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AI news, Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Everything we listed on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, newest first.
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SiliconANGLEPress
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired artificial intelligence coding startup Conductor in a deal first reported today by Axios. Conductor confirmed it’s joining Meta in a post on its website. Terms were not disclosed. The company’s software…
SiliconANGLEPress
AI agents meet billable hours as Certinia rethinks services delivery
Certinia Inc. is bringing AI into the software firms use to sell projects, assign staff, deliver work and bill clients. AI’s ability to instantaneously draw from a deep well of information and provide guidance in practically any field of…
Ars TechnicaPress
Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
Tech industry in denial as US overwhelmingly votes to restrict AI, data centers.
Latent SpaceNewsletter
[AINews] Behind Latent Space: Kill My SaaS, Jev & AI in 2026 | AIEi Shanghai
November 3, 2026 — A quiet day lets us share some behind the senes.
Texas was the new epicenter of the AI data center buildout. That might be kaput.
Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s largest AI buildouts. But the blue wave that swept the Lone Star State may jeopardize that position. Democrat James Talarico won the US Senate seat…
Google ResearchResearch
Agile Deliberation: How AI helps humans define the gray areas
Data Mining & Modeling
SalesforceCompany
Your AI Agents Are Fast. Your Process Isn’t. Here’s How to Fix It.
Picture a race car flying down a country highway, only to find itself stuck behind a tractor. The car’s engine is spectacular. But it can’t go any faster than the tractor. That’s what many companies encounter, often without realizing it…
InterconnectsNewsletter
How big is the open model economy today?
Our first open model economy research note for paid subscribers.
Simon Willison's WeblogNewsletter
datasette-llm 0.1a10
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a10 Fixes a bug that affected my agent.datasette.io demo site, where the set of available LLM models was not correctly restricted to just those in the configuration. Tags: llm , datasette
OpenAICompany
OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
Cloudflare (AI)Company
See the agents, set the terms: New visibility and control for personal agents
Personal AI agents have changed how users interact with the web, blurring the lines between automated and human traffic. Learn how Cloudflare gives site owners visibility and control to manage personal agent access.
SalesforceCompany
Salesforce’s Agentforce Coworker Usage Soars 21x in Three Months as Enterprises Delegate Real Work to AI
More than 185,000 users are putting Coworker to work, with companies including The Adecco Group, Fulton Bank, and BACA Systems expanding adoption across their businesses. New capabilities make Coworker smarter, more proactive, and…
Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage
A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second…
TheSequenceNewsletter
The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue #965: Gemini and Timestral Take on Longer Horizons
Gemini 4 Argon, Carbon, and Timestral match models to the job
OpenAICompany
A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
OpenAICompany
Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.
Simon Willison's WeblogNewsletter
datasette-apps 0.3a0
Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them using LLMs via Datasette Agent . This release…
OpenAICompany
Introducing Images 2.6
Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
OpenAICompany
DevRev delivers autonomous self-service with GPT-6.1 Sol
DevRev uses GPT-6.1 Sol to power Computer and Operator, balancing reasoning, speed, and cost for enterprise service.