AI can turn security fixes into working exploits before users receive an update
GLM 5.3 turned published-but-unshipped Firefox security fixes into working one-click exploits for six releases, at roughly $1,000 each.
Daily digest / 29 October 2026
AI news digest — 29 October 2026
Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97
Host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from understanding the challenges facing coding agents to uncovering how people use AI at work and improving extended-range weather forecasting. The post Microsoft Research Foc…
Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Speeding up language models for travel applications
Two optimization techniques, when combined, can significantly improve a model’s speed and cost effectiveness without sacrificing quality.
Catching Bugs Before They Land: JiTTesting’s Human-on-the-Loop Approach at Full Scale
Over the last year we’ve been sharing our work leveraging large language models to catch bugs on the fly — a novel approach we call Catching Just-in-Time Tests (JiTTests). Now, we’re sharing the results and positive impact we’ve seen with Catching JiTTests deployed into produc…
Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning
A new decoy counting benchmark exposes a gap between seeing and reasoning. Elorian’s Glimpse tries to bridge it by thinking with images.
Accelerating Frontier Transformation: Reshape business processes
Discover how organizations are reshaping business processes with AI by connecting knowledge, building trust, and measuring outcomes that create lasting business value. The post Accelerating Frontier Transformation: Reshape business processes appeared first on The Microsoft Clo…
Unlocking Tensor Core Performance for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
Atomistic simulations help researchers understand how molecules and materials behave, from chemical reactions and phase transitions to mechanical failure. These... Atomistic simulations help researchers understand how molecules and materials behave, from chemical reactions and…
How Zurich is shaping the future of algorithms, 70 years in
As IBM's Zurich Lab turns 70, director Alessandro Curioni speaks about the celebrations, his work on Algorithms & Applications, and his vision for the future.
Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software
Slice Into GFN Thursday: ‘Phantom Blade Zero’ Launches on GeForce NOW
This Halloween week, GFN Thursday is delivering a fresh batch of gaming treats. Something wicked this blade comes. S-GAME’s Phantom Blade Zero launches on GeForce NOW today, bringing a scarily good blend of martial arts and punk fantasy to the cloud. There’s also something on …
Le Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by Defenders.
The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.
What is turn taking in conversational AI: A guide to natural flow
Turn taking decides when a voice agent speaks, pauses, or listens. Learn how it works, how barge-in is handled, and how to measure and tune it.
How we use ElevenAgents to save 1,200 hours a month in daily operations
How we use ElevenAgents to save 1,200 hours a month in daily operations across GTM, product, support, and engineering
Introducing SFX v3 in ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI
SFX v3 is here: more reliable multi-sound prompts, more convincing music and vocals, and cleaner audio. Now in ElevenCreative and ElevenAPI.
[AINews] Gemini 4 Carbon tops leaderboards, launches for cyber defenders
Google’s new frontier model leads independent evals, with access initially limited to trusted defenders.
AI for Science expands to foundations and institutions
We’re highlighting 20 scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups from around the world that we’ve partnered with in an expansion of our AI for Science program.
How to read the top model leaderboard: Who pays the most for AI inference and context?
Unlimited OCR2 could be your new scanning model. Genie 4 worries traditional video game developers. OpenAI produces proofs of major science theorems. Post-training method dispenses with human-written datasets.
Announcing Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready
Welcome Le Chonk: Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face
Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms
Who Gets to Build the Frontier for AI | Cohere
Cohere's co-founders explore why the democratic world needs more frontier AI builders and Cohere intends to compete.
Financial Research Assistant on AWS | Cohere
Build a financial research assistant with Cohere Embed, Rerank, and Parse on AWS. Improve document search, retrieval accuracy, and citation-backed answers.
How to Manage Agent Sprawl in the Enterprise | Cohere
Learn how enterprises manage agent sprawl and why some duplication can help teams discover better agentic solutions.
New global AI computing capacity is doubling every 9 months
The computing power of AI chips sold each quarter has grown about 2.5× per year since 2024, down from a surge in 2023.