As data center protests break out across Europe, a mismatched band of campaigners is trying to block Google from building a sprawling new facility east of London.
Nvidia’s board is investigating Jensen Huang over his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s roughly a coin flip whether Huang stays on as CEO.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued Notice No. 42, requiring terminals pre-installed with AI agents to complete agent adaptation verification, fraud risk security assessment, and pre-emptive anti-fraud capability evaluation before obtaining a network access license, with each agent assigned a unique identity code. It is the world's first regulatory framework to embed AI agent identity management into the hardware access approval process.
On November 7, 2026, xAI began enabling an invisible statistical watermark by default in outputs from all Grok API models, covering seven model versions. The move comes ahead of the EU AI Act’s December 2 compliance deadline and makes xAI the first major frontier API provider to adopt default-on watermarking.
Mistral has released the full weights of Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model that scores 19.7% on the FrontierCode 2.0 benchmark and tops open-model coding evaluations.
This week 395 translation tasks were completed by 4 models, with 3 samples drawn for a blind multi-model comparison. Overall best: claude-sonnet-4.6 with an average score of 9/10.
In a memo to the company, Huang admitted that he had an affair.
Tech leaders predict AI will cure most human diseases within years, but pharmaceutical executives report that testing roughly 50 AI companies on drug compound analysis yielded no noteworthy results, highlighting a stark gap between Silicon Valley optimism and industry reality.
Goldman Sachs has limited Claude Code and GitHub to engineers, cutting off roughly 35,000 traders, bankers, and analysts while leaving about 12,000 engineers with access. The timing—as lead underwriter of Anthropic’s IPO—highlights how banks are moving from open AI experimentation to controlled deployment governed by code and data risk.
Qwen3 Max has no data for all five dimensions in today's Smoke evaluation, and its main leaderboard score is also missing. The issue appears to be an API failure, so this round does not participate in ranking.
GLM-4.6 scored 36.25 on the main leaderboard in today's Smoke evaluation, with 25.00 in code execution, 50.00 in material constraints, and 25.00 in engineering judgment. The communication dimension was entirely missing due to an API failure, so the model did not enter the official ranking.
The 2026-11-09 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-o3 tying for first place at 92.49 points. Smoke is a small-sample daily signal and is not equivalent to the conclusions of the Full weekly leaderboard.
The New York Times has added a beta feature to its Cooking app that helps readers swap ingredients or adjust recipes to suit their needs. It mostly hits the mark.
In the 2026 U.S. midterms, AI-safety-aligned PACs spent $63 million and won 10 of the 17 congressional races they backed, while accelerationist groups spent more than $48 million with weaker results. The outcome creates a more favorable but still uncertain opening for federal AI regulation in 2027.
Anthropic is preparing a Nasdaq IPO under the ticker “ANT” before Thanksgiving, but institutional investors are pushing its valuation down from as much as $2 trillion toward $1.5 trillion or lower. Its Q3 financials show rapid revenue growth and improving unit economics, alongside a massive $895 billion compute commitment that will test public-market accountability.
A Robocurve study found that when camera feeds were tampered with, five mainstream multimodal models controlling a dual-arm robot executed unsafe tasks in 291 of 300 tests, raising the dangerous execution rate to 97%. The findings highlight camera feed integrity as a critical safety boundary for embodied AI deployments.
Alibaba and five universities released Co-Design Bench, which found that GPT-6 Astra met 69.9% of acceptance criteria on average across 273 multimodal tasks but fully completed only 26.4% of them.
Moving AI from text to 3D space, world models simulate real-world physics to teach robots and autonomous cars how to navigate reality.
OpenAI has launched Images 2.6, enabling ChatGPT and Codex users to generate and edit animated GIFs natively within a single conversation for the first time. The release coincides with weekly image output across ChatGPT and the API exceeding 4 billion, up from more than 3 billion in September.
OpenAI and Anthropic models independently produced proofs that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false, and both proofs were formalized in Lean. The article examines what the Lean check does and does not establish, why independent human review remains essential, and why the result poses no immediate threat to cryptography.
