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Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on 28 October 2026, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. Google calls it its strongest model, with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities, and says it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 at 59. Access starts with a subset of cyber defenders and Fairwind Program partners. When it launches broadly, the introductory price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

Microsoft released the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service in public preview on 28 October 2026. The harness is the agent loop GitHub built for Copilot, which Microsoft says now powers Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, VS Code and the GitHub Copilot app. Developers define agents with skills, MCP tools and subagents while Microsoft runs the loop and sandbox. The runtime is free until 1 December 2026, then billed at $0.0994 per vCPU-hour.

n8n released version 3.0.0 as a beta on 27 October 2026 and plans the stable release for early December. The major version collects breaking changes: legacy nodes are removed, security defaults are stricter, the default Code node timeout drops from 5 minutes to 1 minute, and self-hosted installs must run on Docker instead of npm. A Migration Report in version 2.39 and later lists affected workflows. The 2.x line gets security fixes for 12 months after the stable release.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reported on 27 October 2026 that an unreleased internal Claude model found and chained vulnerabilities in widely used software. The post describes a one-click Chrome remote code execution chain, a Safari same-origin bypass, a Pixel 9 lock screen bypass, a Windows kernel remote denial of service and a zero-click Linux root exploit. Google assigned 62 CVEs fixed in Chrome 156. All issues went through coordinated disclosure.

GitHub made Copilot Fusion generally available on 28 October 2026 at its Universe conference. Instead of picking a model, developers choose Fusion and an effort level, and Copilot routes each prompt to one or more models. GitHub says Fusion Max scored 60 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, two points below Claude Code with Opus 5.5, at about half the cost per task. It works on all Copilot plans, with a temporary 30% discount.

Microsoft reported revenue of $92.3 billion for the quarter ended 30 September 2026, its first quarter of fiscal 2027, up 19%. Azure revenue grew 48% and Microsoft Cloud revenue rose 30% to $63.9 billion. Commercial remaining performance obligation, its contracted backlog, rose 73% to $677 billion. Additions to property and equipment roughly doubled to $39.4 billion. Net income was $36.6 billion, including a $207 million gain from OpenAI investments.