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Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI
A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.
Read original →Helsing built an AI system that prepares targets for weapons systems and says every decision will carry a human name
Helsing has unveiled Clarity, an AI platform that uses agents to distill sensor data into target recommendations for weapons systems, all under human oversight and European control. But experience from the Iran war, Gaza, and a…
Read original →Anthropic says AI is eroding Nvidia's CUDA lead, cutting an AMD chip switch from months to three days
Anthropic claims it used AI itself to breach Nvidia's CUDA moat. The company's in-house model Mythos reportedly ported Claude to AMD GPUs in just three days, with almost no human intervention. Anthropic now runs Claude on…
Read original →US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs
US data brokers like Mercor, Surge AI, and AfterQuery are selling roughly half a billion dollars' worth of AI training data to Chinese labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. That includes the same RL environments previously…
Read original →DeepL wants real-time translation to finally capture sarcasm and mood shifts
DeepL Voice's real-time translations are about to sound a lot more natural. The company's new Aure model carries over tone, emotion, emphasis, and speaking pace from the original speaker's voice into the target language. The article…
Read original →Grok-built apps exposed patient data, plaintext passwords, and SpaceXSI's own sales pipeline
Security firm Claroc found more than 35,000 Grok-built apps open to anyone without login, including patient data and confidential SpaceXSI documents. The cause: "Anyone with the link" was preselected as the default access setting. SpaceXSI took…
Read original →[AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate
November 10, 2026 — Google GA's Gemini 4 Carbon.
Read original →Experience the art and legacy of Dr. Esther Mahlangu
A new online archive of Esther Mahlangu’s life and art is now on Google Arts & Culture.
Read original →BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model
AI Engineer Code Summit: OpenAI on New Ways of Working With Codex
On the first day of AIE Code Summit, OpenAI showed how developers can steer Codex by voice, hand off work to the cloud, and make use of dots.
Read original →OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a business directory with AI agents that handle customer questions
OpenAI is opening up ChatGPT as a business platform: through a new Business Hub, companies can claim their profile, add product data, and track how users interact with them. "Business Agents" let eligible US e-commerce providers…
Read original →llm-gemini 0.36
Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else. This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and $10/million…
Read original →Designing for Agents — Zeno Rocha, Resend
Where does answer engine optimization (AEO) end and agent experience begin? Inside Resend, from the docs that help Claude Code pick an email API to the tools it uses to send.
Read original →Anthropic turns Claude into a full workspace with Plugins, spreadsheets, whiteboards, and soon Meeting notes
Anthropic is expanding Claude with Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors, letting partners like Adobe and Atlassian embed their apps directly inside Claude. Anthropic says Claude Meetings, which can join calls and take notes, is coming soon.…
Read original →Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices
Gemini Intelligence is rolling out to more devices. See how expanded capabilities across these devices help you do more.
Read original →NaiveAI Promises 2,100 Tokens per Second. How Well Does It Code?
NaiveAI could potentially top Artificial Analysis’s speed rankings. Our hands-on test suggests its coding quality holds up against DeepSeek.
Read original →Nvidia's model GR00T 2 watches humans on video, then imagines itself as the robot
Nvidia's new AI model GR00T 2 is designed to teach robots new tasks without laborious teleoperation. Instead, the system transfers human hand movements from videos to robotic arms, trained on about 400,000 hours of video footage.…
Read original →Gemini 4 Carbon arrives just in time to feel like yesterday's news in the fastest model cycle yet
Google is making Gemini 4 Carbon generally available after a two-week testing phase. The model ranks first in several benchmarks, in some cases ahead of Anthropic's new Fable 5.2, at less than half the per-task cost.…
Read original →Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2.5 scores 96 percent sorting metal parts in a Mercedes-Benz assembly pilot
Google Deepmind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a new control model for robots, and tested it with Apptronik on active Mercedes-Benz production lines in Hungary and Germany. The humanoid robot Apollo 2 sorted metal parts there with…
Read original →We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps.
Google and Adobe are integrating creative and productivity tools. Edit PDFs in Drive and use Adobe AI in Gemini. See what’s new in this partnership.
Read original →Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare.
Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare to unify clinical data and automate workflows. Reduce administrative burnout. See how it works.
Read original →Anthropic kicks off IPO roadshow, offering shares at $70 to $78 and targeting a trillion-dollar valuation
Anthropic is kicking off its IPO roadshow, targeting a valuation of up to $1.02 trillion. Beyond the public offering of up to $64.4 billion, the company is securing $26 billion through a private placement with Google,…
Read original →Helping caregivers use AI in everyday life
OpenAI Academy is bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to caregivers in five U.S. cities, helping them build practical AI skills for everyday life.
Read original →Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT
Manage your business information, get insights about how your business shows up, and turn interest into action in ChatGPT.
Read original →Closing the AI guidance gap in education
New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI’s EMEA education partnerships on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning.
Read original →Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember
Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model designed for complex…
Read original →Work at the Frontier: AI’s effect on freelance work
New research from OpenAI and Upwork finds shifting demand for freelance work, new skill combinations, and larger budgets and more hours for AI-related projects.
Read original →[AINews] Fable 5.2 retakes World #1 LLM spot as $ANT IPO roadshow begins
November 9, 2026 — Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 arrive on Anthropic’s IPO roadshow day. How much thinking is worth paying for?
Read original →Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2
Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what the prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, when a prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the code…
Read original →Yonkers Rises
Tool: Yonkers Rises I realized I didn't know where Yonkers was, so I looked it up on Google Maps and then, to help embed its location and shape in my head (and to try out Claude…
Read original →Decision Models in Hugging Face
Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud Account
llm-anthropic 0.31
Release: llm-anthropic 0.31 Anthropic released Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 today. Fable 5.2 is currently ranked first on Artificial Analysis. Anthropic say it "solved two open problems in the physics of black holes", so clearly their…
Read original →Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 cement Anthropic's AI lead just before its IPO
Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, its most powerful models to date, in two versions: one freely available and one reserved for verified organizations. The models solve open physics problems, show stronger cybersecurity…
Read original →Meta launches Muse Ember, a small AI model built for the repetitive work agents actually do
Meta is introducing Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient AI model, optimized for repetitive agent tasks such as tool calls, routing, and data extraction. According to Meta, it delivers more intelligence per dollar than Claude…
Read original →ChatGPT Enterprise now available in AWS Marketplace
ChatGPT Enterprise is now available through AWS Marketplace, helping organizations simplify procurement through existing AWS purchasing and billing relationships.
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