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DeepSeek has published dsh-superagent, a free, MIT-licensed coding agent, on GitHub, calling it research code rather than a production product. No independent test has measured how it stacks up against Codex or Claude Code. vector.news/articles/deepsee…
DeepSeek releases a free, experimental AI coding agent

DeepSeek releases a free, experimental AI coding agent

The Chinese lab's open code takes requests through GitHub and carries warnings against production use; Vector located no reproducible independent comparison.

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Santander credits AI with €194 million in business value for the first nine months of 2026. The bank has not disclosed how it arrived at that figure. vector.news/articles/compani…
Companies credit AI for gains but can't seem to prove it

Companies credit AI for gains but can't seem to prove it

Santander attributes €194 million of business value to AI; the reviewed statements from Novartis, Standard Chartered and Meta do not quantify AI's contribution.

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Meta's ad revenue grew 26% to $63.06 billion last quarter, closing to within $289 million of Google's $63.35 billion search business. Both companies credit AI for the gains, but neither discloses how much AI revenue actually added. vector.news/articles/meta-s-…
Meta's ads, growing over twice as fast, close the gap with Google

Meta's ads, growing over twice as fast, close the gap with Google

Meta says AI helped its ads grow 26%, while Google search grew 12% and its AI Mode earns less.

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The chart tracks the dollar gap between Google's search revenue and Meta's advertising revenue over five quarters, showing the lead collapsing as Meta's dollar growth outpaced Google's.
Chart: Google's search lead shrank because Meta added nearly twice the dollars. Google Search & other revenue minus Meta advertising revenue, USD billions, Q3 2025 to Q3 2026. Source: Meta and Alphabet third-quarter 2026 earnings releases; Vector calculations

ALT Chart: Google's search lead shrank because Meta added nearly twice the dollars. Google Search & other revenue minus Meta advertising revenue, USD billions, Q3 2025 to Q3 2026. Source: Meta and Alphabet third-quarter 2026 earnings releases; Vector calculations

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Alphabet shares fell 12.6% on October 29, to $283.82, the worst day since its stock-market debut. The finance chief says 2026 capital spending will stay in the same range, with a bigger jump promised for 2027. vector.news/articles/alphabe…
Alphabet shares fall 12.6% after earnings miss and free-cash-flow deficit

Alphabet shares fall 12.6% after earnings miss and free-cash-flow deficit

For a second straight quarter, Google's parent spent more on capital projects than its operations generated in cash.

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The cash Alphabet generates from operations has fallen behind its capital spending, a $9.1 billion gap that has widened for two straight quarters.
Chart: Alphabet's capital spending has overtaken its operating cash flow. Quarterly net cash from operations vs purchases of property and equipment, USD billions, Q1 2025 to Q3 2026. Source: Alphabet earnings releases (SEC Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1), Q4 2025 and Q3 2026; Q3 2026 earnings call, as transcribed by The Motley Fool

ALT Chart: Alphabet's capital spending has overtaken its operating cash flow. Quarterly net cash from operations vs purchases of property and equipment, USD billions, Q1 2025 to Q3 2026. Source: Alphabet earnings releases (SEC Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1), Q4 2025 and Q3 2026; Q3 2026 earnings call, as transcribed by The Motley Fool

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ServiceNow shares fell 27% to $109.67 after guiding Q4 backlog growth to 18.5%, down from 21% in Q3. The slowdown reopens a question about whether AI agents are cutting seat demand that ServiceNow hasn't answered. vector.news/articles/softwar…
Software maker ServiceNow plunges 27% after results

Software maker ServiceNow plunges 27% after results

Sales still grew by a fifth, but the company forecast slower growth in its near-term contracted-revenue backlog.

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ServiceNow's contracted-revenue growth held near 21% for a year before guidance calls for a drop to 18.5%, the gap this story investigates.
Chart: ServiceNow's contracted-revenue growth held near 21%, then guidance drops to 18.5%. Constant-currency year-over-year growth, %, by quarter-end, Q4 2025 to Q4 2026; Q4 2026 values are company guidance, not results. Source: ServiceNow quarterly earnings releases (Q4 2025, Q1–Q3 2026), via ServiceNow Newsroom and SEC Form 8-K filings

ALT Chart: ServiceNow's contracted-revenue growth held near 21%, then guidance drops to 18.5%. Constant-currency year-over-year growth, %, by quarter-end, Q4 2025 to Q4 2026; Q4 2026 values are company guidance, not results. Source: ServiceNow quarterly earnings releases (Q4 2025, Q1–Q3 2026), via ServiceNow Newsroom and SEC Form 8-K filings

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Iluvatar CoreX says a third-party test found its Tiangai 300 chip outperforms Nvidia's H200 by 5% in throughput per card. The settings behind that number, and how many chips Iluvatar can actually build, are still unknown. vector.news/articles/chinese…
Chinese chipmaker claims H200-level throughput in selected AI tests

Chinese chipmaker claims H200-level throughput in selected AI tests

Iluvatar CoreX demonstrated hardware in Shanghai, but the available benchmark details do not establish independently reproducible parity.

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Iluvatar's revenue nearly tripled, but gross profit held flat near 162 million yuan, as margins fell sharply across its chip business.
Chart: Revenue nearly tripled, but gross profit stayed flat at about RMB162 million. Iluvatar CoreX group revenue split into cost of sales and gross profit, RMB million, first half 2025 vs first half 2026. Source: Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor interim results announcement, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEXnews), 28 August 2026

ALT Chart: Revenue nearly tripled, but gross profit stayed flat at about RMB162 million. Iluvatar CoreX group revenue split into cost of sales and gross profit, RMB million, first half 2025 vs first half 2026. Source: Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor interim results announcement, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEXnews), 28 August 2026

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An Accenture employee's personal AI coding agent reportedly ran inside a Pentagon network for two months, using the employee's own login credentials. Whether anything was compromised remains unresolved. vector.news/articles/accentu…
Accenture worker's AI agent reportedly ran inside Pentagon network

Accenture worker's AI agent reportedly ran inside Pentagon network

Sources describe two months of agent activity and administrative access; Accenture disputes the allegations.

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SK Hynix has signed agreements with 14 customers covering more than half its 2027 and 2028 production capacity. Samsung and Micron, chasing the same AI memory boom, stop short of promising the shortage lasts that long. vector.news/articles/sk-hyni…
SK Hynix sees AI memory chip shortage through 2030

SK Hynix sees AI memory chip shortage through 2030

The South Korean chipmaker has agreements covering more than half its 2027 and 2028 production capacity; Samsung and Micron give shorter shortage horizons in the disclosures reviewed.

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Justice Department officials are asking whether Nvidia's $13 billion purchase of Hugging Face gives it control of a hub serving more than 200,000 companies. Nvidia's own pledge to keep the platform open is now under federal review. vector.news/articles/justice…
Justice Department questions Nvidia's $13 billion Hugging Face deal

Justice Department questions Nvidia's $13 billion Hugging Face deal

Officials are reportedly asking whether the chipmaker could use Hugging Face, where developers share AI models, against rivals.

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Reddit will require most of its site to be logged-in just as its biggest AI licensing deals approach renewal. Whether that leverage survives the renegotiation is unresolved. vector.news/articles/reddit-…
Reddit requires human login to combat agents

Reddit requires human login to combat agents

The forum that feeds Google and ChatGPT wants readers signed in, and AI firms under contract.

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OpenAI has secured about $11 billion of a $30 billion target, at a $1.25 trillion valuation instead of $1.4 trillion. Anthropic just filed for an IPO that could give investors a new way to price a frontier AI lab. vector.news/articles/openai-…
OpenAI's fundraising falls short of target before a possible IPO

OpenAI's fundraising falls short of target before a possible IPO

OpenAI reportedly met resistance to its asking valuation while Anthropic pursues a public offering.

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Blackstone expects Anthropic to receive a junk rating once it goes public, not the investment grade it once forecast. The downgrade forecast arrives days after a $63 billion chip deal that leans on Broadcom support. vector.news/articles/blackst…
Blackstone reportedly expects Anthropic to get a junk rating

Blackstone reportedly expects Anthropic to get a junk rating

The lab's $63 billion chip-financing structure includes Broadcom support for senior lenders.

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Intel stock fell 20% as it forecast Q4 revenue of $15-16 billion, down from $16.5 billion, and PC-chip sales sliding over 20%. Data-center profit gains cover the loss on paper, not the factory-funding gap. vector.news/articles/intel-f…
Intel falls 20% as PC sales slump

Intel falls 20% as PC sales slump

Stronger data-center earnings and substantial liquidity cushion Intel's PC weakness, but do not settle its factory-funding outlook.

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Data-center operating income jumped roughly five times more than Intel's PC profit fell last quarter, while foundry losses narrowed, though none of it isolates AI's net effect.
Chart: Data-center profit gain dwarfs Intel's PC profit decline in Q3. Year-on-year change in quarterly operating income by segment, Q3 2025 to Q3 2026, USD millions; a positive foundry value means a smaller loss. Source: Intel Q3 2026 earnings release (segment operating results); Vector analysis

ALT Chart: Data-center profit gain dwarfs Intel's PC profit decline in Q3. Year-on-year change in quarterly operating income by segment, Q3 2025 to Q3 2026, USD millions; a positive foundry value means a smaller loss. Source: Intel Q3 2026 earnings release (segment operating results); Vector analysis

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Ember estimates data centers could trim 2030 power draw by about 3% through rescheduling alone. Google has already written a gigawatt of that flexibility into utility contracts, before anyone can measure whether it holds. vector.news/articles/ember-p…

Ember puts data-center load shifting at roughly 3% of capacity

Ember assumes limited workload flexibility, highlighting onsite supply as another option.

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Training makes up just 13% of modeled 2030 capacity, yet accounts for 70% of Ember's theoretical flexibility, before utilization cuts that figure in half.
Chart: Training is 13% of capacity but 70% of Ember's theoretical flexibility. Share of total, Ember's 2030 global data-center model: workload mix versus the 6.5% theoretical flexible portion, before the 48% utilization step. Source: Ember, Data centres for grids: the potential impact of flexibility (Oct 29, 2026); Vector analysis

ALT Chart: Training is 13% of capacity but 70% of Ember's theoretical flexibility. Share of total, Ember's 2030 global data-center model: workload mix versus the 6.5% theoretical flexible portion, before the 48% utilization step. Source: Ember, Data centres for grids: the potential impact of flexibility (Oct 29, 2026); Vector analysis

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