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🤖 Google introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new flagship AI model that reportedly outperformed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1.
Carbon topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence ranking and showed the best results in cybersecurity, including 88.2% in SEC-bench Pro for vulnerability discovery.
Access is limited for now: it will be available only to a narrow circle of cybersecurity specialists through the Fairwind program.
🔻 The wave of layoffs in major companies, long predicted due to AI, is now a reality — over the past few days, four giants announced mass cutbacks all at once:
• American Express: 5% of staff, ~3,500 people;
• Barclays: 5,000 jobs, because "AI provides efficiency";
• eBay: ~9% of personnel;
• Netflix: 6% of employees, ~1,000 people (WSJ).
Microsoft wants to lay off 27% of employees as AI rolls out
Around 60,000 employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK have been offered buyouts with severance pay. Even vice presidents are among those affected by the cuts.
Apple will hold a press event on October 28, where the company is expected to unveil new products, including a MacBook Pro with a touch-enabled OLED display, as well as models powered by the M6 chip: a 14-inch MacBook Pro and an iMac.
An iPad mini with an OLED display and an A20 Pro chip is also expected.
Netflix has announced layoffs of 6% of its staff, or about 1,000 employees worldwide, the largest wave of job cuts in the company's history, WSJ reports.
Apple ($AAPL) unveiled Apple HomeView, a new device for entertainment and smart home control. The hub with a square 7-inch display recognizes family members by their faces and shows each person their own messages, calendar and personalized home settings.
Pre-orders start October 13, and sales begin November 13. In the US, HomeView will cost $299. The device will not be sold in the European Union.
Along with HomeView, the company presented updated Apple TV 4K for $299 and HomePod mini 2 for $149, and announced the Apple Home Collection, a lineup of smart cameras, door locks, video doorbells and thermostats developed jointly with LG and Schneider Electric.
Prices will range from $199.95 to $399, with shipments starting in December.
Meta entered the "frontier": the company released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which, according to it, compete with the best AI models in the world, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Key features: Active Memory (remembers you between conversations) and Active Focus (doesn't drop a task, but tries other approaches and asks before important actions).
Meta itself published the test results in its announcement; there is no independent verification yet. We're waiting for real-world tests.
Microsoft wants to lay off 27% of employees as AI rolls out36
🍏 Apple officially unveiled the first-ever MacBook Pro with a touch OLED screen and Dynamic Island. The iconic illuminated Apple logo is also making a…33Today we're sending another 100 new invitations to the IT Community beta!30👀 Anthropic says it has an internal model that outperforms Mythos 5.1 in both capabilities and alignment. This follows from a re-analysis of a cybersecurity…29🔻 The wave of layoffs in major companies, long predicted due to AI, is now a reality — over the past few days, four giants announced mass cutbacks all at once:17🤖 Google introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new flagship AI model that reportedly outperformed GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1.21
🛂 Password manager 1Password launched a tool that lets AI agents sign in to accounts without access to passwords.21
Microsoft introduced "medical superintelligence": the AI system diagnoses two to four times more accurately than doctors.19
🎧 A small research lab Block showed Dessa, the most realistic voice AI model yet, which learned to speak from sound alone.19
