Vol. I, No. 63Printed 8:24 PM UTC

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Saturday, November 14, 2026

  1. TechCrunchIndustry

    Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit

    Some governments moved to confirm chip supply commitments, while others are monitoring the impact on local projects or addressing ongoing investigations.

  2. The VergeIndustry

    The OpenAI board member who fired Sam Altman says we still can’t trust AI CEOs

    Today, I’m talking with Helen Toner, the executive director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. This episode is part two of our series on AI in real life. Helen is a well-known figure in the AI safety and policy…

  3. The VergeIndustry

    Jensen Huang and the decline of the visionary showman founder CEO

    On January 6th, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his rockstar moment at last. He strode triumphantly onstage, hand raised in the air, to the claps and cheers of a 14,000-person arena absolutely packed with influencers and fans, their faces awash in blue…

Friday, November 13, 2026

  1. The VergeIndustry

    Amazon has a plan to index the world’s online shopping data

    Amazon has plans to build a vault of data on every product sold anywhere on the internet, even products Amazon doesn't sell, and make the information available through its own site, according to Reuters. The project, called the "World Product Graph," is meant…

  2. TechCrunchIndustry

    Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say

    Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.

  3. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

    The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives have voiced support for the rollout, but the US labor union representing…

  4. The VergeApps

    ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for you

    After launching its Dots AI agents platform earlier this year, OpenAI is launching a wallet for the agents. ChatGPT Wallet is rolling out starting today for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and older using a US billing address and "eligible US-issued…

  5. TechCrunchApps

    AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation

    LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.

  6. TechCrunchModels

    Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen!

    New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.

  7. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away

    How do you think you're going to die? If you go by the current statistics for deaths in the US , it's reasonable to expect that cancer or heart disease will eventually get you. But OpenAI Foundation board member and Alignment Research Center Executive…

  8. TechCrunchApps

    ChatGPT’s new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you

    ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out on users' behalf, starting with a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.

  9. TechCrunchIndustry

    The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

    Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.

  10. OpenAIIndustry

    Introducing ChatGPT Wallet

    Introducing ChatGPT Wallet, a secure way for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots to complete purchases with user approval and existing card protections.

  11. The VergeIndustry

    What’s really at stake in the Jensen Huang saga

    One part of the saga surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ended on Thursday, when Huang resigned from his position at the top of AI's most important company. But in the coming weeks and months, a much bigger story may be about to unfold. A story about Nvidia's…

  12. TechCrunchApps

    ElevenLabs’ new app combines meeting note-taking and dictation for teams

    ElevenAI is a new meeting notetaker and dictation app aimed at teams and enterprises.

  13. The VergeModels

    Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful

    Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that agents can be useful for people who…

  14. TechCrunchIndustry

    Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil

    Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.

  15. TechCrunchIndustry

    Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says

    Huang described Kress as a "deer in the headlights" during a meeting in summer.

  16. The VergeIndustry

    Let’s talk about Jensen Huang’s many affairs!

    Usually, we'd be offering to answer your questions about a news event, but honestly we don't really have any answers about what the hell is going on over at Nvidia. I can't speak for Nilay but at the rate Jensen Huang's new mistresses are dropping, I am…

  17. OpenAIIndustry

    Shield helps technicians hand off legacy portal work with OpenAI

    Shield uses OpenAI to help IT technicians hand off work in legacy portals. Its Forge agents navigate systems so technicians can focus on issues needing their judgment.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

  1. Simon WillisonModels

    llm-gemini 0.37

    Release: llm-gemini 0.37 Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen today - the lowest cost member of the Gemini 4 family. It's actually not too far off the price of its much bigger siblings, Carbon and Argon. I'm finding Gemini 4's pricing really confusing. Here's…

  2. TechCrunchApps

    Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump

    This Congressional investigation into Nvidia's China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.

  3. TechCrunchApps

    Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay

    Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to U.S. businesses — but it's not free.

  4. The VergeModels

    Google’s new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions

    Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-understand typos, or highly specific requests." The new model can break down your questions and address each part…

  5. TechCrunchIndustry

    Nebius tests the neocloud playbook with $40 billion in planned spending

    Nebius plans to fund its $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion through customer prepayments and loans, even as delays at a Microsoft data center raise questions about its financing model.

  6. TechCrunchIndustry

    Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports

    Reuters is withholding the name of the new employee linked to Huang, but says she is an employee of Nvidia.

  7. MIT Technology ReviewIndustry

    Nvidia privately confirmed it could track chips to fight smuggling, even as industry publicly questioned feasibility

    Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while…

  8. OpenAIIndustry

    How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI

    Built primarily on OpenAI models, Amplitude’s proactive product agent, Wave, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.

  9. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Ars Live: What drone attacks on data centers mean for modern life in the cloud

    Drone and missile strikes have inflicted unprecedented damage on data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East this year, disrupting cloud services for millions of people and permanently deleting some Amazon Web Services customer data. This trend…

  10. The VergeApps

    No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site

    Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. There was just one problem: The site had already been discovered and was published in an academic journal…

  11. TechCrunchIndustry

    Google’s latest Search upgrade promises better answers to your most complicated questions

    Powered by Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Google's AI Mode is getting better at understanding complex queries, surfacing relevant links, and delivering richer visual responses.

  12. Ars TechnicaModels

    Google rolls out Gemini 4 Hydrogen, finally replacing 3.8 Flash

    Google is continuing its elemental AI naming scheme with the new Gemini 4 Hydrogen . These names are less descriptive than the Pro/Flash monikers of earlier releases, but Hydrogen's purpose is clear: It replaces the faster, more economical Flash models most…

  13. TechCrunchApps

    Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands

    Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing, helping brands discover creators, manage outreach and partnerships, and track campaign results.

  14. Ars TechnicaModels

    Google faces calls for AI moratoriums in schools after Gemini pilot backlash

    CHICAGO—Families joined protests in seven cities nationwide on Wednesday, rallying against what they see as Google’s bid to entrench its AI models in schools, turn kids of all ages into Gemini guinea pigs, and hook them on AI. The backlash follows a Google…

  15. TechCrunchApps

    Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question

    Jensen Huang’s resignation raises questions about Nvidia’s commitment to open source AI, including its Hugging Face acquisition, open-weight models, and advocacy against restrictions, as the company navigates a leadership transition.

  16. The VergeIndustry

    Oh, Palantir is ‘progressive’ now, is it?

    I had other things to do today, but Alex Karp's pathetic attempt to pivot back to the left gave me no choice but to put them on hold. Last week's elections were a bloodbath for the right, a problem for all the wannabe fash founders who had tied their…

  17. Google DeepMindModels

    Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen

  18. Google AIModels

    Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen

    We are bringing Gemini 4 Hydrogen to Google Search globally to provide you with more helpful, visual, and intuitive responses.

  19. TechCrunchApps

    Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open source AI after Jensen Huang’s exit

    Hugging Face's CEO pledged to keep fighting for open source AI after Huang's exit, raising questions about Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition.

  20. TechCrunchApps

    United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, citing cybersecurity risks

    The airline said it will not allow customers to use AI agents to book flights and manage reservations.

  21. TechCrunchIndustry

    SoftBank’s billion-dollar loss may have put a cap on AI’s natural gas ambitions

    SoftBank lost over $3 billion preordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers. Here's what the loss means to power markets.

  22. Ars TechnicaModels

    Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395

    Smartglasses have always faced an uphill road to acceptance. Not only is propping a computer up on your nose an uncomfortable proposition, but the privacy aspect has been vexing people since the Google Glass days . Now, Google is ready to take another swing…

  23. OpenAIIndustry

    Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex

    Gondola helps creatives get credit and get hired, with Codex raising its lead engineer’s output by 50% and ChatGPT simplifying daily work.

  24. OpenAIApps

    Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex

    With Codex, Holiday Extras is turning customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new possibilities for growth.

  25. OpenAIIndustry

    Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI

    A conversation with Sam Nickless, Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Gilbert + Tobin.

  26. OpenAIIndustry

    Supporting research on AI and children’s safety

    OpenAI commits $2 million to research on AI and children’s safety. The work supports shared tools to measure risks and opportunities for young people.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

  1. Simon WillisonApps

    Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag

    Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag I've been wanting a better way to browse my collection of vibe-coded tools (244 and counting) for a while. I had a few Fable 5.2 credits left over before my weekly reset so I set it to work using tree-sitter to analyze…

  2. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI

    Top chip manufacturer TSMC is ready to invest $1 billion in Anthropic and OpenAI. That would give the Taiwanese chipmaker direct stakes in leading AI developers, even as its own contract chipmaking business has profited enormously from the AI data center…

  3. Google AIModels

    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.

  4. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.

    The last few years have seen significant debate over the widespread use of AI-powered tools in game development and the responsible disclosure of that usage to players. That debate has exploded into a full-blown controversy in the indie game development space…

  5. Simon WillisonIndustry

    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 - for using LLM with…

  6. Google AIIndustry

    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.

  7. Simon WillisonIndustry

    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 Brown is…

  8. Google DeepMindIndustry

    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.

  9. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal

    Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI to mathematically prove, or “formally verify,” a number of the Signal protocol’s key cryptographic guarantees—a landmark development for the widely used cryptography and AI itself. Conducted as a sort of…

  10. Google AIIndustry

    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.

  11. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  12. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

  1. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot

    Amazon is betting that many Ring customers will also want an AI-powered security drone and robot patrolling their homes or offices. But the company’s upcoming Ring Robotic products are also certain to intensify privacy concerns previously raised around a…

  2. Ars TechnicaModels

    Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI

    Grok Build, the vibe-coding agent from SpaceXSI, is leaking data—some of it proprietary business information and other sensitive secrets—from thousands of its users, including the very same Elon Musk-owned company that offers the platform, new research shows…

  3. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?

    Our modern world runs on math, from social media algorithms, package delivery, and weather prediction to medical imaging and machine learning. The rise of computers helped fuel its dominance, enabling us to work with increasingly large numbers that would…

  4. Simon WillisonModels

    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 output at launch (that's GPT-6.1…

  5. Google AIModels

    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.

  6. Ars TechnicaResearch

    DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

    Google DeepMind has revealed a new generation of the AI-powered Gemini Robotics platform. In the 2.5 release, Google says its robotic AI is getting tantalizingly close to completing real-world tasks as well as humans do. In fact, some Gemini robots were able…

  7. Google AIApps

    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.

  8. Google AIModels

    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.

  9. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand

    Impervious to battlefield jamming, drones physically connected to human operators by miles of fiber-optic cables have become such a common weapon of war in Ukraine that trees and fields are strewn with tangled cables thinner than fishing lines. But importing…

  10. Google DeepMindResearch

    Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth

    AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.

  11. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  12. Google DeepMindModels

    Opening the datasets behind our AI weather models

    Foundational precipitation and geostationary satellite datasets to observe the planet clearly.

  13. OpenAIIndustry

    Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT

    Manage your business information, get insights about how your business shows up, and turn interest into action in ChatGPT.

  14. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  15. OpenAIIndustry

    Singapore Airlines elevates travel & work with OpenAI technology

    Discover how Singapore Airlines uses OpenAI models and API to enhance customer support, travel discovery, and employee productivity, doubling CSAT for its Kris chatbot.

  16. Simon WillisonModels

    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 reasoning execution and…

  17. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  18. Simon WillisonModels

    Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2

    Claude Fable 5.2 pays close attention to who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, the model tended to add to the existing structure when the prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the code base as someone else’s…

  19. Simon WillisonIndustry

    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 Fable 5.2's 3D modeling and animation skills), I prompted Fable 5.2 Medium to…

  20. OpenAIApps

    Cogent and OpenAI build cyber defense factories for enterprises

    Cogent combines OpenAI models with enterprise context to help automatically remediate vulnerabilities with agents.

Monday, November 9, 2026

  1. Simon WillisonIndustry

    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 internal benchmarks have…

  2. Simon WillisonModels

    Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude

    Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping . The beeps were far enough apart that standing in the room and trying to determine the…

  3. Google DeepMindModels

    Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity

    Our most capable vision-language-action model enhances robot dexterity, reliability, and safety

  4. MIT Technology ReviewIndustry

    The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here . As voters went to the polls across the US last week, I was in Ashburn, Virginia, part of what’s known as Data Center…

  5. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  6. Ars TechnicaModels

    Claude Code is accidentally exposing secrets all over GitHub

    Claude Code is leaking sensitive information on public GitHub instances thanks to a partial oversight in the way its settings files are handled. That's the finding of AI security researchers at Apiiro, who discovered thousands of secrets , including database…

  7. MIT Technology ReviewIndustry

    Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI

    As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s open San Francisco seat, he could play a key role in…

  8. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Nvidia CEO's affair becomes a national security problem

    Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang has admitted having an affair two days after the FT reported his alleged romantic relationship with a woman the US intelligence community believes was working as a spy for China. Huang revealed the affair in an internal…

  9. OpenAIModels

    Control Room: A central system to track and stop model workloads across our research infrastructure

    Learn how OpenAI’s Control Room tracks model workloads across our research infrastructure and can rapidly stop them when safety or security concerns arise.

  10. MIT Technology ReviewIndustry

    Innovating with AI in the special chemicals industry

    As companies look to accelerate innovation with artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and advanced modeling, the primary challenge is connecting new technologies to reliable data, scientific expertise, and the practical realities of bringing products to…

  11. OpenAIIndustry

    Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes

    Kuken Industries uses the OpenAI API to search 70 years of cooling tower drawings. Engineers can find the drawing for a repair in 4.5 minutes, down from nearly an hour.

  12. OpenAIIndustry

    CodeRabbit scales agentic software development and ships 20x more

    CodeRabbit uses OpenAI models to govern and trust AI-generated code and Codex to ship 20 times more software with the same engineering team.

  13. Simon WillisonIndustry

    Hide your slop PR descriptions behind

    Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature is complete, document decisions and then…

Sunday, November 8, 2026

  1. Show HNApps

    Recalc – Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals

    I built this because it was useful for me when building evals/benchmarks, and I decided to put it up for free for others. The goal was quite simple, make it easy to use a lead claude code / codex session in a panel on the side, while allowing every cell to…

    37 points on Hacker News

Saturday, November 7, 2026

  1. Show HNApps

    JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB

    Over the past year, I have been working to find a better way to write cross-platform apps. The problems I am trying to solve: - Native frameworks only work on a subset of platforms, so a different implementation of the UI needs to be written per target. -…

    46 points on Hacker News

Friday, November 6, 2026

  1. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.

    After weeks of backlash —and a failed attempt to quell it —Meta has indefinitely delayed plans to update its commercial terms and require Meta Business account users to allow extensive AI training on external websites linked on Facebook. "We're pausing the…

  2. Simon WillisonIndustry

    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 worth it. It just…

  3. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Could potential AI clones of GTA VI force a quicker official port?

    Yesterday, when reporting on emerging efforts to pipe the console version of GTA VI through a PC's DLSS-powered Nvidia GPU , we mentioned in passing that PC players could instead just wait for the AI-assisted decompilation port that will no doubt be coming in…

  4. MIT Technology ReviewIndustry

    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 service in San Francisco…

  5. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  6. OpenAIApps

    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.

Thursday, November 5, 2026

  1. Ars TechnicaModels

    Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

    Google faced the ire of educators and parents earlier this week when it announced a new AI policy for K–12 schools . Google said that it developed its new approach to give schools more control, but early reporting also suggested Google would block search…

  2. Ars TechnicaIndustry

    Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.

    ChatGPT allegedly helped a North Carolina woman, Cheryl Gates, craft a “personalized plan” to poison her husband, James, after fueling her delusions that he planned to divorce her and leave her with nothing. A grand jury indicted Cheryl Gates on charges of…

  3. OpenAIIndustry

    Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex

    Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.

  4. Google AIModels

    Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

    Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30% lower pricing.

  5. OpenAIIndustry

    Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates

    Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.

  6. OpenAIModels

    GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents

    Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.

  7. OpenAIApps

    Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology

    Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.

  8. OpenAIIndustry

    Setting a new standard for responsible AI infrastructure

    OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.

  9. OpenAIIndustry

    Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimization

    Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.

  10. OpenAIIndustry

    Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research

    Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

  1. MIT Technology ReviewIndustry

    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 against Ken Paxton…

  2. Simon WillisonIndustry

    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

  3. OpenAIIndustry

    OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.

    OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.

  4. MIT Technology ReviewIndustry

    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 agent uses the data to…

  5. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  6. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

  7. Simon WillisonApps

    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 improves that…

  8. OpenAIModels

    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.

  9. OpenAIIndustry

    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.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

  1. Simon WillisonIndustry

    llm 0.37.1

    Release: llm 0.37.1 A bugfix release for LLM , with contributions from Steven Huang , Tao An , Arjan Mossel , and XQ . Tags: llm

  2. Show HNApps

    Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie

    To give you some context on the project. I'm a solo founder and I use AI heavily in my work. The idea came from wanting players to discover cities. Each city has its own history, so every case is set in a real city with real public places. The crime and the…

    128 points on Hacker News
  3. Google DeepMindIndustry

    Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity

    Learn how Google Antigravity and our Cheminformatics Skills accelerate drug discovery workflows, search compounds, and propose novel rigidified macrocycles.

  4. Simon WillisonIndustry

    AI is destroying my CS degree

    My comment on AI is destroying my CS degree — Hacker News. I don't envy educators right now. AI clearly means you need to change how you teach and evaluate students. We are only a few years in though, and it's still extremely unclear what effective teaching…

  5. Simon WillisonModels

    Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

    Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as a "blog post", but it's paper-shaped)…

  6. OpenAIIndustry

    Accelerating engineering for the physical world

    Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

  7. MIT Technology ReviewApps

    How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check

    A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to control powerful AI models by designing systems that incentivize them to stick to the rules. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are “aligned” with human…

  8. OpenAIIndustry

    Heimstaden is changing residential real estate management with AI

    Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

  9. OpenAIIndustry

    How Cisco defends at machine speed with OpenAI

    Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.

  10. Simon WillisonIndustry

    October sponsors-only newsletter

    I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: The October inflection point for vibe game development The vulnerability apocalypse gets hot LLM…

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