Oct 28, 2026 in AI

1 new model listing, 7 lab posts, 5 funding stories, 6 launches and releases.

What changed in AI on Oct 28, 2026?

The digest for Oct 28, 2026 lists 1 new model listing, 7 lab posts, 5 funding stories, 6 launches and releases, each linked to its original source. It updates through the day until it is marked final.

New models

Particle AI: Particle-1 is now listed on OpenRouteropenrouter.ai

From the labs

Google: Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier modeldeepmind.google
Hugging Face blog: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2: Intelligent Multilingual Transcription You Can Prompt and Adapthuggingface.co
OpenAI: OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflowsopenai.com
OpenAI: The future of the firmopenai.com
OpenAI: Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal workopenai.com
OpenAI: Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal workopenai.com
Anthropic: AI for Science expands to foundations and institutionsanthropic.com

Funding

Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billiontechcrunch.com
Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAItechcrunch.com
7 days until TechCrunch Founder Summit: Save up to $100 on your pass before doors opentechcrunch.com
Circuit Mind lands $25M and puts AI agents to work checking circuit board schematicssiliconangle.com
Exclusive: Numeracle Raises $28M To Keep Legitimate Business Calls From Spam Labelnews.crunchbase.com

Launches and releases

Ollama v0.40.13 releasedgithub.com
LangChain langchain-core==1.7.1 releasedgithub.com
Gemini 4 Carbon (845 points on Hacker News)news.ycombinator.com · discussion
Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI (445 points on Hacker News)news.ycombinator.com · discussion
Dayjob: Tax, evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments (216 points on Hacker News)news.ycombinator.com · discussion
Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections (137 points on Hacker News)news.ycombinator.com · discussion