.4% between December 2025 and July 2026, a new study shows.

OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Cyber, a model built to find and fix vulnerabilities while staying within the scope set by researchers.

Anthropic is rolling out Personal Finance in Claude in beta, letting US subscribers connect bank accounts and ask questions through read-only access.

According to METR, Anthropic is improving its models on well-specified tasks about twice as fast as between March 2024 and October 2025.

OpenAI announced on November 4 its plan to acquire Pierre, the developer-tools startup behind the Trees and Diffs libraries used in Codex.

Meta confirmed it has acquired Conductor, a startup that lets users launch several coding agents in parallel workspaces to build software projects.

Cognition unveils SWE-2 Flash, a coding model built on Inkling-Small, available in Devin at one-fifth the price of SWE-2 and three times faster.

France's CNRS is leaving Microsoft Exchange for Partage, Renater's open-source messaging service partly based on Zimbra, citing digital sovereignty and announced savings.

Ai2 is launching NeuralGCM+, an open-source model for decades-long climate projections, backed by multimillion-dollar, three-year funding from Google.org and technical support from Google Research.

Xiaomi released a video of humanoid robots sorting parts for eight hours at its electric-vehicle plant, which it says was fully autonomous.

ID Logistics and Terra Robotics announced a partnership to test humanoid robots in logistics operations, following nearly a year of joint experimentation in Germany.

MeilleursBiens launched an MCP connector giving access to 32 Neo tools from an AI assistant, with every send or change requiring the agent's approval.

Harvey and Jus Mundi announced a partnership integrating the Jus AI agent into Harvey's Assistant, Agents, Vault and Workflows products.

Amazon's robotaxi unit Zoox plans to begin exploratory testing outside the United States in early 2027, starting with Europe and Asia, its chief executive said.

German dubbing actor Matti Klemm, voice of Jason Momoa, will sue Netflix, accusing it of training AI systems on his voice without consent or payment.

Waymo will end its exclusivity with Uber in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028 and offer rides through its own app, co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said.

Volvo Cars is expanding its partnership with Nvidia to develop AI-based autonomous driving safety technology for its next-generation models, to be introduced in phases.

Ten independent French publishing houses have founded Adepia, an association seeking compensation from artificial intelligence companies accused of using their books without authorisation.

Enterprise Linux provider SUSE will lay off one employee in ten out of roughly 2,000, its CEO citing automation and artificial intelligence.

Volkswagen Group China secured a Level 3 road test permit in Hefei, while Stellantis announced two autonomous driving partnerships in France.

Adobe announced on November 4, 2026 that CX Enterprise Coworker is now available in AI platforms from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Databricks and IBM.

Nice CEO Scott Russell says the planned cut of about 500 jobs will also reach R&D, where teams use AI tools to boost productivity materially.

Walmart has added visual recognition, recipe-based cart creation and healthier ingredient swaps to its Sparky AI assistant ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Meta's French subsidiary has launched a departure plan targeting about a hundred positions, close to a third of its workforce.

Wearable maker Whoop will sell its 5.0 and MG trackers online and in selected Ulta Beauty stores starting in March 2027.

On November 4, 2026, Microsoft gave Clarity AI-agent tracking, the Ask Clarity assistant and product listings in Copilot, Bing and MSN.

Google confirmed to Reuters that it is extending its voluntary buyout offers to employees in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.

Canva's restructure affects 1,271 employees, or 22% of its global workforce, through layoffs and requests to relocate to centralised hubs.

On its third-quarter earnings call, Uber said AI agents ordered only four rides during Halloween week, its busiest week in October.

Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin says AI agents are strongest in discovery, while travelers still prefer to book with trusted brands.

Criteo reported third-quarter net income of $6 million, versus $40 million a year earlier, hit by lower client budgets and lost contracts.

A Reuters analysis says AI shopping agents could erode Amazon and Walmart's retail media profits, although the impact so far appears limited.

Bloomberg reports that Apple cut its engineering teams' daily AI spending cap from $300 to $200 in October, with further reductions under way.

Overseas markets now account for 50% of revenue from ByteDance's Seedance video-generation model, according to a report by 36Kr's AI publication Zhinen Yongxian.

AI data-center stocks fell and renewables rose after Democrats swept the US midterms, as investors priced in tougher oversight of the AI buildout.

Tencent unveils Hy4, a language model with vision and computer use for the first time, with weights due to be released shortly.

Mirelo has released a free VST3 and AU plugin that transcribes a full track into MIDI, one file per instrument, inside digital audio workstations.

Microsoft again delays default usage-based billing for new Copilot Business subscriptions sold by CSP partners, now expected between January and March 2027.

OpenAI announced Images 2.6, an image generation update available in ChatGPT, Codex and the API, which it says is 50% faster than its predecessor.

Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to steal more than $6 billion in digital assets last week.

Revolut says it cut its AI coding inference costs by about 90% by making self-hosted open-weight models its default choice.

A Crissy Field scan of 159,041 Lovable projects found 24,664 of 34,545 Supabase-backed apps returned database records with no authentication whatsoever.

Google DeepMind introduced Cheminformatics Skills for Antigravity, letting an agent propose candidate macrocycles with synthetic routes for lung cancer drugs in about an hour.

EHR vendor athenahealth launched athenaPatient MCP, allowing Claude Pro and Max users in the United States to get answers drawn from their own health records.

Apple released the first beta of Xcode 27.3, which adds GitHub Copilot to the coding assistant built into its development environment.

Anthropic added an instruction to Claude Code telling it not to recreate an existing video game, even renamed, to counter AI-generated clones.

Apple will require an 18+ rating for apps offering dating or romantic features, including AI companions, with new content descriptors mandatory from November 16.

Launching its Grid Protectors Program, OpenAI favored the term 'compute campus' over 'data center', a change activist groups call a cosmetic fix.

The unauthorised felling of about 250,000 trees for a Google data center in Finland has embarrassed the government, Le Monde reports.

Advocate General Maciej Szpunar says Google's Gemini chatbot can infringe publishers' rights when it reuses their articles in a recognisable form.

Boston Dynamics has introduced the second generation of its Stretch robot, engineered to cut downtime and speed up maintenance in high-volume logistics operations.

Zalando reported third-quarter sales above expectations, driven by B2B demand, and unveiled Zalando Extended, an AI-powered service for buying from third-party retailers.

From early 2027, Google will disable its AI tools by default for K-12 students, and schools that fully prohibit them will lose access to search.

Google announces the global launch of Guided Learning in Google Classroom, its arrival in Search and new controls for K-12 student accounts.

Safilo's chief executive says the Italian eyewear maker will enter the smart glasses market, without specifying the timing or the way it will do so.

Mastercard disclosed during its third-quarter 2026 earnings call a partnership with OpenAI covering Agent Pay, payments, joint services growth and AI transformation.

Bloomberg reports Disney is considering thousands of job cuts and has asked some managers to target up to 20% in annual savings.

Apple's watchOS 27.3 developer beta adds two Audio Intelligence features, Siri Recap and Live Rewind, which use the Watch's microphone to summarize and transcribe conversations.

Human Forward tested 75 British brands on six AI assistants: 15 were never recommended, and 35 of 50 sites checked were not agent-ready.

AI inference startup Fal raised $1.3 billion in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, valuing it at $16 billion, double April's level.

ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski told Bloomberg the voice and audio AI company could start preparing for an initial public offering in 2028.

Publicis has closed its $2.2 billion LiveRamp acquisition, and beverage brand Liquid Death says it plans to move away from the data-collaboration platform.

Synthesia announced on November 3, 2026 a ChatGPT plugin, available on every plan, to generate, revise and automate videos from within the conversation.

Lagardère Publicité News and M6 Unlimited are introducing agentic AI into audio campaign planning, according to French radio sales houses' 2027 terms of sale.

Reddit is testing ad placements in its search results pages, days after warning investors about declining search traffic and a weaker revenue forecast.

Runway co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis says the startup's annual recurring revenue could reach $450 million by the end of this year.

OpenAI detailed its physical engineering work on November 3, 2026: a research collaboration with Mazda and an expanded partnership with Chip Ganassi Racing.

Disney is experimenting with startup OpenArt to generate AI lyric video concepts for its songs, starting with "Go the Distance" from the 1997 film Hercules.

Nvidia reportedly requires its data center partners to sell at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese companies, according to the Financial Times.

Netflix is gradually rolling out in the US a TV tab with experimental AI features that suggest content based on themes.

According to Menlo Ventures, enterprise AI deployment spending reached $177 billion by September 2026, up from $33 billion a year earlier.

Topaz Labs unveiled Wonder 4 on 3 November, a single image model that upscales and repairs photos in one pass.

On November 2, refrigeration units in several European supermarkets were remotely manipulated, causing losses of goods and disruption, weeks after similar incidents in France.

CrowdStrike unveiled an AI kill switch on November 3 that lets administrators stop rogue AI agents and prevent them from restarting.

Germany's cybersecurity agency BSI says lawmakers and officials received Apple spyware threat notifications, and told them to assume their devices are infected and replace them.

Runway launches plugins for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor that connect coding agents to its generative media API through a single install.

Germany's AI task force has produced a report setting measurable targets and 18 cross-ministry key measures to make the country an AI nation by 2030.

Google is winding down Jules, its AI coding agent launched in 2025, to consolidate its agentic efforts into a unified experience called Antigravity.

Goldman Sachs has withdrawn access to AI coding tools such as Claude Code from most of its traders and bankers.

Publisher IEEE retracted 1,417 conference papers on October 23, six months after researchers flagged fake proceedings whose authorships had been bought.

Hippocratic AI has released Polaris 6 Ultra, a language model for clinical voice interactions, trained on more than 323 million real patient conversations.

The European Commission wants to harmonize online child protection and is postponing by twelve months national bills that overlap with the KIDS Act.

Tutor Intelligence raised $75 million in a Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz to fund robot foundation model training and the manufacturing of its robots.

Elon Musk confirmed that the sudden cut to Grok Bot's weekly usage limits was no glitch, saying serving costs were too high relative to revenue.

SpaceXSI introduces Data Bot, a Grok Bot Team Bot taught by its data scientists to query the data warehouse and run analyses.

The HKMA launched Project SAGE at FinTech Week and published a discussion paper on banks' use of agentic AI for industry feedback.

Nvidia presents Cosmos Framework and Cosmos NIM microservices to adapt world models to specific sensors and deploy them faster for physical AI applications.

Talent agency WME filed an amicus brief on October 30 arguing that AI use of creative works should be licensed, not stopped.

Gartner names Microsoft, IBM and ServiceNow leaders in its first Magic Quadrant covering platforms that govern enterprise AI agents wherever they run.

Clark launched Clerks, autonomous AI employees for audit work at CPA firms, and announced an $11 million seed round led by Touring Capital.

Anthropic's Claude Platform now offers message threads in public beta, so agents no longer resend the full conversation history on every turn, cutting latency.

Squarespace, the website building and hosting company, is reducing its global workforce by about 19%, around 300 employees, as part of a restructuring.

The Information reports Apple's tabletop robot, aimed at 2027 for about $1,000, could slip to 2028 because its software is not ready.

A Chartered Management Institute survey of 928 UK managers finds nine in ten see candidates using AI to help write CVs or cover letters.

Amazon said over 400 million customers used its Alexa for Shopping assistant in 12 months, up from 350 million at end-July.

In October 2026, 49.9% of games released on Steam disclosed AI-generated content, up from 26.4% a year earlier, according to a Reddit analysis.

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, whose voice agents handle complex customer calls, to combine it with Service Cloud.

Publicis Groupe has completed its acquisition of LiveRamp, enabling it to launch a plug-and-play AI growth engine that clients fully own and control.

Viggle launches Remake, a video-to-video agent that edits a filmed clip of 5 to 60 seconds while keeping performance, camera and sound.

In its amended S-1 filed November 2 ahead of its planned IPO, Anthropic reports nearly $17 billion in third-quarter revenue.

In the US, a visit from a paid ChatGPT ad generated $0.89 for shops, against $2.45 from a paid Google search ad, a study finds.

S&P Global revised its outlook on Meta to negative from stable, citing negative cash flow and uncertainty around the company's AI capital expenditure plans.

OVHcloud founder Octave Klaba announces an open sovereign language model by the end of November while criticizing Mistral AI's business model.

OpenAI launched Grid Protectors, a program to cut electricity use at its future compute campuses when local power grids are strained.

Palantir reported third-quarter revenue of $2.31 billion on November 2, 2026, up 96% from a year earlier and above analyst expectations.

President Lee Jae Myung has proposed 21.3 trillion won for artificial intelligence and semiconductors in the 2027 budget, roughly double the 2026 amount.

OpenAI is merging the Chat and Work tabs in the ChatGPT desktop app, starting with select users, while Codex remains a separate experience.

OpenAI's help center says Plus, Pro and Business subscribers will share a single usage allowance across ChatGPT and Codex starting in December.

Meituan released LongCat-2.5, a 1.6-trillion-parameter multimodal model designed for long-horizon agentic tasks and visual coding, available through its chat service and API platform.

Hume AI introduces its Audio Decision API, an audio-native model that returns an answer with a confidence score for questions the user defines.

Users on X claim Anthropic is quietly testing Fable 5.5 and OpenAI is preparing GPT-6.2 Astra, but nothing has been confirmed.

Google has launched its AI app Dreambeans in India with 13 local languages plus English, less than two months after its wider US opening.

In its revised S-1/A, Anthropic says it may soon meet its definition of AI-driven accelerated progress, though no current model has crossed that threshold.

Anthropic has open-sourced FlashProve, a zkSNARK-based system that lets users verify a response really came from the model a provider claims.

DeepSeek released Super-agent, an open-source prototype of a more autonomous coding agent that watches developer chats, to challenge Anthropic's Claude Code.

Cisco president Jeetu Patel gave a 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to refactor 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months.

Five French publisher groups have filed a complaint against Google with the European Commission after the launch of AI Overviews and AI Mode in France.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has called for a cap on robotaxis in the capital as the UK government prepares to allow driverless vehicles.

JPMorgan, Charles Schwab, Amazon, Neiman Marcus and Kohl's have moved to block personal AI agents such as Meta's Muse, CNBC reports.

South Korea's October exports reached $115.28 billion, up 93.7% year on year, with semiconductor shipments rising 259%, according to the industry ministry.

Adobe Research and UC San Diego unveil EditAgent, an image-editing agent that pairs a general-purpose editor with specialized tools and verifies each result with measurements.

OpenAI has released GPT-Rosalind-6, a life-sciences version of GPT-6 Astra on the same weights, priced at $15 input and $75 output per million tokens.

SpaceXSI offers an invisible text watermark for Grok, based on Google DeepMind's SynthID Text, to help customers comply with the EU AI Act.

According to The Information, Meta built a prototype humanoid robot in about three months with Chinese startup Fourier and is already building a second version.

Agency Wili created for Mondorf Promotion the campaign "Là où tout commence", a film using AI to recreate historical and family scenes.

In a Friday address, Pope Leo XIV asked UN member states to take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons at their Geneva meeting.

Paris-based Bleu Robotics has raised €5 million in pre-seed funding for AI software that teaches an industrial humanoid robot a new task from ten demonstrations.

OpenAI published a post on October 30 citing amicus briefs that argue training AI models on copyrighted works qualifies as fair use.

The UK's CMA is examining whether Meta's commercial terms, letting it use publishers' content for its own services including AI, abuse a dominant position.

Toyota and Waymo will start testing and validating an autonomous Toyota bZ4X fleet in Japan in 2027, with deployment in the United Kingdom planned afterwards.

Capgemini reported third-quarter revenues of €6,073 million, up 11.7% at constant exchange rates, and raised its 2026 revenue growth target.

Accenture uses AI agents to screen résumés and schedule interviews, while a human still makes the final hiring decision, The Register reports.

Roblox reported quarterly daily active users of 138 million, below expectations, and is counting on generative AI to offset the decline.

China's Kuaishou has completed a funding round of nearly $3 billion for Kling AI, its generative video unit, which it plans to list.

DoorDash said during its third-quarter earnings call that third-party AI agents have placed only 'several hundred' orders, against an average of three million daily deliveries.

DeepSeek's second funding round, close to $16 billion, drew 27% from Chinese state-owned investors, versus 2% in April, The Information reported.

Amazon shares dropped 6.5% in after-hours trading Thursday after the company reported negative free cash flow of $42.4 billion over twelve months.

OpenAI told advertisers that ChatGPT Ads is live in 26 more countries, 89 in total, and introduced a wider standard ad unit.

Amazon's advertising business generated almost $20 billion in the third quarter, up 12%, as the company bets on its agentic tool Amazon Ads Agent.

Google received the first response from a data-center-class TPU in orbit: a haiku generated by its Gemma 4 model aboard the Suncatcher prototype satellite.

CEO Andy Jassy confirmed on the third-quarter earnings call that Amazon plans to sell racks of Trainium chips to external customers beginning in late 2027.

According to the Financial Times, cited by Reuters, Spotify plans a paid AI remix service for 2027, sold as an add-on to Premium.

Microsoft has released Mage-VL-Cowork on Hugging Face, a 4-billion-parameter model under Apache-2.0 license designed to operate a computer through graphics interfaces and code.

Google's October Workspace Drops bring Markdown editing, conversational voice in Gmail and Docs, and real-time speech translation across 63 languages in Google Meet.

The British government is extending its PlanAssist AI tool to 15 councils and giving officers simple applications, aiming to speed up planning decisions.

The 53 Member States of the WHO European Region unanimously adopted their first roadmap on artificial intelligence in health, covering the period 2026–2033.

On 22 October, CNIL fined two Fnac companies €7 million for using a tracker in their mobile app without users' consent.

Anthropic told California Governor Gavin Newsom that the state should be able to ask a court to block AI models posing serious risk.

Bedrock Robotics, led by former Waymo engineers, raised $600 million in a Series C at a $4.1 billion post-money valuation.

The Paris Court of Appeal rejected Meta's challenges and confirmed that it must negotiate in good faith over payment to the press.

NielsenIQ and Google announced a partnership to improve product discovery and local availability in agentic commerce, with NIQ naming Google Cloud a primary AI provider.

Meta has launched Style Sketch, an AI app that builds outfits from users' own clothes, available in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.

Maybelline New York becomes the first beauty brand to integrate real-time virtual makeup try-on into ChatGPT, available from October 29, 2026.

Amazon began rolling out Alexa+ in Japan on October 29, 2026 in free Early Access, then ¥3,000 monthly unless customers have Prime.

Etsy is tightening rules on AI-generated listings and reported its first quarterly rise in active buyers in two years, according to its latest results.

Coveo announced it has acquired Anglera, a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed startup specialising in AI product data enrichment, for an undisclosed amount.

Bites, whose AI platform creates short personalized training for frontline employees, has raised a $40 million Series A led by PeakSpan Capital.

Cohere is seeking up to C$7 billion in a Series E at a valuation of nearly C$36 billion, including a C$1.6 billion stake from Ottawa.

Gemini helped advertisers create more than 1.5 billion campaign assets in the third quarter, over seven times the level of a year earlier.

Magnific's Move feature turns a written description into an editable motion graphics composition, which users can export as an MP4 video file.

Pika unveils H3 Flex, a post-trained version of MiniMax H3 that generates video with audio faster than real time and ships with open weights.

Deloitte finds 81% of surveyed companies make decisions faster with AI, but only 25% use it to deeply transform their business.

UMG posted 3.394 billion euros in third-quarter revenue, nearly 12 percent more than in 2025, and its CEO denounced the spread of AI slop.

Granola, known for meeting notes, launches unlimited voice dictation on Mac, months after Wispr, known for dictation, released a meeting notetaker.

Mistral released the open weights of Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, which it presents as the best open-weight model developed outside China.

Microsoft is expanding Copilot with more than 25 finance skills and partner-built plugins covering accounting, capital markets and broader finance work.

Google's Gemini app now lets all users generate, preview and edit documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets and code directly within a conversation.

Google is adding hundreds of free textbooks from U.S. and Indian providers to Gemini Notebook, so students can ground answers in their course materials.

Canva Research introduced Brush, a model that understands how a design is assembled and makes requested changes, now available to Canva Pro subscribers.

According to GitHub's Octoverse report, developers pushed code 17.9 billion times over the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined.

Enterprises working with a GitHub or Microsoft account team can now get Copilot included in GitHub Enterprise, with AI usage metered against the enterprise budget.

GitHub made Copilot Fusion generally available, a system that routes and orchestrates several models for each task, with three effort levels.

South Korea's regulator fined Google and Apple a combined 63.7 billion won for forcing local developers onto their own payment systems and delaying app reviews.

The FTC orders nine companies, including Uber, Delta and Walmart, to detail how they use personal data to set prices and compensation.

Dassault Systèmes has closed its ArisGlobal acquisition and is merging its life sciences and healthcare activities into one AI platform under new executive Ashwini Zenooz.

Anthropic is expanding its AI for Science program by partnering with 20 foundations, institutions and research groups that will distribute or use free Claude credits.

Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law setting safeguards on AI chatbots for minors, which takes effect on 1 January 2027.

Democratic lawmakers demand answers from Mark Zuckerberg over the suspension of the No Kings Coalition Instagram account, which Meta blames on an automated error.

Amazon published a memo telling software engineers to use AI with judgment, arguing that counting tokens or lines of code is a misleading productivity measure.

Chinese robot maker Unitree, listed since August, reported a 17.4% drop in third-quarter net profit even as revenue rose nearly 70% year on year.

Slack has made its Slack Code API generally available, letting any developer's agent open dedicated code channels where teams can follow and steer its work.

Microsoft is making the GitHub-built Copilot harness available through Microsoft Foundry, so developers and enterprises can build agents that work across multiple AI models.

Google is launching the preview of its Connected Apps Platform, where developers build and manage apps for Search and the Gemini app in one place.

Kodiak AI will deliver 75 self-driving trucks to DTL Transport from 2028, its first binding commercial deal for driverless big rigs on public highways.

Shopify now offers Shop Pay inside personal AI agents such as Muse, Claude Duet and Instinct, including for brands that are not on Shopify.

Amazon unveils a new Echo Dot with a built-in smart home hub and an Echo Studio with camera, both running the Alexa+ assistant.

Meta has launched Waddle World, a free tamagotchi-style app where a virtual pet chats with users, reportedly available only to adults in the Philippines.

Broccoli AI, whose agents answer calls for plumbing, HVAC and electrical companies, has raised $52 million across its Series A and Series B rounds.

HM Treasury publishes a Covenant setting conditions for AI data centres, as the government estimates the UK needs 6 GW of capacity by 2030.

OpenAI intends to buy AI computing chips from Google as part of its infrastructure build-out, Bloomberg reports, citing a person familiar with the matter.

OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership on October 28, 2026, with a ServiceNow plugin in ChatGPT and planned Codex integrations.

Microsoft reported Azure revenue of $33.2 billion for the July-September quarter, up 48% year on year, its first dollar disclosure for the cloud unit.

Higgsfield released Cinema Studio 4.0, an AI filmmaking workspace that builds 30-second multi-shot scenes from up to 50 references, up from 15 seconds and nine.

Anthropic adds shareable interactive artifacts to Claude for Legal to review contracts, track regulatory changes and handle requests from the business.

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free open-weight model transcribing audio in up to 40 languages, alongside version 2 of its Granary speech dataset.

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, ranked first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59, initially available only to a subset of cyber defenders.

Gemini now offers a library of immersive explorations in its student hub, letting users explore topics layer by layer, from microscopic systems to deep space.

Google's enhanced autofill in Chrome can now suggest information from Gmail, such as order numbers, tracking details and flight bookings, when users fill out forms.

A 16-year-old, the second suspect in the hack of French tax authority data, has been charged in Paris and placed under judicial supervision.

Anthropic is giving Claude Enterprise customers smart reports that analyse team conversations to show usage, output, spending and sessions classed as personal or off-topic.

Chancellor John Healey announced in the budget a £50m civil service AI transformation fund, managed by the new Cabinet Office team GovAI.

In its 27 October bulletin, the Banque de France explains why AI matters to a central bank and presents five applications in production.

A new agreement with the GSA gives agencies 40% off Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the API, including state, local, tribal and territorial governments.

Eviden, the products arm of Atos Group, launched ASTRA-LAS on 27 October, a decision-support solution for officers and operators in above-surface warfare.

Atos unveiled its Atos Genesis Intelligence suite and Atos Codex on 26 October, aimed at critical infrastructure, defence and the public sector.

At the DTIIF 2026 forum in Jakarta, Danantara and Telkom presented an AI-ready data center, AI ModelHub, a national IoT platform and PaDiSera.

Anthropic has partnered with six organizations developing medicines and started its own drug discovery programs, using Claude across many development tasks.

At TechEd, SAP announced updates to Joule and its Business AI Platform, including a governed gateway for agents and new tabular data foundation models.

Boston Dynamics has finalized its Atlas suppliers and asked selected companies to prepare for purchase orders covering 10,000 units of the humanoid robot.

China has granted new autonomous-driving permission to Xpeng and a Volkswagen joint venture, intensifying the commercialisation race between Chinese firms and Tesla.

Microsoft announced on 26 October 2026 a voluntary exit offer that could cover about 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its workforce.

General Motors announced on October 27, 2026 that it will transfer the listing of its common stock from the New York Stock Exchange to Nasdaq.

Amid fierce competition for AI researchers, quantitative trading firms are sponsoring PhD students and opening in-house research labs, Bloomberg reports.

SpAItial introduces Echo-3, a model that turns phone captures into faithful real-scale 3D environments, released alongside an iPhone companion app.

Google DeepMind announces Genie 4, a multimodal world model simulating interactive environments in real time with native audio, first offered to trusted testers.

Anthropic's IPO filing reports $131.7 billion in cash, equivalents and short-term investments as of June 30, 2026, according to CNBC's analysis of the document.

OpenAI is reportedly offering discounts of up to 40% to attract Anthropic customers, according to The Information, which may further strain its already negative margins.

OpenAI and Oracle expanded their partnership to offer Oracle AI Workspace in ChatGPT, connecting Oracle's applications, data and cloud infrastructure to the assistant.

Microsoft AI previews MAI Image 2.7, an image editing model ranked third on Arena Edit and second on Artificial Analysis's image editing leaderboard.

Apple is updating Creator Studio with built-in MotionVFX in Final Cut Pro, Generate Fill in Pixelmator Pro and beta AI assistants in Logic Pro.

Google DeepMind's AI model predicted from the start that Isaias would hit western Florida, while conventional models first pointed toward southeastern Louisiana.

A study finds some languages require far more tokens than others, making artificial intelligence more expensive for the people who speak them.

The US Justice Department is appealing a court ruling that blocked the ban on federal agencies using Anthropic's AI models.

In its IPO filing, Anthropic lists catastrophic or existential risks to humanity from AI among the risk factors it presents to investors.

The fourth Bank of England and FCA survey finds 86% of respondents use AI, up from 75% in 2024, led by generative AI.

Google Research and Stanford Accelerator for Learning launch “Polar Peaks,” the third AI Quest, teaching students aged 11 to 14 AI literacy through neuroscience.

With the 27.2 software updates released October 26, 2026, Apple's Siri AI, a rebuilt version of Siri, becomes available in five more languages.

Chinese tech shares have already crashed, Reuters reports, with the STAR 50 index down 40% in under four months as global tech wobbles.

California companies have already raised $385 billion in 2026, more than all US startups in any prior year, according to Crunchbase data.

Anthropic filed a Form S-1 with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering, planning to list on Nasdaq under the symbol ANT.

Runway has launched App Studio, which builds custom creative apps without code that generate images, video and audio using a team's Brand Kits and Workflows.

Anthropic released a Claude plugin built with about 30 nonprofits and plans to extend its Claude Corps program through a partnership with Taproot.

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a mid-tier model aimed at computer use, priced 50% below both GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol.

In a sandbox test, Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a diagnostic file to a cloud storage bucket in Beijing before being blocked.

The Dutch government plans to eliminate about 25,000 full-time central government posts by 2035, roughly 16% of the workforce, partly through AI and standardised IT.

Owners of rights in 274 Elvis Presley compositions accuse Anthropic of using their lyrics to train Claude without a licence, in a California lawsuit.

Jensen Huang cited at GTC Berlin a price of about $2,000 per GPU per year for Nvidia's software that runs agents.

Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says revenue per worker and profit margins are flat in the S&P 493, unlike the Mag 7 group.

The British Chancellor announced AI investments including £165 million for biosecurity and £120 million for the AI Security Institute, plus cyber defence funding.

Publicis appointed Scott Hagedorn CEO and Sam Levine Archer chief strategy officer of Marcel, its agentic AI platform, to scale the platform's growth.

Incheon was chosen for the Interior Ministry's AI champion consulting and will open a 2027 course training 120 municipal staff in AI.

Chungju signed an investment agreement with Seoul Dynamics, which will invest 20 billion won in a plant for AI-based autonomous forklifts.

Google Meet's Gemini-powered speech translation now covers 63 languages on web, Android and iOS, detecting the spoken language automatically and letting each participant enable translation individually.

CJ Logistics won a 315 billion won contract to build a 50 MW AI data center in Ansan for KT Cloud, due in 2029.

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission is collecting comments until 11 November on draft guidelines governing advertising that refers to artificial intelligence.

Singapore's Groundup.ai unveiled GINA V2 at ITAP 2026, an agentic AI engine combining sound, vibration and thermal data to diagnose machine failures.

KRAFTON released the preview of Raon-1 mini on 21 October under the Apache 2.0 licence, a language model with 28.8 billion parameters.

The Japanese city of Hachinohe is trialling an AI chatbot for parents until 28 February 2027, ahead of a full rollout planned for fiscal 2027.

Enterprise Singapore launched Catalytic AI Solutions, a three-year initiative worth over S$45 million to help advanced manufacturing SMEs deploy enterprise-level artificial intelligence.

Google, Temasek and Bain's e-Conomy SEA 2026 report says 58% of the region's working population uses generative AI, scaling four times faster than mobile internet.

CaptivateIQ made its Rev Planning and Comp Builder agents generally available, adjusting quotas, territories and incentive compensation plans using each organization's own logic and rules.

Getty Images began Chapter 11 proceedings in Delaware to implement a plan backed by up to $533 million from the Getty family and Koch.

HUMAIN and DataVolt signed a preliminary framework with Nebius, which could reserve up to 50 MW at their planned Oxagon AI campus in NEOM.

CoreWeave unveils its Zero Trust AI Framework, a six-layer model giving customers authority over access to their models, data and runtime environments.

JFrog AI Security now detects AI assets on developer machines and scans agent skills and plugins using the customer's own LLM key.

NVIDIA introduces DSX POD, a reference design for containerised Vera Rubin AI factories that cuts deployment from six months to as little as 14 days.

The Law Society has published a 58-page practice note advising solicitors to give clients appropriate information about how they use artificial intelligence in their work.

Navantia and Multiverse Computing signed a memorandum of understanding to develop, validate and deploy AI and quantum-inspired solutions for naval defense.

An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll finds 57% of Americans call AI bad for society, and about two-thirds oppose building new data centers in the U.S.

Éditions du Boréal ended its collaboration with the author after an external analysis found AI markers in the working versions of his novel.

With Nokia and NVIDIA, T-Mobile placed the first AI-RAN call on a live network, while nine EMEA operators build or expand NVIDIA-powered infrastructure.

Bolt has selected NVIDIA's Alpamayo Stack for its European robotaxi program, which targets at least 25,000 level 4-capable future Lucid vehicles.

NVIDIA and its suppliers aim for 2.5 times more substrate capacity within three years, with a $1.1 billion capacity advance to KYEC.

Google Cloud and NVIDIA announced general availability of A5X instances on Vera Rubin in November, with up to 960,000 Rubin GPUs planned across sites.

Italian operator TIM is building with NVIDIA a sovereign AI platform hosted in Italy, aimed at businesses, public administration and developers.

Rockwell Automation introduced FactoryTalk Conductor, a platform orchestrating AI agents, skills and workflows in industrial automation, expected in the first quarter of 2027.

Oracle announced AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications, a no-code and low-code environment to build, test and deploy AI agents for industry-specific processes.

Databricks announces general availability of AI Runtime, fully managed GPU infrastructure that lets customers train models where their enterprise data already lives.