AI News — Thursday, October 29, 2026

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Microsoft Recorded $10 Billion in Revenue from OpenAI Partnership

Microsoft announced it has generated $10 billion in revenue from its partnership with OpenAI, highlighting the significant commercial success of their collaboration.

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The Trinity: Capability-Driven Recursive Self-Improvement for Multimodal Agents

New research introduces "The Trinity," a framework enabling multimodal AI agents to recursively self-improve their capabilities, pushing the boundaries of autonomous AI development.

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Google Expands AI Search Ads Globally Amid Slowing Core Ad Growth

Google is expanding its AI-powered search advertisements worldwide as the growth of its traditional ad business decelerates, signaling a major strategic shift towards AI monetization.

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Microsoft Shares Azure's Actual Revenue: $33.2 Billion

Microsoft disclosed Azure's revenue reached $33.2 billion, underscoring the massive scale and financial success of its cloud computing platform, heavily driven by AI services.

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Multiscale Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

This paper presents a novel multiscale policy optimization technique designed to improve the performance of LLM agents in complex tasks requiring long-horizon planning and execution.

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OpenAI and ServiceNow Expand Partnership Across Enterprise Workflows

OpenAI and ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership aimed at integrating advanced AI capabilities into a broader range of enterprise workflows, accelerating AI adoption in businesses.

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Why and How to Do Science When AI Is Better at It: A Framework Grounded in Human Understanding and Direction

A new arXiv paper proposes a framework for human scientific endeavor in an era where AI increasingly surpasses human capabilities in scientific discovery, emphasizing human understanding and direction.

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DTCA: Denoising Token Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning in Diffusion Language Models

New research introduces Denoising Token Credit Assignment (DTCA), a method to improve reinforcement learning in diffusion language models by more effectively attributing credit to individual tokens.

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Memory Tax: Dissecting the Net Value of Agent Memory

This paper analyzes the computational and performance trade-offs associated with incorporating memory into AI agents, providing insights into its true value and cost.

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Legora is Building the Agentic Operating System for Legal Work

OpenAI highlights Legora, a new venture focused on developing an agentic operating system specifically designed to automate and streamline various legal workflows.

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VibeVideoBench: Evaluating Multimodal Agents on Code-Driven Video Generation

VibeVideoBench is introduced as a new benchmark for rigorously evaluating the capabilities of multimodal AI agents in generating videos based on code-driven instructions.

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PDRVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Physical Dynamics Representations

This research presents PDRVLA, a novel vision-language-action model that incorporates physical dynamics representations to enable more realistic and effective interaction with the real world.

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How to Cut Your AI Agent's Input Tokens: What Worked, What Failed, and a Bench to Measure Yours

A practical guide offers insights and a benchmarking tool for developers to efficiently reduce the input token count for their AI agents, optimizing performance and cost.

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Mercury 3: When AI Is Fast Enough to Stay in the Loop

The article discusses Mercury 3, an AI system demonstrating the capability to operate at speeds sufficient for real-time human-AI collaboration, enabling AI to remain actively involved in dynamic processes.

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Can Test-Time Memory Evolution Outperform Test-Time Training for Scientific Discovery?

This paper investigates whether evolving an AI's memory during testing can yield better results for scientific discovery than traditional test-time training methods.

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