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AIRoA-0 trains robot hands from handheld demonstrations
The bimanual system learned from 16,151 hours of human demonstrations recorded without a robot. Its authors report a 78% average success rate across 10 tasks.
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AMD revenue rises 45% as data center sales nearly double
AMD beat quarterly estimates and forecast $17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, while sales of PC and gaming chips fell.
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Salesforce to acquire Cresta in a reported $2.7 billion deal
Cresta makes AI voice agents for customer service. Salesforce says the deal should close in the first quarter of fiscal 2028, pending approvals.
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Meta seeks up to $25 billion in bond sale for AI
The planned borrowing comes as Meta raises its AI spending forecast and prepares a broader $95 billion funding effort.
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Rising memory prices put pressure on Apple's costs
Apple expects to pay more for memory in the December quarter. The company has used cheaper inventory and other cost cuts to limit the impact so far.
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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a device in under a week
OpenAI says its model helped design a talk-to-Codex device, from circuit boards to firmware. Prototypes still needed several rounds of revisions.
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Apple opens Siri AI to third-party apps in developer preview
Developers can connect apps to Siri AI in Apple’s software betas, letting it handle requests and combine tasks. A customer release is planned for a few months from now.
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DeepSeek’s $15.9B Round Pushes October Venture Funding to $59B
Crunchbase counted $59 billion in global startup funding in October, up 45% from a year earlier. DeepSeek’s record Chinese deal drove much of the rise.
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Study tests whether decision models can replace LLM judges
An arXiv study finds several single-pass models match or beat some text-generating judges on evaluation benchmarks, but results vary by task and model.
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SUSE plans to cut about one in 10 jobs, citing AI
The Linux company plans to reduce its nearly 2,000-person workforce. CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen cited AI and automation as reasons for the cuts.
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Nvidia reportedly sets a 49% limit for Chinese data center business
Tom’s Hardware says Nvidia has told data center customers to keep Chinese companies below half of their business. The reported policy has not been formally documented.
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OpenAI says ChatGPT search volume equals 20% of Google’s
OpenAI says ChatGPT handles one-fifth as many search queries as Google, using its own definition of a search. The company did not explain how it got Google’s figure.
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xAI uses eight converted jet engines at Mississippi data center
The turbines have state permits, but environmentalists are challenging Mississippi’s approval over pollution concerns, including volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide.
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AI agents help scan signals at SETI’s Allen Telescope Array
The system can steer the telescope and analyze radio signals in real time, but researchers still enter commands and no signal from extraterrestrial life has been found.
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BrainGFM trains on 1.3 million brain scans for imaging tasks
Researchers say their model improved performance across 48 tasks and helped radiologists classify stroke. The findings are based on a multicenter study, not evidence of routine clinical use.
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Google’s school AI opt-out could also block Search
Google plans to turn AI tools off for K–12 accounts by default. Schools that opt out may also lose access to Google Search.
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Apple sets an 18+ rating for dating and romance apps
Apple says apps with dating or romantic relationship features must be rated for adults. New content descriptors are required from November 16.
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Report describes a route for banned HBM exports to China
A chip designer reportedly pairs Samsung and SK hynix memory with low-performing processors, using a gap in how export rules assess server products.
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Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon is limited to cyber defenders for now
Google says Carbon leads several AI benchmarks, but its staged rollout has not yet opened access to developers or consumers.
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WeSearch now handles all WeChat Search traffic
The retrieval system is fully deployed in WeChat Search. Its authors report more article clicks, lower resource costs and faster graphic-text retrieval.
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Huawei asks some AI-chip customers to find memory themselves
A shortage of high-bandwidth memory is pushing some Huawei customers toward costly, informal supply routes for its AI chips.
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WorldSketch Builds Robot World Models Before Acting
A new robotics approach has a vision-language model sketch task-relevant objects and motions, then lets a geometric planner work out how to move.
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MEMENTO uses short notes to answer questions about long books
An arXiv paper reports that MEMENTO improved Qwen3-8B’s book-question accuracy while keeping its working context under 20,000 tokens.
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Brookfield and Drax plan £20 billion Yorkshire data center
The partners are targeting more than 1 gigawatt of capacity at Drax Power Station, but the first phase still needs approvals and a customer.
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Apple begins beta testing Watch conversation summaries
Apple’s developer beta adds tools to replay recent speech and summarize conversations on select Watches. Public release timing is not set.
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Deep Principle Releases Hydrogen-1.0 Scientific Model
The 753-billion-parameter model’s weights are available under the MIT License. Deep Principle reports gains on several science tests, but has not released its full training data or recipe.
Tools & agents
Athenahealth connects patient records to Anthropic’s Claude
Eligible patients can let Claude read selected health records and answer questions. The feature requires opt-in and a paid Claude plan.
Policy & law
Publishers sue Brave over AI scraping and paywall blocking
The New York Times and other publishers accuse Brave of copying their work for an online index and helping browser users get around paywalls.
Models
Google Open-Sources TorchTPU for Running PyTorch on TPUs
The Google–Meta project lets developers run PyTorch workloads on Google’s chips with limited code changes, alongside tools such as vLLM and Hugging Face.
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Anthropic revenue rises twelvefold as quarterly loss reaches $23.3 billion
Anthropic reported nearly $17 billion in quarterly revenue, but costs and large compute commitments weigh on the company ahead of a possible IPO.
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All notes →Thales expands Google Cloud partnership on agentic AI security
AI ranked last among five issues in 2026 midterm exit polls
Ben Thompson: Data center opposition could slow AI growth
AWS adds Linux and Windows 11 desktops to WorkSpaces for AI agents
AlgoPilot uses separate AI models to guide problem-solving
llama.cpp b12102 fixes checks for strided tensor views
CrowdStrike Adds Detection for Risky Enterprise AI Agents
CrowdStrike unveils agentic attack-path testing for Falcon
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- 1Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic85.7
- 2GPT-6 AstraOpenAI85.6
- 3Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic85.1
- 4GPT-6.1 SolOpenAI84.1
- 5Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic80.0
LiveBench average out of 100, checked November 4. A test result, not a verdict.
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