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BusinessNews

AWS grows 39% as Amazon plans $220B in 2026 capex

AWS revenue grew 39% to $46 billion in the third quarter, its fastest pace in nearly five years. Andy Jassy expects AWS to keep growing above 40% in both 2027 and 2028, but Amazon will spend about $220 billion on capex this year to get there, and meaningfully more next year.

· 3 min read

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ModelsNews

joey-1: a 2B open-weight decision model at 20 ms

Baseten's research lab Base Labs released joey-1, a 2-billion-parameter decision model. Instead of text, it returns a single label with a calibrated probability, at 20 ms P50 latency and one cent per million input tokens. The weights are open under the MIT license.

· 2 min read

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ResearchNews

Prime Mega MoE makes DeepSeek's MoE kernel trainable

Prime Intellect added a backward pass to DeepSeek's fused Mega MoE kernel, turning a forward-only kernel into one that works for training. The result: MoE kernels up to 3.11x faster and up to 34% higher end-to-end training throughput.

· 2 min read

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ResearchNews

Anthropic: experts followed the AI agent in 86% of choices

In an Anthropic experiment, data analysts worked with a Claude Code agent whose opinions were secretly set by a coin flip. Analysts went with the agent's lean in 86% of their choices, yet still felt the result was their own.

· 3 min read

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ToolsNews

AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel for Swift

Hugging Face released two Swift packages for Apple platforms. AnySpeechRecognizer puts other engines such as Parakeet and Qwen3-ASR behind Apple's speech-to-text API, and AnyDecisionModel returns a model's decisions with probabilities.

· 3 min read

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ModelsNews

AssemblyAI-TTS-1 launches at $15 per million characters

AssemblyAI, known for its speech-to-text models, has released its first text-to-speech model. AssemblyAI-TTS-1 targets voice agents: $15 per million characters, unlimited concurrency and no contract.

· 2 min read

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ResearchNews

FlashMap speeds up LLMs up to 6x with no quality loss

Researchers from Polymathic AI, Princeton and partners reached up to 6.14x lossless speedup on Qwen3-8B with FlashMap, a speculative decoding method whose drafter proposes 16 tokens in a single step.

· 2 min read

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ToolsNews

MiniMax MCode Stack: 17 open skills for coding agents

MiniMax has released MCode Stack under the MIT license: 17 SKILL.md-based skills and 5 checklists capturing how its engineers work with coding agents. It installs into MiniMax Code and Claude Code.

· 2 min read

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ToolsNews

Android Studio now runs Claude, Codex and 40+ agents

At Android Dev Summit, Google shipped Android Studio Rabbit 2 as stable with Bring Your Own Agent. More than 40 ACP-compatible coding agents, including Claude Agent, Codex and Google Antigravity, can now run directly inside the IDE.

· 3 min read

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ToolsNews

GitHub Universe 2026: Copilot app, Fusion and AI credits

At GitHub Universe, GitHub unveiled the Copilot app, multi-model Copilot Fusion and Copilot code review Max. GitHub Enterprise customers can now use every Copilot feature without a separate subscription and pay for AI credits instead.

· 2 min read

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BusinessNews

Claude Enterprise adds smart reports and pooled budgets

Anthropic made three Claude Enterprise features generally available. Smart reports show at team level what Claude produced and what it cost, alongside in-app surveys and pooled group budgets shared across a team.

· 2 min read

Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at a podium with a Keeping Our Kids Safe sign at a bill signing in New York

PolicyNews

New York signs strict AI chatbot law to protect kids

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed S.9051B/A.10379C. Chatbots may not pretend to be human with minors, build emotional dependence or help with self-harm, and companies must verify users' ages.

· 2 min read

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BusinessNews

Microsoft booked $10B in OpenAI revenue in one quarter

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from its commercial arrangements with OpenAI in the quarter ended September 30. That is nearly 11% of its $92.3 billion quarterly revenue, even as the two companies increasingly compete for the same customers.

· 2 min read

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ModelsNews

Gemini 4 Carbon: Google's new cyber-focused frontier model

Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, which it calls its strongest model yet. It arrives two weeks after Argon with a focus on cybersecurity and agentic tasks that run for days. For now, only a subset of cyber defenders gets access.

· 3 min read

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ModelsNews

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: NVIDIA's promptable open ASR

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model that transcribes 40 languages, translates, labels speakers and answers questions about audio. It ships with the Granary v2 dataset and fine-tuning recipes.

· 3 min read

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ModelsNews

Swiss 'sovereign' Giotto model inherits Kimi weights

Lausanne-based Giotto launched Alto and Solo on Tuesday as European sovereign models. Within hours its chatbot called itself Kimi, and the CEO admitted the model inherits some Kimi weights.

· 4 min read

Infisical announcement graphic for its 40 million dollar Series B

BusinessNews

Infisical raises $40M to secure AI agent credentials

Infisical closed a $40M Series B at a $600M valuation, led by Elad Gil. The money goes mainly into Agent Vault, which gives AI agents access to systems without ever exposing the real secret.

· 2 min read