In a joint announcement at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas on October 27, 2026, Oracle and Snowflake said Snowflake AI Data Cloud will be available as a native, first-party service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with customers able to purchase and provision the offering directly through Oracle. Oracle said the addition expands the AI…
Oracle announced Oracle Media Fabric on October 27, 2026, at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, an integrated platform that combines AI-powered production, enterprise media models, and distributed video delivery for media companies, streaming providers, and brands. Oracle said the platform is designed to reduce content production time and cost, distribute and stream high-quality video…
Liquid AI announced LFM3 on October 27, 2026, a new generation of open-weight Liquid Foundation Models that brings text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models onto one shared backbone. The first release, detailed in a post on the Hugging Face blog, covers six models in the 2B parameter range. Six Models on One Shared Backbone…
Waymo said on October 27, 2026 that it will scale its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in five cities over the next week, adding nearly 250 square miles of territory across Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The company detailed the expansion in an October 27 post on Waypoint, its…
Google DeepMind announced Genie 4, its new world model for real-time interactive simulation, on October 27, 2026, releasing it as a research preview to trusted testers. The announcement, authored by Raia Hadsell, Diego Rivas and Hang Qi, describes Genie 4 as natively multimodal, with music, ambient noises and interactive dialogue generated simultaneously alongside the simulated…
NVIDIA and Oracle announced on October 27, 2026, plans to expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Superclusters with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale, citing growing customer demand for AI training, inference and agentic applications. The companies also announced general availability of Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA Vera CPUs on OCI, and said OCI…
Oracle announced a major new collaboration with OpenAI at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas on October 27, 2026, introducing an expanded suite of four offerings that bring OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex together with Oracle’s applications, data, and cloud infrastructure. The suite consists of Oracle AI Workspace, Oracle AI Security Mesh, Oracle App Composer,…
Oracle and Google announced on October 27, 2026, at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas that Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will be available through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle’s announcement describes OCI as the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer Google TPUs, with availability planned for calendar year 2027. Oracle’s Infrastructure Role…
Perplexity published a practical guide to LLM gateways on October 27, 2026, walking engineering teams through how the intermediary layer routes, authenticates, caches, and logs model calls and cataloging the security and reliability risks of concentrating provider credentials in one service. Gateway Definition and Taxonomy The guide defines an LLM gateway as a reverse proxy…
Confidence is a distinct advantage in evolution – and, according to a new research paper from Germany, also an advantage when a scientific paper is getting reviewed by Large Language Models (LLMs) instead of an author’s peers (an increasingly frequent necessity, as the volume of science papers balloons thanks to the productivity gains under AI)….