4 November 2026

Hugging Face CEO: the biggest AI risk comes from a few companies working behind closed doors

Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, believes the biggest AI-related risk is created by a handful of large companies building models in secret. Speaking at the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4, he argued that the best protection is developing AI in the open, where anyone can build models. In his view, whoever deploys an AI agent should be legally responsible for what it does. He put the risk of AI leading to human extinction at close to zero.

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From recent days

Google's search revenue growth slows - 12% in the third quarter after about 17% in the second

Google's search revenue rose 12% year over year in the third quarter, compared with about 17% in the second, The Verge calculates. Ad clicks grew just 8%, down from 13% a quarter earlier, even though search queries are growing at their fastest pace in five years. Philipp Schindler, Google's chief business officer, attributes the slowdown mainly to currency effects but acknowledges that the company earns less on AI Mode queries than on regular search. Alphabet shares have fallen about 14% since the results were published.

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Sonos tests new voice assistant, for now only in the U.S.

Sonos has begun testing Sonos 27voice, a new voice assistant that takes commands in plain language, the way you would talk to a person, 9to5Mac reports. After saying “Hey Sonos,” you can ask, for example, for “that Bowie album about an adventure in space,” without naming the title, or simply ask a question. You can sign up in the Sonos app, but only in the U.S., and spots are limited. Access for the first testers was scheduled for November 6, and the company wants to roll the assistant out to all customers in 2027.

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Anthropic reports $33.24 billion in nine-month revenue and a $104 billion loss

Anthropic reported $33.24 billion in revenue and a $104 billion net loss for the first nine months of 2026, CNBC reports, citing its amended S-1. The loss mainly reflects an accounting revaluation of convertible notes and derivatives. Revenue was up about 1,200% from a year earlier, but growth is slowing: it rose 144% in the second quarter from the first, and about 47% in the third, to about $17 billion. Commitments under purchase and lease agreements, mostly for compute, total $895.4 billion.

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