Google's Gemini 4 Carbon tops AI index, Anthropic model hacks Chrome
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon, an Anthropic model that broke into the big browsers and operating systems, Microsoft's money from OpenAI, Alphabet's results and Dutch job cuts.
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops an AI index, for defenders only It came out on Wednesday and scored 59 on Artificial Analysis’s Intelligence Index, the top score there. Google says it’s its best model yet at finding and exploiting security holes, so a small group of cyber defenders get it first, with wider access promised later and no date. It starts at $2 per million tokens in and $10 out, doubling after an introductory period. Source
An unreleased Anthropic model hacked Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux It found the holes and wrote working attacks, including one where just opening a web page in Chrome on a Mac ran code outside the browser, and one that took full control of some Linux servers with no password. Anthropic posted the details on Tuesday once the bugs were fixed, 62 of them in Chrome alone. It hasn’t said whether the model will be released. Source
Microsoft made $10bn from OpenAI in three months That’s nearly 11 per cent of Microsoft’s sales for the quarter to September, against $24.1bn from OpenAI across the whole of its previous financial year. It came out in a filing alongside its results on Wednesday, which also shows Microsoft’s stake in OpenAI has slipped to about 24 per cent. Source
Google Cloud doubled to $30.7bn, and Alphabet’s spending more than doubled Alphabet spent $51.4bn on data centres and equipment in the quarter, against $24bn a year ago, and it left the company paying out more cash than it brought in. The results came out on Wednesday, with total sales up 25 per cent to $127.6bn. Source
The Netherlands wants to cut 25,000 government jobs, leaning on AI That’s roughly one in six central government staff, spread over several years, to save about $3.9bn a year from 2035. The government set the target on Monday and says its plan for using AI to get more done comes early next year. Source