Business
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows
Google is taking AI Search ads international as its core search ad business decelerates for the third straight quarter.
AI news for Wednesday, October 28, 2026
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Business
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI
Microsoft disclosed $10 billion in quarterly revenue from OpenAI commercial arrangements, underscoring the partnership's enormous financial weight even as the two companies compete more directly.
Business
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record- breaking revenue in a row
Microsoft posted a 19th consecutive quarter of record revenue at $92.3 billion, powered by cloud and AI demand — while capex hits an all-time high.
Business
NVIDIA Newsroom1 min read
NVIDIA Sets Conference Call for Third-Quarter Financial Results
NVIDIA schedules its fiscal Q3 FY2027 earnings call for November 17, with CFO commentary to precede it.
Business
MIT Technology Review3 min read
Creating AI value with enterprise context
A MIT Technology Review Insights poll finds only 16% of organizations extract transformative value from AI, and points to missing enterprise context as the blocker.
Business
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
Anthropic's new reporting suite shows enterprises what their token spend buys, as CFOs confront a 10x rise in agentic coding costs.
Opensource
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’
Two critical PHP bugs forced site shutdowns worldwide, and Wiz's CTO says AI-accelerated discovery means the patch race is only getting faster.
Research
TechCrunch AI2 min read
The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO
Two critical PHP bugs sent teams offline to patch. Wiz's CTO says AI-accelerated discovery means this is a preview, not a one-off.
Agents
WIRED AI2 min read
I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet
Codex-run agents assembled a fantasy soccer roster, whiffed on Erling Haaland, then improved—while research suggests frontier models already forecast better than the average person.
Models
Google DeepMind2 min read
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
DeepMind unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, a cybersecurity- and long-horizon-focused frontier model rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders.
Models
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms
Chrome's enhanced autofill can now source flight numbers, tracking details, and other form data from your Gmail inbox — with your permission.
Business
TechCrunch AI3 min read
AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public
Executives keep promoting AI as a substitute for family and friendship, while survey data shows most Americans expect it to erode connection.
Policy
TechCrunch AI2 min read
South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks
South Korean brokerages and a crypto exchange report breaches weeks after attacks linked to an AI penetration-testing tool.
Models
NVIDIA Newsroom2 min read
NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows Laptops Gain New Models, Agent Tools and Games
NVIDIA packs an open-weight speech model, agent GPU controls and path-traced games into RTX Spark laptops from six OEMs.
Models
TechCrunch AI2 min read
Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
Nvidia ships an open-weight, 40-language transcription model for meeting and medical tools — but only for recordings, not live audio.
Business
OpenAI News1 min read
OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows
OpenAI and ServiceNow are widening a partnership that runs in both directions: models and agents moving into ServiceNow, and ServiceNow workflows surfacing inside ChatGPT and Codex.
Research
Interconnects1 min read
Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma
Nathan Lambert argues that building meaningful frontier benchmarks is harder than improving benchmark scores.
Business
MIT Technology Review3 min read
The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication
AI labs are buying the digital remains of shut-down startups for training data, while MIT Technology Review's new Impossible issue scores progress on interspecies communication, lunar cities, and more.
Agents
MIT Technology Review2 min read
Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control
AI-infused digital twins are moving from passive simulation to closed-loop intervention, pairing industrial autonomy with a layer of human oversight.
Business
WIRED AI2 min read
Macmillan Staff Say the Publisher Threw a Party for a Workplace AI Assistant That Was Later Killed
Macmillan staff describe a launch party for an internal AI assistant that later proved unhelpful and was quietly retired — and say the replacement isn't faring better.
Agents
OpenAI News1 min read
The future of the firm
OpenAI's latest essay examines where AI agents could slot into company structures — under, alongside, or between human roles.
Agents
OpenAI News1 min read
Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work
Legora leans on OpenAI's models, ChatGPT, and Codex to build what it frames as an agentic operating system for legal work.
Agents
WIRED AI2 min read
AI Emergency Alerts Are Coming. Humans Might Not Be Ready
Emergency managers are already turning to AI to draft public warnings — a Reuters-style shortcut that has already produced an inaccurate hurricane graphic and revived debate over a communication discipline where errors c
Policy
WIRED AI3 min read
Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes
Outgoing Master of the Rolls Geoffrey Vos argues AI could adjudicate routine civil cases — while the profession wrestles with hallucinated citations, sanctions, and a flood of chatbot-assisted claims.