2026-11-06
Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work
Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents.
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2026-11-06
AI Cloud 2026: 138 Companies Across 13 Layers
A comprehensive analysis of the 2026 AI cloud ecosystem covering 138 companies across 13 layers reveals the complete industry landscape from compute resources to Agent sandboxes.
2026-11-06
Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates
Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.
2026-11-06
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30% lower pricing.
2026-11-06
No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark
SemiAnalysis is putting AI agents through simulated knowledge work in its new GDPx benchmark, covering everything from chip design to quant trading. No model breaks 12 percent.
2026-11-06
Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics
As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification.
2026-11-06
Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI models
Tencent has unveiled Hy4, its first multimodal language model that understands images and can operate software on its own.
2026-11-06
The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open Models
Chris Alexiuk has a simple rule about open source AI: If you believe in it, be loud about it.
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.
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 5 unsolved materials science problems for AI
While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences…
2026-11-05
Claude AI can plug directly into your bank account
Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead…
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
GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
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
Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology
Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.
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
Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
2026-11-05
Flipsnack grows product signups with conversion optimization
Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.
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.
