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AIdea Daily, Thursday 12 November 2026.

TOP STORIES

Google launches the Gemini Decisions API and its Gemini Decision 1 model for fast, closed-set multimodal decisions at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/

AWS releases AWS Emulator, a free local copy of its services for testing, written entirely by agents. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/11/aws-emulator/

United Airlines is barring unauthorized third-party AI agents from booking flights for travelers, citing privacy and federal rules. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1031623/united-unauthorized-ai-agents

Anthropic claims in an investor presentation that its Mythos model ported Claude to AMD GPUs in three days, weakening Nvidia's CUDA advantage. https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-says-ai-is-eroding-nvidias-cuda-lead-cutting-an-amd-chip-switch-from-months-to-three-days/

New details emerge on DeepMind's Signal verification: it covered the actual device code and used AI agents writing over 6,000,000 lines of proof. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/signals-encryption-just-passed-an-ai-powered-mathematical-checkup/

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI · CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth · China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang · Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine (unconfirmed) · Introducing the ElevenLabs Marketplace for enterprise-ready AI applications · Try Tabletop: Customizable, collaborative spaces for groups to plan, play and do more together. · llm 0.37.2 · US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, but growth slows to 1.65 percent · AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease · Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents (unconfirmed) · Friends of the Court Flock to the OpenAI Copyright Fight · Token Pooling-Aware Training for Multi-Vector Embedding Models · Howard Lutnick Doesn’t Want to Stop the Flow of Nvidia Chips Overseas: Report · Helsing built an AI system that prepares targets for weapons systems and says every decision will carry a human name · With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips · Meta is losing its longtime head of infrastructure · The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk · I Saw the Future of Robotics in a Virtual Duck That Chases My Cat · Who Else Gives a F*ck?

Today's stories came from Google, The Decoder, Simon Willison, Latent Space, Hacker News, The Verge, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Wired, Gizmodo, The Guardian, ElevenLabs, Google DeepMind, Tech Policy Press, Hugging Face and Vals.