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AI news, Friday, November 6, 2026
Everything we listed on Friday, November 6, 2026, newest first.
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SiliconANGLEPress
OpenAI reportedly raises $11B in new funding at $1.25T valuation
OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly raised $11 billion as part of a funding round that could nearly double in size over the coming weeks, as sources told Bloomberg that investors wired the funds to the company today. The tipsters didn’t name…
GitHub (AI and ML)Company
Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering
Writing code got faster. The work around it didn't. See how you can plan, write code, review changes, and investigate production issues with GitHub Copilot, and what work still needs your judgment. The post Beyond code generation: A…
SiliconANGLEPress
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling 2 Small amid reported $5B fundraising push
Thinking Machines Labs Inc. has released a new large language model that can automate artificial intelligence training tasks. The algorithm, Inkling 2 Small, made its debut late Thursday. Around the same time, Business Insider reported…
SiliconANGLEPress
AWS’ Colleen Aubrey: Stop inventing new AI metrics — it’s your business metrics that matter
There isn’t a business or information technology leader today who doesn’t have artificial intelligence at the top of their priority list. The challenge for most organizations is deciding what to measure and how to determine whether an AI…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
SageMaker Inference now supports Multi-Instance GPU to maximize GPU utilization for model endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports GPU partitioning with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG), which divides one GPU into hardware-isolated partitions so you can run a different model in each or take a right-sized fraction of a newer…
ZDNETPress
Android is getting my favorite iOS tracking feature – what to expect
‘Notify when left behind’ is making its way to Android – but to limited devices for now.
Ars TechnicaPress
“Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
Meta won't force Facebook page owners to allow AI training on linked content.
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Taxonomy of agentic primitives in AWS Quick
As we built Amazon Quick, its agents grew from answering questions to taking actions, and the same primitives kept getting rebuilt under different names. This post shares the taxonomy we converged on — triggers, agents, capabilities, and…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Serverless MCP server for AI agent data lake access on Amazon ECS Fargate
Learn how to build a serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate that gives AI agents secure, metadata-driven access to an enterprise data lake. Exposing a new dataset requires only a JSON file, with no…
Simon Willison's WeblogNewsletter
Quoting Nilay Patel
The products aren't good enough to sell people on the costs. You cannot tell people that you have to listen to the whine of a data center in their backyard for AI overviews and some of the most hilarious deep fake slop in history. It's not…
Ars TechnicaPress
Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?
A former Rockstar tech director thinks the developer is facing new time pressures.
NVIDIA BlogCompany
How NVIDIA Open Source Tools Are Helping Researchers Build Next-Generation 6G Networks
A year ago, NVIDIA open sourced its Aerial wireless software, joining Sionna and a broader suite of open source tools for accelerating next-generation 6G network development. Together, they give researchers a foundation for testing ideas…
Latent SpaceNewsletter
Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich
As systems biology efforts heat up to map biology at higher resolution, greater breadth and more modalities, Fabian Theis is pushing the frontier from mapping to predicting to controlling biology
SiliconANGLEPress
Midterm elections will put AI and data centers on trial, but will Big Tech end up winning anyway?
It may be a little soon to determine the ultimate winners and losers among enterprise suppliers after the midterm elections, but the early line is: Big Tech wins and data center suppliers operators such as chipmakers and neoclouds lose. Or…
SiliconANGLEPress
The AI boom’s missing balance-sheet question: What has actually been verified?
Artificial intelligence infrastructure commitments are growing faster than the evidence connecting contracted capacity to sustained economic value. I spent 13 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. One lesson stayed with me…
SiliconANGLEPress
Atomicwork launches certified AI coworker marketplace for enterprise IT and security
Information technology service management startup Atomicwork Inc. today announced the launch of an Artificial Intelligence Coworker Marketplace that will give enterprise IT and security teams access to prebuilt, certified AI coworkers that…
AxiosPress
How AI is enabling faster, more dangerous cyber warfare
Refrigerator hacks. $6.3 billion crypto heists . 14-country espionage campaigns carried out in just 11 days. All in the span of a week. Why it matters: State-backed hackers are finding new ways to launch cyberattacks at remarkable speed…
Latent SpaceNewsletter
[AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark
November 5, 2026 — Inside Inkling 2 Small’s training run and METR’s study of AI research at Anthropic.
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning…
OpenAICompany
Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems
OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.
AxiosPress
Nvidia CEO called in by lawmakers over ties to alleged Chinese spy
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been asked by three House Republican committee chairs to brief Congress behind closed doors about his reported ties to a woman accused of spying for China. Why it matters: The request escalates the scrutiny of…
OpenAICompany
Measuring how AI agents handle everyday wet-lab science
OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.