Wednesday · November 11, 2026 Vol. I · No. 314
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A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making

An AI agent performed brain surgery on an epileptic mouse, picking the drug, the brain target, and the injection coordinates on its own. According to lead researcher Ocana-Santero…

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Howard students need a teacher’s OK to use AI under new school policy - Capital Gazette

Howard students need a teacher’s OK to use AI under new school policy  Capital Gazette

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Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted remote access and data theft

A tampered Claude Code extension was live on the Cursor marketplace for about 11 hours, affecting up to 5,000 users. It tried to steal user data and set up remote access. Cursor t…

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Howard students need a teacher’s OK to use AI under new school policy - Baltimore Sun

Howard students need a teacher’s OK to use AI under new school policy  Baltimore Sun

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Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%

Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on SWE-Bench, w…

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OpenAI sets new behavioral guidelines for AI models that have already proven hard to control

OpenAI has updated its Model Spec, restructuring its AI behavior guidelines around five core values, including faithfulness to human intent and correctability. GPT models should n…

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AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare

Anthropic, OpenAI, Cloudflare and Google each released an AI agent that hunts security bugs in source code. All 4 use the same find, disprove, then patch loop. Here is how they di…

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Google's AI Mode doesn't drive traffic "for anybody," Reddit CEO Huffman warns the entire web

Reddit lost over one million Google search referrals per week in October, CEO Steve Huffman said. The stock dropped more than 25 percent despite strong earnings. Huffman blames Go…

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Confronting What Lurks in the Shadows: AI Regulation and Governance - Infosecurity Magazine

Confronting What Lurks in the Shadows: AI Regulation and Governance  Infosecurity Magazine

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Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours

Epoch AI researchers say the widely available AI model GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working exploits before updates reached Firefox users. It autonomously compromised…

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The Download: GLP-1s and eating disorders, self-aware cities, and forever chemicals

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s …

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AI Policy Fears Grip Stock, Bond Traders With Midterms Days Away - Yahoo Finance

AI Policy Fears Grip Stock, Bond Traders With Midterms Days Away  Yahoo Finance

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AI Policy Fears Grip Stock, Bond Traders With Midterms Days Away - Bloomberg.com

AI Policy Fears Grip Stock, Bond Traders With Midterms Days Away  Bloomberg.com

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New York enacts ban on ‘unsafe’ chatbot behavior with kids as states push AI reg­u­lation bound­aries - Spectrum News

New York enacts ban on ‘unsafe’ chatbot behavior with kids as states push AI reg­u­lation bound­aries  Spectrum News

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Healthcare AI regulation must follow the product as it changes - Innovation News Network

Healthcare AI regulation must follow the product as it changes  Innovation News Network

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Shawnee Mission work group to make recommendations for student AI policy - Johnson County Post

Shawnee Mission work group to make recommendations for student AI policy  Johnson County Post

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Eating disorders are on the rise. GLP-1s could make things worse.

GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are one of the biggest biotech breakthroughs of the last decade. But to some clinical psychologists, they can represent something more sinister—a potential…

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Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost

Samaya AI’s Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, beating Claude Fable 5.1’s 55…

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Amid Parent Pressure, SPUSD Closes In on AI Policy - Outlook Newspapers

Amid Parent Pressure, SPUSD Closes In on AI Policy  Outlook Newspapers

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New York Enacts Ban on 'Unsafe' Chatbot Behavior With Kids as Some States Push AI Regulation - Broadband Breakfast

New York Enacts Ban on 'Unsafe' Chatbot Behavior With Kids as Some States Push AI Regulation  Broadband Breakfast

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Japan's cyberattack surge fuels debate over tighter AI regulation, data-security rules - MLex

Japan's cyberattack surge fuels debate over tighter AI regulation, data-security rules  MLex

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Japan's cyberattack surge fuels debate over tighter AI regulation, data-security rules - MLex

Japan's cyberattack surge fuels debate over tighter AI regulation, data-security rules  MLex

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New York State Bans ‘Unsafe’ Chatbots for Kids as States Push AI Regulation Limits - Insurance Journal

New York State Bans ‘Unsafe’ Chatbots for Kids as States Push AI Regulation Limits  Insurance Journal

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Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model

Edge0 released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B open-weight zero-shot voice cloning TTS model under Apache 2.0. It supports 23 languages and adds a final GRPO stage driven by a learne…