Wednesday, 11 November 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Wednesday, 11 November 2026.
Research & Products
llm-gemini 0.36
Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else . This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and $10/million output at launch (that's GPT-6.1 Sol / Claude Sonnet 5.5 prices) but scheduled to double in price to $4/$20 on December 1st (same as Opus 5.5). Here are three pelicans for the low, medium and high thinking efforts (it defaults to medium). This is the pelican I got for high: Gemini pelicans have all been great for a while now, so I also tested it out using Google's...
Read moreAnthropic's IPO roadshow video
Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Anthropic kicked off their IPO roadshow yesterday, and their roadshow video has some previously unreleased information about how their business works. The section on "Approach to compute" with co-founder Tom Brown is particularly interesting, describing how Anthropic train and serve Claude across AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and AMD GPUs. I'm not sure why there's no official video transcript, but here's one that I extracted using MacWhisper. Highlights below: We train and serve Claude now across all four major chip families. That's only possible...
Read moreGoogle DeepMind releases robot AI, citing 96% success in Mercedes factory pilot
Gemini Robotics 2.5 pairs broader manipulation skills with faster execution, DeepMind says. Access remains limited to robotics partners.
Read moreGoogle DeepMind releases DNA AI that predicts genetic effects in specific cells
AlphaGenome 2 replaces broad tissue predictions with cell-specific analysis. DeepMind reports stronger immune-cell results, while clinical use remains unvalidated.
Read moreTether introduces an 800-million-parameter AI assistant built for on-device tasks
BotPsy learns from demonstrations, specialist teachers and rule-based rewards. Tether reports strong tool-use gains, but warns against high-stakes use.
Read moreIndustry
Agents That Think Together: Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on Semantic Alignment, Scope, Accord & Concord
Vijoy Pandey, SVP and GM of Outshift by Cisco, discusses the challenges of multi-agent AI systems and explains how open-source protocols like Scope, Accord, and Concord enable effective collaboration, intent negotiation, and semantic alignment across autonomous workflows.
Read moreRussia, China and U.S. discuss AI limits on nuclear systems, report says
Negotiators are reportedly focusing on nuclear command systems as other disputes fall off the summit agenda. No agreement has been announced.
Read morePolicy & Ethics
OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect
New York is preparing to enforce its sweeping AI safety law, requiring major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to register, disclose safety practices, and report critical incidents or face fines.
Read moreNew York starts registering frontier AI firms as 2027 enforcement clock begins
New York opens registration for frontier AI regulation, putting major AI labs on a 2027 compliance track with reporting and penalties. The post New York starts registering frontier AI firms as 2027 enforcement clock begins appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read moreTags: hardware, open_source
NVIDIA Expands Open Source Commitment With OpenShell Donation and New AI Infrastructure
Kubernetes, the open source system that manages how applications run across thousands of AI factories, has become the foundation for AI, and the demands on it are only growing. To help meet them, NVIDIA is deepening its commitment to open source at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the flagship conference for the Kubernetes and cloud-native communities. NVIDIA […]
Read moreTags: ai_agents, acquisition
OpenAI Swallows a Young Travel Agent Startup as It Pushes Deeper Into Agentic Commerce
OpenAI acquired Odessia and hired founder Francis Davidson, signaling a bigger push into AI travel agent tools and agentic commerce. The post OpenAI Swallows a Young Travel Agent Startup as It Pushes Deeper Into Agentic Commerce appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read moreTags: ai_agents
Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS
Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
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