Wednesday · November 11, 2026 Vol. I · No. 314
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies

In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every other country as a depende…

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OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers

OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropi…

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OpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models

Smartphone agents don't get better by processing more data. They improve by training on as many different apps as possible. The researchers behind OpenMobile-2 built an open train…

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AI · Policy & Ethics

Google’s New AI Policy: Your Gmail, Photos Data Could Fuel Targeted Ads - The420.in

Google’s New AI Policy: Your Gmail, Photos Data Could Fuel Targeted Ads  The420.in

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Goa unveils AI policy to diversify economy beyond tourism - TravelBiz Monitor

Goa unveils AI policy to diversify economy beyond tourism  TravelBiz Monitor

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Microsoft Open-Sources Agensh: A Multi-Agent Harness for 1,024 Agents

Microsoft Research open-sourced Agensh, a multi-agent harness with no central orchestrator. Self-organizing workers share a Git repo, chat and a findings board, scaling from 1 to …

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Cognition Open-Sources an Agent Plugin that Helps Secure Systems against Recent Cybersecurity Threats

Cognition released the Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, 3 MIT-licensed agent skills that inventory, patch and test PHP, Node.js and self-managed GitLab deployments hit by this we…

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How to Run Underdog Saluki 27B: 2-Bit Qwen3.8-27B Tool-Calling Guide

Explore a complete coding guide comparing Underdog Saluki 27B with ISTA's GSQ-RCO quantization, examining GGUF headers, memory usage, and BFCL tool-calling performance in stock ll…

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Ohio Labor Groups Back AI Regulation Bill HB 1032 - Hoodline

Ohio Labor Groups Back AI Regulation Bill HB 1032  Hoodline

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Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked

The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer. They …

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AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth

A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only seni…

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Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss

Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to reco…

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Japan weighs rewrite of its military AI policy - The Defence Blog

Japan weighs rewrite of its military AI policy  The Defence Blog

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OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache

OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. I…

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Meet Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime: OS-Level Sandboxing for AI Agents, No Containers

Anthropic sandbox-runtime (srt) is the open-source, OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code. It restricts file and network access for agents, MCP servers and CLI tools with Seatbelt o…

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Stateful Agentic Engineering Copilots with Letta: Core Memory, Shared State, Semantic Retrieval, Custom Tools, Streaming, and Portable Agent Workflows

Discover how to extend agentic memory beyond basic prompts by building a stateful engineering copilot with Letta. This comprehensive guide covers inspectable core memory, archival…

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Fancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds

A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup. Co…

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India’s Draft AI Regulation Consultation Paper Likely by November, Says Ashwini Vaishnaw - Elets CIO

India’s Draft AI Regulation Consultation Paper Likely by November, Says Ashwini Vaishnaw  Elets CIO

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NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B for local voice assistants, game characters and robots, targeting about 4GB o…

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Kyutai CADRE: Video Autoencoders That Cut World Model Lag Below 230 ms

Kyutai released CADRE, a family of 7 open causal diffusion video autoencoders for interactive world models. World models built on CADRE run at 20 fps on 1 H100 and react in under …

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A Starting Point for Your City’s AI Policy - League of Minnesota Cities

A Starting Point for Your City’s AI Policy  League of Minnesota Cities

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter, 104B-active MoE model with 1M-token context. It scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, costs $2/$10 per million tokens, and open…

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Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth place. Only three Anthropi…

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Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring

External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, w…