Thursday, 12 November 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Thursday, 12 November 2026.
Industry
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 moreResearch & Products
llm 0.37.2
Release: llm 0.37.2 Fixes a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w . LLM has a mechanism called extra-openai-models.yaml - now managed by the new-in-0.37 llm openai endpoint add command - for using LLM with OpenAI-compatible API endpoints from other providers. Daniel reported two ways this could accidentally send your configured OpenAI API key to one of those providers: if the key named by apikeyname had never been stored, or if a responses: true model was run with -o chat_completions 1 . Tags: projects , security , llm , releases
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 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 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 morePolicy & Ethics
Nvidia’s Board Faces Escalating Pressure as Huang Affair Allegations Spill Into Governance Crisis
The Nvidia board is reportedly weighing Jensen Huang’s future after new affair allegations, with investors and Congress watching closely. The post Nvidia’s Board Faces Escalating Pressure as Huang Affair Allegations Spill Into Governance Crisis appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
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Databricks’ new AI agent tells CEO Ali Ghodsi the unvarnished truth
With Databricks at 12,000 employees, AI Ghodsi is the first to admit that he can't know everyone and that they are unlikely to confess the things that go wrong to him. But he doesn't need them to. He uses Databricks' newly revised Genie agent for that.
Read moreaws-emulator
aws-emulator Finally, an official emulator from AWS to run tests against a local clone of their many different services without having to provision a paid API key to do so. It's written in Rust by a huge swarm of agents - 29,684 commits in the first three weeks of the project. Swaminathan (Swami) Sivasubramanian wrote about how it came to be in a guest post on Werner Vogels' blog. It currently requires Docker to run on macOS or Windows. I'm hoping they fix that in the future - it would be great if you could download a single binary and use that as part of a standard test suite in other...
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