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llama.cpp adds Hexagon SSM_SCAN operation support
The open‑source llama.cpp library now supports the SSM_SCAN op on Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, improving performance on Snapdragon devices.
llama.cpp releases new binaries for macOS, Linux and iOS
The open‑source LLM runtime adds prebuilt binaries for Apple Silicon, Intel Macs, iOS and several Ubuntu builds, including Vulkan and zDNN support.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns, raising concerns for AI startup funding
Jensen Huang’s departure could shrink Nvidia’s multi‑billion‑dollar annual investments in AI startups, investors say.
llama.cpp b12368 improves Hexagon memory handling
The llama.cpp release updates Hexagon buffer allocation and memory mapping, and provides downloadable builds for several platforms.
llama.cpp b12367 adds SM103 support to CUDA builds
The llama.cpp release adds SM103 machine code to CUDA builds that aren’t compiled natively for that GPU target. It also offers downloads for several platforms.
AWS adds OpenFold3 research preview to SageMaker JumpStart
AWS users can deploy the open-source structure-prediction model on managed SageMaker endpoints, which process jobs asynchronously and can scale to zero when idle.
xAI updates Grok Imagine’s image API
The API now defaults to automatic quality, accepts up to five reference images for edits, and supports two new wide formats.
White House AI task force discusses cyber risks
The task force reviewed critical-infrastructure risks, industry standards and AI model testing, while weighing whether to urge Congress to pass new cyber laws.
SageMaker Unified Studio lets admins tailor project navigation
AWS says administrators can show project members different tools based on their designation, with one layout applying across every project in a domain.
Bessent blames Lutnick over Megaspeed export blacklist
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says his department has pushed for months to blacklist AI firm Megaspeed, but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick controls the decision.
Mirendil raises $1 billion to automate AI model training
The startup says its Lor platform uses AI agents to handle model-training tasks. Its $1 billion Series A was led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital.
AWS Batch adds Linux capabilities and seccomp to EKS jobs
AWS Batch on Amazon EKS now lets you set container capabilities, seccomp profiles and pod‑level security settings in job definitions.
Cloudflare releases Kitesurf browser as open‑source project
The stateless AI‑agent browser Kitesurf is now on GitHub under Apache 2.0, letting developers run and modify it on their own Cloudflare accounts.
AWS Secrets Manager adds cross‑account replication
AWS now lets you automatically copy a secret to another AWS account for backup and disaster recovery.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds OAuth 2.0 discovery support
Developers can now configure Bedrock AgentCore with OAuth 2.0 discovery URLs, expanding beyond OpenID Connect.
llama.cpp adds BF16 support for RMS_NORM on CPU and CUDA
The open‑source Llama inference library now handles BF16 precision in its RMS_NORM operation, with binaries for macOS, iOS and Linux.
llama.cpp adds TOP_K_MASK to Vulkan backend
The open‑source llama.cpp library updates its Vulkan support to include a TOP_K_MASK feature, fixing related barriers and header declarations.
OpenRouter adds free inclusionAI Ling 3.2 Flash model
The new Ling 3.2 Flash model is now available on OpenRouter with 1.94 s latency, 32 tokens/s throughput and 98.82% availability.
llama.cpp update adds warnings for draft‑p‑min usage
The new release warns users when the p_min flag is combined with probabilistic draft sampling, preventing unintended token drops.
Howard Lutnick’s ties to Nvidia draw ethics questions
Congressional members and officials are probing whether the Commerce secretary’s former firm, now run by his sons, helped Nvidia despite export‑restriction warnings.
llama.cpp adds optional Vulkan device keepalive in new release
The open‑source llama.cpp library (v b12363) now lets Vulkan back‑ends keep the GPU device alive for a set time, easing repeated inference calls.
llama.cpp v b12362 adds grammar parsing improvements
The open‑source llama.cpp library released version b12362 on Nov 13 2026, adding left‑factorization and an AST for grammar handling.
Banks block Chinese and Hong Kong investors from Anthropic IPO
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other banks say US export rules prevent allocations to mainland China and Hong Kong ahead of the November 18 pricing.
Survey finds 73% of Gen Z undecided on AI, 46% use it daily
A Milltown Partners poll shows most Gen Z adults haven’t formed an opinion on AI, yet nearly half rely on it every day.
Tuya releases open‑source skill for Meta Muse to control 3,000+ smart devices
Tuya Smart offers a free API‑key skill that lets Meta's Muse voice agent query and command devices in a Tuya account without local keys or firmware changes.
Hugging Face releases XYBench to test AI assistants on hidden user misconceptions
The new benchmark contains 8,115 real‑world questions and shows that leading models still struggle to steer users toward the real goal.
llama.cpp release b12361 adds new binaries and moves MOE cache code
The open‑source llama.cpp project posted version b12361 on Nov 13 2026, offering fresh macOS, iOS and Ubuntu binaries and restructuring its MOE‑cache code.
CHIME report shows 93% of health systems now use AI
The 2026 Digital Health Most Wired survey finds AI embedded in clinical or operational processes at 93.2% of participating facilities.
Perplexity launches Decider v1.3 with locate feature
The new version adds span extraction and reports 91.6% accuracy on 63 classification tasks.
US unions win new AI guardrails as agencies adopt generative tools
A survey finds almost 70% of U.S. government agencies use generative AI, while unions secure protections like retraining, oversight and veto power.
OpenAI adds Daybreak Red Team and Defense Factory to cybersecurity lineup
OpenAI's Daybreak brand now offers two Early Access tools – one for automated penetration testing and one for auto‑generating patches.
Meshy.ai reports Make Printable cuts failed prints from 44% to 8% in benchmark
In a study with UMass Amherst, Meshy.ai's Make Printable feature reduced major print defects on a Bambu Lab A1 printer from 44% to 8% for a set of hard‑to‑print prompts.
AWS GovCloud adds Grok 4.7 to Kiro IDE and CLI
SpaceXSI's Grok 4.7 model, with a 500 K token window, is now usable in AWS GovCloud (US) via the Kiro development environment.
ElevenLabs rolls out preview of ElevenAI meeting and dictation app
The voice‑AI company launched ElevenAI in preview, letting enterprise teams sign up for early access to combined note‑taking, dictation and agent tools.
Devin launches private web app builder
Devin now lets teams describe a tool and have it built as a private web app on Devin’s cloud machine, with a stable URL and per‑use billing.
AI chatbots miss key facts in financial counseling tests
Vals AI and NextLadder Ventures found 28 models often give advice without gathering essential client details.
81% of software teams use AI‑generated code they don’t fully understand
TestMu AI’s 2026 report finds most developers rely on AI code but few verify it, leading to more production bugs.
Anthropic releases Claude Duet AI assistant for US subscribers
Claude Duet, a research‑preview AI agent for professionals, is now available in an iPhone app for Anthropic Pro, Max and Ultra users in the United States.
CoreWeave seeks $4 billion loan backed by Meta contracts
CoreWeave plans a $4 billion debt deal at about 7.5% interest, using Meta agreements as collateral, after its unsecured bonds spiked to 16% yield.
Google open‑sources Ambient Quality Agent for AI production debugging
AQuA, Google’s new open‑source tool, scans live AI agent sessions to spot silent failures and point developers to the offending code.
Vertiv launches PowerStation 3100 RPP for AI data centers
The new remote power panel delivers up to 1,200 A, enabling 100 kW+ racks without custom engineering, and is now available in North America.
Report: Huang called Nvidia CFO Kress “a deer in the headlights”
The Wall Street Journal says Huang criticized Collette Kress during a finance-team meeting about billions of dollars in chip-buyer guarantees.
Google opens two datasets used in WeatherNext 3
SatWeave provides hourly satellite mosaics, while PARDIG maps precipitation every 15 minutes. Google says both datasets are openly available for research and development.
Netflix Builds an Operational Knowledge Graph for AI Investigations
Netflix is linking incidents, deployments and infrastructure in a shared data model to help engineers and AI agents investigate production problems.
Analysts link Nvidia GPU smuggling to Jensen Huang exit
SemiAnalysis says over 1.5 GW of restricted Nvidia AI chips reached China, which may have spurred the CEO’s departure.
Google opens TPU Sync library for faster KV cache moves
Google's new open‑source C++ library cuts KV cache transfer latency by over 90% on large MoE models.
llama.cpp reaches version 1.0.0
ggml-org has released llama.cpp v1.0.0, with changes across hardware support, its server, and chat interface.
llama.cpp v0.?? removes deprecated APIs and promotes speculative NextN feature
The open‑source llama.cpp library drops old functions and moves the NextN speculative generation API into the main header.
CrowdMAPS lets crowds label multiple robot actions per state
A web tool lets remote annotators add up to ten alternative actions for each robot state, boosting success rates by about 35% on real tasks.
Appier reports record Q3 revenue and doubles operating income
The Tokyo‑listed AI service firm posted JPY 13.9 bn revenue, a 21.8% rise, and lifted its FY26 profit guidance and dividend forecast.
Multimodal training gives text‑only models hidden visual reasoning abilities
Researchers show that vision‑language training reshapes how language models solve spatial tasks, even when only text is fed.
New framework guardscope checks LLM agent control coverage
guardscope lets developers verify which action paths runtime controls actually inspect in LLM agents.
XInfer boosts robot fleet efficiency by up to 3.75×
The new XInfer serving system lets hundreds of VLA‑powered robots run more tasks while using fewer GPUs.
AI video deep‑fake detectors perform poorly on repost‑compressed footage
A new benchmark of 10,000 real‑world videos shows that 18 detectors catch fewer than 15% of fakes after social‑media compression.
New private dense retrieval method adds 0.38 s to RAG pipelines
Researchers show a hashing‑based filter can keep queries private while only adding 6.5% latency to large‑scale retrieval‑augmented generation.
Efficiently Scalable Transformer boosts Taobao ad revenue by 3.27%
A new model called EST improves click-through rate prediction on Taobao, delivering a 1.22% lift in CTR and a 3.27% rise in revenue per mile.
Teacher‑free co‑evolution improves a 12B LLM for retail and airline tasks
A Gemma‑4 12B agent learns policies from its own logs and gains up to 22 points on benchmark pass rates without a teacher model.
Study shows AI leaderboard rankings can be gamed
Researchers find that preference‑based model rankings can be boosted by up to 45 spots using simple manipulation tricks.
Self‑grounded verification reduces agreement bias in multimodal LLMs
Researchers introduce SGV, a two‑step method that helps multimodal language models spot wrong actions more reliably, improving downstream tasks by up to 25 percentage points.
Parallel Prompting speeds up multi‑question LLM inference
The new method reads a shared document once per decode step, cutting query time by up to six times on Nvidia GPUs.
Bracco and Avicenna.AI receive FDA clearance for UPTUNITY aneurysm AI
The AI software, cleared by the FDA on Nov 13 2026, assists radiologists in detecting and tracking brain aneurysms larger than 3 mm on CTA scans.
llama.cpp 0.5 release adds Q5_0 and Q5_1 quantization support
The open‑source LLM runner now handles two new 5‑bit formats and ships binaries for macOS, iOS and multiple Ubuntu platforms.
llama.cpp b12344 cancels tool calls after disconnects
The llama.cpp release adds server-side cancellation for MCP tool calls when a client disconnects or times out, and includes builds for several platforms.
llama.cpp release b12343 adds Qwen 3.5 tensor merge
The open‑source LLM runtime llama.cpp ships version b12343 with a new Qwen‑3.5 conversion tweak and binary builds for macOS, iOS and Linux.
llama.cpp adds int8 CUDA kernel for few‑row matrix ops
The open‑source LLM runtime now supports a new int8 kernel on Ampere‑class NVIDIA GPUs, speeding up speculative decoding.
llama.cpp vb12340 adds server security fix and new binaries
The open‑source LLM runtime releases a server‑side request forgery fix and binaries for macOS, iOS and multiple Ubuntu builds.
AWS Glue adds automatic Spark runtime upgrades
AWS Glue now lets you set Spark jobs to auto‑upgrade, applying security patches and performance fixes without manual steps.
Google adds Gemini 4 Hydrogen model with lower price
Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen on Nov 12, 2026 as the cheapest Gemini 4 option and the new free‑tier model for Search.
llama.cpp update fixes HunyuanVL position‑embedding crash
The b12336 release adds a required F32 position embedding for HunyuanVL, preventing buffer overflows on supported platforms.
Amazon Cognito adds OAuth 2.0 token exchange
Cognito can now swap a user’s token for a narrower, single‑audience token, helping services act on a user’s behalf without forwarding the original token.
LangChain raises $300 million, valuation hits $3 billion
Alphabet’s CapitalG led a $300 M round for the AI agent tooling startup, backing its open‑source framework and paid LangSmith suite.
Nscale files updated IPO prospectus showing larger loss
The Nvidia‑backed neocloud firm reports a Q3 loss of $1.69 billion on $307.5 million revenue, widening from the prior quarter.
CNCF reports 21 million cloud‑native developers, 75% using AI
The State of Cloud Native Development survey shows AI use far outpaces other developers and is flooding open‑source maintainers.
AWS cuts entry cost for FSx Lustre Intelligent‑Tiering by 75%
Minimum throughput drops to 1 GB/s and metadata IOPS to 1,500, making the storage class cheaper for small‑scale HPC and ML jobs.
Nvidia adds Scale-In to tighten security for AI agents
Nvidia unveiled Scale-In, a networking layer built on BlueField-4 DPUs, to isolate and monitor autonomous AI agents in data centers.
Democrats open probe into Nvidia’s China chip sales and Trump ties
House and Senate Democrats asked the Commerce Department to keep records on a deal that let Nvidia ship chips to China after a Trump‑approved tariff scheme.
Liquid AI launches 74M-parameter LiquidCodec streaming audio codec
LiquidCodec runs 361 times faster than real time on one CPU thread, enabling low‑latency audio streaming for Liquid AI's models.
llama.cpp vb12329 adds CUDA weight‑scale fusion and new binaries
The open‑source LLM runtime releases version b12329 with CUDA optimizations and pre‑built binaries for macOS, iOS and Linux.
Meta opens Muse phone‑calling to paid users
Muse can now call U.S. businesses for subscribers, starting at $20 a month.
Amazon makes SGLang-Neuron available for AWS Trainium
Amazon now offers SGLang-Neuron as a public container, letting users run large language models on Trainium chips with the same SGLang workflow.
Natera launches SWARM AI system to cut lab ticket response time
The new AI tool built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore speeds first responses by 130× and automates 96% of support tickets.
CopilotKit launches OpenBot 1.0, a self‑hosted AI coworker
CopilotKit released OpenBot 1.0 under an MIT license, letting companies run their own AI agents with policy checks and audit trails.
Cerebras Systems reports record Q3 2026 revenue
Cerebras says its third‑quarter 2026 revenue hit a new high, according to its latest earnings release.
Devin adds free SWE-2 sessions and admin SSO to Teams plan
Devin lets every team member use Devin Desktop and offers two free SWE-2 coding sessions per user, plus single sign‑on and cost controls.
Inkling 2 Small added to Snowflake Cortex Training
Thinking Machines Lab's open-weight model is now usable for batch and streaming inference on governed data in Snowflake's Cortex platform.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small on OpenRouter
Inkling 2 Small, a 17‑billion‑parameter multimodal mixture‑of‑experts model, is now available via OpenRouter's API.
llama.cpp update improves backend prefetch handling
The b12328 release adds smarter prefetch logic and skips MoE cache on unsupported devices.
llama.cpp release b12327 adds SpacemiT Q4_1 support
The 12 Nov 2026 update brings a new SpacemiT Q4_1 32×256 kernel and completes the Apple Silicon path, widening hardware support.
Amazon MWAA Serverless adds DuckDB operators
AWS now lets MWAA Serverless workflows run DuckDB tasks, letting users query S3 data with in‑memory SQL without extra credential setup.
AWS Quick adds custom permissions to limit data source types
Admins can now block or allow specific connectors in Quick, tightening governance for self‑service analytics.
Amazon Bedrock cost tips: cache TTL, Flex tier, thinking effort, and maxTokens
AWS explains how four request‑level settings—prompt cache duration, service tier, reasoning effort, and maxTokens—change token usage and pricing on Bedrock.
Nvidia hires prosecutor Joon Kim and law firm to probe former CEO
Nvidia retained Joon Kim and Wachtell, Lipton to investigate allegations about Jensen Huang after his resignation on Nov. 12, 2026.
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang steps down as CEO amid new affair report
Reuters says Huang resigned on Nov 12, 2026, and CFO Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO.
Nvidia says it can track its GPUs to meet US chip‑security bill
In a private briefing, Nvidia told Rep. Bill Foster its Fleet Intelligence tool can locate advanced chips, countering industry claims the tracking required by the Chip Security Act is infeasible.
Amazon MWAA adds fine‑grained access control and multi‑team support
AWS now lets admins limit Airflow UI access by DAG, connection or variable and lets multiple teams share a single MWAA environment.
Google releases Agent Substrate 1.0 to run AI agents on Kubernetes
Google Cloud announced Agent Substrate 1.0, a sandbox layer for AI agents that runs on Kubernetes and is donated to the CNCF.
May Mobility plans 10,000 autonomous VW ID. Buzz robotaxis by 2031
The company will start delivering adapted ID. Buzz vans in 2028, aiming for over 10,000 on its platform.
Google researcher’s AI “discovery” of Maya site was already documented
Pietro Miotti’s claim of finding a new Maya settlement was debunked when archaeologists noted the site was published in a 2025 journal.
Stibo Systems reports hidden ‘trust tax’ on AI projects
A new survey shows 65% of enterprise leaders still rework AI output, adding hidden labor costs.
Google tests Agent Anomaly Detection on five public benchmarks
In a private‑preview test, the tool flagged 87% of harmful actions but raised a few false alarms on normal office tasks.