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5 storiesThe short versionGoogle opened Gemini 4 Carbon to every paying developer, and AWS released a free emulator of 200 of its services that AI agents wrote without human review.Full rundown
Google's strongest model is out of the defenders-only box. Gemini 4 Carbon is now open to every paying Gemini API developer at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output (both double after November 30). Over at Amazon, AWS released a free emulator of more than 200 of its services that autonomous agents wrote. Nobody on the team reviewed it. Agents keep testing it against real AWS and fixing whatever doesn't match.
Update Chrome. Version 157.0.8103.78 fixes 83 security flaws, and Google rates five of them Critical. If you run Node.js, 22.23.5, 24.22.3 and 26.13.1 are out too.
Railway published its full report on the October attack, and the attacker wanted AI provider keys, searched for by name, which then ran up about $740,000 in usage. Grok's app builder has its own leak. Claroc found 35,578 published Grok apps a stranger could open without signing in, 24 of them made by SpaceXSI and X staff.
Then there's Musk, who said Grok 4.8 is "Not as good" as Claude Opus 5.5. He thinks Grok 5 should pass it in two or three months. In England, the Office for Students wants far more AI-free assessment, since AI can carry a student through unsupervised coursework.
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Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, to paying developers and AI Ultra subscribers
The introductory price doubles after November 30, and Anthropic's own table puts Fable 5.2 ahead on coding.
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AWS releases a free emulator of 200 services, and says AI agents wrote every line
One engineer's weekend prompt to Kiro became a product that hundreds of agents now build, test and maintain on their own.
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Claroc finds 35,578 Grok-built apps open to anyone, including SpaceXSI's own sales data
The company that makes Grok had its own sales plans open, and its publish button proposed Anyone with the link.
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Railway says an attacker hunting AI keys ran up an estimated $740,000 on stolen credentials
Railway believes the keys were bound for model distillation, and it'll pay the bills some AI providers won't refund.
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Musk says Grok 4.8 trails Claude Opus 5.5, which he calls a masterpiece
Grok 4.8 was supposed to finish training in September; SpaceXSI rewrote its training stack in C instead.
Running stories6
Photo: UK Government, CC BY 2.0Grok 4 8 roadmap
- Nov 11Musk says Grok 4.8 trails Claude Opus 5.5, which he calls a masterpiece
- Sep 14The day after agreeing AI should slow down, Musk said Grok 4.8 finishes training this week
METR Anthropic rd acceleration
- Nov 10AI Futures Project now expects a superhuman AI researcher in 2027, citing METR's Anthropic report
- Nov 5METR estimates Anthropic's model progress has roughly doubled in pace, mostly from using its own AI
OpenAI agent australia medicare
- Nov 10Albanese says Australia will create an AI safety regulator that can impose significant penalties
- Sep 28Australian Senate inquiry calls Altman and Amodei to Canberra over data centers, not just the hack
- Sep 24An OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare portal in June, but OpenAI told Australia in September
Meta's Muse agent and models
- Nov 9Meta's Muse Ember matches Claude Haiku 5.5 at about a third of the cost per task
- Oct 20Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after a security firm finds 6,800 share addresses in public DNS
- Oct 15Meta releases Muse Spark Open's weights, tuned with Apple to run on two Mac Studios
Photo: Anderseidesvik, CC BY-SA 4.0Nvidia huang megaspeed briefing
- Nov 9Nvidia's board opens an independent investigation after reports Jensen Huang was a foreign intelligence target
- Nov 8Three House chairmen ask Nvidia's Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on Megaspeed's Alice Huang
ARTEX, the hacking agent that keeps turning up
- Nov 6Censys finds 1,465 exposed ARTEX AI hacking consoles, some beside exploit kits
- Oct 22Microsoft says a China-aligned group used the ARTEX AI agent to breach ConnectWise and hundreds more
- Oct 10ARTEX's author takes the AI pentesting agent closed-source after CrowdStrike tied it to Korean bank breaches
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In brief4
GoogleGemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions
Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API, which runs on a new model called Gemini Decision and is built to return fast, calibrated decisions from multimodal input. blog.google →
GoogleTry Tabletop: Customizable, collaborative spaces for groups to plan, play and do more together.
Google Labs opened a waitlist for Tabletop, an experiment where a group builds shared polls and brackets in one customizable space. blog.google →
GoogleAlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease
Google DeepMind described AlphaGenome 2, a model that predicts how DNA sequences and the variations in them affect specific human cell types and disease. deepmind.google →
OpenAIChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers
OpenAI put up a new page on ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers on November 11, 2026, Veterans Day in the United States. openai.com →
From the labs' own feeds10
Releases 1
0.167.2Codex CLI+5 preLab posts 2
Status 2
- Outage · OpenAIElevated errors affecting logins, sign-ups, and ChatGPT features
- Deprecation · AnthropicAnthropic model deprecations: page updated (1 added, 1 removed)
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MoreAnthropic launches Claude Sheets and Whiteboards, but Claude Meetings is still coming soon
Claude can now build the spreadsheet and the whiteboard itself, while the meeting assistant is still only a promise.
November 10, 2026AI Futures Project now expects a superhuman AI researcher in 2027, citing METR's Anthropic report
Nov 10Anthropic releases Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, but limited their skill at speeding up AI research
Nov 9PSI says a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, open since 2008
Nov 6Claude can now read your bank and card accounts through Plaid, but it can't move money
Nov 5METR estimates Anthropic's model progress has roughly doubled in pace, mostly from using its own AI
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Photo: Eladkarmel, CC BY-SA 4.0Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT was sold as safe while it harmed Texans
The release names no victims and lists no demands, and puts the blame on OpenAI's race to win.
October 24, 2026OpenAI and Anthropic each say an internal AI model disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Nov 7Altman quotes Amodei's 2024 essay without naming him, and says OpenAI is against the idea
Nov 7OpenAI rates GPT-6 Cyber Critical in cybersecurity and limits it to vetted Daybreak Red users
Nov 5Sam Altman tells Stanford students AI is finding bugs faster than patching can fix them
Oct 25OpenAI takes frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through DNS
Oct 24
AI safety
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Trump says his team told a big AI company's leader to get ready for jail
He wouldn't name the executive. On 60 Minutes he also said he doesn't mind AI guardrails, as long as China doesn't pull ahead.
November 9, 2026Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
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MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
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