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Today’s Highlights:
Reddit blames Google's AI search for its traffic drop
Google's AI spending is heading past $300B
Mistral releases a free trillion-parameter model
Canada takes a stake in AI startup Cohere
Tool of the day: ElevenLabs Sound Effects v3
Read Time: 5 minutes
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Google's AI search is sending far fewer people to Reddit, and the company will start making visitors sign in to read most content.
🔍 The Details:
Google search referrals fell by more than 1 million visits a week on average in October.
Huffman said Google's AI Mode "does not drive traffic, not for us and not to anybody," even though Google is crawling Reddit as hard as ever.
Reddit will test a logged-in-only experience in some markets outside the US this quarter, ending about 20 years of open browsing.
US daily users fell 2% to 50.7 million, Reddit's first drop since going public. Shares fell 18% after hours.
Revenue still grew 53% to $895 million, helped by data deals with OpenAI and Google.
📌 Why It Matters:
When Google answers the question itself, people stop clicking through to the sites that wrote the answer.
If even Reddit is locking its doors, expect more of the open web to go behind logins, making it harder for AI tools and casual readers alike.
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Alphabet reported $127.6 billion in quarterly revenue, up 25%, as its AI business grows fast but costs even more to build.
🔍 The Details:
Google Cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.7 billion, driven by AI demand.
The Gemini app passed 1 billion users.
Google's models now process nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, 4x more than a year ago.
Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on infrastructure this quarter and raised its 2026 forecast to $195 to $205 billion.
It signaled spending will top $300 billion in 2027.
📌 Why It Matters:
Google is betting the company on AI, and users are showing up.
But the bill is growing faster than the profits, and that's the question investors will keep asking: when does all this spending pay off?
From invisible to first in ChatGPT.
Bob's Your Uncle has spent twenty years helping challenger brands win their categories. But when buyers asked ChatGPT about their own category, the agency didn't show up.
With ChatFeatured, their AI visibility went from 7% to 22% in 90 days, and they went from invisible to first in ChatGPT.
They're not the only ones:
Vessel: AI visibility up 2,200%+
SCOJO: AI visibility up 160%
WikiSleep: brand mentions up 113%
ChatFeatured finds the questions where AI leaves you out, writes the content that gets you cited, and reports the lift every week. Your team decides what ships.
Most customers see their first citations inside 7 days.
MISTRAL
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French AI lab Mistral has released the full weights of Mistral Large 4, so companies can download it and run it on their own servers.
🔍 The Details:
The model has about 1 trillion parameters, with roughly 50 billion active at a time, and handles text and images.
It can work with up to 1 million tokens of context, enough for very large codebases or documents.
Mistral built it for coding and cyber defense, claiming 19.7% on FrontierCode 2.0, the top score among open models.
Weights are on Hugging Face, and it's also available through Mistral's API.
The license allows commercial use, but companies reselling it as a hosted service need a separate deal.
📌 Why It Matters:
Most frontier-level AI is locked behind APIs from US labs.
Mistral is giving businesses, especially in Europe, a model they can own and run privately, which matters for banks, governments and anyone handling sensitive data.
AI TUTORIAL
ElevenLabs just launched Sound Effects v3. Describe a sound in plain words and it creates it, and it's now better at layering several sounds into one clip. Great for videos, Reels and podcasts.
Steps to Follow:
Sign in to ElevenLabs and open Sound Effects.
Describe the sound, e.g. "rain on a tin roof with distant thunder."
Add more detail for layered scenes, e.g. "busy café, cups clinking, soft jazz."
Generate and listen to the options.
Download your favourite and drop it into your video editor.
MORE AI & TECH NEWS
🇨🇦 Canada Takes a Stake in Cohere
Canada will invest up to C$1.6 billion for a stake in Toronto AI startup Cohere, which must keep its headquarters in Canada.
📜 OpenAI Rewrites ChatGPT's Rulebook
OpenAI's updated Model Spec now centers on five values, including honesty and staying faithful to what users actually intend.
🧪 Anthropic Adds 20 Science Partners
Anthropic's AI for Science program now gives researchers at 20 more organizations Claude credits and support.
☁️ Microsoft's Azure Grows 48%
Microsoft posted $92.3 billion in quarterly revenue, up 19%, as AI demand pushed Azure growth to 48%.
🏠 OpenAI-Backed Firm Buys ADT
Thrive Holdings, which counts OpenAI as an investor and tech partner, is buying home-security company ADT in a $15.3 billion deal.
📦 Claude API Accepts Bigger Requests
The maximum request size for Claude's API jumped from 32 MB to 128 MB.
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