The Token Reporter

A day in AI

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

40 stories · 11 from multiple sources

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Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday , Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over Argon, which…

deepmind.google · 18 days ago

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Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

wired.com · 18 days ago

▲ 4 signals · 3 sources

Build specialized multimodal models with LFM3

huggingface.co · 19 days ago

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AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public

techcrunch.com · 18 days ago

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Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation

deepmind.google · 19 days ago

▲ 2 signals · 2 sources

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapt

huggingface.co · 18 days ago

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Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government

anthropic.com · 19 days ago

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The sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning

research.google · 19 days ago

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Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms

techcrunch.com · 18 days ago

Also today

AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions

Quoting Ted Sanders

simonwillison.net

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows

MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled

Build a Financial Research Assistant with Cohere AI on AWS

Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

arstechnica.com

Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant

EmbeddingGemma 2: Unified and Efficient Multimodal Representations

Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work

Why Agents Love Supabase

Models are chasing unrealistic benchmarks but the working-level intelligence is already achieved

A 4B model made me a netherite ingot from bare hands. All I did was type one sentence in chat.

Theory: Local is going to explode at enterprises

Some Canadian banks blocking personal AI agents amid security concerns

winnipegfreepress.com

Working on a way for local LLMs to share context without centralizing everything

AI agents banned by several of Canada’s biggest banks as fears grow - National | Globalnews.ca

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

CUDA: fuse MoE gate/up matmuls and GLU in MMQ by anujj · Pull Request #31188 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record- breaking revenue in a row

The future of the firm

Police Are Using AI to Pull over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Behavior

GitHub Octoverse 2026

simonwillison.net

The October inflection point for vibe game development

simonwillison.net

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

Quoting Terk Terkowitz

simonwillison.net

Meta Andromeda: Powering the Next Generation of Ads Retrieval Through Model-System Co-Design

engineering.fb.com

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