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GitHub says massive influx of AI-generated code required extra 4 million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage to manage — a sixfold increase to 7.4 billion monthly commits in one year

Is most programming code now made by AI? That's not hard to believe given the number of testimonies, but we now have exact figures behind that statement. GitHub, the world's largest code repository, says that over the course of this year, it added 4 million CPU cores, 160PB of storage, and 50 Tb/s of networking capacity to keep up with the influx of AI-generated code. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages (Image…

Google's AI search problem finally shows up in the earnings report, some investors believe

Google's stock dropped as much as ten percent after its quarterly earnings. Cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion, but search revenue grew just 12 percent, slower than expected. Google acknowledged that its fast-growing AI mode brings in less revenue than traditional search, and it is now expanding its AI mode ad program internationally. The article Google's AI search problem finally shows up in the…

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem that’s by no means confined to OpenAI. In the months since, Anthropic…

AI has come for Arizona’s water

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one building, and then another, and then the ground opens up where construction…

I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock

Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.

Flock ignores Minnesota city’s orders not to reinstall AI surveillance cameras — citizens complain after spotting two cameras despite the city canceling its contract

Flock's AI surveillance cameras are continuing to cause controversy, this time in Dayton, Minnesota, where it is alleged that the company reinstalled two cameras despite express orders from the city not to do so. The city's local government posted on Facebook to explain, claiming that the Police Department was made aware of a maintenance work order on September 17, to which Dayton responded the next day, stating the…

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises 'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurity

Google's latest Gemini 4 Carbon AI model boasts top benchmark scores in areas like cybersecurity and coding.

How we detect frontier model misalignment

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.

Gemini in Google Sheets is getting faster, smarter, and easier to trust

TL;DR Google Sheets now shows web sources directly in AI-generated cells, making Gemini’s information easier to verify. Gemini can now process up to 3,000 cells per request, with Google claiming up to 55 times faster performance than manual entry for certain tasks. Google Sheets is also getting compact pivot tables and improved Excel compatibility, with both features available to all users. Google Sheets already…

Infini-AI-Lab Releases Hermit, an Open-Source Harness Adapter Framework for AI Agents

Infini-AI-Lab has released Hermit , an open-source harness adapter framework for AI agents. Hermit is a framework from Infini-AI-Lab that trains an external ‘harness adapter’ while the agent’s model and harness stay frozen. The first release, v0.1.0 , shipped on October 25, 2026. CMU postdoc Haizhong Zheng announced it on X on October 27. For developers, the pitch is simple: adapt Codex or Claude Code agents to new…

Gemini’s new ‘immersive explorations’ turn it into an interactive encyclopedia

TL;DR Google has added a new “immersive explorations” feature in Gemini. It currently features a selection of 20 topics across different categories. Immersive explorations are available to all users on mobile and the web. Google is making Gemini even more useful for students and lifelong learners. Although Gemini was already fairly good at offering detailed explanations for most questions, Google is now making it…

Block Unveils Dessa, a Full-Duplex Speech Model Trained Only on Speech

Block’s AI research lab has released Dessa , a full-duplex speech model trained only on human conversation. Block announced it on October 23, 2026 as a research preview. Dessa is a speech-to-speech model from Block that listens and talks at the same time. Block says it used no text and no pretrained models. That is a different design from the text-first stacks behind most voice agents today. TL;DR Runs on: A MacBook…

AssemblyAI Ships AssemblyAI-TTS-1: A $15 per 1M Character Text-to-Speech API for Voice Agents

AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1 , its first text-to-speech model, now generally available. The AssemblyAI-TTS-1 text-to-speech API targets voice agents running on live phone calls. In that setting, latency and pronunciation decide whether a caller stays on the line. Pricing is $15 per 1M characters , with no annual contract and no concurrency tier to buy. For developers already using AssemblyAI…

The next big threat to RCS isn’t another messaging app

TL;DR The GSMA warns that the next six to twelve months could determine whether RCS leads the shift toward AI-powered conversations or follows rival platforms. Despite billions of daily RCS messages, commercial adoption remains relatively small, with the technology still largely focused on notifications. The GSMA is developing new conversational capabilities, but hasn’t announced specific features or release…

Google AI Mode is getting more ads, whether you like it or not

TL;DR Google is expanding ads in AI Mode to 10 more countries, including India, Australia, and Canada, with more markets coming later this year. Sponsored listings will appear alongside AI-generated results, with Google promising clear labels to distinguish ads from regular recommendations. Google is also introducing multi-turn ads in the US, allowing sponsored results to appear during follow-up questions in AI…

How Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence

Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI. Lawyers review grouped documents, summaries, and reports before advising clients.

Your Google Messages chats are getting a ChatGPT upgrade

TL;DR OpenAI now lets you text your ChatGPT Dot directly through Google Messages on Android or iMessage on iPhone. Your Dot can proactively send updates, photos, and voice notes while retaining context from previous conversations. The feature is rolling out as a preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US. Say you ask ChatGPT to keep an eye on a product you’ve been meaning to buy, and it texts you when the price…

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe , an open-weights speech LLM built for transcription. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to 1 hour . A text instruction picks the output style for each request. Options include verbatim, written form, speaker-attributed, contextual and translated output. For developers, it can replace separate ASR, diarization and alignment tools. TL;DR Size: 34B total and…

Apple and OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit now has an official trial date

Judge Edward Davila today formally established the schedule for Apple’s trade secrets misappropriation lawsuit against two former employees, OpenAI, and io Products, including a trial date. Here are the details. more…

Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms

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Credit Saison achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise pilot

Credit Saison’s ChatGPT Enterprise pilot delivered 954% ROI. See how leaders and employees helped turn the results into companywide adoption.

Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer

The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.