Wednesday · November 11, 2026 Vol. I · No. 314
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Armenia loses voting rights in CSTO over debt obligations: what we know Timberwolves Adding Johni Broome On Two-Day Deal Lavrov comments on US envoys’ upcoming Moscow visit following Abu Dhabi talks Iran, Oman reach understanding on Hormuz shipping routes — Iranian parliament speaker AWS open-sources UAEF, a tool to test AI agents across frameworks Putin, Japarov discuss investment cooperation Mayors, Police, and Prosecutors in Crosshairs as Chile’s Criminal Groups Expand Germany’s AfD and Left Party call for Russia to be allowed to compete in Ice Hockey World Champions… Armenia loses voting rights in CSTO over debt obligations: what we know Timberwolves Adding Johni Broome On Two-Day Deal Lavrov comments on US envoys’ upcoming Moscow visit following Abu Dhabi talks Iran, Oman reach understanding on Hormuz shipping routes — Iranian parliament speaker AWS open-sources UAEF, a tool to test AI agents across frameworks Putin, Japarov discuss investment cooperation Mayors, Police, and Prosecutors in Crosshairs as Chile’s Criminal Groups Expand Germany’s AfD and Left Party call for Russia to be allowed to compete in Ice Hockey World Champions…

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Beyond the AI Policy: Privilege, Confidentiality and Governance in Practice - Dentons

Beyond the AI Policy: Privilege, Confidentiality and Governance in Practice  Dentons

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UAF has no unified AI policy - The Sun Star

UAF has no unified AI policy  The Sun Star

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CHS students walk out, protesting gun violence, calling for AI regulation - cbs19news.com

CHS students walk out, protesting gun violence, calling for AI regulation  cbs19news.com

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U.S. AI Policy Chief: Recommendations on Responsible AI Development to Be Released Soon - 富途牛牛

U.S. AI Policy Chief: Recommendations on Responsible AI Development to Be Released Soon  富途牛牛

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A cleaner path to rare earth metals

Tomás Villalón Jr. ’14 was raised in San Antonio, Texas, but vividly remembers smog hanging over the city his family came from—Monterrey, Mexico, a steel manufacturing and metal f…

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A champion for brain injury patients

Alissa Totman ’13 was a sophomore when she joined MIT BrainTrust, a student-run organization that connects Institute undergraduates and people with brain injuries for support and …

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Nebraska native explores galaxies far, far away

Growing up on a small farm in Nebraska, Megan Donahue ’85 discovered the wider world by reading her way through her local library. Today, she is learning how the wider universe wo…

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A good TA: priceless

These are images of quizzes I took in 3.091, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, in the fall of 1980. One is my very first exam at MIT, and getting 49 out of 100 was a soul-cru…

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Taking a swing at a pickleball startup

In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances.  He did not. “I spent my early years trying not to g…

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Robotic therapy for stroke patients

Strokes leave 5 million people with long-term impairments each year, and a growing shortage of physical therapists makes it hard for them to get the care they need. A new approach…

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A reason to eat carbs

A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can help some people lose weight, and some research has shown that it may protect against colon cancer. But a new study suggests that such a keto…

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Melt it, spin it, use it again

The average American throws out around 81 pounds of clothing each year, and there are few options for recycling it. MIT engineers hope to cut down on that textile waste with a new…

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Here’s the tea

When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he had no reason to doubt its story. D…

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a robo-puffin?

Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or so one might assume. Yet birds like gulls and puffins can pl…

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Students protest at State House, call for AI regulation - WCVB

Students protest at State House, call for AI regulation  WCVB

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Astrolab’s upcoming rover will run the first LLMs on the moon

Large language models are set to go lunar. A computer capable of running AI software is one of the payloads aboard Astrolab’s FLIP lunar rover, which is slated to head to Earth’s …

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Elevenlabs releases two new speech-to-speech models designed for real-time AI conversations

Elevenlabs' new Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech models combine speed and accuracy. The v1 Max variant scores 98.8 percent on the Big Bench Audio benchmark with a 0.57-second resp…

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Deepseek open-sources the inference engine that powers its fastest and cheapest AI model

Deepseek is open-sourcing DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its fast V4.1-Flash model. The vLLM-based system cuts compute costs and energy use when running AI models. The …

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MHRA seeks closer ties with US FDA on MedTech and AI regulation - Pharmacy Business

MHRA seeks closer ties with US FDA on MedTech and AI regulation  Pharmacy Business

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Mistral AI launches Voxtral 3, a full voice agent stack that listens, thinks, and talks in real time

Mistral AI launched Voxtral 3, a new family of language models built for real-time voice agents. The system combines speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and a voice agent SDK, support…

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Meta’s Muse hits 10M U.S. downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps

Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retain…

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Sam Altman reportedly pitched three endgames for AI safety, one involving a single firm melting everyone else's GPUs

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out three paths to safe AI in an internal presentation: an international watchdog modeled after the IAEA, a merger of the major labs into one entity, or…

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Tech industry leader raises concern about NYC AI regulation - PIX11

Tech industry leader raises concern about NYC AI regulation  PIX11

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OpenAI says GPT-6 is much better with legacy programming languages such as COBOL and Fortran

OpenAI improved its latest models for low-resource programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. On the new MultiLangBench, GPT-6 Astra hits an 87.4 percent test pa…