Google opens its strongest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to paying developers and subscribers

Google says Gemini 4 Carbon is its strongest model, built for long, multi-step coding, research and agent tasks. Two weeks ago only a group of cybersecurity defenders could use it. Now all paying developers can use it through the API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for business, at the same introductory price as Gemini 4 Argon: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. It is also rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search and Google Antigravity, Google's coding tool. GitHub says it is now in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users. Google says Carbon ranks first on CursorBench 4.0, Perplexity's WANDR and Zapier's AutomationBench, at less than half the cost per task of the next best outside model. On Google's new Multimodal Knowledge Agent benchmark, built with Artificial Analysis, Google says it ranks second. Google also previewed /swarm in Antigravity, which turns one prompt into a team of coordinated agents.

Anthropic adds a spreadsheet app and a meeting assistant to its Claude AI

Bloomberg reports that Anthropic is releasing a set of office tools: a video call assistant, a data dashboard and a spreadsheet service called Claude Sheets. Bloomberg says this puts Anthropic in competition with Microsoft and Google. TechCrunch says the meeting tool, Claude Meetings, can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat and pull information from connected work apps.

OpenAI lets companies set up profiles and AI sales agents inside ChatGPT

OpenAI has launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta. Companies can claim a profile, manage their business information and see how they show up in ChatGPT. The Verge says verified Business Agents will represent brands and help users with tasks like comparison shopping. The agents open first to eligible e-commerce and online service businesses in the US. TechCrunch says this makes ChatGPT a little more like Google as a place to find businesses.

AI company Anthropic prices its IPO at $70 to $78 a share, worth up to $1.4 trillion

Anthropic's updated IPO filing offers 825 million Class A shares at $70 to $78 each, raising $57.75 billion to $64.35 billion. At the top of the range the company would be worth $1.404 trillion. That is up from $965 billion in May, but below the $2 trillion it was reportedly aiming for. It will also privately sell $26 billion of non-voting shares to AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Nvidia and TSMC. Google and Nvidia are putting in $10 billion each. Crunchbase News says the total could reach $88.5 billion, possibly the largest fundraise ever tied to a stock market debut. CNBC reports that trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT should start around November 19. The filing shows third-quarter revenue of $17 billion, a nine-month net loss of $104 billion and run-rate revenue of $81 billion by the end of October. Each of the seven co-founders plans to sell about $250 million of shares, and the founders keep majority voting control.

AMD starts shipping its 6th Gen EPYC server processors, built on its new Zen 6 design

AMD says its 6th Gen EPYC server processors, built on the new Zen 6 core design, are now generally available. AMD says servers using them are shipping from leading server makers, with Microsoft Azure and Oracle cloud instances coming soon. AMD claims a system with its top EPYC 9996 chip gives up to 3.7 times the performance of a system with Nvidia's Vera processor and up to 2.2 times that of an Intel Xeon 6980P system. AMD also announced EPYC Embedded chips. Tom's Hardware published its first benchmarks and reports gains of up to 93% over the previous generation. Chips and Cheese reports that Zen 6 loses less time when it guesses a branch wrong, and doubles the units for a type of maths used in running AI models.

Nvidia gives its AI agent safety tool OpenShell to an open-source foundation

Nvidia is giving OpenShell, its open-source tool that controls what AI agents are allowed to do, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF is the Linux Foundation group behind Kubernetes, the system that runs apps across many servers. OpenShell becomes a CNCF Sandbox project. Nvidia says hundreds of organisations use it. Nvidia is also contributing to Agent Substrate, a Google-led project for running long-lived agents on Kubernetes. It released three open-source tools: Nvidia Kubernetes Engine and Kubernetes Recipes, both in public preview, and Nvidia Snapshot, which restores ready-to-run AI models without reloading them. Nvidia says partner Crusoe cut one model's start-up time from about eight minutes to 31 seconds.

Amazon's Ring shows a home security drone and a rolling robot camera

Amazon says its Ring Robotics line launches with two robots: Ring Drone Cam and Ring Rover Cam. Amazon says they give mobile protection wherever and whenever it is needed. Ars Technica says the roaming devices will arrive in late 2026 and early 2027.

Apple TV adds sign language interpreters you can switch on like subtitles

Apple TV is adding a Sign Language Interpretation setting for Deaf viewers. It starts Friday with 'Being Heumann', a biopic about disability rights activist Judy Heumann. American and British Sign Language will also come to the film 'F1', with more titles later this year. When it is on, an interpreter appears in the bottom right of the screen. Apple says it uses human interpreters, not AI, and worked with Directors of Artistic Sign Language to match each film's tone. The feature ships in iOS 27.2 and is turned on in Settings.

Google's phone service Fi now switches between two 5G networks on its own

Google Fi is launching a 'super network' that combines two 5G networks with millions of Wi-Fi networks in one plan, switching to whichever connects better. A feature called Wi-Fi Auto-Connect+ aims to improve signal indoors, in places like malls and airports. It starts on Pixel 9 and newer phones that have Fi active on eSIM and other SIMs turned off, with wider availability in 2027. Fi has always used T-Mobile. Ars Technica says Google won't say which the second network is.

Nvidia board hires law firm to investigate CEO Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged spy

Nvidia's independent board members have hired Joon H. Kim, a former acting US attorney, and his law firm Wachtell Lipton to run an independent investigation. Huang has confirmed an affair with a woman US intelligence says is a Chinese agent. President Trump says the FBI is also investigating. The New York Times, citing sources, says Trump was told about the affair at least twice in seven months, despite his denial. The Information, citing sources, says the relationship helped more than $7.5 billion of Nvidia chips move through Chinese companies. The Financial Times, citing sources, says the US Commerce Department delayed adding companies to its trade blacklist for two months and left off Megaspeed, the firm linked to the woman, even though four other US agencies wanted it included. A class-action lawsuit over securities fraud has also been filed against Nvidia, Tom's Hardware reports.

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