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Google's CEO says the industry is pretty far from the end state of recursive self-improvement and that every lab wishes it had twice the compute.

A privacy policy update effective October 16 ties the opt-in Gemini feature to ad personalization, ending a blanket exclusion in place since 2021.

Sales to AI and cloud customers rose 126% to €631 million, and Nokia expects Optical and IP Networks to grow 25% to 30% in 2027.

Research engineer Sofia Liguori left this week and Andreas Kirsch earlier in October; Google says its public-sector deals go through a set review process.

Drivers can tap a Gemini icon to ask multi-step questions, start toll-free routes and report traffic, the first voice assistant in Maps' CarPlay app.

Most of the loss is a $72B non-cash charge on financing instruments, while compute and infrastructure commitments now top $600B.

A reusable attack built from off-the-shelf tools bypassed safety filters on DALL·E 3, Nano Banana 2, and GPT-Image-2, researchers say.

SimpleClosure's Asset Hub has brokered 150+ deals and expects to return over $10M to shuttered startups by end of 2026.

Import AI 474 covers a non-physicalist theory of mind, a call for a universal robotics post-training recipe, and Trillium TPUs bound for SpaceX's Transporter-18.

The CEO says automated traffic could hit 1,000x human traffic within five years — and advertising can't fund it.

The AI wardrobe feature is now live in the US, Brazil, and India after a June Android-first launch.

The new Call for Me feature on Pixel 11 lets Gemini dial restaurants and shops, navigate phone menus, and hand off mid-call.

The new prompt-based feature pins AI-curated video feeds to the top of the home page, rolling out on web and mobile next month.

Kate Taylor fed 17,000 words of coworker data into Gemini to build bot versions of her bosses. The results tested the limits of workplace AI.

The former Apple retail chief says AI agents will inform shoppers, not replace the store — a direct challenge to Google and OpenAI's commerce push.

The Chromebook successor bakes Gemini into the cursor and targets 50 million school Chromebooks for eventual conversion.

The model guessed passwords in one breach and pulled credentials from public repositories in two others before halting on its own.

Lasso Security tested 6 open-weight models and found watermarking made some more likely to comply with harmful prompts under injection attacks.

A UNICEF benchmark found six top models averaged 21.2% accuracy on development data; the new Data Commons aims to fix that.

Claude now generates shareable documents and presentations from any chat, closing the productivity-suite gap with Google Workspace.

The AI Energy Management Alliance debuts with 18 members including Anthropic, National Grid, AES and NRG to speed AI power interconnections.

The former Google researcher argues extinction fears from OpenAI and Anthropic staff obscure autonomous weapons, climate impact, and labor displacement.

Springshot says the auction hands Google 15 years of its IP; the EFF calls it the first public bankruptcy fight over employee data.

A fire at TeraWulf's Somerset site revealed dry hydrants and no clear owner among TeraWulf, Fluidstack, Google, and Anthropic.

Three men summited at 7pm instead of noon, ran out of supplies, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before rangers found them.
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