Gemini 4 Carbon, Copilot Fusion and the bill for AI infrastructure
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- Top storyAI
Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model for coding and security (opens in a new tab)
Google says Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and leads on finding, exploiting and patching bugs. Cyber defenders get it first, then developers, at $2/$10 per million tokens to start. Expect more AI-found bug reports in your queue.
- Dev Tools
GitHub ships Copilot Fusion and folds Copilot into GitHub Enterprise (opens in a new tab)
At Universe, GitHub launched Fusion, which picks and combines several models for each task, plus a Copilot app that runs agents in parallel across repos. Enterprise customers can now pay for the AI credits they use instead of buying separate Copilot seats.
- Cloud
Azure grows 48% and Google Cloud doubles as AI spending keeps climbing (opens in a new tab)
Microsoft said Azure revenue grew 48%, and Google Cloud more than doubled. But Alphabet burned $9.1 billion in free cash flow on its AI build-out. Demand for compute is real. The open question is who can keep paying for it.
- Regulation
US Justice Department questions Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face deal (opens in a new tab)
Officials are asking whether owning Hugging Face would give Nvidia control of a key channel for sharing AI models. If your team depends on the Hub, watch whether it stays neutral across chips and clouds. The deal is due to close in early 2027.
- Security
Hacktivists leak records of more than 41,000 US Homeland Security staff (opens in a new tab)
DDoSecrets published names, roles and contact details on October 28. The hackers say the data came from an Okta single sign-on service used by DHS, but Okta says its systems were not breached. Staff directories behind SSO remain a prime target.
- Business
Samsung posts record quarter as AI demand pushes up memory prices (opens in a new tab)
Samsung made 107.4 trillion won in operating profit, the first time a tech company has passed 100 trillion won in one quarter. Server memory demand drove it. Expect pricier RAM and storage in cloud bills and hardware budgets.