2026-11-05
Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M to bolster its AI infrastructure
The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.
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2026-11-05
Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers
Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once.
2026-11-05
Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval system
The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
2026-11-05
A YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI
Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
2026-11-05
Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI
Catherine Wu, the founding product lead for Claude Code, is leaving Anthropic for OpenAI…
2026-11-05
The hidden supply chain costs of the AI boom
Today, I’m talking with Willy Shih, an economist, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, and the author of the upcoming book…
2026-11-05
Together AI Releases Together Compiler: Agents Make Inference Up to 2.6x Faster
Together AI released Together Compiler, an agent-driven loop that keeps re-optimizing the inference forward pass as traffic shifts.
2026-11-05
OpenAI Launches GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst: Adds GIFs, SVG Export and 6-Second API Generation
OpenAI released Images 2.6 and the GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst API models.
2026-11-05
OpenAI is buying the Git layer under Codex: what the Pierre Computer Company deal changes, and when
OpenAI has agreed to acquire Pierre Computer Company, the firm behind the Trees and Diffs libraries already inside the Codex app and the Code Storage service; the deal is…
2026-11-05
OpenAI launches Images 2.6 with GIFs and image reference
OpenAI Images 2.6 brings animated GIFs, faster image generation, Flare and Sunburst API models, and more precise editing controls.
2026-11-05
Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
2026-11-05
Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
2026-11-05
OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
2026-11-05
Latest Fundraising Efforts Show OpenAI & Anthropic on Divergent Paths
Tepid interest in its latest financing & Anthropic’s enterprise dominance have left OpenAI scrambling for a strategy
2026-11-05
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
2026-11-05
The Enterprise Case for Open-Weight Models on Databricks
As field engineers at Databricks, we spend our days inside enterprise AI deployments,...
2026-11-05
ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 model
OpenAI is adding a GIF feature to ChatGPT. With the new Images 2.6 model, users can create animated GIFs from text prompts or photos and then adjust speed and individual frames.
2026-11-05
[AINews] Behind Latent Space: Kill My SaaS, Jev & AI in 2026 | AIEi Shanghai
November 3, 2026 — A quiet day lets us share some behind the senes.
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2026-11-05
Anthropic's text watermark is easy to bypass on several older Claude models
Anthropic is rolling out text watermarks to four more Claude models ahead of the EU AI Act's December deadline.
2026-11-05
OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents
OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, the startup whose libraries already power the coding agent Codex.
2026-11-05
Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line.
2026-11-05
Four layers of context engineering for production AI agents: How Deep Insight applies them in working code
In production AI agents, context management is the real bottleneck.
2026-11-05
How Indegene is modernizing and scaling enterprise data quality in life sciences
This post explores how Indegene built a production-grade, LLM-powered Data Quality Agent in its NEXT Unified Data Platform on AWS.
2026-11-05
How U Mobile built agentic telco operations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
U Mobile, Malaysia's newest 5G network provider, built AiDaH…
2026-11-04
Gemini for Home now plugs into AT&T’s smart security system
AT&T's smart home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home.
2026-11-04
OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
2026-11-04
ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs
ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot.
2026-11-04
Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.
2026-11-04
Postman's installer, and a headline that outruns the evidence
Postman's desktop app installed plugins into OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code during an auto-upgrade, and its installer approved its own startup hook…
2026-11-04
v2.1.318
What's changed Added a record of your answer when Claude Code asks to turn on the mods it writes in a session Added assume_role on mantle upstreams of the Claude apps gateway…
