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Anthropic reportedly profitable again, with $16.8 billion in quarterly revenue Claude's maker told investors its revenue jumped 45% last quarter and that it has now posted a profit for two straight quarters.
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OpenAI releases massive mathematical solution dataset that stuns the math community OpenAI abruptly dropped a flood of mathematical results that more than three dozen mathematicians described as staggering and surreal. The Verge ServiceNow rules out Decagon, insisting it remains an organic-growth company first Hours after reports that the customer-service AI startup had hired a bank to gauge buyer interest, ServiceNow said it has no intention of purchasing Decagon, though the startup keeps exploring a sale.
Mistral unveils Large 4, an open-weight model built for agentic tasks The French company's new flagship model "le Chonk" ranks among the best open-weight models globally and was designed specifically for planning, research, and complex enterprise workflows. CNET Microsoft unveils third-generation Maia AI chip, targets 2027 production rollout Microsoft announced its Maia 300 in-house AI chip, designed to become the "primary AI inference system" for its products and services by 2027. The Verge Wall Street leans bullish on ServiceNow ahead of earnings Analysts are pointing to enterprise AI demand, federal spending, and cybersecurity opportunities as catalysts before the company reports. Yahoo Finance Amazon's Bee debuts two new AI devices, starting at $75 The startup Amazon acquired last year is entering the AI notetaker hardware race with a wrist wearable and a smartphone clip priced well below the Plaud and Pocket crowd.
Google's 'universal' shopping cart finally lands The agentic cart Google previewed at I/O in May is rolling out across Search and Gemini, with price-drop alerts and Wallet checkout timed just before Black Friday.
AI & Technology AI & Technology CERN and Mistral will build a Large Physics Model
The European lab and the French AI startup signed a statement of intent to train a foundation model on LHC collision data, aiming to keep up with the data deluge before the High-Luminosity upgrade.
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AI & Technology Frozen pig kidneys thaw and work again after a year
University of Minnesota researchers vitrified pig kidneys, stored one for over a year at -150 C, and rewarmed them to working order, pointing the way toward a bankable supply of organs.
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ServiceNow & ITSM ServiceNow & ITSM Stagwell and ServiceNow ink a 3-year AI marketing partnership
The deal, the largest multi-agency win in Stagwell's history, embeds Stagwell's The Machine AI operating system inside ServiceNow and pairs forward-deployed creatives with ServiceNow engineers to co-build marketing products.
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ServiceNow & ITSM ServiceNow's CFO: AI winners won't be the biggest spenders
Gina Mastantuono says ROI now includes the cost of inaction, and ServiceNow itself expects $500 million in savings this year from dogfooding its own platform.
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ServiceNow & ITSM Work4Flow launches an agentic knowledge optimizer on the ServiceNow AI Platform
A new ServiceNow-native app aims to fix the layer enterprise AI most often stumbles on, the content behind the model.
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AI & Technology
Anthropic reportedly profitable again, with $16.8 billion in quarterly revenue Claude's maker told investors its revenue jumped 45% last quarter and that it has now posted a profit for two straight quarters.
Claude's maker told investors its revenue jumped 45% last quarter and that it has now posted a profit for two straight quarters.
The BBC reports that Anthropic told prospective investors at a briefing at its San Francisco headquarters on Wednesday that revenue rose 45% from the previous quarter to $16.8 billion in the three months to the end of September, with the company also making a profit for a second consecutive quarter. The company is expected to list before the end of the year, and an Anthropic spokesperson declined to comment on the figures.
Revenue has climbed every quarter this year, from $4.7 billion in the first quarter to $11.6 billion in the second. The numbers arrive in a rough week for AI stocks, after Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said many investors had set extreme expectations and hotter-than-expected US inflation data deepened the selloff in chipmakers, with SK Hynix falling 11% in Seoul on Thursday.
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Amazon's Bee debuts two new AI devices, starting at $75 The startup Amazon acquired last year is entering the AI notetaker hardware race with a wrist wearable and a smartphone clip priced well below the Plaud and Pocket crowd.
The startup Amazon acquired last year is entering the AI notetaker hardware race with a wrist wearable and a smartphone clip priced well below the Plaud and Pocket crowd.
Bee announced on Thursday the Bee Frontier, the next generation of its device that can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothes at $74.99, alongside the Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to the back of your smartphone at $99.99. Both leverage AI to take notes from everyday conversations and turn them into summaries, to-dos, and insights, with summaries and 14 days of memory free; an $11.99 per month Bee Pro subscription adds unlimited summaries, suggested to-dos, a personal chat assistant, and integrations with Amazon.com, Alexa+, and third-party apps, so users can make purchases or ask Alexa for their Bee insights hands-free.
The devices also compete on privacy: raw audio is not stored, audio is processed in real time and deleted, and transcripts are encrypted with keys your device creates and controls, meaning no one, including Amazon employees, can access those files unless you intentionally share them. The Frontier adds IP67 water resistance, up to seven days of battery life, USB-C charging, and dual microphones with noise filtering, and it is available now, with the Eclipse to follow.
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Google's 'universal' shopping cart finally lands The agentic cart Google previewed at I/O in May is rolling out across Search and Gemini, with price-drop alerts and Wallet checkout timed just before Black Friday.
The agentic cart Google previewed at I/O in May is rolling out across Search and Gemini, with price-drop alerts and Wallet checkout timed just before Black Friday.
Universal Cart, which Google previewed at its I/O event in May, is now rolling out in the US across the Gemini app and Google Search. As the name suggests, it is a universal digital cart that lets you save products from multiple retailers in a single unified space: items added through the Gemini app and Google Search AI Mode all land in the same cart, with plans to integrate Gmail and YouTube at an unannounced date. Google will send notifications about price drops and restocks for saved items, surface relevant promotional codes, and can let you pay via Google Wallet (which can also help pick the best credit card) or transfer items to the merchant's own cart to check out at the retailer.
The launch lands as AI-assisted shopping competition heats up, with rivals OpenAI and Meta having launched agentic assistants that can shop on users' behalf and Shopify opening its catalog to more AI agents.
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AI & Technology
CERN and Mistral will build a Large Physics Model The European lab and the French AI startup signed a statement of intent to train a foundation model on LHC collision data, aiming to keep up with the data deluge before the High-Luminosity upgrade.
The European lab and the French AI startup signed a statement of intent to train a foundation model on LHC collision data, aiming to keep up with the data deluge before the High-Luminosity upgrade.
On October 15, CERN and Mistral AI signed a statement of intent to develop a pretrained Large Physics Model, a foundation model built specifically for high-energy physics that would train on billions of simulated proton-proton collision events from the Large Hadron Collider. The top three applications are collision reconstruction (working backward from detector signals to what actually happened), particle identification, and anomaly detection, giving physicists a general-purpose tool instead of a pile of narrow, single-task algorithms.
The timing tracks CERN's data problem: its LHC experiments have produced close to one exabyte of data, and the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade projected for around 2030 is expected to raise collision rates tenfold. Neither organization has disclosed timelines, funding figures, or specific milestones beyond the initial agreement, though Mistral, which previewed its 1 trillion parameter Mistral Large 4 on October 6, brings experience training very large models.
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Frozen pig kidneys thaw and work again after a year University of Minnesota researchers vitrified pig kidneys, stored one for over a year at -150 C, and rewarmed them to working order, pointing the way toward a bankable supply of organs.
University of Minnesota researchers vitrified pig kidneys, stored one for over a year at -150 C, and rewarmed them to working order, pointing the way toward a bankable supply of organs.
The work, co-led by transplant surgeon Erik Finger and John Bischof at the University of Minnesota and shared as a preprint on bioRxiv, is the first time an organ has been preserved for this duration and shown to function after rewarming. The team vitrified the kidneys (cooling them into a glass-like state to avoid ice-crystal damage) using a cryoprotectant cocktail that took three years to perfect, infused iron oxide nanoparticles that allow electromagnetic rewarming, and cooled the organs to -150 C for storage.
Rewarmed kidneys regained color and produced urine within about a minute, generating roughly two-thirds of the expected volume, and the kidney stored for over a year appeared healthier than many shorter-term stored ones; transplanted kidneys functioned for two hours in live pig tests. The stakes are real: human organs must currently be transplanted within 24 to 36 hours of retrieval, so indefinite organ banking would let doctors match organs more precisely and keep them on hand for emergencies. Researchers next plan longer pig studies, less toxic cryoprotectants, and experiments with human kidneys.
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Stagwell and ServiceNow ink a 3-year AI marketing partnership The deal, the largest multi-agency win in Stagwell's history, embeds Stagwell's The Machine AI operating system inside ServiceNow and pairs forward-deployed creatives with ServiceNow engineers to co-build marketing products.
The deal, the largest multi-agency win in Stagwell's history, embeds Stagwell's The Machine AI operating system inside ServiceNow and pairs forward-deployed creatives with ServiceNow engineers to co-build marketing products.
Stagwell and ServiceNow announced a three-year strategic partnership that Stagwell chair and CEO Mark Penn called the largest multi-agency deal in the holding company's history. Stagwell will give ServiceNow enterprise-wide access to The Machine, its AI-powered marketing operating system, unifying people, tools, data, and AI into one workflow, and the two companies will pioneer a co-innovation model in which forward-deployed creatives and engineers are embedded in each other's organizations to rapidly build and test new AI-powered marketing solutions.
Lead agencies on the account include Code and Theory, 72andSunny, Movers+Shakers, and Allison Worldwide. ServiceNow's media spend is $120 million, of which Dentsu X, its global media partner named last year, holds $70 million, and ServiceNow spent $348 million on advertising in 2025. ServiceNow CMO Simon Mouyal said the two companies share the same vision for an agentic marketing platform that delivers outcomes, more personalized experiences, and growth.
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ServiceNow rules out Decagon, insisting it remains an organic-growth company first Hours after reports that the customer-service AI startup had hired a bank to gauge buyer interest, ServiceNow said it has no intention of purchasing Decagon, though the startup keeps exploring a sale.
Hours after reports that the customer-service AI startup had hired a bank to gauge buyer interest, ServiceNow said it has no intention of purchasing Decagon, though the startup keeps exploring a sale.
Business Insider reported on Oct 13 that Decagon, the developer of conversational AI agents for customer support across voice, chat, and email in more than 70 languages, had hired an investment bank to evaluate acquisition interest and held early discussions with several potential buyers, including ServiceNow. ServiceNow pushed back quickly, with VP of investor relations Amit Zavery telling PYMNTS that the company has "no interest or intention of purchasing Decagon" and that "our approach to M&A has not changed: we remain an organic growth company first."
Decagon was last valued at $4.5 billion following a $250 million Series D in January and crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, an implied multiple of roughly 45x ARR, a premium to recent software M&A according to Jefferies, which reiterated a buy rating and $140 price target on ServiceNow after shares dipped about 3% on the reports. Jefferies notes ServiceNow already holds more than $2 billion in annual contract value in customer service management, where AI competition is intensifying, with Salesforce among the other bidders in the space.
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ServiceNow's CFO: AI winners won't be the biggest spenders Gina Mastantuono says ROI now includes the cost of inaction, and ServiceNow itself expects $500 million in savings this year from dogfooding its own platform.
Gina Mastantuono says ROI now includes the cost of inaction, and ServiceNow itself expects $500 million in savings this year from dogfooding its own platform.
At the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, ServiceNow president and CFO Gina Mastantuono outlined how her team decides which AI bets are worth funding: they must strengthen competitive differentiation, solve a specific customer problem, and deliver measurable value on a clear timeline. She said ROI calculations now include the cost of inaction, the risk of falling behind competitors, not just revenue and margin gains, and that the team measures outcomes rather than activity, so impact on revenue, efficiency, and speed matters more than the number of pilots.
ServiceNow expects $500 million in savings this year, largely from using its own products, and Mastantuono argued that the winners of AI are not going to be the ones that spend the most. Chevron CFO Eimear Bonner said AI projects get "no free pass" and "have to compete for capital," while Nasdaq CFO Sarah Youngwood tracks outcome KPIs such as coding speed, client retention, and token costs.
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Work4Flow launches an agentic knowledge optimizer on the ServiceNow AI Platform A new ServiceNow-native app aims to fix the layer enterprise AI most often stumbles on, the content behind the model.
A new ServiceNow-native app aims to fix the layer enterprise AI most often stumbles on, the content behind the model.
Work4Flow, a ServiceNow Premier Partner, launched the Knowledge Article Optimizer with Search Relevancy, a ServiceNow-native application that connects real user search behavior to the knowledge lifecycle. It analyzes actual user searches against returned knowledge results, flags poorly performing queries and relevance gaps, and uses AI agents to evaluate content quality and generate optimized titles, descriptions, metadata, and article body text, with field-level scoring and recommendations.
The workflow is deliberately human-in-the-loop: content owners review and approve every AI recommendation, and teams can re-run searches after updates to validate results against original user intent. The launch positions the app as preparation for agentic experiences such as ServiceNow Otto and AI search, with founder and CEO Sanjay K. Gupta noting that across 250+ AI deployments, "AI rarely fails because of the model; it fails because of the content behind it."
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