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AWS releases SGLang-Neuron, enabling deployment of frontier models on Trainium with the existing SGLang interface

Amazon announced the public availability of SGLang-Neuron, an out-of-tree plugin that runs SGLang on AWS Trainium through an AWS Deep Learning Container, released by RadixArk with Annapurna Labs. Users keep the same SGLang server interface and generation APIs, while the plugin supplies Trainium-specific models, attention, MoE and a graph runner built on native PyTorch and NKI kernels compiled with torch.compile. It also supports PD disaggregation, transferring the prefill KV cache to a decode server via NIXL over EFA, and the walkthrough serves openai/gpt-oss-120b on a Trainium3 EC2 instance with the pytorch-inference-sglang-neuronx container.

Show HN: Bugsy – AI automation that runs my company

Bugsy is an AI automation system that began as a simple Sentry AI triager and now powers much of the day-to-day operations at a roughly 20-person company. It handles bug reporting and fixing, code review, metrics, and answering questions, and is accessible from Slack, the company forum, and its channels.

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to join video calls as a participant

Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a feature that lets Claude join video calls as a visible participant, answering questions, generating documents and whiteboards, and logging notes and action items. Notes, transcripts and documents Claude produces are collected on a dedicated page in claude.ai after the meeting, and privacy controls block Claude from joining calls with external participants by default. The feature is in beta for Team and Enterprise plans, supports only Google Meet so far, and is unavailable to organizations using HIPAA or customer-managed encryption configurations.

CopilotKit releases OpenBot 1.0, an MIT-licensed self-hostable AI coworker with built-in governance

CopilotKit released OpenBot 1.0 on November 9, an MIT-licensed, self-hostable agent workspace where teams bring their own models, agents and infrastructure. Every browser click, file write, MCP tool call and component passes through a governance gateway that evaluates a CEL policy and writes the audit row before acting, with deny rules running first and broken rules failing closed. The release adds Mac and Windows desktop apps, a Learning feature that turns a recorded task into a reusable skill, multi-account support through Composio and Arcade, and Bot-to-Bot orchestration; personal use is free and OpenBot for Business costs up to $29 per active user per month.

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings, adding Claude to team video calls

Anthropic is rolling out Claude Meetings in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, starting with Google Meet, with other video conferencing platforms to follow. Claude joins the call as a visible participant, builds docs, whiteboards and other artifacts while the team is still talking, and can be asked questions out loud or in chat. After the call, the notes, action items, transcript and anything Claude built appear on the meeting's page in Claude.

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Nectar launches Creator Agent to automate influencer discovery and outreach

Nectar has launched Creator Agent, an AI agent that searches over 300 million creator profiles to find brand partners, then drafts outreach, builds landing pages, and tracks campaigns. It is available globally today for Instagram and TikTok creators, with MCP access via Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot planned.

Muse Wonder, Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Ember now available on Google Cloud in public preview

Meta's Muse Wonder, Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Ember models are now publicly available in public preview on Google Cloud. They can be deployed through the model garden on Google Cloud with enterprise-grade security and serverless scale.

AWS updates AgentCore runtime with 15x faster session starts and 4x more compute

AWS announced updates to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, its managed compute layer for agents, with sessions now starting up to 15x faster, scaling to 4x more compute (up to 8 vCPUs and 32 GB, with container images up to 10 GB) and running up to 68% more efficiently, while each session stays in its own hardware-isolated Firecracker MicroVM. Sessions start in under 2 seconds regardless of image size or concurrency, idle agents scale to zero, and agents can mount and save work to a filesystem such as an Amazon S3 bucket with FUSE support so data stays inside the trust boundary. The runtime is available today in AWS Regions across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Databricks Genie Migrate 正式 GA，支持轻松迁移至 Lakehouse

Databricks announced that Genie Migrate is now generally available, letting companies move their data workloads to the Databricks Lakehouse with less manual effort. The tool targets teams racing to build AI agents and applications on top of lakehouse data.

Google Search upgrades globally to Gemini 4 Hydrogen

Google Search has moved all users worldwide to Gemini 4 Hydrogen, which the company calls its biggest model upgrade to Search yet. The model improves intent understanding for multi-part and typo-heavy questions, adds deeper instruction following and tool calling, and strengthens query fan-out to surface links users might not otherwise find. Responses also become more visual, with more images, comparison tables and custom tools, across all supported AI Mode languages.

Phota Labs launches iOS app that turns everyday photos into professional-looking shots

Phota Labs launched a free iOS app that uses a personal AI photo assistant to turn everyday snapshots into professional-looking images while preserving subjects' real appearance. The a16z-backed startup, founded by former Adobe computational photography staff Cecilia Zhang and Zach Xia, built its own identity model so edits don't alter faces, and adds invisible watermarks to AI-altered photos. It raised a $5.6 million seed round last year and plans an Android app.

AWS Releases AWS Emulator, a Local Emulator of 200+ AWS Services Written by AI Agents

AWS has released AWS Emulator, a free local emulator of AWS APIs that runs on a laptop, dev server or in CI without an AWS account, and all of its code was written and reviewed by autonomous agents. It is built from 438 AWS API models covering 200+ services and passes 24,243 of 42,857 scored fidelity tests (56.6%) in release v1.0.322, with AWS KMS at 93.9% and AWS CloudFormation at 15.8%. AWS lists clear limits: no IAM policy evaluation, one region and one account, in-memory short-lived resources, and telemetry on by default.

Databricks launches Lakehouse//RT to serve real-time analytics without proportional cost growth

Databricks introduced Lakehouse//RT, a real-time analytics engine that runs high-concurrency workloads directly on lakehouse data and is now available in beta. The company says it delivers sub-100 millisecond latency at 12,000 queries per second, adds capacity one node at a time, and avoids a separate serving layer; customers Aurasell, VisionHeight and nOps report 6x to 10x lower infrastructure costs after migrating from multi-cluster setups, Apache Pinot and Apache Druid.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed launches on Amazon Bedrock

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed is now available on Amazon Bedrock, a post-trained version of Kimi K3 with the same 3T-class open-weight architecture and 1-million-token context window, trained with more post-training compute for long-horizon agentic work and fewer factual errors. Moonshot AI reports 2–3 times the output speed of Kimi K3.1 Pro, and existing Kimi K3 users can switch by changing the model ID. The post shows Chat Completions, Responses and Converse API calls, the Flex tier at half the Standard price, explicit prompt caching with prompt_cache_breakpoint, and connecting the model to the OpenCode coding agent.

Amazon SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming gains usage-based pricing, Deepgram as launch partner

Amazon SageMaker AI bidirectional streaming now supports usage-based metering, letting model providers report actual consumption to AWS Marketplace software charges while endpoint infrastructure fees still apply. Deepgram is the launch partner, bringing usage-based Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech billing to AWS Marketplace. The design adds a companion WebSocket metadata stream, capped at one message per second and 512 bytes, so providers can send incremental metering records during live sessions.

AWS open-sources UAEF, a framework-agnostic evaluation system for AI agents

AWS has open-sourced UAEF (Universal Agent Evaluation Framework), a framework-agnostic system that uses adapters to normalize agent traces from LangGraph, LangChain, Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Langfuse into one canonical AgentTrace, then scores them with 36 built-in metrics across 7 dimensions. Results are stored per experiment in Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3, so teams can compare agent versions against a baseline, flag regressions with a default 5 percent threshold, and generate statistical reports plus LLM-written insights. The post says customers across 12 organizations in telecom, healthcare and financial services used UAEF before release, and the Apache 2.0 code, Python library, CDK deployment and per-framework notebooks are in the awslabs/uaef GitHub repository.

Replit Agent adds Link and Visa purchasing plus Google Ads campaign creation

Replit Agent now has two new jobs: buying business supplies through Link and Visa, and building Google Ads campaigns across Search, YouTube, Display and Discover. In the purchasing flow, a browser subagent navigates the merchant site and prepares checkout, then waits for the owner to approve the final total; shell access and general browsing are disabled during payment and approval checks are enforced in code. Agentic Commerce is available for Core and Pro users starting in the US with one-time purchases only, while Agentic Ads is available for Pro users worldwide.

Databricks updates Genie agent to run multistep tasks unsupervised

Databricks unveiled an updated version of its AI agent Genie that can complete extended multistep jobs unsupervised, using an ontology built from customer data stored on the Databricks platform. CEO Ali Ghodsi demonstrated his own live usage, including analyzing weak spots in an employee satisfaction survey, summarizing a failed sales pitch and prepping a podcast interview. Ghodsi said leaders at companies with more than 150 employees can get value from such agents, and that costs can be capped through Databricks' Unity Gateway, which sets usage limits and allows swapping in cheaper open-weight models.

Databricks Genie app for Slack reaches General Availability

Databricks has made its Genie app for Slack generally available, letting users ask data questions via DM or @mention and get answers in the thread, grounded in Unity Catalog permissions. Every answer cites its sources, and through MCP connectors Genie can draft document, ticket and record changes for approval before running them.

How Block uses Buzz and Databricks Unity Gateway to run collaborative AI agents

Block built Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace where employees and AI agents work together in group discussions, focused conversations and one-on-one exchanges, and uses Databricks Unity Gateway as the model access layer. Employees can create agents, pick the model or coding harness behind each one, and select Databricks as their inference provider to reach frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google plus select open-weight models through a single integration. Block engineers are also experimenting with multi-agent setups where a more capable model coordinates agents running smaller, more efficient models, and have built an internal approach to benchmarking these agent teams.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV Coming to GeForce NOW

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV, developed by KING Art Games and published by Deep Silver, is coming to GeForce NOW when it launches on Steam Thursday, Dec. 3. The real-time strategy game features more than 70 campaign missions playable solo or in co-op, plus The Last Stand, Skirmish and multiplayer modes. NVIDIA DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering is also coming to War Thunder in mid-November and Where Winds Meet on Monday, Nov. 23.

LiveKit launches Cloud API in open beta so coding agents can manage LiveKit Cloud

LiveKit released the LiveKit Cloud API in open beta, letting coding agents create and configure projects, manage members and webhooks, and pull transcripts, logs, traces and recordings from agent calls. The API is a REST API that runs signed in as the user, with short-lived tokens checked against project roles and sensitive actions limited to project admins. In a test on LiveKit's docs assistant, a coding agent read 4,321 sessions from the past week and returned a ranked list of 8 issues after about 30 minutes. Session data requires Agent Observability, which is off by default for projects created through the API, and API requests are free but rate limited by plan.

vLLM adds day-0 support for Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small

vLLM supports Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small on day 0, a multimodal text-and-vision MoE with 594B total and 17B active parameters and up to 1M tokens of context. The integration adds kernel fusion with PDL, sequence parallelism for prefill that cuts an 8K-token prefill step by 22% at TP4 and 26% at TP8, and a Gluon relative attention decode kernel that drops a batch-1 decode step at 100K context from 15.1 ms to 4.8 ms. vLLM reports up to 630 TPS/user at TP4 on GB200 with acceptance length 3.5, and also supports LoRA and RL via SkyRL.

OpenRouter explains the self-correcting localization pipeline behind its 7 new languages

OpenRouter launched beta localization in Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Japanese and Korean, and detailed the self-correcting pipeline that keeps 16,918 English strings translated. The daily loop sends changed strings to GPT-6.1 Sol in batches of up to 40, has code reject broken placeholders and glossary violations, then uses a second call to the same model as a verifier that returns errors by severity for retries. OpenRouter says a full retranslation of the catalog into 7 languages costs about $460, versus about $7,200 at Smartling's published machine translation rate.

vLLM-Omni benchmarks MiniMax H3-Image on Vera Rubin: 0.87s 4K generation and 6,115 images/hour

vLLM-Omni brought MiniMax H3-Image to NVIDIA Vera Rubin and measured 0.87-second median latency for native 4096×4096 text-to-image on four GPUs, plus 6,115 images/hour in a separate throughput configuration. H3-Image is an open-weight text-to-image and editing model that pairs a Qwen3-VL encoder with a 33.1B dense DiT and an image VAE, handling both tasks in six sampling steps with up to 16 reference images. The team reports MXFP8 DiT GEMMs, Ulysses SP4, AdaLN caching and a VAE decoding change that cut decode time from 2.635s to 0.213s, and lists recipes for AMD, Intel, Huawei Ascend and Moore Threads hardware.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search API Released

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers a standalone Web Search API, letting developers call InvokeWebSearch directly from AWS SDKs or the AWS CLI with a single request and no resources to create. It returns ranked results from an Amazon-operated web index, each with a text extract and, when available, title, URL, and publication time, with domain and date filters. Requests are signed with SigV4 and IAM, using the same permission as the AgentCore Gateway route.

Google launches Gemini Decisions API with Gemini Decision 1 at $0.10 per 1M tokens

Google launched the Gemini Decisions API, powered by a new model called Gemini Decision 1 (gemini-decision-1), which does not generate text but scores up to 1,000 typed questions against one shared input and returns calibrated probabilities. It reads text, images, audio, video and PDFs in a single prefill pass, supports yes/no, choice and score question types, and is priced at $0.10 per 1M input tokens with zero output tokens billed. Google reports a 262,144-token context, 150-250 ms end-to-end latency, and a top-1 ECE of 0.0250, about half that of TypeSafe Jev 1.14, though it trails Jev on the When2Call benchmark (79.9% vs 82.0%) and costs more per token ($0.10 vs $0.042).

AWS releases official local emulator for testing its services without a paid API key

AWS has released an official emulator that lets developers run tests against a local clone of its various services without provisioning a paid API key. The emulator is written in Rust and accumulated 29,684 commits in the project's first three weeks, according to a guest post by Swaminathan (Swami) Sivasubramanian on Werner Vogels' blog. It currently requires Docker on macOS and Windows, and Simon Willison hopes a single downloadable binary will follow for use in standard test suites on other platforms and languages.

Simon Willison adds tag-based browsing to his vibe-coded tools site

Simon Willison added tag-based browsing to tools.simonwillison.net, letting visitors explore his collection of 244 vibe-coded tools by tag. He used leftover Fable 5.2 credits to have tree-sitter analyze each tool's code for JavaScript APIs, libraries and web API hosts. The homepage now shows tag clouds for each of those tag categories.

Google launches Gemini Decisions API and Gemini Decision 1 model for fast closed-set decisions

Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API, powered by the new Gemini Decision 1 model (gemini-decision-1) and available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio. A single multimodal input of up to 256K tokens can be checked against up to 1,000 yes/no, multiple-choice and rubric-scoring questions in one forward pass, returning probabilities and confidence scores at 150-250 ms end-to-end latency for $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no output-token charges. Google says the model leads its benchmark suite with the lowest calibration error and is nearly 5x cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite with the Interactions API; internal uses include model routing in Gemini Notebook, wireframe generation in Stitch and adversarial-content checks for MCP tools in Search.

Fable 5.2 or Opus? When to use each model in Claude Code

Claude Fable 5.2 is now available, and a new guide explains when to start on Opus 5.5, when to move up to Fable 5.2, or down to Sonnet 5.5 or Haiku 5.5 in Claude Code. It also covers splitting one job across models, with availability and usage limits varying by plan.

LLM 0.37.2 fixes API key leak to third-party OpenAI-compatible endpoints

Simon Willison released LLM 0.37.2 to fix a security issue reported by Daniel de Araujo in GHSA-v9h7-jj4g-f862 and GHSA-r639-rr7r-x72w. The bug could send a configured OpenAI API key to third-party OpenAI-compatible endpoints via extra-openai-models.yaml if the named api_key_name was never stored, or if a responses: true model ran with -o chat_completions 1.

Google Labs launches Tabletop, a real-time collaborative space for group planning

Google Labs introduced Tabletop, a new experiment for real-time group collaboration where users add links, files and ideas, then prompt @tabletop or pick a starter template to generate interactive trip itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters and tournament brackets. Once a space is ready, an invite link lets everyone join and use it simultaneously, like in a Google Doc. Tabletop is rolling out in the U.S. (18+) via a waitlist at labs.google/tabletop.

Mastra Agents Private Model Gateways for Self-Hosted Models

Mastra added private model gateways that let agents route requests to self-hosted open-weight models, referenced by a prefix like private/ollama/gpt-oss:20b. Self-hosting keeps sensitive data inside the network and replaces per-token costs with infrastructure costs, and setting AUTO_BLOCK_EXTERNAL_PROVIDERS=true hides external providers in Studio. The feature requires @mastra/core@1.82.0 or later.

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings in beta for Google Meet on Team and Enterprise plans

Anthropic released Claude Meetings in beta, letting Claude join Google Meet calls as a visible participant that answers questions in chat, builds docs and whiteboards live, and writes notes and action items. Each meeting gets a page in claude.ai with the transcript, notes and artifacts, and by default Claude stays out of calls with external guests unless an admin allows it. The beta is rolling out on Team and Enterprise plans, is unavailable to some organizations including ZDR, HIPAA-ready and CMEK setups, and notes, transcripts and in-call answers are free during the beta.

Anthropic makes Claude Opus 5.5 the default model on Pro, Max, Ultra and Team plans

Claude Opus 5.5 is now the default model in Claude on Pro, Max, Ultra and Team plans, and Anthropic recommends it as the daily driver for research, analysis and finished documents, decks and spreadsheets. Anthropic says Opus 5.5 at Medium effort matched or beat Opus 5 at High on its coding and knowledge-work evaluations, and in an internal merger-analysis test it finished in 63 minutes at half the cost of Opus 5 on the same task. The post also lists prompting changes for the new model, including dropping 'think hard' instructions, starting at Medium effort and attaching charts instead of retyping their values.

Anthropic opens private beta of self-hosted Claude Managed Agents

Anthropic released self-hosted Claude Managed Agents in private beta, letting developers run the full agent service, including harness, sandboxes, credentials and session history, in their own cloud or on-premise environment. Model requests can go to Anthropic directly, to Amazon Bedrock, Google's Agent Platform or Microsoft Foundry, or through the customer's own gateway, and session history stays in the customer's database. The company says the design keeps the agent loop and vault secrets outside the sandbox, supports allowlists of permitted hosts, and exports a full record of each session over OpenTelemetry.

MiniMax H3 Image, Highspeed, and Lite arrive in Recraft Studio

MiniMax's H3 family expanded beyond video this week, with H3 Image, H3 Image Highspeed, H3 Highspeed, and H3 Lite now available in Recraft Studio. The two image models generate and edit at 2K or 4K, while the two video models produce 4–15 second clips at 480p or 768p with sound. H3 Image starts at 6 credits per image and H3 Lite at 4 credits per second of video.

How 3D transforms and Figma's agent brought a launch video to life

Figma has released 3D transforms in open beta, letting designers tilt, rotate, and arrange text, images, vectors, and frames in space, with a perspective effect on parent frames for shared spatial compositions. The non-destructive effects stay editable and can be combined with shaders, animated with Figma Motion, or explored via the Figma agent. Figma's Brand Studio used the tools, including an agent-built generative plugin, to produce the feature's launch video.

Google's Tabletop AI experiment lets users build custom collaboration apps

Google has launched an experimental AI tool called Tabletop that generates customized collaborative hubs for coordinating with family and friends. Users add links, files and ideas, then prompt @tabletop or pick a starter template to create interactive trip itineraries, dinner polls, expense splitters and tournament brackets, and share an invite link so others can join in real time like a Google Doc. The beta is available via a waitlist and is currently limited to people over 18 in the US.