In a post on its engineering blog on 6 November, Anthropic described experiments testing what each component of Claude’s memory adds to an agent’s work. Claude writes notes as it works. When dreaming, it later reviews logs from earlier sessions, corrects its notes and compiles new ones from them.

Strong models benefited from choosing what to remember

In the database task of the Continual Learning Bench 1.0 benchmark, each question started in a new session, but the memory directory persisted. Of the models tested, Opus 5 was the first to record verified rules and how it knew they held.

Strong models should be told what memory is for, but not how to use it, the company said. When Opus 5 and Opus 4.7 were given a rule to record only failures, they lost much of the benefit that memory gave them. With the older Sonnet 4.6, a prompt to read its memory before answering and to test its theories nearly doubled its score.

Dreaming corrects and compiles

In Pokémon Red, Claude recorded a landmark on the wrong side of Mt. Moon and repeatedly ended up back on the previous route. While dreaming, it compared the note with the session log and corrected the error. In a single run, Claude got past the mountain with the corrected note but not with the uncorrected one.

Dreaming also lets Claude compile a wiki: a collection of linked pages that it maintains itself. Opus 5 agents built a wiki over 128 sessions from about 350,000 internal files at Stainless. With the wiki alone, Claude met 13 per cent of the grading criteria for 25 questions after two sessions and 48 per cent after 128. Combining search with the wiki raised the share from 54 per cent to 61 per cent as the wiki grew, compared with 53 per cent for search alone. The combination saved about 20,000 tokens per question.

On M&A questions that required several documents, Claude scored 87 per cent with the wiki and 73 per cent with search alone. In one task where the criteria were often found in a single document, the wiki gave no clear advantage. In another, the wiki grew larger than the documents themselves.

When several agents wrote to the same contract-terms table, they overwrote each other’s work, and 41 of the 57 assessed contract facts survived in the wiki. Claude rewrote the compilation instructions based on its mistakes: each contract got one page written by a single agent, with the terms quoted word for word. All 57 then survived.

Keep loaded memory small

Dreaming can also promote notes to the level that the harness, the program that runs the agent, loads at the start of every session. Anthropic warns that this consumes tokens, that a faulty note can carry into every session and that long instruction files are followed less closely. Claude Code’s automatic memory loads only the first 200 lines or 25 KB of MEMORY.md.

Dreaming requires compute, and checking all memories continuously may not be practical, the company said. Anthropic has published example guides (cookbooks) for setting up dreaming and wikis.

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Anthropic released Claude Code version 2.1.319 on GitHub on 6 November. Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent, used, for example, in the terminal and in the VS Code extension.

Auto mode no longer falls back to the built-in classifier

In auto mode, Claude Code runs tools without asking for permission each time. Anthropic’s server assesses whether actions are safe, the Japanese blog labmemo.com wrote.

The changelog says Claude Code no longer falls back to its built-in classifier when telemetry or feature flags are turned off. Instead, it either asks the user for permission or denies a call that the server cannot check. The change also applies to users of LLM gateways, the proxy services through which an organisation routes its model calls. Nothing changes for Bedrock, Vertex and Foundry users.

Setting the environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_MODE_SERVER=0 restores the built-in classifier. The value 1 turns on the server-side check behind a gateway even if CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS is set. If an organisation’s managed settings set the latter, the value 1 must also be set there.

The non-interactive claude -p previously returned the success code 0 even when auto mode had denied actions because no check was available. It now returns 1. When the new permissions.denyInsteadOfPrompting setting is on, Claude Code denies a tool call that would otherwise wait for a permission prompt, and the turn continues. The setting works in the terminal, subagents and teammates.

Permission check bypasses patched

The version fixes a Bash permission bypass in which a crafted environment variable prefix could hide part of a command from permission checks. It also fixes a sandbox escape when creating a worktree, a separate working directory for a repository. The site claude-news.today points out that the changelog does not say how the escape worked.

In addition, a sed command could bypass the permission check in accept-edits and auto modes. In some cases, Bash deny and ask rules did not match commands containing quoted words. The /rewind command could restore or delete a file through a symbolic link pointing to a directory. On self-hosted runners, the --trust-workspace false option now also blocks hooks and skills from the repository’s settings files.

Other changes and availability

Other changes to default behaviour include the following: a tool call that an MCP server runs as a task moves to the background immediately, and a self-paced /loop stops when a turn ends without a new schedule. The variable CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MCP_TASK_BACKGROUND prevents the move to the background, and CLAUDE_CODE_LOOP_KEEPALIVE=1 restores the old /loop behaviour.

Proxy settings may need changing. Where the host environment manages the network, CLAUDE_CODE_PROXY_RESOLVES_HOSTS must be set in the process environment, not in a settings file. The automatic certificate fix for proxies that inspect TLS traffic no longer starts if ALL_PROXY is the only proxy variable. In that case, set HTTPS_PROXY to the proxy’s http:// address.

On 7 November, the npm package’s latest tag pointed to version 2.1.319, but the stable tag was still 2.1.311, Labmemo reported. The blog added that official sources do not say when the version will reach the VS Code extension and the desktop app.

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On Friday 6 November, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources, that potential buyers are now discussing a valuation of $1.2–1.3 trillion. Some of them are considering a value of $1.1 trillion, one of the sources said. The talks are ongoing, and Anthropic declined to comment.

In early October, investors put the company’s fair value at as much as $2 trillion, Bloomberg reported. After Anthropic presented its latest financial figures in October, the estimate fell to $1.4–1.5 trillion.

The latest drop followed Thursday’s sell-off, in which the Nasdaq 100 index fell 6.4 per cent. The sell-off wiped out $2.3 trillion in market value, a single-day record, Bloomberg said. Doubts about the valuation grew as the Democrats’ win in the congressional elections raised expectations of tighter oversight of data centre construction. Several states also approved ballot initiatives that restrict data centre expansion, The Decoder reported.

The Decoder and AI Times also cited two other outlets. Three major investors preparing for the offering consider a $1.5 trillion valuation hard to reach, and one of them estimates that a suitable value is closer to $1 trillion, the Wall Street Journal reported. Reuters, citing four sources, said that attracting investors may require lowering the valuation further.

Growth slowed and the operating result swung to a loss

Investors want a bigger discount because Anthropic is still loss-making and is spending money on expanding its computing infrastructure, The Decoder reported. According to the amended prospectus, as summarised by AI Times and HuggingNews, revenue for July–September was $16.96 billion, 47 per cent more than in the previous quarter. Growth in the previous quarter had been 144 per cent, AI Times said. HuggingNews reported that the operating result swung to a loss of $567 million. Compute and infrastructure commitments total $895.4 billion.

The amended prospectus does not include October revenue. Anthropic’s annualised revenue exceeded $80 billion at the end of October, up from the previous month, the WSJ reported.

Marketing about to start, timetable uncertain

The Information, cited by AI Times, reported that Anthropic plans to start marketing the offering to institutional investors in the week beginning 9 November and to list in the week beginning 16 November. The company wants to list before the US Thanksgiving holiday, according to a Wallstreetcn report relayed by China’s 36Kr. Reuters said some investors doubt whether the marketing will start on time.

Anthropic plans to raise up to $100 billion, but some investors expect the sum to stay at around $80 billion, AI Times reported. Bloomberg said the company could initially set the size and valuation of the offering conservatively and raise them if demand is strong. Another option is to postpone the offering.

HSBC strategist Max Kettner considers a valuation of around $1 trillion a more suitable level because it would reduce the risk of sharp price swings once trading begins, Bloomberg reported. ‘I don’t think we need the headline “oh my god, it is a trillion dollar IPO,” because I think what’s actually more important is the secondary,’ Kettner told Bloomberg Radio. Morningstar strategist Michael Field expects Anthropic to accept a slightly lower valuation if markets stay at current levels. A postponement could do more damage to the valuation in the long run, Field said.

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Meta announced the update on 6 November on its research blog and X account. The new models are not Muse Wonder itself. Meta introduced Muse Wonder a few weeks earlier and calls it its most capable model series. Meta is now rolling out specialised versions of its existing models, which it trained using Muse Wonder.

In Muse, an AI agent handles tasks on the user’s behalf. Meta AI is the company’s conversational AI assistant.

Memory and persistence

The models gain two capabilities that Meta introduced with Muse Wonder. Active Memory helps a model recognise when information shared in earlier conversations becomes relevant again. It also distinguishes temporary information from permanent, and current information from outdated.

Active Focus helps a model keep working towards a goal when it hits an unexpected obstacle. Meta says it trained the models on realistic obstacles so that they would try harder, recover or find an alternative.

The figures are Meta’s own

Meta compares the new Muse model with the previous one in its own tests. In the Active Memory test, the new model used crucial background information correctly in 90 per cent of tasks, against 76 per cent for the previous model. Meta says the new model forgets critical information 2.4 times less often. By calculation, the share of tasks in which the model failed to use background information correctly fell from 24 per cent to 10 per cent.

In the comparison Meta published, the Personal Superintelligence Index score rose from 38 per cent to 47 per cent. Meta also says that in Muse the new models perform 67 per cent better on everyday tasks where unexpected problems arise. The company does not give the baseline.

The figures have not been independently verified. The Verge reported on the new capabilities based on Meta’s announcement, but without the figures.

In Meta AI, Meta says, the same improvements mean that the assistant breaks complex problems into steps, asks more specific follow-up questions and keeps up when the user changes direction. The company gives no figures for these claims.

Muse also gets spaces

On the same day, Meta added spaces to Muse. The user describes an idea, and Muse builds an app-like view from it, such as a gift tracker or a travel plan. The views update in the background if the user connects other services to Muse. The Verge gives Gmail, Google Calendar and Notion as examples. Users can pin the views to the sidebar or main tabs and schedule them to appear at set times. TechCrunch’s Lucas Ropek wrote that they are in effect conversations separated by topic.

Meta says spaces are available everywhere Muse is. The company is still working out how users could share views with others. Meta says it will roll out the new models to Muse and Meta AI users gradually.

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Nous Research said on 6 November, on its blog and its X account, that it had post-trained a Chinese open-weight model to reinforce Western values. Chinese open-weight models are the strongest available, the company said, but their weights carry state-aligned behaviour.

Nous said it had found that Qwen3.8-27B refused, evaded or answered from the Chinese Communist Party’s perspective when asked about politically sensitive topics. The company does not claim to have fixed all such behaviour.

A language model judged the answers

Nous’s evaluation contains 803 prompts across seven categories, including freedom of expression, democracy and privacy. Each prompt draws on a dated source article, which supplies the party’s official vocabulary on the topic and two to four facts that the answer must mention.

The judge was the language model Grok 4.7. It did not know which model had written an answer. It marked each fact as mentioned, missing or contradicted, and quoted the passages where an answer adopted the official line. Quoting the official line in order to identify it did not count as propaganda. Nous refined the judging instructions in a 25-prompt trial and also scored the trial by hand.

For the training data, Nous collected responses from the teacher model Inkling alongside the base model’s own. The fine-tuning used about 52.8 million tokens, and the model went through the data twice. Nous used no reinforcement learning or preference optimisation.

Propaganda fell, but Arete trailed its teacher on facts

The table shows the mean fact score on a scale of 0 to 5 and the share of answers in which the model adopted the state line. The figures come from Nous’s own measurement, with a single language model as judge.

Source: Nous Research. Average of five runs. Temperature, the setting that controls how random the answers are, was 0 on rows marked * and 0.6 on the others. Reasoning was off on rows marked * and for Nemotron 3 Ultra, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. † Preliminary result, two of five runs.

At the same temperature of 0.6, Arete’s fact score was 2.88 and Qwen’s 2.24. Arete gave 216 answers that scored zero, against 359 for the base model. The biggest change was in freedom of expression, where the share of answers containing propaganda fell from 60 per cent to 1 per cent.

On Nous’s internal Hermes Bench benchmark, Arete scored 65.60 per cent and the base Qwen 65.77. On Terminal-Bench-2.1, Arete scored 70 per cent and Qwen 67. Nous ran the tests with its own settings and does not claim credit for the improvement.

Nous reads the Chinese model’s bias as shallow and added late. ‘The values in any open model are only ever one fine-tune away,’ the company writes.

Nous’s blog post links to downloads of the model weights, the training data and the evaluation. The evaluation includes the prompts with their source articles, the judge prompt and the scoring scripts, so it can be run on other models too.

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The llama.cpp project released version b12180 on GitHub on 6 November. llama.cpp is an open-source program for running language models on your own hardware. Its converter drops Kimi-K3.1-Pro’s vision tower and mm_projector, so the model is text-only for now, the release notes say.

The change description says K3.1 builds on its predecessor, Kimi K3, but replaces the full-attention MLA layers with sparse-attention DSA layers. In sparse attention, a lightning indexer scores earlier tokens, and the model computes attention only for the highest-scoring ones.

On this checkpoint, 24 of the model’s 93 layers carry the indexer, which selects 2,048 tokens. Everything else is unchanged, including the linear-attention KDA layers. llama.cpp therefore reuses K3’s computation and adds the indexer.

The indexer’s selection is applied as a mask over the whole cache. The selected rows are not gathered separately. This lets the model reuse llama.cpp’s existing sparse flash attention path. Off that path, the result stays correct, but attention is still computed over the whole cache.

In a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, each token is processed by only some of the model’s subnetworks, known as experts. K3.1’s routed experts stay in the same 4-bit MXFP4 format as in K3 and are not dequantised to a higher-precision format. The indexer’s three tensors are kept out of the per-tensor quantisation overrides, because token selection is sensitive to their precision.

The author of the change tested support on an 8-layer slice of the model, not the full model, against the model’s Hugging Face checkpoint. The author reported that 38 tensors matched exactly and that the indexer metadata matched the model’s config.

The selection was also compared with full attention using perplexity, which measures how well a model predicts text. When the number of tokens to select exceeded the context length, the result matched full attention. When the number was forced below the context length, the results diverged.

Prebuilt binaries for macOS, Linux, Windows and Android are available on GitHub, including CPU, CUDA, Vulkan and ROCm builds. Users must first convert the model’s Hugging Face weights with llama.cpp’s converter.

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Artificial Analysis (AA), which maintains comparisons of image models, published its results on X on 6 November. OpenAI released GPT Image 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex and its API on 4 November, AA said.

The API offers two models, Flare and Sunburst, which succeed the GPT Image 2.5 models of the same names. Both generate images from text prompts and edit images. They can now also produce animated GIFs and SVG vector images, AA said.

How the comparison worked

Voters approved by AA compare two images generated from the same prompt without knowing which models created them. The votes produce an Elo score for each model: the more often voters choose a model’s image, the higher its score. The scale is anchored to FLUX.2 [dev], whose score is fixed at 1,000.

AA tested both models at the highest quality setting (max). OpenAI has added an API setting that controls how much the model plans before drawing an image. In the test, this complexity setting was at its default, high.

Results and speed

The table shows the top six models in the text-to-image comparison. The rank range shows which places a model could occupy given the uncertainty.

Source: AA-Image-T2I v2.1 leaderboard, Artificial Analysis. Prices are for a 1024×1024 image through the model maker’s API at default settings.

The table does not show whether Flare or GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst ranks higher: they are one point apart and their confidence intervals overlap. Sunburst’s score is based on 4,947 comparisons, fewer than its predecessors’.

AA said Sunburst’s biggest text-to-image gains were in reasoning, text rendered in images, and lighting and materials. In image editing, Flare improved on its predecessor in eight of ten use cases. Sunburst ranked first in four, including user interface design and advertising. Flare ranked first in charts, infographics and slides.

In AA’s tests, Flare cut its median time compared with GPT Image 2.5 Flare from about 55 seconds to 30 seconds for text-to-image and from about 58 seconds to 32 seconds for editing. Sunburst is slower than its predecessor, at about 2 minutes 15 seconds per image, AA said.

Both models cost $30 per 1 million image output tokens, the same as GPT Image 2.5. That puts a 1024×1024 image at the highest quality at about $0.21, AA said. GPT Image 2.6 is available in ChatGPT and Codex on all subscription tiers and in OpenAI’s API, AA reported.

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2. OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 takes #1 and #2 on both AA-Image-T2I v2.1 and AA-Image-Editing v2.1. GPT Image 2.6 Flare is almost twice as fast as GPT Image 2.5 Flare with slightly better quality, and GPT…

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4. Check out GPT Image 2.6 for yourself on the Artificial Analysis Image Leaderboards: AA-Image-T2I v2.1: https://t.co/pLfAuJXEOR AA-Image-Editing v2.1: https://t.co/Oi1OZLehpo Or vote in the Image…

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The Claude Code development team announced the change on its ClaudeDevs account on X on 6 November. The team said the change makes it easier to get a user’s own repository running in a cloud session. In a cloud session, Claude Code runs code on an Anthropic virtual machine rather than on the user’s own computer.

API keys are saved securely, so Claude never sees them, the team said. The post does not explain how Claude works out what is needed. Nor does it say whether the user approves the choices before they are saved.

What an environment stores

According to the Claude Code documentation, every cloud session runs in a cloud environment: a saved set of settings covering the network access level, environment variables and a setup script. The script runs before Claude starts work. The default environment has no variables or script, and the session’s network access allows only package registries and other hosts on the allowlist.

If the setup script finishes in roughly five minutes or less, Anthropic snapshots the filesystem, and later sessions start from that snapshot. The snapshot keeps installed packages and files but not running processes such as a database. If setup takes longer, the environment is not cached. The cache expires after roughly seven days and is also rebuilt when the setup script or allowed hosts change.

Keys go through a proxy

The documentation says API keys are stored securely as a network secret. Anthropic’s proxy adds the key to a request only after the request has left the session’s virtual machine, so the key does not appear in the session’s environment variables or files. A saved value cannot be viewed again.

The protection has limits. The proxy does not attach secrets to requests from the setup script or, for example, to requests to GitHub, the Anthropic API or public package registries. A key the proxy cannot attach stays in an environment variable, the documentation says, and anyone using the environment can read environment variables. A secret also grants access to its assigned hosts even if the environment’s network access level would not otherwise allow them.

The post says the update applies to Pro, Max and Ultra plans. Cloud sessions can be started at claude.ai/code, in the Claude mobile app, in the desktop app and in the terminal, the documentation says. Sessions count towards the plan’s usage limit, with no separate charge for the virtual machine. Users can edit environment settings from the environment selector on the claude.ai/code start screen. A network secret shows only its hosts and cannot be edited: changing it means deleting the secret and adding it again.

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Ayaan Zaidi explained on the OpenClaw blog on 6 November how the project changed the way the program learns about new models. Previously, each provider’s model list sat in its plugin’s file, which shipped with the OpenClaw package. A new model therefore became selectable only in a new release.

GPT-6.1 Sol prompted the change. ChatGPT decides which models to offer based on the Codex version the client reports. OpenClaw bundled Codex 0.158.0, but Sol is offered only to version 0.159.2 and newer, so users signed in with ChatGPT accounts could not select the model. The overhaul took about five weeks and roughly 80 pull requests.

Three sources for the model list

The first source is catalog.openclaw.ai, a catalogue the project maintains that holds about 1,000 models. It is rebuilt every four hours from models.dev model data plus OpenClaw’s own data and prices. A running Gateway picks up a new catalogue without a restart. It still finishes a response turn already in progress with the old catalogue, so that the model list and prices match.

In September the catalogue stopped updating. After models.dev split one of its entries in two on 21 September, the publishing job failed every time. As a result, GPT-6 Sol and Luna did not reach existing installations during that period. A missing provider now triggers only a warning.

The second source is the user’s own account. When users sign in to a provider, OpenClaw fetches the account’s model list and shows its chat models. These include models newer than the installation and models that only that account can access. The change covers OpenAI and Anthropic API keys, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, a Grok subscription, Ollama and OpenCode Go, among others. OpenClaw now reads reasoning effort levels and the request format from the provider’s listing; previously it guessed them from the model name.

A model newer than the catalogue has no price yet. OpenClaw shows its cost as unknown and applies conservative default limits to it until the catalogue updates.

The third source is Codex. When fetching the model list, the first fix reported the latest Codex version on npm, but the bundled version still generated the responses. The model appeared in the picker, but the first message could fail with an HTTP 400 error. The change was reverted.

OpenClaw now looks for Codex in the command search path (PATH). If the Codex it finds is a stable release, newer than the bundled one and on the same major version, OpenClaw tests the connection to it. If the test passes, the same program fetches the model list and generates the responses. Otherwise OpenClaw uses the bundled Codex. OpenClaw installs nothing itself. If no newer Codex is installed, the bundled version still decides which ChatGPT models are available.

The model list no longer shrinks

By the project’s own figures, a single OpenRouter timeout previously cut the list from 466 models to three. OpenClaw now retries the fetch itself, first after 30 seconds and then less often, at intervals of up to half an hour. Switching the default model now takes 0.6–1.4 seconds, down from 68–142 seconds.

The command openclaw models list --refresh shows the models an installation can use. If OpenClaw does not show a model the account lists, the project asks users to file a bug report and attach the command’s output.

What this is based on

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2. A new model shouldn't mean waiting for a new OpenClaw release @obviyus goes inside his work on model catalogs, account-based discovery, and Codex versioning From our engineering series…

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Perplexity announced its new Teammates agents in a blog post dated 4 November. They build on Perplexity Computer, which launched in February. Computer breaks a user’s goal into tasks and runs them with subagents. Giving it ongoing work, however, has taken planning, the company said.

A Teammate keeps the role it is given until the user changes it. It applies the feedback it receives to later work and remembers the project’s goals, task history and shared files from one session to the next.

How the agent splits and checks work

Perplexity’s help page says the agent breaks a large goal into tasks and starts additional agents for them, each with its own computer. It checks the results before moving on to the next steps. It then returns finished work, such as a report or a pull request, to the user for review.

The agent monitors connected services and can start work when something new arrives in them. These services include Slack, GitHub and Linear. After opening a pull request, for example, it can reply to review comments. Agents in the same project share files and instructions and can message each other. Colleagues can assign work to the agent in a Slack channel.

Each agent runs on its own isolated machine with its own desktop and browser. The user can take over the desktop mid-task or point the agent in a new direction. Saved credentials are encrypted, and the agent cannot see them.

The agent uses the connectors the user has installed, with the same permissions granted to those connectors. Perplexity advises users to review the requested permissions when connecting a service. On GitHub, users should select only the repositories the agent needs, the company said.

The default model is Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5, but users can change the model for each agent. Tech Insider points out that no independent tests of the agents’ quality exist yet. For now, the quality claims are therefore Perplexity’s own.

Availability and price

Teammates is a research preview, initially available on the web to individual Max subscribers. Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max accounts are not included by default. Users on an enterprise account can ask their organisation’s administrator for access. An iOS version is on the way, the blog said. Perplexity says the feature is still under development and its behaviour may change.

Max costs $200 a month, The Verge reported. The subscription includes usage credits every month. Parallel agents, large files or codebases and frequent automations use more of them.

The Verge compares Teammates with OpenAI’s Dots and Anthropic’s Claude Duet. The Decoder reported that Dots prices start at $100 and Duet at $20. In the publication’s assessment, the cheaper options will likely hit their usage limits quickly.

What this is based on

1. Introducing Perplexity Computer

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2. Teammates are agents for complex, ongoing work

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3. Get started with Perplexity teammates - Perplexity Help Center

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4. Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work

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5. Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent

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6. Perplexity Launches Teammates AI Agents to Battle OpenAI

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7. Perplexity Teammates: 24/7 AI Agents for Work [2026]

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Censys, a security firm that scans the internet, described its findings in a blog post that TechCrunch and GBHackers covered on 6 November. TechCrunch reported that Censys identified more than 800 distinct ARTEX deployments accessible from the web without a password. GBHackers added that the open management console was visible on 1,465 servers on 4 November. About 650 of them sat on two networks with identical default settings, leaving roughly 815 distinct-looking deployments.

ARTEX is an open-source penetration testing tool: a program that looks for weaknesses in computer systems automatically. It was released in July. The user sets a goal and a permitted scope. A planning agent turns the goal into attack intents, and worker agents run the tools.

Exposed servers also reveal attackers’ tools

Silas Cutler, principal security researcher at Censys, stressed that not every deployment is used maliciously: many are run by authorised testers. The software does not need to be reachable from the internet, so it is unclear why the deployments are exposed. The visible deployments are therefore likely only some of the total, GBHackers said.

TechCrunch reported that outsiders could use the exposed deployments to carry out attacks. Open directories on 32 servers also held credentials and implants, hidden malware that lets an attacker keep access to a victim’s network, GBHackers wrote.

CrowdStrike linked one ARTEX server to attacks on South Korean financial companies. Censys said the server’s directories had been open since 18 August, seven weeks before CrowdStrike published its findings.

From leaked GitHub credentials to Key Vault in five minutes

Microsoft said in a report on 5 November that ARTEX agents had been searching GitHub for credentials since August, Cybersecurity News and GBHackers reported. The searches combined target companies’ names with terms related to secrets, cloud services and AI services. The haul included application credentials and API keys for AI inference services.

In one case, the agent moved in five minutes from a GitHub search to exporting data from Azure Key Vault, Microsoft’s service for storing secrets. The figure describes one documented case, not the duration of every attack.

From 28 October, the attackers signed in to Microsoft Entra ID environments with application credentials. Some of the credentials belonged to vendor applications used by many customer organisations, so the risk extended to those customers too. When a request failed because of a wrong API version, the agent switched versions and succeeded about 28 seconds later.

Microsoft has previously said that the China-linked group Storm-0940 used ARTEX in a breach of ConnectWise’s cloud backup service, GBHackers reported. The site added that this attribution should not automatically be applied to the credential abuse.

Microsoft advises treating credentials that have become public as compromised, even if the code has been deleted. They must be revoked or rotated, as must the secrets in any Key Vaults the application could read. Access tokens already issued remain valid until they expire, even if the application’s identity is disabled. In the longer term, Microsoft recommends managed identities, together with GitHub secret scanning and push protection, which blocks secrets from being pushed to a repository.

TechCrunch reported that ARTEX has announced it will go closed-source, with new releases available only to paying customers. Dozens of copies of the code nonetheless remain on code-sharing platforms.

What this is based on

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2. ARTEX AI Framework Linked to Bank Breaches and Cloud Attacks Found Exposed Across Hundreds of Servers

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3. Hackers Use ARTEX AI to Find GitHub Secrets and Steal Azure Key Vault Data in Just 5 Minutes

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4. Hackers Use ARTEX AI to Steal Azure Key Vault Secrets Just 5 Minutes After Finding Exposed GitHub Credentials

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5. Censys finds over 800 exposed Artex AI hacking tool deployments

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6. 800+ Artex AI Hacking Tool Servers Found Exposed

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7. Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found exposed on the web

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Addy Osmani, an Anthropic employee, wrote on X on 4 November that the company had fixed a Claude Code rule on games. The Korean outlet AI Times reported the change, based on Osmani’s update.

‘Last week some of you ran into Claude Code pushing back on game projects it should have just built,’ Osmani wrote. Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent that runs in the terminal.

What the rule was and what changed

In late October, Anthropic added a short rule to the system prompt of Claude Opus 5.5. A system prompt is the instruction a model receives before the user’s request.

The Chinese outlet 36kr published an ifanr article reporting that a developer called chasm had found the rule in Claude Code’s settings. The rule allowed Claude to help build original games, games in familiar genres, and games based on the user’s own designs and assets. It did not allow Claude to recreate a specific existing game, even under a new name.

However, the rule was also triggered when a user mentioned a well-known game only to describe what they wanted. Developers complained that the ban also blocked some software analysis and reverse-engineering tasks, AI Times reported. Claude could, for example, refuse to analyse harmless decompiled code, 36kr wrote.

Osmani said the rule had changed in version 2.1.317, AI Times reported. Users can now name an existing game to describe what they want, and Claude will make an original game in the same genre. If a user asks directly for a copy, Claude offers to make a new game in a similar style.

So the copying ban has not been lifted. AI Times reported that a new game may borrow, for example, a combat or movement system. Reproducing the original game’s structure and content remains restricted. The sources do not say whether the obstacles to reverse engineering were removed.

Osmani aims to help people who make their own games as much as possible and to protect their work if someone else tries to copy it, AI Times reported.

36kr: games are already being copied with AI

Osmani confirmed that the rule was added to prevent intellectual property infringement, 36kr reported. The article describes cases in which independent developers’ games were copied with AI before they were even released. The imitator of the game Typing Magician admitted feeding the creator’s development videos into AI, the Japanese outlet AUTOMATON reported.

The article’s author sees the restriction as a late patch that is unlikely to solve the problem thoroughly. Copyright protects code, graphics and sound but not game mechanics or rules, the article says.

What this is based on

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2. Claude开始拒绝抄游戏，但可能已经太晚了-36氪

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A developer using the handle AldiPower wrote on OpenAI’s developer forum on 5 November that ChatGPT switched connectors mid-workflow while calling an external service. The thread also reached Hacker News. It contains no reply from OpenAI.

A connector gives ChatGPT access to an external service’s tools through an MCP server.

Confirmation code ended up in the other connector’s call

The developer had two connectors to the same MCP server on one ChatGPT account: connector A, added in developer mode, and app B, published in the app directory. Each had its own OAuth client, so the server saw two separate clients for the same user.

The user requested an action that requires confirmation. The model called the confirmation tool through connector A, and the connector’s widget, embedded in the conversation, displayed the change. When the user confirmed it, the widget sent a one-time confirmation code to the conversation. The model then sent the code in a follow-up call through connector B without telling the user about the switch.

The server rejected the call because the code was bound to connector A’s OAuth client. Every attempt in that conversation failed, the developer said. In the attempt logged in detail, the code was confirmed through connector A and redeemed through connector B.

The switch moves data produced by one app to another without the user’s consent, the developer said. In this case both connectors came from the same provider, so the server’s own check stopped the call. If a third-party connector with the same server URL were in the same conversation, the same switch could send data to another provider, the developer said. This is AldiPower’s assessment, not an observed case.

In AldiPower’s view, a shared MCP URL does not make two connectors one. Behind a single URL, the server can act for different parties depending on the OAuth client, such as different customer organisations or environments. AldiPower believes ChatGPT should match a tool call to a connector by its OAuth client rather than by URL, and make the follow-up call through the same connector as the initial call.

Report not filed because of personal data requirement

Another forum user, techsoft.ye, urged reporting the finding through OpenAI’s coordinated vulnerability disclosure process. The same user also asked whether the connector switched while the confirmation was being processed or only when the model chose the follow-up call. No one in the thread answered the question.

In reply, AldiPower wrote of trying to report the issue to OpenAI’s bug bounty programme. The programme requires personal data, such as biometric identification and an ID card, before a report can be submitted, and the data must also be given to an outside party, AldiPower wrote. AldiPower said of being unwilling to provide it.

What this is based on

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Cognition announced Devin Review 2.0 on its blog on 5 November. The company wants reviews to be cheap enough to run on every pull request, like CI tests.

Devin Review is a service of Devin, Cognition’s coding agent. It groups the changes in a pull request, explains them alongside the code and looks for bugs and security vulnerabilities.

The company’s own figures

Cognition said reviewing a pull request now costs 82 per cent less than in August. The company credits the savings to a better mix of models and to harness optimisations. A harness is the program that steers an agent: it gives the model its tools and runs its steps.

Quality did not suffer, the company said. After the cost cuts, Devin Review found an average of 1.32 bugs per pull request, up from 1.22. Median latency fell from 139 seconds to 94 seconds. Across customers, the average is about $2.25 per fixed bug.

AICoder, a site that summarised the announcement, pointed out that no independent replication of the measurements has been published. The bug count reflects how many findings Devin made. The blog does not say how Cognition assessed whether the findings were genuine.

Re-reviews cover the changes

When the same pull request is reviewed again, Devin Review by default checks only the parts that have changed since the previous review. About 80 per cent of pull requests cost less than a dollar to review, including later updates, Cognition said. The documentation says Devin may still review the whole pull request if new commits substantially change its behaviour or the change is too large.

Rules can limit automatic reviews, for example by path, branch or label, and drafts can be included too. An administrator can also cap the cost of automatic reviews for a single pull request. Once the cap is reached, automatic reviews stop, but manually started reviews still run. The English-language documentation says an empty cap field does not remove the cap; the Cognition-managed default applies instead.

When Devin Review checks a pull request opened by an active Devin session, the findings go to the session first, the documentation says. Devin fixes them only if an administrator has turned on the Auto-fix review findings setting under Settings > Review. Otherwise Devin only reports the results. The feature is being rolled out gradually.

The new Ultra reasoning effort gives a more thorough and more expensive review, for example for billing or security code. Teams can run checks based on their own instructions with Custom Reviewers, which are in beta.

Availability

Devin Review uses compute units (ACUs) from the same pool as Devin sessions. It works on GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket. On GitHub, commenting and other write actions require a GitHub App connection. On GitHub and GitLab, users can start a review with the comment /devin review; on GitHub, the commenter needs write access to the repository and an account linked to Devin. Reviews can also be started from the Devin Review page in Devin Cloud and Devin Desktop, and automatic rules are set under Settings > Review.

What this is based on

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2. Devin Review 2.0 | Devin

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3. Devin Review 2.0とは？料金・使い方・Autofixを解説

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4. Cognition Ships Devin Review 2.0: ~82% Cheaper (~5x) Since August, Median Latency ~94s; Auto-Review, Autofix, Ultra & Custom Reviewers — AICoder

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5. Devin Review 2.0 | The Deploy Log

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6. Devin Review - Devin Docs

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7. 2026 - Devin Docs

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Cursor announced the Live Apps feature in its changelog on 5 November. Most apps that users build stay on the developer’s own machine, where no one else can use them, the company said.

How publishing works

The user starts a cloud agent, a coding agent that runs on Cursor’s servers, and explicitly asks it to build an app. Cursor said the agent scaffolds the app, creates a Postgres database if needed, puts the app behind Cursor single sign-on (SSO) and provisions hosting. To publish, the user chooses an address and receives a link. The code can live in a new Cursor Origin repository or on GitHub, and GitLab support is coming, the company said.

Before publishing, Cursor runs rule-based and agent-run security checks. These look for secrets written into app files, among other things. Nothing is published until the checks pass and the user publishes the app themselves, the company said. Team administrators can add their own rules to the checks and approve blocked publishes. The 7minai guide site says Cursor’s documentation excludes blocks caused by malicious code, secrets written into code or exposed credentials.

Apps can be shared with specific people, groups or the whole team. Anyone using the app must then sign in to Cursor. On individual plans, apps can also be shared publicly. The same guide says the documentation states that hosting is provided as is and that a published app can be disabled.

In testing, the first version saved no data

Mervin Praison, who makes videos about AI, tested the feature on a personal account on 6 November. Praison’s idea-voting app took 13 minutes 46 seconds to build. A different app in Cursor’s demo video took 3 minutes 21 seconds. The agent said Cursor had refused to publish an earlier attempt, which had been started through the API without a repository.

The published app saved nothing. The agent fixed the bug in 12 minutes 35 seconds by switching saving to plain web forms. The explanation comes only from the agent, which said Cursor’s server had rejected the original saving method. Praison advises testing the published link, not just the preview.

When the agent added an example key from AWS’s documentation to the app, the security check blocked publication. The check only warned about a risky software library. These results come from one user’s tests.

Voice chat and availability

Cursor also released voice chat on 6 November. Users can talk with the agent in a real-time voice call and hear short status updates as the work progresses. The feature is based on Grok Voice and works in the editor, on the web and in the iOS app. Cursor said conversation data is not retained when privacy mode is on.

Cursor said Live Apps is available on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled. Praison said Cursor’s pricing page includes cloud agents in the Premium plan at $30 a month and in more expensive plans, but not in the $8 Plus plan. The pricing page does not list a price for hosting. Building draws on the plan’s usage limit, but Praison did not measure how much.

What this is based on

1. x.com

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5. Cursor、作ったアプリをリンク共有できるLive Appsを開始 | AB通信（abcompany）

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6. Cursor Now Builds and Hosts Live Apps With Database and Sign-In

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7. How to Build Live Apps in Cursor: Describe an Internal Tool, Publish a Link, Share It with Your Team

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Amp introduced Spaces in a blog post on 6 November 2026. Until now, Amp users have created and organised threads – individual conversations with an agent – themselves.

In Spaces, the user opens a workspace (a space) and talks to a single agent there. The user tells the agent what needs doing. The agent spawns the agents it needs, each in its own thread, and coordinates them. This lets the user see the work as a whole and still drill into the details of an individual thread when needed, the company said.

Amp says it has used spaces for a few weeks. The company thinks this may be how agents are used in future. It bases this assessment on its own use, and the examples in the blog post also come from its own work.

In one example, Amp employee Will gave a space a goal: review recent changes for security issues. On its first run, the agent split the codebase into 16 areas and reviewed each area in its own thread. Every finding was then checked in a separate thread. The agent kept a summary in the space for Will to review and track. The blog post does not say what the review found.

Another employee, Lewis, ran the launch of service accounts from a single space. From the space, Lewis rolled out the feature to users, monitored X, Slack and bug reports, fixed bugs and sent emails and refunds to affected users. The space tracked user issues and system status for the rest of the week.

Several people can use the same space. Amp’s team built Spaces in a shared space. Team members logged feedback, bugs and ideas in its conversation, and the agent sorted them into threads. Team members talked to each other in comments and brought in Amp’s agent when they were ready. The team started holding its conversations and video calls in the space instead of Slack, the company said.

To create a space, the user clicks the plus button in the Spaces section of Amp’s sidebar, gives the space a title and a project, and then tells the agent what to do.

What this is based on

1. Spaces

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In a blog post on 6 November, GitHub’s Nick Liffen and Philip Holleran ask whether the growth in commits shows up in developer productivity. A commit is a change saved to a repository. In one week in October, GitHub saw more than 1.2 billion commits, more than it received in the whole of 2025.

The authors ask readers whether they feel 400 per cent more productive than a year ago. Liffen and Holleran do not say how much of the growth in commits comes from AI.

AI speeds up implementation, the authors write, but pressure builds elsewhere. They cite a Faros AI study. According to the study, pull requests – proposed changes submitted for review – spent 441 per cent longer in review when teams went from low to high AI adoption. The blog post does not describe the study’s data or method.

Copilot for planning and building

The guide divides a developer’s work into four stages: Plan, Build, Verify and Observe. For each stage, GitHub offers its AI assistant, Copilot. The feature descriptions are the company’s own.

When planning, a team can use Copilot in Slack or Teams and bring in information from connected tools. Copilot turns agreed requirements into GitHub Issues with acceptance criteria. In Plan Mode it compares implementation approaches, and the developer approves the plan before building starts.

At the build stage, Copilot runs tasks in cloud sandboxes, which are isolated execution environments. Work continues even if the developer closes the laptop. The Copilot app gives each session its own copy of the repository so that parallel tasks do not mix up each other’s changes.

Shortening the review queue from both ends

GitHub says the review queue gets shorter when changes are easier to review and Copilot handles routine work before a human does. Developers can split interdependent work into stacked pull requests that are reviewed separately.

Copilot code review adjusts the depth of its analysis to the change. Agent Merge fixes failing checks, addresses review comments and resolves merge conflicts. Users can also set Copilot to merge a pull request once checks pass.

AI Scan looks for vulnerabilities in languages and files that GitHub’s CodeQL analysis does not cover. GitHub package firewall blocks downloads that violate configured security policies. It is in public preview and so far covers only npm packages.

When investigating production faults, Copilot can use monitoring tools and business data through connectors such as Fabric. With these, it works out which requests or customer groups a fault affects.

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Independent evaluation firm Artificial Analysis (AA) published results for Tencent’s large language model Hy4 on 5 November. Hy4 scored 35 points on AA’s Intelligence Index v5, level with Grok 4.7 (xhigh) and one point behind Claude Haiku 5.5 (max). Among models from Chinese labs, only Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro ranks higher, with 46 points.

The index combines nine benchmarks. An AI-compiled AREX review says 60 per cent of the weighting falls on tests whose data or answers are not public. Still, the result comes from a single evaluator, and the index is AA’s own construct. On AA’s model page, Hy4 sits below the median (37) for models in the same price class.

Close to Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode

FrontierCode 2.0 is a private benchmark from Cognition. It scores each task by whether the repository maintainer would accept the change the agent made. Hy4 scored 31 per cent, Claude Fable 5.1 32 per cent and Kimi K3.1 Pro 25 per cent. The result matches Tencent’s own figure.

On Terminal-Bench 4.0, AA measured 37 per cent, about seven percentage points below the 44.4 that Tencent reported.

Hallucination rate reflects guessing

On the AA-Omniscience v1.1 knowledge test, Hy4 answered 50 per cent of questions correctly and Kimi K3.1 Pro 49 per cent. But Hy4’s hallucination rate was 89 per cent, against Kimi’s 37 per cent. When Hy4 lacks the knowledge, it often gives a wrong answer instead of leaving the question unanswered, heise wrote.

Tencent said hallucinations had fallen since the preview version: its press release gives a drop from 12.95 to 7.2 per cent, and its blog reports a fall from 15.76 to 5.45 per cent in a search-optimised internal test. AREX notes that these figures come from different tests and cannot be compared directly with AA’s result.

Price, demand and availability

AREX and heise reported that AA put Hy4’s cost at about $0.78 per index task. Grok 4.7, with the same score, cost about ten times as much, and Haiku 5.5, one point higher, cost about half as much. AA’s model page now shows $1.03. The page says Hy4 generated 160 million output tokens in the tests, against a median of 72.6 million for comparable models.

The list price is $0.834 per 1 million input tokens and $2.501 per 1 million output tokens. Tencent Cloud is offering a 50 per cent discount until the end of the year, heise reported.

On 5 November, Tencent said it had expanded Hy4’s inference cluster tenfold because usage in WorkBuddy, its office agent, grew quickly and many users hit their usage limit on the first day. The company raised free usage limits but warned that restrictions may still apply at peak times.

Tencent says Hy4 ranks 13th on the Agent Arena leaderboard and is the best open-weight model there; the listing is provisional. AREX reported that Arena.ai placed the model 14th on launch day and said it would share the top spot among open-weight models once its weights are released. The weights had not been released as of 5 November, although Tencent promised them within days.

Hy4 is available in Tencent’s apps, through the Tencent Cloud API and OpenRouter, and, according to Tencent’s X account, in OpenClaw.

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2. Artificial Analysis 独立评测腾讯 Hy4：智能指数 35 分居中国实验室第二，幻觉率 89% - 智源社区

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Research institute Epoch AI published a report on 6 November about Huawei’s AI data centre in Horinger, Inner Mongolia. Ben Cottier, the Epoch researcher who wrote the report, compares the campus with SpaceX’s Colossus 2 in Tennessee. Epoch regards Colossus 2 as the world’s largest AI data centre and estimates that it has about 14 times as much computing capacity.

The unit of comparison is the H100-equivalent: a chip’s theoretical peak computing speed at 8-bit precision relative to Nvidia’s H100 chip. Huawei’s Ascend 910C equals about 0.76 H100s. Epoch said the metric does not capture every property that matters for training and inference.

The estimate rests on rooftop cooling equipment

Epoch estimated the buildings’ power capacity from satellite images. The type, size and number of cooling units indicate how much heat a building can remove, and hence its IT power. Epoch’s model puts the IT power of the four densely cooled buildings at 286 megawatts in total. From the substations Epoch inferred 304 megawatts, and from the backup generators 230 megawatts. Three buildings are in operation, Epoch said, and the fourth is expected to come online in December.

For rack occupancy, Epoch assumed the roughly 76 per cent reported for the Horinger area as a whole. It inferred the chip mix from estimates of Huawei’s sales. The result was about 105,000 Ascend 910C and 8,000 Ascend 910B chips, or about 81,000 H100-equivalents (90 per cent confidence interval 36,000–141,000). The calculation assumes the campus has no export-restricted Nvidia chips. Epoch considers their use possible but unlikely. The figures are Epoch’s estimates, not figures disclosed by Huawei.

Of the Chinese data centres Epoch examined, only VNET’s Bayin Ulanqab and Huawei’s Wuhu are likely to be as large or slightly larger. A campus’s computing capacity cannot necessarily be pooled to train a single model, however, because it is often split into separate clusters. By Epoch’s calculation, just a tenth of the campus’s capacity could train a model the size of DeepSeek-V4-Pro in a month.

Chips, not power, are the constraint

Nvidia’s B200 and B300 chips are about 2.5 times more energy-efficient than the Ascend 910C, Epoch said. As a result, the same power capacity in China yields only 40 per cent of the computing capacity of leading US data centres. Huawei also makes far fewer chips than Nvidia.

A new building is going up in the campus’s southern zone, and Epoch estimates it will be operational in February 2028. If it is as AI-focused as the existing buildings, the campus’s computing capacity would grow by more than 70 per cent to about 141,000 H100-equivalents (confidence interval 65,000–227,000). The growth would come from added power capacity: Epoch said Huawei’s next-generation Ascend 950 appears to be less energy-efficient than the 910C.

Epoch expects Colossus 2 to grow to at least 1.8 million H100-equivalents by 2028. FourWeekMBA, which summarised the report, calculated a roughly 12.8-fold gap from these figures. The Colossus 2 figure is a lower bound, however, because satellite images show two more buildings under construction, Epoch said. Epoch itself estimates that Horinger’s share will stay roughly the same or shrink.

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On 6 November Physical Superintelligence (PSI) published a press release on its website and a manuscript in its GitHub repository. Both state that a conjecture by Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis has been proved. PSI said the conjecture had been open since 2008.

The manuscript states that AI models produced its mathematical statements. David Turturean of PSI defined the problem and built the harness, a program that gives the model tools and runs its work steps. The harness ran several instances of an unreleased Anthropic model. The instances searched for earlier ideas, proposed and tested new ones, and monitored the work of other instances. PSI said the proof was complete on the third day of the run.

A model also wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Turturean reports reviewing and editing the draft and taking responsibility for its correctness.

What the result says about quantum computers

The input is a long string of zeros and ones. The query model counts how many times an algorithm reads it. It was already known that after T queries, the probability that a quantum algorithm answers ‘yes’ is a polynomial in the input bits. The polynomial has degree at most 2T and takes values between zero and one.

The conjecture states that such a polynomial has an influential bit unless its value is constant. A bit’s influence is the mean, over all inputs, of the squared change in the polynomial’s value when the bit is flipped. The manuscript states that some bit has influence of at least (ε/d)⁷, where d is the polynomial’s degree and ε a lower bound on its variance. Earlier general lower bounds weakened exponentially as the degree grew.

By an earlier result of Aaronson and Ambainis, a classical algorithm can therefore read influential bits one at a time. The manuscript says such an algorithm estimates the quantum algorithm’s ‘yes’ probability to within error ε on all but a δ fraction of inputs, using at most (4T)⁸ ε⁻¹⁴ δ⁻⁸ queries. The number of queries grows polynomially, not exponentially.

The result does not cover structured inputs. The manuscript states that a quantum speedup larger than polynomial in the query model requires structure, such as a guarantee about what the input looks like. PSI said Shor’s factoring algorithm, for example, relies on such structure.

The proof and how it was checked

The proof follows a plan by Shachar Lovett and Jiapeng Zhang but replaces the inequality they left as a conjecture with a new one. The proof of the new inequality pairs inputs one-to-one using a determinant.

The manuscript states that the main theorem and its corollary have been formalised in the Lean proof assistant and that Lean’s kernel has accepted them. The formalisation is in PSI’s repository. Jim Halverson, an adviser to PSI, checked the proof.

In August, Guy Blanc, Jordan Docter, Carmen Strassle and Li-Yang Tan of Stanford University proved a consequence of the conjecture in the special case where the quantum algorithm reads its input in a fixed number of parallel rounds. PSI said the four had read the proof and were writing a shorter exposition of it for experts. In a message published on PSI’s page, they wrote: ‘This is a huge result. It resolves a decades-old conjecture with important implications for the nature of problems that admit quantum speedups.’

The company published the manuscript itself. The sources do not mention peer review.

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2. A proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture

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Researchers from institutions including the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of California, Berkeley published a preprint on arXiv on 5 November. According to the preprint, benchmark scores can hide the tasks on which a self-evolving AI agent starts to fail. The study has not been peer-reviewed.

In self-evolution, the model weights stay unchanged. The changes go into the harness, the program that controls the agent, gives the model its tools and runs its steps. The evolution method picks an earlier version and runs tasks with it. It then looks for the causes of failures, edits the harness and decides whether to keep the change.

The researchers compared four methods: AHE, HyperAgents, A-Evolve and GEPA. In the MiniSWE harness, a method could change the source code. In Codex, it could change only outer parts such as prompts and skills. The benchmarks were τ³-Banking for banking tasks and Terminal-Bench 2 for coding. Every run used GPT-5.4. Each seed and final version was run for eight rounds.

Reliability is the share of successful attempts out of all attempts. Coverage is the share of tasks the agent solved at least once.

Scores rose, tasks dropped out

Reliability improved in 11 of 16 setups and coverage in 10. In four setups, the two metrics moved in opposite directions. All 16 versions solved tasks the seed version had never solved. At the same time, they failed tasks the seed version had solved. On τ³-Banking, the first and second halves of the rounds gave partly conflicting results. The authors do not interpret every change as skill gained or lost.

The table shows τ³-Banking results relative to the seed version. HyperAgents raised MiniSWE’s reliability by 5.2 percentage points even though it lost ten tasks the seed version had solved.

Source: Table 10 of the preprint, eight rounds. AGE is the authors’ own method.

The table does not support an overall ranking of the methods, because each combination was run as a single lineage.

Eight of the 11 versions that improved reliability cost more per attempt than the seed version. A version that costs more per attempt can still be cheaper overall. On τ³-Banking, AHE’s MiniSWE version solved 56.7 per cent of tasks in four rounds, while the seed version solved 54.6 per cent in eight. The AHE version cost less.

On other benchmarks, coverage fell for seven of eight versions on τ²-bench, which tests general tasks, but rose for seven of eight on the coding benchmark DeepSWE v1.1. Reliability rose for all four MiniSWE versions on τ²-bench but fell on DeepSWE.

The highest-scoring version did not produce the largest mean improvement in further evolution in any of the four experiments. A stricter admission rule kept the best candidate in 6 of 16 repeated experiments; the original rules kept it in 15.

Revised method lost fewer tasks

The authors turned their findings into a workflow called EvoAudit and added the four changes it proposed to A-Evolve. The resulting method, AGE, improved reliability and coverage over A-Evolve in all four setups. In three of them, it lost fewer tasks the seed version had solved. Neither benchmark scores nor expert review show that an agent is safe to use, the authors said.

The authors’ RSIHub code is available on GitHub.

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Researchers from the University of Illinois (UIUC), Georgia Tech and heelo.dev published a preprint on arXiv on 5 November. It has not been peer reviewed. The researchers say agents fail at the stage where they should apply a resource that is already available. They call this stage the last mile.

Applying a resource can mean, for example, deriving the arguments of a tool call from the result of an earlier call. An error has to be traced to the work that caused it. For comparison, the authors report results on the Terminal-Bench 4.0 benchmark at maximum reasoning effort: GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex resolved 37.3 per cent of the tasks and Claude Opus 5 with Claude Code 51.8 per cent.

Each resource gets its own language model

A harness is the program that controls an agent: it gives the model its tools and runs its work steps. Current solutions bring a resource within reach but leave applying it to the caller, the authors said. As a result, every harness rebuilds the same know-how.

As a solution, they propose agent-native primitives: reusable units in which a resource has its own large language model. The resource can be, for example, a tool or a code component. The model applies the resource to each task and communicates with other primitives.

The HEELO system assembles the primitives a task needs from a library into a task-specific network. It checks the result against evidence from the environment, repairs the primitives linked to an error, and admits new primitives to the library only after validating them.

The authors said the benefit comes from applying resources. In a repository-building experiment, reading or calling retrieved code components unchanged barely changed the delivery score (scale 0–1). The scores were 0.3544 and 0.3430, against 0.3469 without a library. When the components were adapted to the target, the score rose to 0.5134.

Results from the authors’ own tests

The table summarises the preprint’s main results. Some of them come from the authors’ earlier sub-studies.

Source: the authors’ preprint. Metrics and baselines vary by row.

The figures do not show that HEELO improves results equally for all models. On Terminal-Bench 4.0, Claude Opus 5 gained the least at two reasoning effort levels, 1.5 and 1.2 percentage points, and its Claude Code configurations were the strongest baselines.

The authors’ own heelo.dev platform has 46 practical tasks, such as publishing a page and handling an invoice email. Claude Opus 5.5 with Claude Code and GPT-6.1 Sol with Codex each completed nine tasks on their own. Connected to HEELO through the authors’ MCP server, they completed 39 and 35.

The difference arose in tasks where the agent has to act on an account or a service, the authors said. Without HEELO, the agents scored zero in 12 of 26 capabilities. They could not read email, calendars or Notion at all, for example.

Connected runs cost more on most tasks because the agent read more tokens. However, the connected agents completed more tasks. Per completed task, they therefore took 1.9 and 2.3 times less time, and the cost was 1.55 times lower.

The project’s website is heelo.dev. The ArXivSignals service marks the study’s code as released.

What this is based on

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Google DeepMind announced new research on X on 6 November. The company said the research demonstrates that AI agents can accelerate the stress-testing of encryption. Its models found the weaknesses, but humans guided the work.

RSA is a public-key encryption method. Its security rests on the fact that factorising a large number into primes is computationally very hard. The bit count gives the key length, and a longer key is harder to break.

The company describes the weaknesses as major. Its posts do not say what the weaknesses are, how the models found them or whether they can be exploited against systems in use. For more detail, the company points to an explanation by its VP Science, who posts on X as @Pushmeet.

Google DeepMind said modern 2048-bit systems remain safe from these specific exploits. Its claim therefore concerns legacy 1024-bit systems, not RSA in general.

The company sees the work as signalling a shift. It said AI is bringing a new era to mathematics and computation, so encryption security can no longer rely on historical assumptions about which computational problems are hard. Cryptographic standards must be continuously stress-tested, the company said.

The information comes from Google DeepMind’s own posts, which include no assessment of the results by independent researchers.

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On 6 November, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team research group published Project EVE, a study in which Claude models played two EVE space games. The work was done in the Anthropic Fellows programme from April to July 2026 with Fenris Creations.

Agent teams and a secret saboteur

In EVE Frontier, which is still in development, teams of four Opus 4.8 or Fable 5 agents carried out long tasks in the real game world in June and July 2026.

Combat demanded faster reactions than the models can manage. A developer agent therefore wrote a harness, a program that sits between the model and the game, to handle evasion and return fire. Fable 5 teams using a harness written by Fable 5 lost no ships and completed the game’s tutorial mission within 12 hours.

In the prompt, the researchers instructed one agent to secretly prevent the team from succeeding. They warned the others that someone on the team might not share the same goal. The saboteurs took charge of supply-chain bottlenecks, such as finding scarce resources, where the others could not easily check what the saboteurs reported. One saboteur proposed ignoring intelligence more than two minutes old, which made almost all the information worthless.

Teammates almost never exposed the saboteur. Only one honest agent, in one Opus 4.8 run, identified the saboteur with certainty, and only after the saboteur lied outright about its communications. Anthropic stresses that the experiment reflects sabotage carried out on instruction and does not show whether the models would turn to it on their own initiative.

Separate monitor agents, which read only the team’s public message channel, did slightly better. When tuned to accuse an honest agent in no more than 5 per cent of cases, monitors running Opus 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8 caught 30–40 per cent of saboteurs, and the smaller Sonnet 4.6 caught 20 per cent. None of these monitors was more than 50 per cent confident about a saboteur. When a monitor could see the saboteur’s private reasoning and notes, it detected the sabotage easily.

Agent teams likely need mechanisms similar to those of human organisations: audit trails, reputation and separation of duties, Anthropic said.

Trading on a replayed market

In EVE Online, Claude traded alone, aiming to make as much profit as possible. Anthropic did not trade in the real game, which bans automated trading. Instead it built a simulator that replays players’ real buy and sell orders. The simulator does not react to the agents’ trades. When the researchers added artificial orders that undercut the agents’ prices, profits fell by about 35 per cent.

Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 made a profit in all nine two-week windows, growing their capital by about 16, 22 and 43 per cent on average. Opus 4.6’s return of about 4 per cent was level with the best rule-based strategy. Of more than 20 rule-based strategies tested, only one consistently broke even, and only barely. In six-month runs, Fable 5’s average return was three times that of Opus 4.6: about 600 and about 200 per cent of initial capital.

Almost all the models hit on the same tactic by themselves: they bought goods below the usual price and sold them slightly higher. Anthropic does not expect this to work on a real exchange, which is more efficient than the game’s market. The models were also told to predict the direction of prices from news and game updates. In that task, even Fable 5 made a profit in only about half of its runs.

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In a blog post and on its Hugging Face model page on 6 November, Asteromorph presented three models that rerank search results. The company released downloadable weights only for AsteroRank-Lepton, which it describes as the lightest of the three. The stronger AsteroRank-Drachma and AsteroRank-Talent will become available through an API, the company said, and users can join a waiting list for them.

A reranker scores the documents found by an initial search and moves the most relevant to the top. Lepton gives each document a score between zero and one. The model is fine-tuned from Qwen3.5-4B. The company describes it as a 4-billion-parameter model, but Hugging Face lists its size as 5 billion parameters.

The description says what the search is for

Asteromorph calls its method context reranking. The search agent sends a short keyword query plus a one- to three-sentence description of the article it is looking for. The description names the system under study, the mechanism, the relevant conditions and the type of evidence needed. The company handles date and source restrictions with separate filters.

In the company’s example, the search is for para-selective borylation. If the description merely repeats the query, an article that reaches the same result by a different route contains almost all the same search terms and may score just as well.

Instruction-following rerankers can also take similar input. The difference lies in how the input is used, the company said: an instruction changes the task, whereas context states the purpose of the search. In Asteromorph’s own use, stating the search intent improved results more than phrasing the input as an instruction or a description. The company gives no figures for this.

The company’s own benchmarks

Asteromorph tested its models itself on public candidate lists. The metric was nDCG@10, which rewards placing relevant documents high in the top ten. The comparison models were zerank-2, Voyage rerank-3 and Voyage rerank-3-lite. In the BRIGHT and BEIR-Science benchmarks, the models were given no context.

On BRIGHT, Talent scored 32.30 and zerank-2, the strongest comparison model, 30.65. Drachma and Lepton also scored higher than zerank-2, the company said. On BEIR-Science, the scores of all six models differed by no more than 1.0 point.

The table shows the MAIR results. In MAIR, every query comes with a task instruction, which the company gave to AsteroRank as context. In this benchmark, Lepton finished behind Voyage’s lighter model. The company weighted the queries differently from the public evaluation program, so the averages do not match a direct rerun of the benchmark.

Source: Asteromorph blog. The company’s own measurement, 126 tasks from six domains.

In RCP-nDCG, a metric developed by Cohere, a large language model assesses the whole candidate set. On this metric, Talent scored 5.02 points and Drachma 1.67 points higher than Cohere’s Rerank 5 Pro on BRIGHT. Cohere published the Rerank 5 Pro figures itself, to one decimal place.

Licence allows only non-commercial use

Lepton is released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence, which does not allow commercial use. The model page has instructions for SGLang and vLLM, tested on a single Nvidia B200 GPU, as well as instructions for Sentence Transformers. The page warns that in SGLang version 0.5.20 the scheduler crashes if a reranking request lands in the same batch as, for example, a chat request; the bug was still unfixed in version 0.5.22. Users should therefore route only reranking requests to the server.

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Vals AI published the Vals Legal Index, a benchmark of legal tasks, in October and updated the results on 5 November. Wonder Full leads with 77.86 per cent, followed by Gemini 4 Argon (76.72 per cent) and Gemini 4 Carbon (75.93 per cent). Vals says the order at the top is not settled.

BenchLM, a site that publishes Vals’s results, names the top-ranked model as Meta’s Muse Wonder Full. BenchLM has not run the tests itself.

Weights from law firm revenue

The index combines three benchmarks. Legal Research Bench measures legal research, HLAB-Vals-1.1 document drafting and review, and Tax Agent Bench tax law. HLAB is based on the Legal Agent Benchmark published by Harvey. Vals runs the tests on the benchmark’s unpublished test set.

The weights come from the Census Bureau’s Economic Census, which shows how US law firm revenue was split by area of law in 2022. Business and commercial law accounted for 37.5 per cent of revenue and carries a weight of 40.5 per cent in the index. Only HLAB measures real estate, labour and employment, and estates law, and only the research benchmark measures family law. About 7 per cent of revenue falls outside the index.

The index score does not show how many tasks were solved

HLAB contributes its criteria pass rate to the index: the share of a task’s grading criteria that were met. Harvey counts a task as solved only if every criterion is met. The gap is large: in HLAB, Gemini 4 Argon met 96.30 per cent of criteria but fully solved 27.08 per cent of tasks. Two language models, GPT 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.6, graded the answers.

The table shows the index’s top ten models, the cost per test and the share of tasks fully solved in HLAB.

Source: Vals AI, 5 November 2026. Cost is the average across the index’s three component benchmarks. The HLAB column uses a different metric from the index.

The index score does not show how often a model gets a legal task fully right. The ranking also depends on the metric: Muse Spark Open is second for tasks solved in HLAB (25.00 per cent) but 22nd in the index.

Family law is the weakest area

No model leads in every area of law. Gemini 4 Carbon is best in family and criminal law. Wonder Full leads in business and commercial law, real estate, labour and employment, and wills, estates and trusts. In family law, the models average 21 per cent.

Vals says the standard error is largest in areas that only the research benchmark measures; that benchmark has just a few dozen questions per area. The index’s standard errors are also slightly too small, Vals added. BenchLM points out that the index measures how models and agents perform on legal tasks, not actual legal work.

What this is based on

1. HLAB-Vals-1.1 Leaderboard and Methodology | Vals AI

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2. Vals Legal Index Leaderboard & Scores — November 2026

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3. Vals Legal Index Leaderboard and Methodology | Vals AI

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A&O Shearman set out the next phase of its AI strategy in a press release on Thursday 5 November. Every practice at the firm must spend at least 3 per cent of its time building AI tools and services for its own area of law. This time makes up most of the value of the five-year commitment, the release said. The firm was formed in 2024 when Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling merged.

City AM reported that partners have approved the plan. The commitment equals more than 5 per cent of the firm’s annual revenue, which was $3.7 billion in the last financial year, the paper wrote. Artificial Lawyer puts the commitment at $220 million a year.

The sources describe the requirement differently. The press release refers to each practice’s time, while City AM writes about the practices’ billable hours. Legal Cheek reports that every lawyer must set aside at least 3 per cent of their billable time. Only London Daily News writes that most of the sum is partners’ time.

Legal expertise built into systems

Four years of experimentation have shown that AI benefits clients most in systems built for a specific area of law, the firm said. These systems embed the expertise of that area and can then be rolled out across the whole of it. Generic tools used the same way across the entire firm deliver less, it said.

One example is ContractMatrix, a contract tool for in-house legal teams that the firm built in 2023 with Microsoft and the legal AI platform Harvey. The firm says client use of ContractMatrix services has grown ninefold in 12 months. In September 2026, 96 per cent of its partners and 93 per cent of its lawyers used its AI tools, the firm said. The figures are the firm’s own.

‘This significant investment signals where we intend to take the firm over the next decade,’ Hervé Ekué, A&O Shearman’s global managing partner, said in the release.

Questions over how the figure was calculated

The press release does not explain how the $1.1 billion was calculated. Richard Tromans, founder of Artificial Lawyer, asks the same question. Tromans says an AI agent can be put together in Harvey in an afternoon, so Tromans cannot see what a billion dollars’ worth of working time would be spent on. The Artificial Lawyer founder also asks who tracks the time, what is measured and whether so much unbilled work will simply make the firm poorer. ‘It’s really a bizarre announcement,’ Tromans writes.

London Daily News calls the sum a notional figure. The cost is forgone billing, the paper says, because hours spent on development are not billed to clients.

Rival Freshfields signed a deal with Anthropic in April and rolled out Claude models to all its staff, 5,700 users, City AM reports. In May, Kirkland & Ellis was reported to be planning a $500 million investment in its own AI platform, Global Legal Post wrote.

What this is based on

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2. A&O Shearman: Lawyers Build AI Tools, Dedicate Billable Hours | Briefly

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3. A&O Shearman commits partner time worth $1.1bn to AI strategy | London Daily News

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4. Harvey + Legora IPO Plans, A&O $1.1bn, Legal Innovators NY

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5. AO Shearman accelerates AI strategy with a USD11bn lawyer-led commitment

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6. A&O Shearman boosts AI programme with ‘$1.1bn lawyer-led’ investment commitment

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7. A&O Shearman lawyers set to sacrifice billable hours to build AI tools

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Tech.eu, The Next Web (TNW) and the Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia reported on Spanish company Kabilio’s funding round on 5 November. Picus Capital and Visionaries led the round, with participation from CDTI, Spain’s public innovation funding agency. The same two investors also led Kabilio’s €4 million round a year ago. The company has now raised €14 million in total, Tech.eu and TNW reported.

Jose Ojeda and Álex Valls founded Kabilio and run the company together.

Agent handles routine work, accountant approves

Kabilio’s current software reads invoices, suggests account codes for them and reconciles bank transactions. It also flags items that a professional needs to check. The software works alongside the accounting firm’s existing programs. The company says it cuts the time spent on bookkeeping and reconciliation by about 60 per cent.

With the funding, the company is introducing an AI agent: a program that uses a language model to carry out whole tasks. The agent fetches invoices and bank statements from clients’ email, reconciles accounts and checks entries. It asks clients for missing receipts by email or WhatsApp. The accountant gives instructions in plain language and decides, client by client, how much the agent may do on its own.

The agent is not yet generally available. Its beta test starts in November, TNW reported, and several accounting firms are already trying it, according to Tech.eu and TNW. La Vanguardia reported that Kabilio builds its own technology on top of large language models, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini and Copilot.

Next, small businesses on the same platform

With Kabilio Empresas, launched in September, small businesses use the same system as their accounting firm and can issue invoices, connect their bank accounts and track cash flow. The accounting firm thus gets the data immediately rather than only at tax-return time. ‘An agent is only as good as the data it works on,’ Valls said.

Kabilio later plans to extend the agent to serve businesses as well: it would send invoices, remind customers about overdue payments and answer everyday tax questions. Businesses can access the service only through their accounting firm, which sets the agent’s limits.

Client numbers up nearly fivefold, registered revenue still modest

Kabilio has nearly 500 accounting firms as clients, up from about 100 a year ago, Tech.eu and TNW reported. The Paypers wrote that the company expects to have more than 500 firms by the end of the year. Kabilio has 80 employees.

The founders told La Vanguardia that the company’s annualised revenue exceeds €1 million. An annualised figure usually refers to an estimate that extrapolates current billing to a full year. Citing the latest Mercantile Registry data, the newspaper reported that Kabilio’s revenue in 2025 was about €92,000, with a loss of €1.4 million. The figures are therefore not comparable: one is an estimate given by the founders, the other actual full-year revenue. Ojeda said the company has not yet set a profitability target.

What this is based on

1. Kabilio raises EUR 10 mln to launch AI accounting agent | The Paypers

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2. Kabilio raises €10M to expand AI accounting platform and introduce AI agents

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3. Barcelona’s Kabilio raises €10M to bring AI agents to accounting firms

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4. Kabilio capta 10 millones con su IA para asesorías contables

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The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced an indictment on Thursday 5 November over a fraud that ran from July 2024 to February 2026. The defendants are Jacob Soall, 41, Sharon Hazan, 54, and Guy Sheetrit, 42. The Associated Press, NBC News and The Guardian reported the case, citing the prosecutors’ press release and the indictment.

Soall was arrested in Spain in June, Hazan in Spain in August and Sheetrit in Britain in September, NBC reported.

First an email, then a mimicked voice

The group usually targeted companies’ accounting departments, AP reported. An employee received an email in the CEO’s name asking for help with a confidential financial transaction. The group then arranged a phone or video call in which the defendants used AI to mimic the CEO’s voice and sometimes face.

Next, the ‘CEO’ told the employee to contact a lawyer at a large law firm who was supposedly handling the same transaction. A member of the group posed as the lawyer too. Prosecutors said Soall mainly impersonated UK lawyers and used a handwritten ‘Lawyer Call’ script on calls to come across as a real lawyer. Finally, the lawyer advised the employee to transfer large sums to bank accounts around the world.

In the press release, Jamie McDonald, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, urged individuals and businesses to consider ways to protect themselves against AI-enabled crime, NBC reported.

Victims and the money trail

The indictment says the group targeted thousands of companies in different countries, AP reported. The Guardian wrote that the Justice Department has itemised some of the victims’ losses. A Missouri hospital system lost nearly $5 million, a California hospital system about $3 million and a bank in Rhode Island about $2.7 million. A Massachusetts mutual fund lost more than $4.6 million, a Florida pet food company about $5 million and a UK tech company more than $11 million. Together these sums come to about $31 million. NBC also names a New York investment bank as a victim.

The money went to accounts in at least nine countries, including the US and China, The Guardian said. The group then converted it into cryptocurrency to conceal its origin and split it among those involved. NBC wrote that prosecutors allege Hazan and Sheetrit handled the money laundering. Hazan was convicted in New York in 2008 of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Charges and penalties

All three face seven counts, NBC reported: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, two counts of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of money laundering.

The sources differ on the maximum sentences. NBC said each count carries up to 20 years in prison. AP reported that the maximum sentences announced by the prosecutors’ office are two years for aggravated identity theft and 20 years for the other counts.

The charges are prosecutors’ allegations. AP could not immediately obtain comment from lawyers for Soall and Sheetrit. It was unclear whether Hazan has a lawyer.

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2. US Charges 3 Over $129M AI Scam Using Fake UK Lawyers - Law360 Pulse

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3. USA har åtalat tre personer för att ha använt AI för att lura tusentals företag världen över.

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4. AI Impersonation Scam: Fraudsters Pose as CEOs and Lawyers to Steal ₹1,150 Crore, Thousands of Companies Targeted - The 420.in

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5. Tre personer er tiltalt for å ha brukt kunstig intelligens til å svindle tusenvis av bedrifter over hele verden og stjålet 129 millioner dollar.

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6. 3 charged in $129 million AI scheme targeting thousands of companies

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7. Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions

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Bloomberg reported on Friday 6 November that Microsoft’s withdrawal from Oracle’s AI computing is linked to a wider review of its cloud partnerships, which are worth billions of dollars. The report relies on anonymous sources, and Microsoft declined to comment.

Older chips were no longer enough

Oracle announced the contract in 2023. Under it, Oracle sold Microsoft access to its servers, which were to power a new AI-assisted version of the Bing search engine. Bloomberg could not establish the contract’s total value.

Over time the rented computing became less useful to Microsoft because it no longer met the company’s requirements, the sources said. Oracle’s hardware used older-generation Nvidia chips, the sources added.

An Oracle spokesperson said demand for the company’s AI infrastructure remains strong, including for older-generation GPUs, or graphics processing units. Oracle said in September that it was renewing contracts for four-year-old GPUs at a 20 per cent premium to the original price, Bloomberg reported.

The Next Web (TNW) pointed to a warning from the analyst firm Gartner: much of the money spent on AI infrastructure may have to be written down as newer chips reach the market. Citing Business Insider, TNW also reported that separate talks on renting additional capacity from Oracle collapsed in June.

Microsoft is also reassessing other leases

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has committed more than $80 billion to renting capacity from other cloud companies such as CoreWeave, Nscale and Nebius. These are known as neoclouds: newer cloud companies that rent out AI computing. Microsoft executives have grown frustrated with these companies’ high costs and delays, Bloomberg said.

Microsoft decided this week not to expand its data centre deal with Nscale in Texas, Seeking Alpha and TNW reported. Seeking Alpha said the expansion would have been worth tens of billions of dollars to Nscale. A few weeks earlier, Microsoft had pulled out of an Nscale site in Britain, TNW reported.

The cloud company IREN said on Thursday that it had postponed some of its deliveries because Microsoft asked for changes to the network design, Reuters reported.

Oracle’s finances are already under pressure

Heavy investment has turned Oracle’s free cash flow negative, Bloomberg reported. The shares have lost more than half their value since hitting this year’s high of $248.15 on 1 June. TNW said Oracle’s credit rating is now just one notch above junk.

Reports of Friday’s share price reaction differ. TNW said Oracle’s shares fell about 3 per cent, while one version of the Reuters report put the fall at nearly 3 per cent. Another version of the Reuters report said Oracle and Microsoft shares were unchanged in afternoon trading.

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1. Microsoft winds down rented AI computing capacity from Oracle: report

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2. 微软据悉逐步终止从甲骨文租用AI云算力的安排-36氪

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3. Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity, Bloomberg News reports

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4. Microsoft is winding down its deal to rent AI computing from Oracle

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5. Microsoft Is Winding Down Oracle Deal to Rent AI Cloud Capacity

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6. Microsoft is reportedly “winding down” a cloud AI deal with Oracle.

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8. Microsoft Is Winding Down Oracle Deal to Rent AI Cloud Capacity

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Data centre company Crusoe announced on Friday 6 November that Google had acquired its data centre site in south-east Wyoming. The sale ends Crusoe’s part in the project’s early phase, the company said: it chose the site, obtained the permits and designed the energy solution. Google did not disclose the price, TechCrunch reported.

Crusoe and energy company Tallgrass announced the project last year. DCD reported that the campus, known as Project Jade, was then a 1.8-gigawatt project that could be expanded to 10 gigawatts. DCD also reported that Crusoe paused work in June ‘at the request of our customer’.

TechCrunch gives a different account: Crusoe tried and failed to land Google as a customer for the project. Google is taking over the project after it had reportedly been concerned about its cost and construction timeline under Crusoe’s management, the publication said. Bloomberg first reported the deal in June, TechCrunch wrote.

Power from natural gas fuel cells

Google announced the project in a blog post on 5 November. The campus is to be powered by a 702-megawatt fuel cell plant from American Electric Power (AEP). A fuel cell generates electricity from fuel electrochemically, without burning it. Here the fuel is natural gas. Bloom Energy makes the cells. AEP owns and operates the plant, DCD reported; Google signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with AEP in October.

The plant includes carbon capture and storage (CCS). Google said most of the plant’s emissions will be captured and stored permanently underground at Tallgrass’s nearby storage hub. The company also said the plant is the first of its kind and the largest planned to date.

Google is also buying electricity from gas power plants run by Tallgrass and Black Hills Energy. The turbines at Tallgrass’s combined-cycle plants do not yet have carbon capture: Google is only now examining, in a design study, whether they could be fitted with it. To save water, Google will cool the data centre with air. Google promises to pay for all the electricity it uses.

Capacity and timeline

Google did not disclose the campus’s capacity. Citing earlier reports, DCD said it could total up to 2.7 gigawatts.

The campus will be built on a site of about 290 hectares, some 13 kilometres south of Cheyenne, DCD reported. The permit application shows four data halls, and construction is slated to be completed by 2031. Google expects the project to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes for Laramie County and the local school district.

The deal highlights how hard it can be for independent data centre developers to finish giant projects on time and on budget, TechCrunch said. The partnership continues, however: Crusoe is building another data centre for Google near Amarillo, Texas.

What this is based on

1. Investing in Wyoming’s infrastructure, energy and workforce

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2. Google Acquires Crusoe’s Wyoming Data Center Site

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3. Google announces $17bn data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming

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4. Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google | TechCrunch

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In a newsletter on 4 November, Cleanview, which tracks data centre and energy projects, assessed how the US midterm elections will affect data centre construction. In nine states, it said, a governor or governor-elect has promised or already imposed a pause on new data centres. These states hold 158.6 gigawatts (GW) of planned data centre capacity, or 41 per cent of the national total. A further 69.2 GW (18 per cent) is in states where the election winner wants to change tax breaks or other rules but does not support a pause.

Bloomberg reported on the findings on 6 November in an article published by Insurance Journal. Bloomberg put the share at about 40 per cent. The figure is based on Cleanview’s data, so Bloomberg does not independently confirm the calculation. The races in Alaska and Kansas were still undecided, Bloomberg said, but in both the candidate pushing for a pause was leading.

The pause would last until new rules are written

Cleanview stresses that the election result does not mean the end of the data centre boom. Most candidates said the pause would last until new rules have been written. The campaign pledges lacked many details, and some governors will have to negotiate the rules with Republican legislators. The final impact will therefore not be clear until next year. The pauses will have less effect on the 56.7 GW already under construction, because the pledges target new construction.

Texas has 88.4 GW of planned capacity. Governor Greg Abbott halted approvals of new grid connections and state permits in August and extended the pause in September. Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa promised a moratorium on all new data centres until the state passes laws to protect residents. Republicans still hold a 19–12 majority in the state senate, so ending the pause will require agreement next year.

In Ohio (21.9 GW), Governor-elect Amy Acton supports a conditional moratorium. In Georgia (20.2 GW), Keisha Lance Bottoms supports a pause on all new construction.

Data centre developers have started building their own gas power plants because connecting to the grid means a long wait. A gas plant needs an air-quality permit, which agencies under the governor often handle. Of the planned capacity in states backing a pause, 56.1 GW is in projects that include an on-site gas plant, 45 GW of it in Texas. All of OpenAI’s planned projects are in states whose new governor backed a pause during the campaign, Cleanview said.

Market reaction and local votes

Tech stocks fell on Thursday as investors expected tighter regulation, Bloomberg reported. The S&P 500 Index dropped more than 4 per cent and the Nasdaq 100 6.4 per cent, wiping out $2.3 trillion in market value. Technology companies had been expected to spend $1,400 billion on AI infrastructure in 2027. Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh estimated that the election result could shrink that sum by roughly 5–7 per cent. Singh said up to 10 GW of capacity could fall behind schedule next year.

The sources give different figures for local votes. Cleanview relies on the election information service Ballotpedia, which says data centres were directly on the ballot in 41 local elections. By Cleanview’s count based on unofficial results, the side pushing for restrictions won at least 36 of them. By Bloomberg Economics’ count, 46 local measures to slow development have been approved or are on track to pass. At least 17 of them ban large data centres outright.

What this is based on

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2. Some 40% of US Planned Data Center Capacity Is in States Wanting to Hit Pause

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3. Data Center Tracker | Cleanview

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4. Some 40% of US Planned Data Center Capacity Is in States Wanting to Hit Pause

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On Friday 6 November, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources, that Nvidia has tightened oversight of AI accelerators sold in Southeast Asia. The information comes from Bloomberg’s story, which several publications have summarised. Nvidia declined to comment to Bloomberg.

The requirement applies to companies in the region seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP) status. Official cloud partner status brings Nvidia’s public endorsement and priority access to chips. Nvidia is using the status as an incentive to get more companies to adopt the otherwise voluntary Fleet Intelligence system, the sources said.

The system also collects location data

Fleet Intelligence is primarily a data centre management tool. In a technical description from May, cited by TechRepublic, Nvidia says customers install software on their servers that sends data on GPU utilisation, health and configuration to Nvidia’s cloud service. Nvidia says the software only reads data and does not change settings.

The system also collects the location of individual components, Bloomberg reported. Last December, Tom’s Hardware reported that Nvidia had developed software that estimates a GPU’s location from its usage data and network latency measurements.

By default, however, the system does not require participants to share location data with Nvidia or the US government. An Nvidia representative previously told Bloomberg that authorities wanting the data would contact users directly. Nvidia did not say whether the requirement applies to existing partners or other regions.

Dispute over Megaspeed’s chips

The US largely bars Chinese companies from buying Nvidia’s advanced AI chips without a licence. Officials nonetheless estimate that billions of dollars’ worth of hardware has reached China, mainly through smuggling networks in Southeast Asia, Bloomberg reported. Some policymakers in Washington are frustrated that Nvidia has repeatedly missed warning signs. Nvidia says it complies with the law and considers identifying violators a job for the authorities.

Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed International has been under investigation by the US and Singapore for more than a year and denies wrongdoing. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said last week that ‘we’ve studied all their deployments of our GPUs and counted every one’. Last year, Nvidia said it had identified ‘essentially’ all products shipped to Megaspeed.

Two Southeast Asian data centre operators have disputed Nvidia’s information on chip locations, Bloomberg reported, and Nvidia has not said whether it has carried out the new inspections it promised. TechRepublic notes that counting chips alone does not prove compliance with export controls. Megaspeed is already an NCP partner, so it is unclear whether the new requirement applies to it.

This year, Nvidia removed half of the Asian buyers it had pre-approved, Bloomberg reported. The Financial Times first reported that Nvidia has told customers to rent no more than half of their Nvidia computing capacity to Chinese companies. The guidance covers future contracts, not existing leases, the FT said. Washington, however, generally allows Chinese companies to use accelerators owned by others abroad. The Information has reported that the guidance has not been made mandatory, TechRepublic wrote.

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2. Nvidia tightens tracking of AI GPUs in Southeast Asia as Chinese chip smuggling draws scrutiny, report claims — cloud providers must join monitoring program to qualify for official partner status

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3. 輝達加強東南亞晶片追蹤 遏止AI晶片走私中國 | 國際 | 中央社 CNA

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Hugging Face said in a blog post on 6 November that its leaderboard of speech recognition models is getting unpublished test data for two new English accents. Liva AI is supplying the data for the Open ASR Leaderboard: 1.34 hours of Egyptian English and 1.55 hours of Nigerian English.

Both datasets consist of spontaneous conversational speech. The transcripts include punctuation and capitalisation, and they also mark disfluencies such as stumbles and filler words. Tech Beat, a site summarising the blog post, regards the small size of the datasets as a risk.

The datasets will not be published. Hugging Face said the aim is to reduce benchmaxxing, the tuning of models to known test sets. New data providers also increase trust in the evaluations, the company said.

A few months ago, Appen and DataOceanAI supplied 11 private splits to the leaderboard, covering scripted and conversational speech in five accents. Voice Arena later supplied an Indian English split.

With the new accents, the leaderboard’s Private tab breaks down results in more detail. The breakdown follows Kachru’s Three Circles model, which groups English-speaking countries by whether English is the primary first language, an official second language or a foreign language there. Hugging Face said it took the idea from Hume AI’s leaderboard.

The Private tab now offers two comparisons. The first compares the US accent with the others: the UK, Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria and Egypt. The second compares the inner circle (the US, the UK, Australia, Canada) with the outer and expanding circles (India, Nigeria, Egypt). The latter two circles share a group for now, so users cannot yet compare them with each other in this breakdown. Hugging Face plans to separate them when more accents arrive.

Liva AI collects interaction data in several formats from users of its own consumer products, the blog said. Liva AI says it can design products around specific weaknesses in models, so the data captures natural behaviour rather than specially requested tasks.

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2. Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Egyptian, Nigerian English

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