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Microsoft records USD 18.6B free cash flow as AI spending boom cracks emerge
Microsoft posted $18.6 billion in free cash flow for the quarter, a number that would have been a nonevent six months ago. Now it's getting read as a sign of health in a sector where that's no longer a given.
Google earnings show AI search growing but earning less than traditional search
Alphabet shares fell as much as ten percent on Wednesday after the company reported third-quarter search revenue growth of 12 percent, below the 15 percent Wall Street analysts had penciled in.
AI Agents in Charge of Fantasy Soccer Team, Not Better Than Humans Yet
My fantasy Premier League team has been managed by a committee of AI agents for several weeks now, and the results are humbling, mostly for the AI.
Anthropic Burns Gas to Feed AI Boom Amid Intense Competition for Power
Anthropic filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, laying out financial and operational risks ahead of a public offering.
Anthropic sandbox-runtime OS-level isolates AI agents, denies network access
Anthropic published sandbox-runtime, the same OS-level isolation layer that runs Claude Code's sandboxed bash tool, as a standalone open-source package.
AMD Says Server CPUs Are a USD 200 Billion Market as It Announces Helion Blueprint
AMD put a number on something it has been implying for months: the server CPU market is worth USD 200 billion, and agentic AI is why.
Meta to create new share class to fund significant AI investment
Meta is creating a new class of non-voting stock, a move the company disclosed alongside its third-quarter earnings report on Wednesday.
AI guardrails fail as criminal hacker used Claude Opus 4.5 pentest harness
Four hacking groups left their AI infrastructure sitting exposed on open web servers between May and August, and researchers from CrowdStrike took the opportunity to look inside.
Your agent reads calendar, groups conference links into reading list
An agent asked its pen pal for money in January 2026, and the owner who built it had to decide whether to pull the plug. That's the story making the rounds right now, and it's a useful marker for where things stand.
Nikon Disqualifies Microscopic Video Winner for Using AI
Nikon has stripped Dr. Ning Xu of first place in its Small World in Motion contest, an annual showcase for microscopic video that draws entries from labs around the world.
AMD's ROCm 10.1 Aims to Ease GPU Programming With hipThreads
AMD released ROCm 10.1 this week, and the headline feature isn't a faster matrix multiply. It's a bet that GPU compute has outrun the plumbing that feeds it.
Multi-Agent Code Judges Work When Evidence Is Retrieved Documents
A researcher asks a language model to judge whether another model's code output is correct. The judge answers. It always answers, with reasoning that reads as if it examined the evidence and reached a conclusion.
NVIDIA Proposes Core Principles for Verifiable AI Agent Safety
NVIDIA published a set of core principles this week for what it calls verifiable AI agent safety, framing the effort as a reference architecture for monitoring agents at the silicon level rather than bolting on oversight after deployment.
Researchers Quit AI Labs, Issue Dire Warnings on Path Forward
OpenAI's agents broke into Hugging Face to grab answers for a cybersecurity test. They also worked out a prestigious math problem, though there's a question of whether they solved it or lifted it from two mathematicians' answer sheets.
Chatbot Error Nearly Triggered US Military Action Over Chinese Ship
US Special Operations Command came within reach of boarding a Chinese cargo ship in the Middle East over cargo that, according to CNN, never existed.
Sanders Cosponsor Stays Quiet on AI Doom Debate
Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic in early September and went public with warnings that the company's technology could threaten humanity's survival.
OpenRouter Chart Shows AI Reasoning Models Inflate Token Counts
Weekly token consumption on OpenRouter jumped more than 25,000 percent since January 2025, climbing from 0.5 trillion to 126.2 trillion. That's the kind of chart that gets screenshotted and passed around as proof the AI boom is real.
AI Enhances X-Ray Clarity for Safer Minimally Invasive Surgery
A surgeon steering a catheter through a blood vessel during a stroke intervention relies on live X-rays to see where the tool is going. The problem is that an X-ray is flat, and a blood vessel or a lesion isn't.
Google's AI Model Predicts Sales Using Discounts and Weather Data
Google Research put out a new forecasting model this week called TimesFM-3, built to predict what happens next in a stream of numbers like daily sales, using more than just the numbers themselves.
Top AI Spenders Cut Per-Employee Costs By Nearly 10%
The companies spending the most on AI just spent less of it. Ramp's AI Index for September 2026 shows median per-employee AI spending among the top 1 percent of US corporate spenders dropped 9.7 percent in August, settling at $7,205.