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Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (opens github.com)
A Google Chrome team repo of guidance that steers coding agents toward modern browser primitives instead of 2019-era JavaScript.
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Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (opens blog.google)
Google's announcement of Gemini 4 Carbon, released the day after Anthropic's Fable 5.2.
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Google Gemini routes personal Drive files and emails to human annotators (opens github.com)
A GitHub write-up claims Gemini sends personal Drive files and emails to human annotators; Google has not confirmed the claim in the source.
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Google advances agentic AI custom silicon expanding TPU family with 8tx and 8i Max (opens siliconangle.com)
Google LLC today introduced two new specialized silicon chips for artificial intelligence to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit architecture family, aimed at higher compute density and secure inference.
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Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3M shares of Qualcomm (opens theinformation.com)
Filing: Google spent roughly $548M to buy around 3M shares of Qualcomm, which is pushing into serving the AI data center market — Google's investment arm Google Ventures has acquired nearly 3 million shares of the chip maker Qualcomm, as a result of Qualcomm's purchase of chip software startup…
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As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps (opens techcrunch.com)
A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.
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Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $127.58B, vs. $128.22B est., Google Cloud revenue up 103% to $30.7B, vs. $28.7B est. (opens s206.q4cdn.com)
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $127.58B, vs. $128.22B est., Google Cloud revenue up 103% to $30.7B, vs. $28.7B est.; GOOG drops 9%+ after hours — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 28, 2026 - Alphabet Inc.