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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.

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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.

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AIdea Daily, Wednesday 11 November 2026.

TOP STORIES

Anthropic IPO could lead to 'large correction' in markets, Fed official says https://www.semafor.com/article/11/11/2026/anthropic-ipo-could-lead-to-large-correction-in-markets-fed-official-says

Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available to developers, enterprises and Ultra subscribers, two weeks after a limited cybersecurity release, with a /swarm agent preview. https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-carbon-is-now-available/

Anthropic unveils Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets, and makes Claude Data generally available, pushing Claude toward an office suite. https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/10/anthropic-launches-claude-meetings-to-turn-workplace-discussions-into-plans-and-tasks/

Vals AI ranks Meta's new Muse Ember 12th of 35 on its Vals Index at $0.15 per test, the lowest cost on the index. https://www.vals.ai/models/meta_muse-ember

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI · Introducing Scribe v3 and v3 Live, our most accurate speech to text models · Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT · Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (unconfirmed) · Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (unconfirmed) · Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices · OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect · Claude chatbot maker set for $1.3tn stock market debut despite 'catastrophic' AI warning · AI Engineer Code Summit: OpenAI on New Ways of Working With Codex · We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps. · NaiveAI Promises 2,100 Tokens per Second. How Well Does It Code? · Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails Anthropic · Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS · Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity · OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions (unconfirmed) · US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs · Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud Account · Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities (unconfirmed) · UK regulator threatens universities with sanctions unless they adopt AI-proof exam formats · [AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate · ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers · Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h (unconfirmed)

Today's stories came from Semafor, Google DeepMind, GitHub Changelog, The Verge, The Decoder, Simon Willison, TechCrunch, Hacker News, Vals, Ars Technica, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google, BBC Technology, Latent Space, Hugging Face and The Guardian.

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AIdea Daily, Wednesday 11 November 2026.

TOP STORIES

Anthropic IPO could lead to 'large correction' in markets, Fed official says https://www.semafor.com/article/11/11/2026/anthropic-ipo-could-lead-to-large-correction-in-markets-fed-official-says

Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available to developers, enterprises and Ultra subscribers, two weeks after a limited cybersecurity release, with a /swarm agent preview. https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-4-carbon-is-now-available/

Anthropic unveils Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets, and makes Claude Data generally available, pushing Claude toward an office suite. https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/10/anthropic-launches-claude-meetings-to-turn-workplace-discussions-into-plans-and-tasks/

Vals AI ranks Meta's new Muse Ember 12th of 35 on its Vals Index at $0.15 per test, the lowest cost on the index. https://www.vals.ai/models/meta_muse-ember

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI · Introducing Scribe v3 and v3 Live, our most accurate speech to text models · Introducing Businesses in ChatGPT · Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (unconfirmed) · Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers (unconfirmed) · Gemini Intelligence: New features, on more devices · OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect · Claude chatbot maker set for $1.3tn stock market debut despite 'catastrophic' AI warning · AI Engineer Code Summit: OpenAI on New Ways of Working With Codex · We’re bringing Adobe’s creative and productivity tools closer to your everyday Google apps. · NaiveAI Promises 2,100 Tokens per Second. How Well Does It Code? · Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails Anthropic · Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS · Gemini Robotics 2.5 accelerates real-world general dexterity · OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions (unconfirmed) · US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs · Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud Account · Tracking Anthropic-discovered vulnerabilities (unconfirmed) · UK regulator threatens universities with sanctions unless they adopt AI-proof exam formats · [AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate · ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers · Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h (unconfirmed)

Today's stories came from Semafor, Google DeepMind, GitHub Changelog, The Verge, The Decoder, Simon Willison, TechCrunch, Hacker News, Vals, Ars Technica, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google, BBC Technology, Latent Space, Hugging Face and The Guardian.

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AIdea Daily, Tuesday 10 November 2026.

TOP STORIES

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and Vals AI ranks Fable 5.2 first on its index. https://www.vals.ai/models/anthropic_claude-fable-5-2

A Hacker News post claims Google now routes connected Drive and email content in Gemini to human reviewers, reversing a 2023 promise. https://github.com/thisisme6598/gemini_files/

Two Amazon engineers replaced Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider for internal ticket labeling, reporting the same performance at 98% less cost. https://strandsagents.com/blog/amazon-saves-millions-replacing-sonnet-with-strands-decider/

Bytedance Seed introduces Seedream 5.5, an image model built for professional workflows, with multi-round editing up to 100 rounds. https://the-decoder.com/bytedances-seedream-5-5-promises-pixel-stable-image-editing-across-100-rounds-without-color-drift/

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Enterprise available through AWS Marketplace, aiming to simplify procurement for organizations. https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-enterprise-aws-marketplace

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’ · Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia · Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation · Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features · Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe-coding apps amid a changing internet · A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure · Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages · Disney and Adobe are building generative AI tools together · ElevenAgents Campaign Manager works every contact to an outcome · Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts · Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines · Expanding Teen Account Protections to Teens Around the World · Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process · China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang · Asahi Linux Drops MIT, Goes Full GPL After AI Used to Steal Unreleased Code (unconfirmed) · The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity

Today's stories came from Vals, GitHub Changelog, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Decoder, Hacker News, OpenAI, The Guardian, BBC Technology, Gizmodo, Wired, ElevenLabs, Meta Newsroom, Ars Technica and MIT Technology Review.

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AIdea Daily, Tuesday 10 November 2026.

TOP STORIES

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and Vals AI ranks Fable 5.2 first on its index. https://www.vals.ai/models/anthropic_claude-fable-5-2

A Hacker News post claims Google now routes connected Drive and email content in Gemini to human reviewers, reversing a 2023 promise. https://github.com/thisisme6598/gemini_files/

Two Amazon engineers replaced Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider for internal ticket labeling, reporting the same performance at 98% less cost. https://strandsagents.com/blog/amazon-saves-millions-replacing-sonnet-with-strands-decider/

Bytedance Seed introduces Seedream 5.5, an image model built for professional workflows, with multi-round editing up to 100 rounds. https://the-decoder.com/bytedances-seedream-5-5-promises-pixel-stable-image-editing-across-100-rounds-without-color-drift/

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Enterprise available through AWS Marketplace, aiming to simplify procurement for organizations. https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-enterprise-aws-marketplace

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence ‘going rogue’ · Google ships four TPU variants in one year as it ramps up competition with Nvidia · Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation · Apple’s $50 Intelligence Usage Packs extend access to some AI features · Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe-coding apps amid a changing internet · A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure · Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages · Disney and Adobe are building generative AI tools together · ElevenAgents Campaign Manager works every contact to an outcome · Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts · Anthropic joins AI’s natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines · Expanding Teen Account Protections to Teens Around the World · Medium’s new TK app brings AI assistance directly into the writing process · China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang · Asahi Linux Drops MIT, Goes Full GPL After AI Used to Steal Unreleased Code (unconfirmed) · The backlash about data centers might really just be about electricity

Today's stories came from Vals, GitHub Changelog, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Decoder, Hacker News, OpenAI, The Guardian, BBC Technology, Gizmodo, Wired, ElevenLabs, Meta Newsroom, Ars Technica and MIT Technology Review.

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AIdea Daily, Monday 9 November 2026.

TOP STORIES

Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU (unconfirmed) https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip

Nvidia's board opens an independent investigation after reports that China recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on CEO Jensen Huang. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1029338/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-china-spy

Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/awful-google-turn-off-ai-overviews

Andrej Karpathy says he built HackerTube, a curated video site drawn from 20 years of Hacker News, in one weekend using Claude. https://the-decoder.com/andrej-karpathy-built-a-curated-video-platform-in-a-weekend-using-claude-and-20-years-of-hacker-news/

Apple CEO John Ternus is reportedly pressing Craig Federighi to speed up Siri's roadmap and make the assistant more agentic. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1029552/apple-siri-ai-agentic

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

Elvis and Eminem rights holders are suing Suno · Anti-Waymo campaign relied on op-eds written with AI · Microsoft AI CEO Says He’s Open to Agents Deserving Rights If He Sees the Right Evidence · I Used NYT Cooking’s New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It’s Actually Pretty Good · Bikers and Bug-Lovers Join Forces to Fight a New Google Data Center

Today's stories came from Hacker News, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Guardian, BBC Technology, Semafor, Futurism, The Decoder, Gizmodo and Wired.

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AIdea Daily, Monday 9 November 2026.

TOP STORIES

Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU (unconfirmed) https://github.com/synchopate/llama-modchip

Nvidia's board opens an independent investigation after reports that China recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on CEO Jensen Huang. https://www.theverge.com/tech/1029338/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-china-spy

Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/awful-google-turn-off-ai-overviews

Andrej Karpathy says he built HackerTube, a curated video site drawn from 20 years of Hacker News, in one weekend using Claude. https://the-decoder.com/andrej-karpathy-built-a-curated-video-platform-in-a-weekend-using-claude-and-20-years-of-hacker-news/

Apple CEO John Ternus is reportedly pressing Craig Federighi to speed up Siri's roadmap and make the assistant more agentic. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1029552/apple-siri-ai-agentic

ALSO IN THIS EPISODE

Elvis and Eminem rights holders are suing Suno · Anti-Waymo campaign relied on op-eds written with AI · Microsoft AI CEO Says He’s Open to Agents Deserving Rights If He Sees the Right Evidence · I Used NYT Cooking’s New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It’s Actually Pretty Good · Bikers and Bug-Lovers Join Forces to Fight a New Google Data Center

Today's stories came from Hacker News, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Guardian, BBC Technology, Semafor, Futurism, The Decoder, Gizmodo and Wired.