Unions secure AI guardrails as 70% of US agencies use generative AI

OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Wallet for US Pro Subscribers to Buy via Dots Agents

OpenAI started rolling out ChatGPT Wallet on Tuesday, giving its Dots AI agents a way to actually...

Unions secure AI guardrails as 70% of US agencies use generative AI

Sixty-nine percent of US government agencies now use generative AI tools, according to a survey...

ChatGPT Wallet: AI agent on smartphone screen, credit card icon, shopping cart, and checkout button.

ChatGPT adds new Wallet to let AI agents shop and check out for you

OpenAI rolled out a new feature Friday that puts a payment card inside ChatGPT itself.

Claude's Duet agent displays Gemini meeting summaries, highlighting key points for a user at a desk.

Claude’s Duet agent links Gemini meeting summaries, neurotic but helpful

Anthropic rolled out Duet this week, its new consumer-facing agent for Claude, and it's built for...

AI Tools & Apps

Adobe, Google Expand AI Partnership; Gemini Powers Acrobat PDF Editing

Adobe and Google are deepening a partnership that already runs through both companies' product...

AI team analyzes data on screens, identifying new cement additive hypotheses for lab testing in six weeks.

AI team identifies new cement additive hypotheses in six weeks for lab testing

A team working with Saint-Gobain's materials scientists spent six weeks running AI models against...

Stripe's Kai AI agent, built in one week, navigating hundreds of internal tools for efficient operations.

Stripe Built Kai on Deep Agents in 1 Week to Navigate Hundreds of Internal Tools

Stripe's AI platform team built Kai, the company's internal "Knowledge AI" agent, in a single week...

November 11, 2026 • 4 min read

A gamer, head in hands, sits before a screen displaying "Big Walk" game, reflecting on AI use controversy.

Indie gaming reckons after House House admits using AI to fix Big Walk bug

House House spent years building goodwill with Untitled Goose Game, the kind of indie hit that made...

Business & Startups

AI agent startup LangChain hits USD 3B valuation after 2022 open-source launch

LangChain closed a $300 million Series C on Friday, putting the company's valuation at $3 billion.

November 13, 2026 • 2 min read

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley logos on a financial news screen, symbolizing the bar on Chinese investors from the Anthropi

Goldman, Morgan Stanley Bar Chinese Investors From Anthropic IPO

Anthropic's IPO paperwork comes with a geographic asterisk. Bloomberg reported that banks handling...

Anthropic IPO oversubscribed, aiming for $1.4 trillion valuation. Image shows a stylized graph with an upward trend.

Anthropic IPO Six Times Oversubscribed, USD 1.4 Trillion Valuation Target

Anthropic's bankers are sitting on six times more demand than they have shares to sell.

ReNew Power CEO, Sumant Sinha, on stage at a green data center conference, discussing India's AI future.

ReNew Pledges Rs 80,000 Cr for Green Data Centre to Fuel India's AI Push

ReNew Energy Global is putting roughly ₹80,000 crore into Andhra Pradesh, betting that India's data...

Research & Benchmarks

OpenAI board member warns AI takeover of society could be months away

Paul Christiano has spent years thinking about what happens when AI systems get smarter than the...

Former OpenAI researcher maps six Chinese AI models to Nvidia Blackwell

Will DePue spent his days at OpenAI building Sora, Sora 2, GPT-4o, o3, and GPT-5.

Google DeepMind staff protest for unionization, holding signs outside a UK government building, seeking official recognition.

Google DeepMind Staff Tap UK Government to Escalate Unionization Fight

Google DeepMind staff have called in the UK government to break a stalemate over unionization.

Astra's coding test results, a red downward trend arrow on a screen, undetected by safety checks.

Astra's coding test results dropped 40% undetected by safety checks

GPT-6 Astra passed a batch of internal coding benchmarks last month with scores that looked, on...

Policy & Regulation

Australia's Parliament House, a symbol of governance, with a subtle AI-generated neural network overlay, representing the pro

Australia proposes AI safety bill requiring independent frontier model testing

Australia's government wants frontier AI companies to let outsiders check their homework before new...

November 11, 2026 • 4 min read

United Airlines blocks AI agents from booking flights, a digital tablet displays a flight search interface with a "bot detect

United blocks AI agents from booking flights despite low usage

United has decided your AI assistant can look but not touch. The airline confirmed it won't let...

OpenAI and Anthropic logos on screens, symbolizing new New York AI safety law taking effect, increasing oversight.

OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York AI safety law takes effect

New York opened a registration portal Tuesday that will require OpenAI, Anthropic and other large...

November 10, 2026 • 3 min read

Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41% of freelance jobs, up from 2.5% a year ago

Anthropic's latest AI model, Fable 5.2, just completed 41.3 percent of real freelance jobs on the...

November 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

Microsoft Outlook Outage Hits 130,000 U.S. Users, Fix Unsuccessful

Microsoft's first attempt to fix a global outage has not worked. The disruption, which began...

November 11, 2026 • 4 min read

Nvidia GR00T AI watches humans on video, imagining itself as a robot, symbolizing advanced humanoid robotics.

Nvidia's GR00T 2 watches humans on video, imagines itself as robot

Teaching a robot a new task normally means someone sitting at a controller for hours, guiding the...

Google's new TPU chips, designed for AI and machine learning, are displayed on a circuit board, symbolizing their rapid devel

Google Ships Four TPU Variants in One Year as Nvidia Competition Rises

Google has shipped four distinct TPU systems in the past twelve months, a pace the company says is...

November 9, 2026 • 4 min read

Humanoid robot tidies a modern living room; Samsung's AI-powered smart home devices are visible, reflecting the AI boom.

The Download: A humanoid cleans house and Samsung builds for the AI boom

A startup called Tau Robotics sent a humanoid robot into a San Francisco apartment to clean it, and...

November 6, 2026 • 3 min read

Open Source

Keyword Search Tied an 8B Embedding Model at Picking Agent Tools

A developer ran a test that most teams building AI agents skip: what happens to tool retrieval as...

Perplexity AI's new Decider v1.3 interface, showing "Locate" feature and "91.6% Accuracy" metric.

Perplexity Releases Decider v1.3 With Locate, Self-Reported 91.6% Accuracy

Perplexity put out two new models on Hugging Face this week: pplx-decider-v1.3 and a smaller...

LiquidCodec's 74M-parameter streaming audio codec displayed on a screen, representing Liquid AI's new release.

Liquid AI Releases LiquidCodec, a 74M-Parameter Streaming Audio Codec

Liquid AI put out LiquidCodec on Hugging Face this week, a 74-million-parameter audio codec built...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, looking contemplative, stands before a blurred background suggesting a tech conference, symbolizing

Nvidia CEO Exit, Hugging Face Deal in Doubt

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO on Thursday, three days after admitting to an affair with a...

Industry Applications

A factory floor with robotic arms assembling components, overseen by a technician at a computer displaying code and a "Claude

Anthropic's Claude for Manufacturing plugs AI into factory software

Anthropic rolled out Claude for Manufacturing this week, a plugin that wires the chatbot straight...

AI-powered tablet displaying patient data, held by a nurse interacting with an elderly patient in a hospital room.

AI Helps Care Teams Spend More Time With Patients

A patient's chart at a typical hospital can run thousands of pages, scattered across physicians'...