OpenClaw is bringing its three-day Claw Hack hackathon and ClawCon conference to Shenzhen on December 4–6, 2026, following its Shanghai event. Claw Hack spans software and hardware tracks, with M5Stack, Seeed Studio's reBot Arm B601 and Pamir hardware, and applications close November 25. ClawCon runs December 6 with talks on open-source AI, open-weight models and running agents locally and in the cloud.
Dyania Health's Synapsis AI clinical reasoning engine reads every note, report and lab result in a patient's record, connecting findings years apart to flag which patients need attention and why, with each signal traceable to its source. It runs on NVIDIA-accelerated computing inside a health system's own firewall, so patient data never leaves the hospital. Cleveland Clinic used it to review records of more than 7,800 aortic valve replacement patients from 2005 to 2021 and build a predictive model of valve deterioration and reintervention risk at three, five and ten years.
Gondola has doubled its revenue while expanding its use of OpenAI's Codex, which raised its lead engineer's output by 50%. The company, which helps creatives get credit and get hired, also uses ChatGPT to simplify daily work.
Microsoft Research Focus Edition #98 highlights AI advances bringing universal translation closer to reality and a new proof resolving the 31-year-old KLS conjecture in high-dimensional geometry. The edition also covers CompactionBench and APEC, which cut coding-agent context compaction costs by up to 25.4% and execution time by 9.6%, plus the Latent Core Tokenizer, which improved tokenization across 104 languages.
NVIDIA's board announced that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO and board member effective immediately, with Executive Vice President and CFO Colette Kress serving as Interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor. The board also appointed Harvey C. Jones, former CEO and Executive Chairman of Synopsys, as its first-ever Chair of the Board, and said it expects operations, customer commitments and product roadmap to continue without interruption. NVIDIA said it will report third-quarter fiscal 2027 results on November 17 as previously scheduled.
Why it matters: NVIDIA's board names CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO after Jensen Huang's immediate resignation, with Harvey Jones becoming first board chair.
Meta has signed a set of long-term purchase commitments covering cement, steel, trucking and recycled plastics to bring clean manufacturing to commercial scale in its data center supply chains. The deals include at least 180,000 tons of lower carbon cement from Sublime Systems, near-zero-emission steel from Sweden-based Stegra, an expanded zero-emission freight route with Nevoya along I-10 in California and Arizona, and 5,000 tons per year of recycled PET with MacroCycle Technologies.
ElevenLabs announced at its New York Summit on November 11 that people living with permanent voice loss can now get free access to ElevenMusic, so artists who can no longer sing can keep composing and releasing music. The program launches with Songwriters of North America (SONA), which will verify eligibility and distribute access.
Holiday Extras is using OpenAI's Codex to turn customer expertise into better apps, higher booking conversion and new growth opportunities. The travel add-ons company is rethinking what it can build with the coding model.
OpenAI is committing $2 million to research on AI and children's safety, funding work that supports shared tools for measuring risks and opportunities for young people. The commitment targets measurement of both the risks and the benefits AI presents to younger users.
ElevenLabs launched its Partner Program with enhanced commercial incentives, new certifications, joint go-to-market opportunities and dedicated technical support. The program covers 550+ active partners in 44 countries, and the partner ecosystem has generated $315 million in pipeline and over $52 million in partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue this year. ElevenLabs aims for partners to earn $3 in services revenue for every $1 it generates, backed by forward-deployed engineers and a new certified partner directory.
At its New York Summit, ElevenLabs announced new models, agents and deployment options for its AI interaction layer, including the Interaction Engine that manages turn-taking and routes each part of a conversation to a cheaper or frontier LLM. ElevenAgents gains Memory, which builds a structured record of returning customers, and Routines, an automation layer for multi-step work before, during and after calls. ElevenLabs also previewed the ElevenAI workplace app with free early access opening today, launched a Partner Program now at more than 550 partners in 44 countries plus a McKinsey alliance, and introduced the ElevenLabs Marketplace; NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available in ElevenAgents alongside 15 MW of new Vera Rubin compute capacity.
Modal is one of three companies, alongside Ant Group and Tines, joining gVisor's maintainers as Google donates the project and its trademarks to CNCF under a maintainer-led governance model. Modal says it launches upwards of 40 million gVisor containers a day and has contributed upstream since 2023, including nvproxy GPU support, an RDMA device proxy called rdmaproxy, and tmpfs and memory-allocator optimizations. The company says it is working on multi-GPU memory snapshots and GPUDirect Storage support for gVisor.
ElevenLabs and NVIDIA have expanded their collaboration across models, infrastructure and sovereign deployments, bringing NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL into the ElevenAgents platform. ElevenLabs plans to add 15MW of NVIDIA Vera Rubin capacity on top of its existing Blackwell Ultra systems, and is powering a voice agent for Poland's Centralna e-Rejestracja appointment system on-premises using NVIDIA Confidential Computing. On the ElevenAgents customer-support benchmark, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL reached leading end-to-end task-completion accuracy at 70% lower cost than other leading open models, according to ElevenLabs.
McKinsey and ElevenLabs announced an alliance to help organizations prove the value of conversational AI through initial use cases before scaling across the enterprise. The partnership combines McKinsey's industry and transformation expertise, including QuantumBlack's AI engineering, with ElevenLabs' frontier conversational AI technology and ElevenAgents platform. Dutch telecom KPN is already using the new AI-powered solutions, and the alliance plans to extend the approach to service-intensive industries such as insurance.
ElevenLabs says enterprises now account for more than 55% of its revenue, with its technology in daily operations at five of the 10 largest tech companies, five of the 10 largest insurers and four of the 10 largest telecoms. At its NYC Summit, clients including Ramp, Customers Bank, Banco Inter, Clover Health and FOX Sports described using ElevenAgents and ElevenCreative for support agents, onboarding, multilingual service and an AI persona of commentator Colin Cowherd in the FOX Sports App.
More than 20,000 veterans and transitioning service members have claimed a free year of ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI said, and the company highlighted how they use it to prepare for civilian careers.
NVIDIA highlights four Inception startups using AI and robotics to sort mixed waste at recycling plants. AIRECO's Jetson Orin NX pilot line tops 95% recognition accuracy and targets raising annual capacity from 18,000 to 48,000 tons while cutting operating costs by 85%, and EverestLabs has deployed about 150 vision-guided robots across North America and Australia.
NVIDIA is contributing OpenShell, its open source runtime for securing and governing autonomous agents, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Sandbox project, and is also contributing to Google-led Agent Substrate. NVIDIA announced three new DSX AI Factory Platform components: NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine and NVIDIA Kubernetes Recipes, now in public preview, and NVIDIA Snapshot, which restores checkpointed replicas in seconds without model reload or warmup. Crusoe tested GLM-5.3 on Crusoe Cloud and cut workload ready time from roughly eight minutes to 31 seconds, while Saturn Cloud reduced vLLM startup from between two and 8.5 minutes to six and 34 seconds.
Why it matters: NVIDIA contributes its agent security runtime OpenShell to CNCF and adds Kubernetes tooling for GPU AI factories, with early Snapshot results cutting inference startup from minutes to seconds.
Preferred Networks' AUTiv automated mouse tail-vein injection system received the Japan Machinery Federation Chairman's Prize at the 12th Robot Award. The system uses 4K stereo cameras and deep learning to locate the roughly 0.3mm tail vein and performs automated puncture and dosing, reducing needle-stick accidents and animal stress. About 20 units have been delivered in Japan, with additional manufacturing confirmed.
Sakana AI has appointed retired U.S. Navy Admiral Michael Rogers, former NSA Director and Commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and Tom Moran, a former CIA Chief of Station, as Senior Advisors. They will advise the Tokyo-based company on strengthening defense capabilities and cybersecurity. Rogers served as NSA Director from 2014 to 2018, while Moran spent nearly 30 years at the CIA and served six times as Chief of Station.
Google and Adobe are expanding their partnership to embed Adobe's creative and productivity tools directly into everyday Google apps, and to bring Google's frontier AI models into Adobe's apps. Google Drive and Gmail will soon surface Adobe Acrobat as a suggested app with an "Edit with" entry point in file previews, while Adobe is adding Acrobat and creative tool connectors to Gemini and Gemini Enterprise and bringing creative tools to AI Mode in Google Search. Businesses can use Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker agent in Gemini Enterprise, and Adobe with Google DeepMind will explore an image model for Photoshop that could enable near-real-time edits.
New ThinkYoung research and lessons from OpenAI's EMEA education partnerships focus on supporting teachers, AI literacy, and independent learning. The work addresses the guidance gap in how AI is used in classrooms across the region.
Waymo has launched the Waymo Accessibility Network UK, a forum where British disability advocates and charities engage in two-way dialogue to shape how its autonomous technology is deployed on UK streets. The network's 10 inaugural partners include RNIB, Age UK, Transport for All and Guide Dogs UK, and members will support user research and product testing. Waymo says feedback from the disability community already informs features such as audio cues and vehicle-finding tools.
Sierra is marking two years of APX, a one-year rotational program that moves new grads through two six-month rotations in Agent Product Manager, Agent Engineer, Platform Product Manager, or Platform Engineer roles. APX members have shipped Voice Personas, opened Sierra's first Asia office in Singapore, and launched mortgage agents for Rocket and the Horizon release. Sierra says nearly 50% of the Fortune 50 are customers.
Anthropic, PBC launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering of 825,000,000 Class A common shares, of which 801,351,354 are offered by Anthropic and 23,648,646 by certain existing stockholders. The expected price range is $70.00 to $78.00 per share, and Anthropic has applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. Anthropic also expects to grant underwriters a 30-day option for up to 123,750,000 additional shares, and the registration statement filed with the SEC has not yet become effective.
Why it matters: Anthropic's IPO roadshow filing details 825 million Class A shares priced at $70 to $78 and a planned Nasdaq listing under the symbol ANT, giving a concrete view of the company's public-market plans.
Meta is expanding its AI technology globally to detect suspected teen users on Instagram and place them in Teen Accounts protections, even if they registered with an adult birthday. The company says millions more teens worldwide will receive built-in protections limiting who can contact them, the content they see, and their time on the apps. Meta is also rolling the technology out on Facebook and plans to launch it on Threads later this year.
At the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum in Seoul, NVIDIA announced an investment in Korean AI interconnect startup Point2 and plans additional investments in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage. The four companies span the full AI stack, from RF-based chip-to-rack interconnects and open-weight foundation models to robotics foundation models and Solar language models. The planned investments build on NVIDIA Inception, which counts more than 1,000 Korea-based members.
NVIDIA is helping advance Korea's physical AI ecosystem, with Samsung, Kakao Mobility and LG Electronics applying accelerated computing, AI and simulation to semiconductor manufacturing, autonomous vehicles and robotics. Samsung's sMOL platform ran selected quantum chemical calculations up to 5x faster with NVIDIA cuEST, and one AI homogenization case cut simulation time from about 18 hours on a 32-core CPU to 41 seconds. Kakao Mobility plans a level 4 autonomous driving system on NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor, while LG demonstrated NVIDIA Isaac GR00T-powered manipulation with its CLOiD robot in a real manufacturing environment.
Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, while AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort platform with OpenShell to support secure AI agents for employee productivity and enterprise workflows. OpenShell, a key component of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, provides sandboxed execution and policy-based controls to govern autonomous agent actions. LG AI Research is also opening API access for K-EXAONE-2.5, developed using NVIDIA Nemotron datasets including Nemotron-Personas-Korea, an open dataset of 7 million synthetic Korean personas.
NVIDIA and South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT are expanding their sovereign AI collaboration, spanning AI semiconductors, data center infrastructure, talent, startups, models, agents and security. The collaboration opens the way for Korean NPU and XPU companies to explore participation in the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion ecosystem, alongside training, certification, hackathons and technical seminars to strengthen GPU utilization. NVIDIA will also work with three selected consortia and four leading Korean foundation model builders under Korea's AI for All initiative, using NVIDIA Dynamo to optimize and scale AI inference.
Preferred Networks' AI writing instruction system Ronjiro has won the AI Special Award (Learning Support) at the 23rd Japan e-Learning Grand Prize. Ronjiro uses generative AI including PFN's domestically developed PLaMo foundation model to support high school students' essay and composition learning, providing feedback on logical structure and improvement points in as little as one minute. It has been offered since March 2026 through YP Switch, a joint venture with the Yarakis Switch Group, and is now being introduced in some School IE classrooms nationwide.
Sierra, the customer experience AI platform, has been inducted into JPMorganChase's Hall of Innovation, with the award presented to CEO Bret Taylor at J.P. Morgan's 18th annual Technology Innovation Symposium in Palo Alto on October 29. The Hall of Innovation, established in 2011, recognizes privately held technology companies that have made a significant impact at JPMorganChase through innovation and close collaboration. Chase CIO Gill Haus cited Sierra as a strong collaborator in exploring agentic AI for banking, while Taylor said agents built on Sierra can be deployed across web, mobile, chat, email and voice to resolve complex tasks.
Sierra has acquired Anon, a startup that built infrastructure letting enterprise AI agents sign in, navigate pages and fill out forms on websites that have no API. Anon raised more than $13M and shipped a product used by hundreds of customers, and its team will now help Sierra's agents complete steps that require logging into a site or working through a browser portal. Founder Daniel Mason says better models and harnesses have made browser agents far more reliable, and Sierra's Horizon agents are pursuing longer-running goals such as originating a loan or getting prior authorization for a healthcare procedure.
Amazon senior applied scientist Hamed Karimi and coauthors Julie Nutini and Mark Schmidt received the 2026 ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award for their 2016 paper on linear convergence of gradient and proximal-gradient methods under the Polyak–Łojasiewicz condition. The paper showed that this 1963 inequality guarantees linear convergence even when models lack a single best solution, unifying scattered optimization results and extending them to nonsmooth landscapes and algorithms such as coordinate, sign, and stochastic gradient descent. It has been cited over 2,000 times and appears in graduate textbooks.
Waymo is readying its fleet for severe winter weather, including a historic El Niño season, by expanding the 6th-generation Waymo Driver's cold-weather capabilities. The system combines cameras, radar and lidar with built-in heaters and micro-wipers, measures real-time traction at each wheel, and uses snow tires, while vehicles act as mobile weather stations sharing road data across the fleet. Waymo says it will slow, limit or pause service when conditions exceed its Safety Framework boundaries, and is running closed-course testing and heavy-snowfall data collection in Alaska this season.
Waymo released a new film examining how removing journey stress changes travel for women riders, made with a women-led creative and production crew. Waymo says its data shows over half of women riders in established service markets report the service improves their sense of personal safety. The film was directed by Mollie Mills, with cinematography by Autumn Durald.
Ai2 has launched a climate modeling initiative backed by three-year funding from Google.org and technical support from Google Research to develop NeuralGCM+, an open-source model for faster, more reliable climate projections. The project extends Google Research's NeuralGCM, which combines physical equations for large-scale dynamics with AI for smaller-scale processes like cloud formation and rainfall, to simulate atmosphere and ocean together. Ai2 aims to cut regional temperature and rainfall errors over the past 50 years and release models and frameworks with documented workflows for outside researchers.
Clerk AI is running enterprise voice and messaging agents on LiveKit's open-source framework and global edge network, handling over 1,000 concurrent voice sessions without pre-provisioning. Agents respond in under 500ms and support 30+ languages natively, with ScreenSense call screening at 97% accuracy and TrueReach voicemail detection above 98%. The platform keeps full control over STT, LLM, and TTS providers and holds SOC 2 Type II certification with built-in TCPA compliance.
Preferred Networks will exhibit its MN-Core series at SC26, the international high-performance computing conference held November 15–20 in Chicago, with booth demonstrations running November 17–19. At booth 4606, the company will show a structural model and mockup of its in-development MN-Core L1000 inference AI chip, its future plans for the MN-Core L series, a live demo on the MN-Core 2 Devkit, and R&D on ultra-high-efficiency AI computing infrastructure.
Sierra has appointed Kyle Randolph as its Chief Information Security Officer. Randolph brings 24 years of experience as a security leader and software engineer, most recently serving as CISO at Verkada, and has built and led security teams at Adobe, Citrix, Twitter, and Optimizely. Sierra says security strength is one reason nearly half of the Fortune 50 choose it.