AI — Page 2
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Google launches Gemini Decisions API that scores 1,000 choices without generating text
Google's new Gemini Decision 1 model scores up to 1,000 yes/no, choice, and rubric questions in one pass for $0.10 per 1M input tokens.
- SCOOP: Apple is building its own AI to generate music and voices
The London role covers voice synthesis, alignment and streaming generation two months after John Ternus succeeded Tim Cook as chief executive.
- SCOOP: Mistral names Orchestral, its distributed RL system for training agents
A Research Engineer listing describes Orchestral as the system Mistral researchers rely on for training and evaluation, with new work on long-running tasks, subagents and RL features.
- Google adds /swarm to Antigravity and lets coding agents argue on a shared board
Google's November 10th preview puts named workers, adversarial verifiers and a shared message board inside Antigravity, alongside Gemini 4 Carbon.
- Baidu ships ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview with 280B parameters on a 14B active path
The 280B model activates 14B parameters per token, claims a 1M-token context and 200 tokens per second, and is free on OpenRouter ahead of its weights release.
- Cohere's Joelle Pineau pitches AI infrastructure customers can control
The former Meta FAIR chief leads research and product at Cohere, where North, controlled deployment and a planned cyber unit carry the sovereign AI pitch.
- Bloomberg: Zhang Yiming cautions ByteDance frontier competition could take until at least 2029
Bloomberg reported that Zhang cautioned ByteDance could take until at least 2029 or 2030 to compete at the cutting edge with leading US labs, and that ByteDance plans a Muse-like assistant in the coming weeks.
- Esther Mahlangu's childhood memories become AI-generated video in Google retrospective
The Google Arts & Culture retrospective pairs 45-plus stories and 100-plus works with AI scenes built from the South African artist's own recollections of years that survive in oral accounts, with no photographs from her 1940s childhood.
- Boltz taps Excelra's GOSTAR data to teach BoltzMol-1 which compounds to reject
Gabriele Corso's Boltz will use Excelra's curated solubility, lipophilicity and permeability data to train BoltzMol-1 models that screen compounds before synthesis.
- Meta's benchmark table puts Gemini 3.1 Pro at 59.2% on biohazard refusals
Meta's May 26th, 2026, Muse Spark report lists Gemini 3.1 Pro at 59.2% in one table and 61.5% in another on SecureBio BioTIER v1 refusals.
- Stingray has deployed more than 2,000 AI laser robots to shoot lice off Norwegian salmon
Esben Beck patented the lice laser in 2010. Sixteen years later Stingray has 2,565 units installed, NOK 1.42B in revenue and Novo Holdings as majority owner.
- Plaintiffs say Copilot displayed grounding text in about 20% of analyzed chats
A November 9th, 2026 filing in the OpenAI copyright MDL cites expert claims on Copilot grounding displays and the near-total absence of Ziff Davis notices in the instances examined.
- Authors and publishers sue SpaceX Super Intelligence over alleged Grok book training
Cambronne, four authors, Chicken Soup and Cognella filed three November 4th suits alleging Grok trained on LibGen books and scanned print copies, after judges severed their earlier omnibus case against eight AI defendants into one-company lawsuits.
- Physical Intelligence listings detail robot-arm inventory and 3D-printed spares
Physical Intelligence's listings describe an inventory role for tracking robot arms and a technician role for maintaining printers across sites. The postings reviewed do not state when the roles were opened; fleet size is undisclosed.
- Anduril seeks operations chief to oversee intelligence unit's finances
The Costa Mesa and Reston role would own the P&L for Anduril Intelligence Systems, the unit courting Intelligence Community customers.
- CoreWeave reports Q3 2026 earnings
The AI cloud specialist beat Q3 expectations and raised full-year guidance on a massive surge in GPU infrastructure demand.
- AI agents flagged a Maya site in NASA LiDAR data that archaeologists had already published
Pietro Miotti says 48 agents scanned 1,200 km2 of NASA LiDAR data and flagged a hilltop absent from INAH records. He later said the site appears in a 2025 peer-reviewed paper.
- ElevenLabs launches Scribe v3 and Scribe v3 Live for messier real-world audio
The new batch and live models add real-time diarization, context-based turn detection and a 10,000-term library across ElevenAPI, ElevenAgents and the app.
- Google extends Gemini Intelligence to Pixel 10 and plans Motorola support
Karthik Thirumalai's Android AI team is adding prompt-built widgets, Device Assistance, and wider task automation as Gemini Intelligence reaches more phones.
- BigBear.ai says Pangiam and SureScan meet European baggage screening standard
BigBear.ai says the Pangiam and SureScan pairing meets APIDS Standard 1, providing a reference for authorities across ECAC's 44 member states.
- Fable 5.2 reportedly injects a hidden copyright reminder, then blocks the chat inspecting it
Jake says two words, "pirated" and "torrent," triggered a copyright reminder Fable 5.2 could not stop discussing, then a block when he inspected it.
- IBM and Microsoft launch Imagine Enterprise with 6,000-plus agents and assets
Mohamad Ali and Rodrigo Kede Lima pitch IBM's agents on Microsoft's stack; SEI is exploring agentic technology with IBM Consulting and Microsoft support.
- Anthropic launches Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data to turn chat into shared work
Whiteboards and Sheets enter beta on paid plans, Claude Data reaches general availability, and partner apps from Adobe, Atlassian and Box open inside the chat.
- OpenAI lets businesses claim their ChatGPT listing and build their own agent
OpenAI's Business Hub lets verified companies update listings, add product feeds and launch a labeled agent, starting with U.S. ecommerce and online services.