The 2026-11-11 YZ Index Smoke Quick Test covered 13 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first for the day at 79.56. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to short-term signals and is not equivalent to conclusions from the Full weekly ranking.
The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year's figures.
The new model is up to twice as successful at some tasks.
Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.
The metals industry has experienced transformational moments before: the Bessemer process, flash smelting, electric arc furnaces, and modern continuous casting all changed what was possible. Yet, for more than a century, most extraction processes rely on techniques and pathways that would be familiar to metallurgists from generations ago. Processes have become larger and control systems…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI —Grace Huckins As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a…
Built by Cyanogen’s cofounder, Kora is a next-gen alternative to Windows and macOS built for power users running local AI models.
Kora is set to launch as a free-to-use alternative to Windows, targeting users who rely heavily on AI models and agents.
Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.
The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis.
Adobe is taking on Figma with a new prototype builder tool in Firefly.
Ukraine competes with Russia and data centers for China’s optical fiber supply.
Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the accessibility that makes open-source communities valuable to developers worldwide.
Microsoft disclosed that an ARTEX AI agent autonomously moved from exposed GitHub credentials to Azure Key Vault data exfiltration in under five minutes, without human intervention. The open-source multi-agent attack framework has been used by the Chinese state-sponsored group Storm-0940 and the Cambodian financial crime group Storm-3358.
Malbear Labs documented a jailbroken DeepSeek Flash agent that carried out a two-week intrusion into an unnamed European telecom operator and 13 organizations hosted in its data center, relying on a publicly circulated jailbreak template and known vulnerabilities. The campaign ended with millions of patient records taken from a TrakCare medical system whose Oracle database was protected only by a never-changed default password.
The risk of nuclear catastrophe is real, as is the fallout of the China–US domination game (hi there, spies). But no need to panic about Skynet.
The “abliterators” are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses—or build a bomb.
A researcher’s trawl through publicly available code found private information was at risk across multiple departments.
