AI News, 3 November 2026

Tuesday 3 November

Salesforce adds Cresta's customer-service agents as its pre-holiday shopping spree continues

AI-generated summary Salesforce announced that it will acquire customer experience software company Cresta to add AI agents to its Customer 360 business unit. Salesforce stated that the voice agents will help representatives navigate customer interactions and operate at enterprise scale.

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Gemini 4 Carbon: our next frontier model

AI-generated summary Google previews Gemini 4 Carbon as its strongest frontier model with capabilities for cybersecurity and long-horizon engineering. Google says the model starts testing with a subset of cyber defenders and trusted partners through the Fairwind Program.

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Big four hyperscalers raising more that $131 billion in debt and equity for AI buildout

AI-generated summary Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle announced funding plans to raise more than $131 billion in debt and equity for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Amazon disclosed an $80 billion loan facility and Microsoft stated it intends to use net proceeds from a bond offering for general corporate purposes.

Brookfield Bets £20B on AI Data Center at UK Power Station

A vast concrete cooling tower looms against a bruised amber sky at dusk, its weathered industrial surface streaked with moisture, as rows of humming black server racks visible through a

AI-generated summary Drax Group, Brookfield Asset Management, and Radiant announced an agreement to jointly develop a gigawatt-scale AI data center on the Drax Power Station estate in North Yorkshire, England. Brookfield projects that total investment could exceed twenty billion pounds, with Phase 1 committing two and a half billion pounds for up to one hundred megawatts of capacity.

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