Saturday, October 10, 2026
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David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
In a statement to The Verge, Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke says the company is “eliminating some roles within parts of our AGI [artificial general intelligence] organization” as the company focuses on “initiatives that matter most for customers.” It’s not clear how many workers are impacted. [Link: Amazon cuts jobs in its artificial general intelligence group | https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-cuts-jobs-its-artificial-general-intelligence-group-2026-07-22/ | Reuters]
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast a shadow over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
Google has been working on beefing up the model’s skills, “particularly in coding,” Bloomberg reports. At I/O in May, Google said that 3.5 Pro was “already being used internally” and that “we look forward to rolling it out next month.” [Link: Google Gemini Launch Delayed as Tech Falls Short of Internal Goals | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/google-gemini-launch-delayed-as-tech-falls-short-of-internal-goals | Bloomberg]
DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.
The AI translations are expanding to Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Italian on Instagram and Bahasa, Indonesian, Arabic, French, Vietnamese, and Thai on Facebook, according to Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. [Media: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaxpKQfRaSV/]
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.
"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available."
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that's something Google only required election ads to disclose.
Business Insider reported that the project is focused on improving Alexa AI enough to handle more advanced, multi-step tasks, like Google, OpenAI and other AI leaders have been, but internal documents show its steep cost. [Link: Amazon documents reveal a costly new Alexa AI project | https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-moonraker-project-alexa-agentic-cost-2026-7 | Business Insider]
