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Gemini Decisions API
Gemini Decisions API Google join Jev and OpenAI in the decision model category with "Gemini Decision 1". This new model API is almost identical to Jev: it supports the same three types of questions (yes/no, choice, and rubric-scoring) and…
The VergePress
United won’t let your AI agent book your flight
United says it won't let personal AI assistants book tickets on the airline, citing both privacy and regulatory concerns. The company says it hasn't yet seen many people try to use AI agents to book their flights, The Wall Street Journal…
PR NewswirePress release
Nauticus Robotics, Inc. Announces Date for 2026 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call
HOUSTON, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nauticus Robotics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KITT, "Nauticus" or "Company"), a leading innovator in autonomous subsea robotics and software solutions, today announced the Company's schedule for conducting its…
MarkTechPostPress
Google Launches Gemini Decisions API With Gemini Decision 1 at $0.10/M Tokens
Google launched the Gemini Decisions API, powered by Gemini Decision 1. It returns calibrated probabilities for up to 1,000 yes/no, choice and rubric questions over text, images, audio, video and PDFs, at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. The…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
The attendee’s guide to the AWS re:Invent 2026 AI/ML track
AWS re:Invent 2026 includes more than 140 AI/ML track sessions. This attendee's guide helps you find the breakouts, chalk talks, workshops, and builders' sessions that fit your role and goals, spanning AI chips, models and inference…
PR NewswirePress release
Zillow Group to present at UBS Global Technology and AI Conference 2026
SEATTLE, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: Z and ZG), which is transforming the way people buy, sell, rent and finance homes, today announced Zillow Group will present at this year's UBS Global Technology and AI…
AxiosPress
Scoop: Lutnick stalled curbing Nvidia chip sales to China — again — after Oval Office showdown
President Trump on Thursday authorized a crack down on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China for the third time this year — even consulting Elon Musk before giving the go-ahead. One administration official…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Automating AWS Agent Registry updates with push-based architecture
This post shows how to keep the AWS Agent Registry current automatically. Using AWS CloudTrail, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Lambda, and AgentCore Identity, an event-driven pipeline detects MCP server changes and pushes updated tool metadata to…
MarkTechPostPress
Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome 2 for Cell-Type-Specific Variant Effects
Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome 2, a conditional DNA sequence model that predicts regulatory activity and variant effects per cell type. It is available via the AlphaGenome API for non-commercial research. The post Google DeepMind…
PR NewswirePress release
Stage 2 Capital Closes $100M and Puts AI-Powered Go-to-Market at the Center of Early-Stage Venture
Stage 2 Capital is bringing AI-powered access to its network of 1,000+ GTM leaders at companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs, helping founders find the right expertise and connections at the point of need. BOSTON, Nov. 10, 2026…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
How DXC Technology built a multi-model AI substrate on Amazon Bedrock
DXC Technology runs mission-critical managed IT services for regulated organizations across 70 countries. Learn how DXC built DCX OASIS, its Human+AI operating model, on a governed multi-model substrate in Amazon Bedrock, separating a…
ZDNETPress
This tiny box gives your older tech smart home superpowers – and it’s only $69
Home Assistant gets new equipment to battle planned obsolescence and abandoned cloud services.
OpenAICompany
Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI
A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.
TechCrunchPress
Why the data center you dread might never even be built
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A…
The DecoderPress
Google joins the decision-model wave with Gemini Decision 1, scoring 1,000 questions in a single pass
Google Deepmind's new Gemini Decisions API evaluates up to 1,000 closed-ended questions in a single pass across text, images, audio, and video. Gemini Decision 1 returns results in 150 to 250 milliseconds at roughly five times lower cost…
TechCrunchPress
Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure
Santosh Janardhan, who originally joined the company in 2009, will be stepping down from his role.
TechCrunchPress
How backlash and red tape continue to slow data centers post-Blue Wave
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A…
PR NewswirePress release
Replit Awarded 2026 Microsoft for Startups Partner of the Year
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Replit, the agentic software creation platform used by builders in 85% of the Fortune 500 companies, today announced it has been named the 2026 Microsoft for Startups Partner of the Year. The…
WIREDPress
I Saw the Future of Robotics in a Virtual Duck That Chases My Cat
An OpenAI model helped me teach the Microduck to waddle and moonlight as a tiny cat butler.
TechCrunchPress
CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth
CoreWeave is increasingly asking customers to pay upfront, borrowing against specific contracts, and even looking to short-term deals that could lead to higher prices, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings.
ZDNETPress
Google Fi now switches between the best mobile networks automatically – how it works
Pixel users also get a bonus Wi-Fi upgrade. Here’s what to know.
The DecoderPress
US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, but growth slows to 1.65 percent
According to the Ramp AI Index, US corporate AI spending rose just 1.65 percent in October 2026. One percent of companies still drive 80 percent of revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. Customer support is emerging as a new growth driver, but…
TechCrunchPress
With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
TechCrunchPress
Congress to call Jensen Huang in to answer for alleged Chinese spy affair
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has until the end of the day Wednesday to answer a call from House Republicans for a closed-door briefing on his affair with alleged Chinese spy.
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Accelerating generative AI delivery with reusable assets
Every generative AI team keeps rebuilding the same components: RAG pipelines, document processors, and agent scaffolding. This post shows how to access a curated catalog of 23 production-ready, open source reusable assets from the AWS…
DatabricksCompany
Databricks Doubles Down on AI Products, Opens New 235,000-Square-Foot San Francisco Headquarters
Last week, we opened our new headquarters at One Sansome Street in San Francisco,...
The DecoderPress
Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Code verified Signal's cryptographic core in four weeks instead of years
Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Code mathematically verified Signal's cryptographic core code in four weeks, a process that typically takes years. AI agents powered by Gemini Carbon wrote more than six million lines of proof code and flagged…
Ars TechnicaPress
Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI
Latest example of the AI boom’s circular financing comes as AI trade wobbles.
AxiosPress
Scoop: Inside Bessent's Situation Room confrontation with Lutnick over China chip security
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over a failure to place Nvidia customer Megaspeed on a list of companies that pose national security concerns, sources familiar told Axios. Why it matters: The…
Google AICompany
Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions
Meet the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our state-of-the-art model Gemini Decision for fast, calibrated multimodal decisions.
ZDNETPress
Oura Ring users may get in-app access to real doctors soon – what we know
Oura’s acquisition of Counsel Health could signal a new dawn for digital care.
CNBCPress
Nvidia shares rebound as Jensen Huang faces scrutiny ahead of earnings
Investors are assessing whether CEO Jensen Huang's affair will have spillover effects on Nvidia's business.
CNBCPress
CoreWeave soars more than 24% for best day since April 2025 after strong Q3 report
Neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN have come under scrutiny this month as investors assessed the sustainability of the AI trade.
Ars TechnicaPress
Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Independent Games Festival judges.
Simon Willison's WeblogNewsletter
llm 0.37.2
Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w . LLM has a mechanism called extra-openai-models.yaml - now managed by the new-in-0.37 llm openai endpoint add command…
ZDNETPress
Pixel users are getting a major Android Auto update – and it rivals Siri AI
More phones are getting Gemini Intelligence, but only Pixel users can access it in a new way.
Meta EngineeringCompany
Intelligent Delivery: Making Every Unit of Compute Serve Better Ads
Ads ranking models are growing toward LLM scale faster than the hardware to run them can keep up. An extra unit of compute has more impact on some ad requests, models, and chips than on others. The challenge is deciding where to allocate…
Gemini (Google)Company
Talk it through with Gemini, now on Apple CarPlay
Gemini is now available on Apple CarPlay.
WIREDPress
A Startup Wants to Fight AI Bioweapons With AI
Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection.
CNBCPress
Schumer accuses Trump of defending Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at cost of national security
Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., the Republican chairman of the Select Committee on China, told CNBC he expects answers about Jensen Huang's relationship.
ZDNETPress
Claude can collaborate in your team meetings soon – like an intern
Claude is responding ‘Yes’ to that calendar invite – with some limitations. Plus: Anthropic launches two more new features that are available now.
SiliconANGLEPress
Google DeepMind releases new advanced robotics AI model and next-generation gene prediction model
Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence research lab, Google DeepMind, Tuesday debuted the next generation of Gemini Robotics, the company’s most capable vision-language-action model to date for creating an “AI brain” for robotics…
SiliconANGLEPress
AI agents carry memory and storage like people, so their data needs guarding while in use
As AI agents move into production on Kubernetes, cloud engineering teams at financial companies face a security problem that encryption alone can’t solve. Container orchestration has become the default foundation for AI workloads, and the…
TechCrunchPress
Is Jensen Huang’s bad behavior more commonplace than it seems?
“There are a lot of senior people in the industry that know this is happening, and are effectively condoning it,” an investment intel consultant said.
TechCrunchPress
OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time
Sales of $10 billion represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.
WIREDPress
The AO3 Shutdown Is Pitting Fanfic Readers Against Authors
“It has left a sour taste in my mouth,” says a Heated Rivalry fanfic author who found her work uploaded to AO3 mirror sites without her consent.
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Accelerating product development with AI-driven lifecycle management (AI-PDLC) in AWS Quick
Learn how to build an AI-driven product development lifecycle (AI-PDLC) with a suite of six AWS Quick agents that take you from scattered customer signals to a validated prototype across Discover, Decide, Design, and Prototype, with human…
The VergePress
Google’s Tabletop AI experiment lets you build custom collaboration apps
Google has cooked up a new experimental AI tool called Tabletop that generates customized collaborative hubs to help you coordinate with family, and friends. The Tabletop platform shares some visual similarities with workplace management…
DatabricksCompany
The new Genie: autonomous AI for complex enterprise work
AI assistants can run analyses and summarize meetings, but employees still manage...
Google AICompany
Try Tabletop: Customizable, collaborative spaces for groups to plan, play and do more together.
Tabletop is a new Google Labs experiment for group collaboration. Build interactive itineraries, polls, and brackets with your team. Join the waitlist.
SalesforceCompany
Salesforce Releases R&D Agents That Improve Its AI Models
SFR-AutoR&D, a new self-improving system from Salesforce, trains and improves the embedding models in deployment-grade enterprise AI.
SiliconANGLEPress
Agents may soon be the main workload, and most of the time they’re doing nothing
As AI agents take on more enterprise work, agent sandboxing has become a basic requirement rather than an afterthought. Every agent that writes code, runs tools or drives a browser needs hard walls around it. Those walls also can’t come at…
MarkTechPostPress
Marktechpost AI Launches GPU Leaderboard and the Deploy It Chrome Extension
Marktechpost Launches GPU Leaderboard and the Deploy It Chrome Extension The post Marktechpost AI Launches GPU Leaderboard and the Deploy It Chrome Extension appeared first on MarkTechPost .
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
UAEF: A framework-agnostic system for closed-loop evaluation of AI agents
The Universal Agent Evaluation Framework (UAEF) is a framework-agnostic system for evaluating AI agents. UAEF converts each framework's traces into one canonical format, scores them with 36 built-in metrics across 7 dimensions, and stores…
ZDNETPress
Over Ubuntu? Fedora is the Linux distro I’d hop to next – here’s why
If you’re an Ubuntu user considering a leap to Fedora, but you’re hesitating, I explain why you should go ahead and just do it.
WIREDPress
China’s Nvidia Honeypot Isn’t Surprising. Jensen Huang Fell for It Anyway
China’s use of sexpionage is a well-established intelligence tactic with recent, high-profile examples. So how did the world’s most powerful AI executive fall for it?
The DecoderPress
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 near-miss…
Simon Willison's WeblogNewsletter
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on "Approach to compute" with co-founder Tom…
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Introducing usage-based pricing for Amazon SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming
AWS Marketplace now supports usage-based metering for Amazon SageMaker bidirectional streaming inference, so model providers can charge for what customers actually consume during a live stream. Deepgram is the launch partner, bringing…
Google DeepMindCompany
AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease
Predicting how DNA sequences and their variations impact specific human cell types and disease.
TechCrunchPress
Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
With Databricks at 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie…
DatabricksCompany
Bring your business context to ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Grok Bot
Every business is adding more data to their AI-powered workflows. But more data doesn't...
The VergePress
Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of disease
Researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled a new AI model designed to unravel how changes in our DNA affect different cells, giving scientists a more detailed view of a notoriously difficult problem that could hold important clues to the…
DatabricksCompany
Genie One: The AI cowork home for everyone
In today’s enterprise, work rarely stays in one application. A single task can involve...
DatabricksCompany
Announcing GA of Genie Ontology
AI agents are only as useful as their understanding of the business in which they work. Within a given domain...
SiliconANGLEPress
Red Hat accelerates agentic adoption across hybrid environments
Enterprise ambitions for artificial intelligence are outpacing the infrastructure and budgets needed to support them. Red Hat AI faces a familiar enterprise challenge: turning ambitious plans for artificial intelligence into production…
CNBCPress
Jensen Huang's affair with alleged Chinese spy further complicates Nvidia’s China problem
The allegations against Jensen Huang have brought new attention to the Nvidia CEO's potential influence over U.S. policy on chip sales to China.
The DecoderPress
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 four chip…
Last Week in AINewsletter
Last Week (Month) in AI #347 - Nvidia's spy, Anthropic's $1.4T IPO, AI's blue wave
Catching up on five weeks: Huang under investigation, Anthropic and OpenAI priced at $1.4T and $1.25T as spending stalls, Anthropic warns it may be nearing recursive self-improvement, Gemini 4 Carbon
Ars TechnicaPress
Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal
The four-week project hints that AI could make formal verification far more practical.
IEEE SpectrumPress
When Does It Actually Make Sense to Put AI Into Products?
Over the past few years, the tech industry has rushed to plug a new microchip into every device on the assumption that if you can add AI, you should. Smart vision toothbrushes , mood-reading household robots , and a host of physical…
TechCrunchPress
Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads
Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments.
The VergePress
Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters
Some of the most impressive tech that Adobe showcases at its annual Max conference each year is the experimental features it's developing, and the latest of those tools are being announced today: they can transform images into explorable…
The DecoderPress
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 built…
The DecoderPress
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 DeepL…
CNBCPress
Nvidia's Huang tries to project 'business as usual' in return to office after affair revelation
Nvidia employees described the mood as "sad" as CEO Jensen Huang returned to the office after disclosing an affair.
IEEE SpectrumPress
NSF’s X-Labs Program Draws Support From Charities and Investors
When the U.S. National Science Foundation began its X-Labs program in May, the agency said the higher-risk, higher-funded awards would create new kinds of partnerships that would confront urgent scientific and technological challenges…
The DecoderPress
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…
The DecoderPress
Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails Anthropic
OpenAI grew its quarterly revenue 50 percent to $10 billion but is still burning more cash than it brings in. Adjusted operating losses climbed to $10.9 billion, while rival Anthropic operates far more efficiently on $17 billion in…
TheSequenceNewsletter
The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue #969: Last Week in AI: Security Agents, Custom Models, and Editable Video
GPT-6 Cyber, Inkling 2 Small, and Gemini put feedback at the center of useful work
CNBCPress
CoreWeave provides silver lining for neoclouds as Nvidia storm swirls
Huang's close ties to the White House are in the firing line
The DecoderPress
UK regulator threatens universities with sanctions unless they adopt AI-proof exam formats
England's higher education regulator, the Office for Students, says AI has made it "nearly impossible" to fairly assess student coursework. An investigation found that students are having ChatGPT write entire papers undetected, without…
WIREDPress
A 13-Year-Old Asked AI About Suicide on Her School Laptop. It Didn’t Get Flagged for Weeks
The young girl’s parents allege that she used Gemini via her school Chromebook to plan her suicide, but the school’s monitoring systems didn’t know until it was almost too late.
AxiosPress
The AI industry's week from hell
A week of political upheaval , financial turmoil and salacious scandal delivered one final indignity to the AI industry Tuesday, as Anthropic's staggering IPO target fell short of expectations. Why it matters: The bubble is wobbling…
Latent SpaceNewsletter
[AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate
November 10, 2026 — Google GA's Gemini 4 Carbon.
Google AICompany
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.
OpenAICompany
ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers
More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus. See how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.
MarkTechPostPress
MBZUAI’s IFM Releases PAN 2, an Open 29B World Model for Physical AI
The Institute of Foundation Models at MBZUAI released PAN 2, an Apache 2.0 world model that couples an LLM planner with a 29B diffusion transformer to simulate up to 20 seconds of action outcomes as video. The post MBZUAI’s IFM Releases…
TechCrunchPress
Nvidia’s crisis has corporate governance experts reaching for the popcorn
The governance experts we talked to say nobody has seen anything like what's unfolding right now.
CNBCPress
U.S., China should ‘harbor no illusions’ as they cooperate, compete on AI, Bessent says
During Xi's September visit, Washington and Beijing agreed to launch an AI dialogue with a communications channel to help defuse serious incidents.
Latent SpaceNewsletter
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.
MarkTechPostPress
Fish Audio Releases Live 3, a Full-Duplex Voice Model That Reacts in 186 ms
Fish Audio released Live 3, a full-duplex voice model for voice agents. It listens while it speaks, separates “mm-hmm” from real interruptions, and can react in as little as 186 ms. English only at launch The post Fish Audio Releases Live…
NVIDIA BlogCompany
How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material
Vision AI and robotics pick what’s worth recovering out of conveyor belts of used clothing, bottles and mixed recyclables, diverting thousands of tons of materials from landfills.
CNBCPress
Anthropic opens Australian retail IPO offering as AI scrutiny intensifies
Anthropic opened its Australia retail IPO offering on Wednesday, allowing individual investors to apply for shares ahead of its planned IPO.
AWS Machine Learning BlogCompany
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro on Amazon Bedrock
Kimi K3.1 Pro from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to get started through the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions, Responses, and Converse APIs, optimize inference with explicit prompt caching, and use the model as…
OpenAICompany
JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale
JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.