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November 11Wednesday
  1. Preferred Networks News31

    PFN's AUTiv automated mouse tail-vein injection robot wins 12th Robot Award Chairman's Prize

    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.

November 10Tuesday
  1. Sakana AI Blog40

    Sakana AI Appoints Former NSA Director Michael Rogers and Ex-CIA Chief of Station Tom Moran as Senior Advisors

    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.

  2. Gary Marcus · The Road to AI We Can Trust82

    Gary Marcus urges investors to reject Anthropic's IPO

    Gary Marcus argues against Anthropic's IPO, citing its reported target valuation of up to $1.4 trillion against a company that has never made a profit and carries nearly $900 billion in future liabilities. He points to Anthropic's amended S-1, which warns that costs will rise and losses will continue, and to revenue growth slowing from 147% in Q2 to 47% in Q3, as evidence that the trillion-dollar projections built on tokenmaxxing no longer hold.

    Why it matters: Gary Marcus uses Anthropic's IPO filing and slowing revenue growth to argue that the valuation rests on projections the company's own numbers no longer support.

  3. 404 Media60

    Claude Code and Codex Guardrails Hit Users Reverse Engineering Their Own Devices

    Users of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex are hitting safety checks, warnings or account restrictions when using the tools for AI-powered reverse engineering, with one X user reporting an OpenAI ban for "cyber abuse" after decompiling Samsung TVs. A Reddit post in r/ClaudeCode titled "The Dream is dead" and reports in the Reverse Engineer Anything Discord describe Claude refusing to decompile, while the Decomp.wtf project has shut down. OpenAI engineer Tarun Gogineni said there is no prohibition against reverse engineering with Codex and that the blocks are mostly accidental and being fixed, but practitioners say they are moving toward open weight, local and uncensored models.

  4. Recode China AI38

    Ulanqab, a Remote Chinese City, Becomes an AI Boomtown and a Magnet for Young Workers

    Ulanqab, a once little-known city in Inner Mongolia, has become an emerging AI computing hub as data centers spread across its grasslands, drawing young workers from across China. Kuaishou began operating its first self-built data center there in 2023, and DeepSeek advertised senior operations and maintenance roles paying up to 30,000 yuan ($4,200) a month this April. The labor market is now saturating, with employers raising hiring standards and some considering only bachelor's degree holders.

  5. Google Blog · AI38

    Google and Adobe expand partnership to bring Acrobat and creative tools into Gmail, Drive, Gemini and Search

    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.

  7. Ars Technica · AI38

    Ukraine's Fiber-Optic Drones Squeezed by AI Data Center Demand

    Ukraine's fiber-optic drones, immune to battlefield jamming, now face higher costs as importing fiber material from China competes with global demand from AI data centers for the same limited supply. Ukrainian drone makers are adapting, with finished spools holding enough cable for drones to regularly operate at ranges of dozens of miles, and up to 62 miles in extreme cases.

  9. Exponential View22

    Madness and mayhem: Azeem Azhar on the AI correction, Nvidia and the open-weight camp

    Azeem Azhar argues the recent AI market turmoil is a flight to quality rather than a collapse, with enterprise spending still rising. AI revenue reached $188bn in the twelve months to October and now runs at $345bn a year, 4.2 times its level a year ago, while Anthropic's growth slowed from 147% to 45% a quarter. He expects Nvidia and the open-weight camp to have their wings clipped, and sees the neoclouds as the weak link.

  10. Waymo Blog25

    Waymo Launches Waymo Accessibility Network UK to Co-Design Autonomous Mobility

    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.

  11. Sierra Blog15

    Sierra Marks Two Years of Its APX Rotational Program for New Grads

    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.

  12. MIT Technology Review · AI58

    Scott Wiener wins Pelosi's San Francisco seat and pledges to push federal AI regulation

    Scott Wiener, author of California's SB 1047 and SB 53, won the congressional race for Nancy Pelosi's open San Francisco seat and said he wants Congress to act decisively on AI risk. He cited a METR report widely read as evidence of recursive self-improvement at Anthropic and called for a strong federal regulator, whistleblower protections, testing and auditing requirements, and a kill switch. Wiener, whose campaign received over $3 million from the pro-regulation nonprofit Public First Action, opposes broad federal preemption of state AI laws and described himself as only cautiously optimistic about Congress reining in AI.

  13. Anthropic Newsroom80

    Anthropic launches roadshow for proposed IPO of 825 million Class A shares on Nasdaq

    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.

November 9Monday
  1. Big Technology85

    Jensen Huang Honeypot Fallout: Nvidia Board Investigates, Export Control Debate Shifts

    Nvidia's board has opened an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's admitted affair with Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed International executive that U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy, and said it has no reason to believe national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised. Alex Kantrowitz argues the affair damages Huang's credibility as the loudest U.S. voice against chip export controls to China, potentially inviting stricter rules, while Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google's TPU business stand to gain. Huang remains CEO for now, with Washington hearings and the board's findings likely to shape whether he keeps the seat.

    Why it matters: The piece maps how a personal scandal involving Jensen Huang could reshape Nvidia's lobbying credibility on China export controls and open room for Anthropic and Google.

  2. Exponential View22

    AI-exposed workers took a month longer to find new jobs in 2025

    Workers who lost jobs in AI-exposed roles in 2025 took about a month longer than peers in other roles to find new employment, according to Exponential View's data roundup. Anthropic paid $3.4 billion to take over a supplier's two-year-old order for 1.7GW of gas generators, the largest known power-equipment purchase by an AI lab. Apple's memory inventory grew 2.5x year on year, helping shield it from memory cost increases.

  3. Import AI42

    Import AI 480: Self-sustaining space economies, AI for science progress, and Meta's Tactus gloves for superintelligence

    Physical Superintelligence used a non-public Anthropic model to prove the Aaronson-Ambainis quantum conjecture, with Lean accepting the full proof on day three of the run and later improvements to the result. Meta Reality Labs detailed Tactus, a 1.5mm fingertip textile glove with capacitive tactile sensors and IMU-fused pose tracking for manipulation data collection. A 2016 NASA paper found that bootstrapping a self-sustaining lunar industry would require launching only 12 to 41 metric tons to the Moon, costing roughly $1.5bn to $4.2bn with Starship.

  4. MIT Technology Review · AI12

    Lubrizol's AI-Driven R&D Strategy in Specialty Chemicals

    Lubrizol is building a digital foundation that connects business processes, modern data platforms, and cloud infrastructure to speed up R&D for specialty chemicals. IT vice president Girish Rao says the aim is to give scientists better tools, not replace scientific judgment, with "fusion teams" of scientists, data scientists, and IT staff starting from small pilots to build trust. Cloud access also supports sustainability work such as modeling starch and corn-based material alternatives.

  5. Meta Newsroom · AI38

    Meta expands AI age-detection for Teen Accounts globally on Instagram

    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.

  6. NVIDIA Blog38

    NVIDIA Announces Planned Investments in Korean Startups Point2, Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage

    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.

  7. NVIDIA Blog36

    NVIDIA Advances Physical AI in Korea Across Semiconductors, Autonomous Driving and Robotics

    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.

  8. NVIDIA Blog36

    Korea's AI Ecosystem Advances and Secures Agentic AI With NVIDIA

    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.

  9. NVIDIA Blog34

    NVIDIA and South Korea's MSIT Expand Sovereign AI Collaboration from Chips to Skills

    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.

  10. Gary Marcus · The Road to AI We Can Trust71

    The Huang Affair: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?

    Gary Marcus writes that Jensen Huang admitted in a letter to Nvidia employees to an affair with Alice Huang, a figure tied to the chip business who is believed to have been a Chinese spy, and that Nvidia is investigating. Marcus asks who knew what and when, saying Trump appears to have known a year ago and that Congress is certain to investigate, while Nvidia futures are already falling and the company has no obvious succession plan.

  11. Preferred Networks News26

    PFN's AI Writing Instruction System Ronjiro Wins AI Special Award (Learning Support) at 23rd Japan e-Learning Grand Prize

    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.

November 8Sunday
  1. Recode China AI22

    Apple Tests Qwen in Apple Intelligence in China as Tencent Adds Vision to Hy4

    Apple began developer testing of Qwen inside Apple Intelligence in China this week, ahead of a planned December rollout with iOS 27.3, bringing Qwen into Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence on an opt-in basis. Tencent's November 4 Hy4 release adds visual reasoning and computer use, while Baidu, Moonshot, Ant and Meituan also published or launched new models.

  2. Every12

    What You May Have Missed at Thesis: 2027

    Every held its first conference, Thesis: 2027, on Thursday at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, drawing 400 attendees in person and thousands more online across 25 sessions. The event centered on Dan Shipper's question of what great human work looks like after automation, with talks spanning frontier labs, tech companies, startups, schools and art studios. Paid subscribers can watch every session on Every TV, and recordings will roll out on YouTube over the coming weeks.

  3. Exponential View18

    The people vs tech, the Europoor, and forgotten Creole — Exponential View #609

    Exponential View's Sunday edition #609 argues tech was effectively on the ballot this week, citing Texas Governor-Elect Gina Hinojosa's claim that "99.9% of us" are pitted against "15 billionaire tech guys who are controlling government." It also questions whether AI's productivity payoff has arrived, noting US productivity grew 3.6% last quarter but calling the data too noisy to attribute to AI, and argues Europe is financing the tech race it is losing.

  4. SemiAnalysis60

    SemiAnalysis visits Envision's 800MW Galaxy datacenter campus in Inner Mongolia

    SemiAnalysis toured Envision's Galaxy campus in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, planned for up to 800MW of IT capacity, with its first 120MW phase delivered within a year at about a fifth of US costs. The campus runs a live 5MW 800V DC pilot using solid-state transformers that convert 10kV AC straight to 800V DC for racks, and drops the central chiller by sharing one water loop between liquid- and air-cooled servers. Envision supplies over 60% of the first two phases' power from its own 420MW wind farms plus 4-hour battery storage, and the full campus is expected to be completed by the end of 2027.

November 7Saturday
  1. Newcomer8

    Cerebral Valley AI Summit Adds Perplexity, Vercel and General Catalyst CEOs to Speaker Lineup

    Cerebral Valley AI Summit has added five speakers for next week's event, including Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis, Flapping Airplanes CEO Benjamin Spector and General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja. They join a lineup featuring Databricks' Ali Ghodsi and Palo Alto Networks' Nikesh Arora, with Bessemer's Byron Deeter and Talia Goldberg revealing the AI 100 onstage. Tickets run from $199 founder passes to $2,999, and the summit is nearly sold out.

  2. Ed Zitron · Where's Your Ed At62

    Ed Zitron: How Voter Backlash Against Data Centers Exposes the AI Bubble's Fault Lines

    Ed Zitron argues that US midterm election results have exposed a vulnerability in the AI bubble: voters in multiple states and municipalities backed restrictions on data center construction. He cites 33 ballot measures to restrict data centers, 21 Ohio municipalities voting for restrictions, and 12 states where the winning or leading gubernatorial candidate called for a pause on data center development. He contends that NVIDIA's growth and the growth stories of AI labs depend on an unimpeded data center buildout, and that the industry assumed it could expand without the consent of the communities affected.

November 6Friday
  1. Newcomer38

    The Blue Tsunami Is a Victory for Democracy — and a Wake-Up Call for Silicon Valley

    Democrats' midterm sweep is being read as a wake-up call for Silicon Valley, with AI infrastructure and chip stocks sliding as investors price in slower data center buildouts. Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa made data center opposition and Elon Musk central to her campaign, and new comptroller Sarah Eckhardt will review JETI subsidy applications. Tesla and SpaceX shares fell 11% and 9% on Thursday.

  2. MIT Technology Review · AI38

    I Watched a Tau Robotics Humanoid Robot Clean My Apartment

    MIT Technology Review tested Tau Robotics' humanoid cleaning service in San Francisco, where robots are remotely piloted by humans rather than fully autonomous. The robots collect training data for future autonomous models, with pricing at $60 per weekly cleaning with two robots or $100 for a one-time visit. The robot cleaned a kitchen and toilet but struggled with stairs and repeatedly stalled during the first visit.

  3. Platformer36

    The AI backlash needs a plan

    US voters punished Republicans over data centers and AI accelerationism, with bans or restrictions passed in at least 38 jurisdictions and pro-AI super PACs largely failing. Platformer argues that regulating AI cannot follow the social media playbook, which produced no comprehensive privacy law, no Section 230 reform and no new antitrust legislation despite years of hearings.

  4. Sierra Blog18

    Sierra inducted into JPMorganChase Hall of Innovation

    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.

  5. Newcomer22

    Newcomer and Felicis Launch Emergent: A Founder-Nominated List of 29 Seed-Stage AI Startups

    Newcomer and Felicis released Emergent, a list of 29 seed-stage or earlier startups nominated by current and former founder speakers from the Cerebral Valley AI Summits as having generational potential. Each company is capped at a seed round and paired with a blurb from its nominator. The largest cluster builds tools to run and control agents, with hardware, open source, and AI-native services also prominent.

  6. Gary Marcus · The Road to AI We Can Trust38

    Gary Marcus: AI Stock Selloff Hits Chipmakers and Neoclouds as Big Tech Diverges

    Gary Marcus said AI companies would no longer get a free ride, and the market split sharply: chipmakers and neoclouds like CoreWeave were hit hard while Amazon, Apple and Google bounced. He now describes the follow-on session as a slaughter with almost no company exempt, after investors rotated toward larger tech firms better able to weather a cash crunch.

  7. Sierra Blog58

    Sierra acquires Anon to add browser-based agent authentication and navigation

    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.

November 5Thursday
  1. Amazon Science18

    Amazon Scientist Hamed Karimi Wins 2026 ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award

    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.