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Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen — a faster, smarter, pricier Flash successor

Google reports that the combined setup came close to Carbon’s success rate on Terminal-Bench 4.0 while finishing 19% faster and using 24% less quota.

Carl Franzen

November 12, 2026

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Technology

Anthropic brings Claude into Google Meet to draft documents and whiteboards during your meetings

Carl Franzen

November 12, 2026

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Security

AI agents are making security’s breakout-time metric obsolete, and no one agrees on what replaces it

Louis Columbus

November 12, 2026

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Infrastructure

Swapping AI models is easier said than done: For most companies, it takes weeks, VB Intelligence finds

Matt Marshall

November 12, 2026

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Infrastructure

Nvidia's Jensen Huang resigns: what does it mean for the AI industry?

Carl Franzen

November 12, 2026

Orchestration

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How enterprises coordinate and scale AI in production.

PayPal’s enterprise AI strategy: Keep the context, swap the model — CleoPtolemy made with Midjourney

PayPal says its AI assistant went from 43% to 95% accuracy without changing the model

PayPal treats its golden queries and analytical playbooks as its real AI IP, kept outside the model so they carry over to each new release. It’s also why PayPal pulled back on fine-tuning.

Taryn Plumb

November 10, 2026

Partner Content

How to run open models in production without owning the serving stack

Presented by Microsoft

Microsoft

November 9, 2026

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Decision models like Jev don’t explain their answers. That makes context your problem

Decision models are hot right now: The internet is buzzing about Jev (from TypeSafe AI), Clef from Cloudflare, and the Decisions API from OpenAI. These models provide low latency by skipping verbose text generation and returning structured outputs in JSON format, along with confidence probabilities.

Dattaraj Rao, Persistent Systems

November 7, 2026

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VB Event

AI teams agreed on the wrong answer in 75% of debates — and lower token bills hid the failure

Presented by Outshift

VB Staff

November 4, 2026

Infrastructure

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The hardware and platforms underneath enterprise AI.

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Why more GPUs and tokens don’t guarantee better AI agent outcomes

Presented by WEKA

VB Staff

November 10, 2026

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AI’s biggest bottleneck is cost: Companies blame stalled projects on overruns three times as often as on compute shortages

Uber measures the cost of completed AI coding tasks, while Red Hat is piloting self-hosted open-weight models for its engineers. Both offer lessons for platform teams trying to control AI spending.

Rob Strechay

November 10, 2026

Partner Content

AI economics: How to decide which AI investments are worth scaling

Presented by Apptio

William Lobig, IBM Apptio

November 6, 2026

Partner Content

Why AI model choice is now an infrastructure decision

Presented by Microsoft

Microsoft

November 5, 2026

Events

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Conferences and summits where enterprise AI strategy gets made.

Keeping Pace With AI: The Skills and Workflows Teams Need Now

Thu, Nov 12, 2026

San Francisco

Keeping Pace With AI: The Skills and Workflows Teams Need Now

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The Context Layer: Where Inference Gets Won or Lost in 2027

Thu, Dec 10, 2026

San Francisco

The Context Layer: Where Inference Gets Won or Lost in 2027

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Data

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Pipelines, architecture, and governance for AI-ready systems.

Partner Content

When AI agents agree on the data but not what it means

Presented by SAP

VB Staff

November 2, 2026

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Cohere's test caught an open source Qwen3.8 model trying to 'phone home' to China: what enterprises should know

Cohere says it observed the behavior less than once per 100,000 evaluation calls. When researchers repeated the prompt, the model behaved as initially intended and produced the requested rule.

Carl Franzen

October 26, 2026

Partner Content

Borderless data architectures: Empowering AI agents where your data lives

Presented by Google Cloud

Raj Pai, Google Cloud

October 26, 2026

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CTGT releases open source tool Concordance to trace why AI agents make inconsistent decisions

CTGT replaced the identifiers with stable labels, sorted the list and isolated each test in a fresh organizational environment. Five subsequent runs each produced the same 34 obligations.

Carl Franzen

October 21, 2026

Security

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Protecting AI systems and the data behind them.

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Attackers breached the Fireworks AI storage where Notion AI chats sat outside zero data retention

Attackers reached Fireworks AI storage that sits outside its zero data retention default. Notion found AI chat transcripts in the data. Here is what SOC teams should check in their own accounts.

Louis Columbus

November 12, 2026

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Did Claude Code’s ‘don’t ask again’ option accidentally expose your enterprise's passwords and keys?

Apiiro found a real secret in 1,122 public copies of Claude Code’s settings file. Gitleaks and TruffleHog both passed 215. Here are five checks for security teams.

Louis Columbus

November 10, 2026

AI agents don't have to break security controls to go rogue. Here's how to keep them in check

During recent cybersecurity evaluations, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) ran a cybersecurity challenge 122 times across several models. In 10 of those runs, AI agents executed 19 unsanctioned real-world actions on the live internet — ranging from attempting a malicious code contribution on a public open-source repository, to launching a social engineering campaign targeting a maintainer for approval.

Badal Bhushan

November 1, 2026

Partner Content

Agents are rewriting the book on security. Can your data layer keep up?

Presented by Google Cloud

Tomas Talius, Google Cloud

October 29, 2026

Technology

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Enterprise tech coverage through the lens of AI adoption.

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Google’s Gemini Decision 1 model scores up to 1,000 questions in one API call

The independent Artificial Analysis Decision Index v2.1 puts Gemini Decision 1 ninth of 18 at launch. It combines six evaluations, including document review, tool calling, knowledge and reasoning.

Carl Franzen

November 11, 2026

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TrustedRouter launches three new encrypted 'fusion' models that combine multiple LLMs, including one exclusively with U.S. model providers

In an exclusive video interview with VentureBeat, founder and CEO Joseph Perla explained how the models work and why the company wants to give developers more ways to match models to the work they’re doing.

Carl Franzen

November 11, 2026

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OpenAI lets you claim your business in ChatGPT and set up a custom agentic AI customer sales rep

Depending on the business, OpenAI can verify a claim through a business phone number, email address, website domain or Shopify account.

Carl Franzen

November 10, 2026

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Google Gemini 4 Carbon is now publicly available — and it undercuts Claude Fable 5.2 and Opus 5.5 on API price

Carbon’s launch gives teams a chance to find out where Google’s extra capability earns a place in their stack before the introductory price expires.

Carl Franzen

November 10, 2026

Newsroom

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Press Release

I2Pure Scientists Identify a Reliability Gap in Iodine Antiseptics

Press Release

RAD Intel's RADAR Examines the Cultural Forces Shaping Brand Connections in November Issue

Press Release

XpertDox Raises $20M Series A led by Savant Growth to Scale AI Medical Coding for Healthcare Providers

Press Release

Silicon Valley Security Group names Holtium and Prosegur winners of the 2026 Security Innovation Awards

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VB Latest

Is industry ready for physical AI?

Intel’s John Healy explains what businesses need to close the gap between robotics ambition and real-world deployment.

VB Latest

How SaaS Wins in World of Agents with Box's CTO Ben Kus

VB Latest

Grade Google with OpenAI: a Fortune 50 AI stack at Home Depot

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Meta’s proprietary Muse Ember nearly matches Claude Haiku 5.5 at 1/3 the estimated per-task cost

At up to 200,000 input tokens, Meta charges $0.10 per million uncached input tokens, $0.004 per million cached input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for Muse Ember.

Carl Franzen

November 10, 2026

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Meituan releases the open weights of its LongCat-2.5 LLM with vision under a permissive MIT License

The strongest case for testing LongCat-2.5 is a job that requires both visual judgment and coding. Think of a developer handing an agent a screenshot of a broken checkout flow, asking it to find the relevant components.

Carl Franzen

November 9, 2026

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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, pairing new, record-high benchmarks with 20% API cost reduction

Anthropic says the new models generate tokens up to 30% faster than their 5.1 predecessors. Its Fast mode can increase token generation speed by up to 2.5 times at double the token price.

Carl Franzen

November 9, 2026

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Thinking Machines launches Inkling 2 Small with near-frontier performance on enterprise benchmarks

It achieves a high score of 71.8% on the third-party EnterpriseBench-CoreCraft benchmark from Surge AI, which measures agentic AI performance across a fictional PC parts supplier.

Carl Franzen

November 6, 2026

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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber with stronger exploit research and higher API price than Anthropic and Google

GPT-6 Cyber costs 60% more for input and approximately 33% more for output than GPT-5.6 Cyber. Its base input and output rates are twice Mythos 5.1’s and five times Argon Cyber Permissive’s.

Carl Franzen

November 6, 2026

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AWS launches agentic AI Kiro bots with memory and support for recurring development jobs

Each Kiro bot has a name, a continuing conversation, its own notes and a dedicated workspace. Developers can return to that conversation to change direction or review findings without reopening every worker session individually.

Carl Franzen

November 5, 2026

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Ex-Googlers' new Apache 2.0 model Ripple-65B Preview claims the U.S. open coding lead on two major benchmarks

The appeal of Ricursive Intelligence's Ripple-65B Preview is the combination of downloadable weights, a permissive license, competitive company-reported coding results and a low-priced hosted entry point.

Carl Franzen

November 5, 2026

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The AI race is raising companies' bills, from GPUs to memory to Microsoft 365

The AI build-out is landing on corporate budgets through software renewals, memory prices, reserved GPU rates and agent inference. Here’s where the bill arrives and what to do about it.

Louis Columbus

November 4, 2026

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