AI & Robotics News — Wednesday, October 28, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

01

SK Hynix reports Q3 revenue of 104.6 trillion won on AI memory surge

SourcesSK Hynix NewsroomCNBCEE TimesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

02

Microsoft cuts capex forecast on AI capacity delays

SourcesBusiness Insider

03

Samsung Electronics third-quarter profit in line with estimates amid rising demand for AI memory chips

SourcesCNBC

04

Anthropic's cash pile towers over nearly every U.S. company at $131.7 billion

SourcesCNBC

05

Ukrainian unit says AI-powered ground robot completed 12-mile autonomous supply run

SourcesBusiness Insider

06

European rights group noyb sues Scale AI over alleged freelancer surveillance

SourcesThe Record

07

Amazon lists 250 million products from rival sites in effort to battle agents

SourcesThe Information

08

Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, leading independent evals for cyber defenders and undercutting Claude on price

SourcesThe InformationThe VergeThe DecoderThe LatentLatent SpaceThe Register AI + MLArs Technica

09

Cognition weighs $70-80 billion valuation in new funding round

SourcesBusiness Insider

10

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

SourcesTechCrunch

11

Siemens and Nvidia advance AI-powered PCB inspection from digital twin to factory

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

12

Anthropic Acquires Mithril Medicine to Expand Claude's Role in Drug Development

SourcesAxios AI+The InformationThe Latent

13

SLAC’s SPINE: An AI Tool on the Trail of Ghost Particles

SourcesHPCwire

14

Anthropic IPO warns AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity; cites Trump immigration policy as talent risk

SourcesFortuneArs Technica

15

xAI buys out Mississippi homeowners to avoid data center noise lawsuits

SourcesThe Verge

16

OpenAI slashes price for new model, giving enterprises more lower-cost options

SourcesAxios AI+AI Business

17

Upwind raises $400 million at $3.8 billion valuation

SourcesThe Latent

18

Microsoft records $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

SourcesTechCrunch

19

Self-adjusting drone controls could make for smoother formation flying

SourcesTech Xplore: Robotics

20

Microsoft reports 19% revenue growth to $92.3 billion in September quarter

SourcesThe Information

21

Kodiak lands first commercial deal to supply driverless trucks for public highways

SourcesTechCrunch

22

OpenAI plans to buy Google's TPU chips in computing push

SourcesThe InformationThe Latent

23

OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall but shows more destructive-action flags in tests

SourcesBleepingComputer

24

Physical Intelligence in talks for funding at $20 billion valuation

SourcesThe Latent

25

Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4 world model with real-time AI simulations and native audio

SourcesThe Latent

26

OpenAI and Anthropic claim cryptography breakthrough on same day

SourcesThe Information

27

Broccoli AI raises $52 million led by Khosla Ventures

SourcesFortune

28

Massive leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security workers, including undercover ICE agents

SourcesWIRED

29

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

SourcesTechCrunch

30

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a promptable open speech model combining transcription, translation, and speaker recognition

SourcesTechCrunchHugging FaceThe DecoderThe New Stack

31

North American robot orders climb 24.8% in Q3 of 2026, says A3

SourcesRoboticsTomorrowThe Robot Report

32

Biden’s antitrust enforcers Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki co-found AI legal tech startup

SourcesThe New York Times

33

Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness: Unlocking the potential of truly multi-model agentic work

SourcesMicrosoft AI

34

Warp Sciences emerges from stealth to apply robotics to drug research

SourcesThe Robot Report

35

WEX and Euclid AI target 90% reduction in trucking transaction costs with new AI agents

SourcesFreightWaves

36

Circuit Mind raises $25 million for AI-powered electronics design

SourcesAxios AI+

37

Amazon set to make much more than VCs on Anthropic’s IPO due to massive note conversions

SourcesTechCrunch

38

Maxinsights raises $30 million to build training data platform for physical AI

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

39

Unitree Robotics reports 70% surge in quarterly revenue, though AI investment weighs on net profit

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

40

Casap raises $56 million to help banks stop an explosion of customer fraud

SourcesFortune

41

Anthropic launches tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying

SourcesTechCrunch

42

AI labs acquire data from defunct startups to fuel model training

SourcesMIT Technology Review

43

Alphabet reports Q3 earnings as AI-driven search query growth hits five-year high

SourcesCNBCThe Verge

44

Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

SourcesArs TechnicaBusiness Insider

45

Sava raises $10 million for AI trust administration

SourcesAxios AI+

46

Google alters its cloud playbook by enlisting partners to sell more AI chips

SourcesCNBCBusiness Insider

47

Tata Communications invests $450m into 10,000km of AI-ready fiber in India

SourcesData Center Dynamics

48

Nvidia deploys standalone Vera CPUs in Oracle Cloud's multi-gigawatt infrastructure

SourcesTom's Hardware

49

Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs

SourcesThe Decoder

50

China’s AI Labs use OpenAI’s Astra Model as top distillation target

SourcesThe Information

51

As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps

SourcesTechCrunch

52

Enphase and Infineon deploy 900V GaN switches in solid-state transformers for AI data centers

SourcesData Center Dynamics

53

Malaysia seizes $12 million in AI chips hidden inside servers during smuggling probe

SourcesThe InformationTom's HardwareFortuneSouth China Morning Post

54

Corporations ramp up Security spending after AI-found bugs

SourcesThe Information

55

Kuka opens 15 SW & AI positions to build AMP robotics platform

SourcesROS Discourse

56

RAD partners to bring Autonomy-Ready Electric Propulsion to France

SourcesUnmanned Systems Technology

57

Leiden University study finds autonomous UV-C robot meets disinfection standards

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

58

Google struggles to make AI Mode searches pay

SourcesThe Register AI + MLBusiness Insider

59

Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers From Anthropic on ‘Existential’ Risks

SourcesThe Wall Street Journal

60

Oracle partners with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

61

New York governor signs AI chatbot child safety law

SourcesEngadget

62

NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops gain new models, agent tools and games

SourcesNVIDIA Blog

63

HIVE’s BUZZ HPC Secures $129M for Canadian AI Infrastructure

SourcesHPCwire

64

South Korean court rejects Tesla owners' lawsuit over Full Self-Driving refunds

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

65

Google builds robot medic for NASA with hands

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

66

MIT engineers design soft robotic enteroscope for small intestine diagnosis and treatment

SourcesMIT News: Robotics

67

Fortune analysis of Anthropic's S-1 notes OpenAI competitive edge in consumer business

SourcesFortuneZvi Mowshowitz

68

Nvidia partners with PreussenElektra to explore deployment of AI data centers at former nuclear sites in Germany

SourcesData Center Dynamics

69

Jülich Supercomputing Center taps Sparxity accelerators for sparse computing

SourcesHPCwire

70

Articul8 Launches Bivia to Bring Domain-Specific Decision Intelligence to Enterprise AI Agents

SourcesHPCwire

71

ByteDance accelerates robotics commercialisation with new recruitment drive

SourcesSouth China Morning Post

72

Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

SourcesThe Verge

73

Oracle creates AI workspace on ChatGPT

SourcesThe Wall Street Journal

74

Fort Robotics secures approximately $20 million in additional funding

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

75

Macmillan Staff threw a party for workplace AI assistant that was later killed

SourcesWIRED

76

Meta launches Waddle World, an AI pet journal app with virtual creatures

SourcesTechCrunchThe VergeEngadget

77

Meta introduces LLM-based ad ranking system and upgrades to Andromeda and GEM

SourcesAdExchanger

78

GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a model selection and orchestration system for coding tasks

SourcesThe New Stack

79

ChatGPT gains plugin support for iCloud Mail and Calendar

SourcesEngadget

80

Dalet Labs raises $7 million in pre-seed funding for AI commerce app Scene

SourcesBusiness Insider

81

University of Toronto researchers develop flexible foot pad for one-legged hopping robot

SourcesTech Xplore: Robotics

82

UK budget introduces grid connection incentives for data centers

SourcesData Center Dynamics

83

Anthropic adds pre-built templates to Claude for Legal

SourcesThe Decoder

84

OpenAI teases Dots for Europe rollout and shares Codex usage details

SourcesThe Decoder

85

Waymo integrates with Ramp for business expense management

SourcesWaymo (Official)

86

Japan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots for railway maintenance

SourcesTom's Hardware

87

OpenAI lets you text your Dot agent via iMessage and RCS

SourcesEngadget

88

Gremsy launches Elite Integrators Program for UAV and robotics partners

SourcesUnmanned Systems Technology

89

Walmart says AI training from OpenAI and Google boosts confidence among 2.1 million associates

SourcesCNBC

90

Amazon tells engineers to be pickier about using AI in new developer guidelines

SourcesCNBCBusiness InsiderFortuneThe Register AI + ML