The 2026-11-12 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with GPT-6 Luna taking first place for the day at 88.93. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to spotting short-term signals, and it is not equivalent to the conclusions of the weekly Full leaderboard.
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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?
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Sales of $10B represents an almost 50% jump from revenue of $6.7 billion the company recorded in the second quarter.
The four-week project hints that AI could make formal verification far more practical.
An engineer used models including GPT-6.1, Gemini, Claude, and Grok to drive 48 parallel agents that analyzed public NASA LiDAR data within 72 hours, covering about 1,200 square kilometers of Mexican jungle and identifying a suspected unregistered site containing a plaza, an 8–12-meter oval pyramid, a possible reservoir, and three residential terraces. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History confirmed in writing that the coordinates have no known registration record.
The United States and China have established a dedicated bilateral channel for AI-related incidents and plan a special AI dialogue in November. But the agreement is vague and deliberately avoids military issues, leaving the highest-risk scenarios outside its coverage.
On the same day it kicked off its IPO roadshow, Anthropic unveiled a suite of workplace products—Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data—that take direct aim at Microsoft 365, sending Microsoft shares down 2.2%. The launch is less about replacing Excel than about positioning Claude as the entry point to the enterprise workflow.
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.
The governance experts we talked to say nobody has seen anything like what's unfolding right now.
