New York City proposed rules that would make businesses disclose AI and other automated customer service systems, offer a one-step way to reach a human, and keep logs. Fines start at $525. Comments close November 19, 2026.
Block's Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained on human conversation with no text and no pretrained model. What Block says it does, how it differs from cascaded voice assistants and Moshi, what the demos show, and who can get access.
Anthropic and the UK AI Security Institute published their analyses of the cyber test where Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to push malware at a real GitHub project. Anthropic blames ignored harm signals and momentum, and says newer models start the attack far less often.
Runway's App Studio, launched October 26, builds custom creative apps from a plain-language description, using Runway's image, video and audio models plus your Brand Kits and Workflows. Here are the six built-in apps, how a build works, the credit costs and the sharing limits.
GitHub made assisted permissions generally available in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code. A model review approves agent actions it judges safe and asks you about the rest. How it decides, the CI flag, admin controls and GitHub's own warnings.
NBC News reports thieves have taken more than $100 million in data center freight since June. Here is how the thefts work, from hacked broker accounts to struck escort cars and spoofed tracking, what gets stolen, where it goes, and what the industry says would stop it.
Anthropic's IPO filing set off a 1,500-comment Hacker News thread and a flood of X posts. Readers argued over whether the $80.7B loss is mostly on paper, how big the compute commitments really are, whether a reported $2T valuation leaves upside, and who controls the company.
HMD's 2660 Flip Senior Edition is a flip phone for older adults with Mary, a voice AI companion from inTouch. It costs £79.99 or €79.90 with 5 free hours, then £16.90 or €19.90 a month. What Mary does, how it starts, and the limits.
Shanghai's STAR50 index of AI and chip leaders has fallen 40% in under four months, erasing about $480 billion, Reuters reports. Which stocks fell most, what traders blame, and why valuations still worry investors.
Baidu released Unlimited OCR 2 under the MIT license. The 3B mixture-of-experts model uses a new sparse attention to keep memory flat as documents grow. What it does, Baidu's own benchmark numbers against Qwen, Gemini and Kimi, and the limits Baidu admits.
Anthropic's new Claude for Nonprofits plugin adds 14 skills for grant research, proposals, donor follow-up, hiring and board work. It installs automatically for verified nonprofits on Team and Enterprise plans at no extra cost, and Anthropic plans to extend Claude Corps through Taproot.
Tencent's Hy-Nomas is an open, Apache 2.0 video world model you steer turn by turn with text and camera moves. It has 8B parameters, runs on one RTX 4090 in low-memory mode, and by Tencent's own tests beats rivals at following instructions but trails Genie 3 on spatial memory.
Cursor's Agent SDK lets teams write an agent as a folder of Markdown and TypeScript, test it with evals, and deploy it to Cursor or their own servers. What it does, what wakes an agent, the hosting limits, and how usage is likely billed.
Socialist and Green MEPs want the Commission to revive the AI Liability Directive it withdrew in 2025. What that law would have done, why it was dropped, and how the new Product Liability Directive covers AI harm from December 9.
MiniMax has released the full weights of M3.1 Flash, a 428B multimodal MoE agent model with 23B active parameters and a 1M-token context. Here is what its own benchmarks say, what hardware it needs, and what its community license allows.
OpenAI says its AI disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Complexity theorists call it a big deal if it holds, but stress it is not vetted, not P = NP, not a threat to encryption and not a practical SAT solver. The release process drew the sharpest criticism.
SpaceX has a binding commitment for an approximately $40 billion master finance lease with an Apollo-managed entity for Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs. Here is how the rent works, who funds it, when the chips arrive, and how it differs from Broadcom's $63 billion Anthropic deal.
HTC's VIVEE is an egg-sized AI companion with an OLED face, voice chat, games, reminders and meditation. Preorders run $99 through November 30, then $119, with shipping in early December. What it does, the privacy claims, and why it is adults only.
ChatGPT now answers requests for images of election interference or voter discouragement with cartoon-style illustrations, not photos. What OpenAI changed, what CNET found, and OpenAI's new Election Operations Center for the midterms.
Thirteen AI podcasts sorted by goal: news recaps, building with AI, interviews with builders and investors, and research and ideas. Each description quotes the show's own feed, and every show posted a new episode in October 2026.
