Microsoft Has Another AI Event Lined Up for October 20, and It’s All About OneDrive
Microsoft confirmed a OneDrive and Copilot digital event for October 20, its second major AI-adjacent event of the month after…
TeckHustlers desk
Category: Tech News
Daily roundup of tech, AI, and search industry news
Grok 4.7 Is Here With Bigger Coding Claims and the Same Price Tag
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 with stronger coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at unchanged pricing, rolling it into GitHub Copilot immediately, though…
Anthropic Will Give Your Startup a Free Year of Claude Team Plus $1,000 in Credits
TechCrunch reports Anthropic is giving eligible startups a free year of Claude Team along with $1,000 in API credits, a…
The Three Researchers OpenAI Fired for a ‘Leak’ Just Published Their Side of the Story
The three OpenAI researchers fired October 1 over an unexplained information leak published an open letter disputing that account, according…
Perplexity’s New Embedding Models Claim to Beat Voyage AI at a Fraction of the Size
Perplexity released two new pplx-embed-v2 model families built for web-scale retrieval, claiming they outperform Voyage AI's embeddings while producing vectors…
Apple’s Second October Event Is Coming October 27, and the MacBook Pro Is Finally Getting a Touchscreen
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is holding a second event this month, on or around October 27, to launch its…
New Data Says AI Overviews Cut Your Click-Through Rate by 61 Percent. Clicks Didn’t Vanish Though.
Seer Interactive's 2026 update to its ongoing AI Overviews research found organic click-through rates falling 61 percent on affected queries,…
Anthropic Launches a “Cyber Mission” to Defend Critical Infrastructure, With CrowdStrike as Its First Partner
Anthropic launched the Cyber Mission, a critical infrastructure defense program giving vetted defenders its AI models, threat research, and on-site…
Google Quietly Swapped in Gemini 3.8 Flash for AI Mode Search Results
Search Engine Roundtable reports Google is now running Gemini 3.8 Flash inside AI Mode, the generative search experience that has…
OpenAI’s Revenue Is $20 Billion Short of What Got Reported, and Oracle Just Paid for It
The Financial Times reports OpenAI's annualized revenue was nearing $50 billion at the end of September, about $20 billion below…