At Block Builderlab Launch Event 2026, Block showed AI agents working in shared team workspaces as named, auditable colleagues, a suite Block built for itself and now sells to other businesses.
OpenAI released new security products and argued organizations face serious exposure if they don't adopt them. Specific product names and pricing were not given in the source.
Ambience Prepare is a pre-visit workstream whose Chart Prep feature turns longitudinal patient records into evidence-linked briefings, flags unresolved questions and helps clinicians prepare for upcoming encounters.
Why it matters: Business Profiles give companies a way to appear inside ChatGPT, shifting how customers find services.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Business Profiles, according to ThinkAdvisor, a feature aimed at financial advisors and other professionals who want a presence inside ChatGPT.
RemotePC MCP is a hosted integration that lets compatible AI assistants inspect and manage computers already set up in RemotePC. Available now for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex and Grok.
Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing: discovering creators, managing outreach and partnerships, and tracking campaign results for brands.
Why it matters: A prompt-injection-resistant open model series could set a new baseline for agent security.
IBM released Granite 4.1 3B and 8B models built around LLMON, an LLM-native markup language designed to resist prompt injection by structuring model input. Weights are on Hugging Face.
Catalyst is an AI marketing agent for small businesses that plans campaigns, creates content, distributes it across channels and uses results to shape later work. Free early-access waitlist is open.
Why it matters: Perplexity's open-weight Decider models add precise text-span extraction for query classification.
Perplexity released Decider v1.3 and Decider Flash v1.3, adding verbatim text-span extraction and downloadable Apache-2.0 weights. The larger model reports 91.6% mean accuracy across 63 query-classification tasks.
Why it matters: Shows how brokers expose agent-facing trading tools while gating live execution.
Alpaca launched Claude connectors on Nov 12 that bring simulated order placement and live portfolio monitoring into chats while keeping live trade execution outside the assistant; J.Crew and Echo Harbor also ship Claude tools.
AgentRun is an open-source project on Show HN for self-improving managed AI agents. It lets developers run agents that adjust their own behavior over time.
Horizon3 announced an AI Security Lab that draws on data from its NodeZero penetration-testing platform to study and improve AI-driven security testing.
RightRev launched RightAgents, a suite of AI agents that check contracts and explain balance changes to keep revenue accounting aligned with usage-based contracts.
Why it matters: OpenAI's revenue and loss figures are a key signal on the economics of frontier AI.
OpenAI's quarterly revenue reached $10 billion, but its adjusted losses widened, raising questions about whether the AI boom is profitable at current spending levels.
Expo made Expo Simulators available on paid plans, giving AI coding agents cloud iOS simulators and Android emulators to run and verify app changes at $0.10 per simulator minute.
Three entertainment industry veterans launched Distinkt, an AI-powered agency representing global talent, per Variety. Details of its AI tools and clients were not disclosed.
Trust Stamp launched Knowing Consent, a biometric approval system letting banks verify a customer's identity before processing transactions initiated by AI agents.
Phota Labs is building an AI photo editor that automates editing so anyone can turn everyday photos into professional-looking shots, rather than adding another manual editing tool.
Decagon introduced Missions, which lets AI customer-service agents pursue a defined outcome across multiple conversations, systems and participants for days, weeks or months.
Deloitte introduced Edisyl, a Boston-based enterprise AI venture built on Knowledge Packs that combine domain expertise with proprietary company data, from its acquisition of Flipside Crypto's AI business.
Why it matters: Nvidia's slide and leadership questions ripple across the AI compute market.
Reuters, Axios and Bloomberg reports describe Nvidia's stock rout, options traders betting on longer-term recovery, retail buyers limiting the selloff, and industry questions about a future without CEO Jensen Huang.
Why it matters: A coordinated legal push to pause frontier model releases would be the biggest test yet of AI liability.
Advocacy groups sued major AI developers including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic seeking to freeze new models over catastrophic risks. Separately, Reservoir expanded Suno and Anthropic infringement suits toward $450M and inventors sued Anthropic over neural network patents.
Insight Enterprises launched its online Agent Store in 14 countries on Nov. 12, adding six agentic offerings to reach 15 total across the US, Canada, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Marveri, founded by former Morrison & Foerster lawyer Connor Acle and MIT researcher Emily Mu, drafts full disclosure schedules from a whole data room with citations, replacing work that can take 12 hours or more.
Feedzai expands its Digital Trust platform with AI agent detection, helping banks identify when automated agents, rather than humans, are transacting to prevent fraud.
Why it matters: Makes an AI agent the default interface for millions of sellers' operations.
Square expands agentic AI, making its Squaremates business agent the primary entry point to Square Dashboard and adding tools for sellers to connect accounts to outside AI assistants.
Clipto enables AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to search and analyze years of a person's meetings and video calls, filling a gap in personal data access for AI assistants.
NiCE announced the next generation of its Cognigy platform for building customer-service AI agents, adding AI-assisted development, reusable skills, decision tracing and native voice-to-voice interaction.
Dutch sync-tech startup Ringo, which launched an AI-powered licensing platform in 2025, unveiled Charlie, an AI assistant inside WhatsApp that helps with music sync licensing.
Innodisk announced an expansion of its AI data-center portfolio, pairing enterprise SSDs (3TS9-P, 4TS2-P, 5TS-P series) with DDR5 and CXL memory for cloud service providers and neocloud operators handling AI training and inference.
Exowatt announced P3 Gen 2, a redesigned modular solar-thermal system for utility projects and AI data centers, plus a standardized 1 MW Exobloc validation unit and plans for a 2.4 GW Athena data-center development.
Why it matters: AMD's new server CPUs are a direct challenge to Nvidia in AI datacenter compute.
AMD launched its Zen 6-based sixth-generation EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs, aiming to gain share with better price-performance than rivals; AMD claims 3.75 times Nvidia performance.
Chinese auto supplier Joyson Electronics said it delivered its first high-performance robotic brain compute module to Unitree, adding computing power to its robots.
Qvyon Technologies launched with $8M in total funding, led by MaC Venture Capital, for infrastructure and software that helps companies validate autonomous vehicles and robots before deployment.
Vertiv introduced the PowerNexus MV UPS on November 12, 2026, a 3.0 MVA outdoor system protecting AI data centers at their medium-voltage grid connection. Shipments to colocation, neocloud and hyperscale operators begin mid-2027.
Why it matters: Open-weight robotics world model from a video AI leader could accelerate robot learning.
Praxis-1 is a world action model for robotics from Runway, now available with open weights for developers, with partners including Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra.
Why it matters: Signals growing demand for Nvidia alternatives in AI inference compute.
Cerebras raised its annual sales forecast on strong AI-linked demand; analysts focus on OpenAI compute deliveries and margins as the chip maker tries to expand beyond OpenAI.
Why it matters: Japan consolidates a national effort to standardize physical AI and robotics models.
Panasonic Holdings announced its Manufacturing Commons initiative, project KMC, to build AI and robotics reference models in Japan via industry, government and academic collaboration.
Why it matters: Intel's alliance and GPU push aim to win AI infrastructure share against Nvidia amid its leadership turmoil.
Intel introduced a new GPU and formed an AI alliance with 23 Korean companies, pitching its infrastructure products and design capabilities to win Korean AI deals.
OnePlus began rolling out the Android 17-based ColorOS 17 update for OnePlus 12 ahead of the November 17 schedule, adding new AI and security features.
IBM's Quantum Nighthawk r3 processor has 520 programmable qubits and supports 10,000 quantum operations; two will link into a 1,040-qubit system in 2027.
Meta released update 130 for five AI glasses styles after finding moisture or sweat can make some units too warm. The fix covers overheating and explains how to update and request a replacement.
Why it matters: Intel proposes pairing AI compute with stranded renewable power outside conventional data centers.
At CIIE 2026, Intel China showcased AI computing pods intended to turn untapped renewable energy into AI tokens, with deployments slated for the first half of 2027.
Why it matters: Agentic workloads are turning Kubernetes into an inference and orchestration layer for AI infrastructure.
As AI spending shifts from training to serving models and running agents, the Kubernetes community is building tools to handle huge volumes of inference calls from single prompts.
Why it matters: Business Profiles give companies a way to appear inside ChatGPT, shifting how customers find services.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Business Profiles, according to ThinkAdvisor, a feature aimed at financial advisors and other professionals who want a presence inside ChatGPT.
Amplitude's proactive product agent Wave, built on OpenAI models, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents and measures impact, cutting product cycles to one or two days.
AWS shows how to track and cap Amazon Bedrock spend per IAM principal using CUR 2.0, Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets actions that apply a Deny policy, and compares four Bedrock inference cost options.
RemotePC MCP is a hosted integration that lets compatible AI assistants inspect and manage computers already set up in RemotePC. Available now for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex and Grok.
AgentRun is an open-source project on Show HN for self-improving managed AI agents. It lets developers run agents that adjust their own behavior over time.
Expo made Expo Simulators available on paid plans, giving AI coding agents cloud iOS simulators and Android emulators to run and verify app changes at $0.10 per simulator minute.
Phota Labs is building an AI photo editor that automates editing so anyone can turn everyday photos into professional-looking shots, rather than adding another manual editing tool.
Pinecone's Documents API now supports Google's Gemini Embedding 2, generating embeddings on writes and queries via Vertex AI. It removes the need for a separate Google Cloud account and costs $0.20 per 1M tokens.
Crush is a terminal-based AI assistant that gives developers coding help directly in the command line. Version 0.101.0 is available via npm as @charmland/crush.
KORA Systems, a Silicon Valley startup, is building an AI-centric operating system with Qualcomm, planning a PC OS launch in 2027 before expanding to smartphones.
Cursor's Grok Bot browser has been offline since Nov 8: updates never complete and repeated resets leave it hanging (ticket T-J64440). Its GitHub connector also lacks rebase, reset, force-push, branch delete and secure token storage.
Clipto enables AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to search and analyze years of a person's meetings and video calls, filling a gap in personal data access for AI assistants.
Amp, a frontier coding agent and development environment, shipped new versions of its npm CLI, which developers install via npm i -g @ampcode/cli to run the agent from the terminal.
A guide explains low-rank adaptation (LoRA), which fine-tunes a frozen model by learning small low-rank update matrices instead of changing every parameter, covering trade-offs, evaluation and controls.
Concentrate AI launched a HIPAA-compliant AI gateway that uses a single BAA to simplify model access for healthcare organizations and reduce inference costs.
The Linux Foundation added the Agent Name Service, which provides discoverability for agents operating across the internet, backed by 11 companies including Cisco and Salesforce.
A 3D interactive world styled as an N-gauge model railway of Fürth and the line to Munich, built with Claude; every train, bus and tram runs on real timetable and sensor data, with nothing hand-animated.
AutoCut AI is a Windows app that automatically removes silence from audio and video recordings, so you can cut dead air without editing by hand. It is available for download from the Microsoft Store.
Pika H3 Flex is a six-step post-training of MiniMax-H3 that generates video with audio, using two rank-128 LoRA adapters for text/image-to-video and reference-to-video. A Hugging Face Gradio Space offers the demo; code is released.
Sophon-Realtime v1 is an open, Apache-2.0 full-duplex voice model that listens continuously, picks up when you stop talking and lets you interrupt, while sensing tone such as hesitation or sarcasm.
P-H3-Image is a 20-billion-parameter image generation network from Pruna AI, released with a Hugging Face Space demo app so anyone can try it in the browser.
A developer released code and a paper for training a 27B model on a single 24GB RTX 3090, requiring hundreds of billions of tokens for good quality, alongside converted model repos and a 40.4GB Qwen GGUF.
A Hugging Face Space runs an uncensored version of the Qwen-Image-2.1 image model for generating and editing images, using a LoRA on the official Diffusers weights with ZeroGPU.
An agent skill for Claude Code and Codex that builds a playable browser 3D action game in a single HTML file with AI-generated assets, using three.js. Includes a playable demo.
Diffusers is Hugging Face's open-source PyTorch library for running and training diffusion models for image, video and audio generation. v0.43.0 adds five modular model integrations across image generation, editing, video with audio, speech-driven animation and world simulation, plus attention and LoRA improvements.
An open-source, self-hosted Slack alternative where teams and AI agents share channels and DMs; agents run on Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, Gemini or Grok with MCP tools, a browser, memory and approvals.
CMS will debut its six-axis Krearob robotic large-format additive manufacturing system at Formnext 2026 in Frankfurt. Separately, a GitHub project called blender-ai-mcp-addon adds an AI assistant and MCP server to Blender for 3D chat, scene tools and multi-agent workflows.
Yogurt is a free, open-source TypeScript app that takes private AI meeting notes, keeping transcripts and summaries local rather than sending them to a hosted service. It drew 133 GitHub stars in its first week.
LASIK is a static CLI and MCP server that reverses Blind LLM Agents hardening so coding agents can read real code again, without executing the target. It reached 100 GitHub stars in its first week.
Huawei-CSL's MACaQ is a model-agnostic quantization method for GGUF and local inference that claims to beat Unsloth GGUFs, letting users quantize and run text, image, video and audio models with llama.cpp, vLLM, Diffusers and PyTorch. llama.cpp adds an FP8 KV-cache.
Brain4Agent is a Python memory module designed to give mainstream AI agents long-term memory tuned for Chinese, Japanese and Korean text; the repo drew 100 stars in its first week.
lot-map is an open-source TypeScript tool that puts a live map beside the Claude Code chat, lighting up tool calls, model steps, hooks, skills and subagents as they happen. Runs locally in five languages.
Pydantic AI is a Python framework for building AI agents with typed models, realtime voice, image generation and embeddings. Versions 2.67.0 and 2.68.0 add SubAgents support under durable execution and strip default-ignorable characters in ArtifactScanner.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Business Profiles, according to ThinkAdvisor, a feature aimed at financial advisors and other professionals who want a presence inside ChatGPT.
Phota Labs is building an AI photo editor that automates editing so anyone can turn everyday photos into professional-looking shots, rather than adding another manual editing tool.
Clipto enables AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to search and analyze years of a person's meetings and video calls, filling a gap in personal data access for AI assistants.
AutoCut AI is a Windows app that automatically removes silence from audio and video recordings, so you can cut dead air without editing by hand. It is available for download from the Microsoft Store.
Tuya Cloud Devices, an open-source skill named gadget-tuya-cloud, lets Meta's Muse AI agent query and control Tuya smart home devices via cloud APIs without local keys or firmware changes.
Manus is a general AI agent that runs tasks rather than just answering. Version 26.19.12 on iPhone and 2.1.3 on Mac add Manus 2.0 Remote Control to drive a computer from a phone, plus Studio collaboration.
Philippine funeral firm St. Peter ran an 'If Heaven Could Write' online campaign from Oct. 27 to Nov. 2, giving customers a digital, interactive, AI-assisted experience of receiving a letter from Heaven.
Google expanded its Gemini ecosystem with a faster, lower-cost decision-making API, Gemini in CarPlay, a hidden list of 134 apps supporting Gemini task automation, editable Memory, and Chrome product-review prompts.
Tencent's Yuanbao Search, at so.qq.com and in QQ Browser, gives AI answers over the web, WeChat Official Accounts, Channels and academic papers, with cited sources and collapsible ads.
Gamma is an AI design tool that turns a prompt into a presentation, document, website or social post. Version 1.1.3 for iPhone and iPad adds new consent options in settings.
As AI spending shifts from training to serving models and running agents, the Kubernetes community is building tools to handle huge volumes of inference calls from single prompts.
Amplitude's proactive product agent Wave, built on OpenAI models, identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents and measures impact, cutting product cycles to one or two days.
AWS shows how to track and cap Amazon Bedrock spend per IAM principal using CUR 2.0, Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets actions that apply a Deny policy, and compares four Bedrock inference cost options.
RemotePC MCP is a hosted integration that lets compatible AI assistants inspect and manage computers already set up in RemotePC. Available now for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex and Grok.
AgentRun is an open-source project on Show HN for self-improving managed AI agents. It lets developers run agents that adjust their own behavior over time.
Expo made Expo Simulators available on paid plans, giving AI coding agents cloud iOS simulators and Android emulators to run and verify app changes at $0.10 per simulator minute.
Pinecone's Documents API now supports Google's Gemini Embedding 2, generating embeddings on writes and queries via Vertex AI. It removes the need for a separate Google Cloud account and costs $0.20 per 1M tokens.
Crush is a terminal-based AI assistant that gives developers coding help directly in the command line. Version 0.101.0 is available via npm as @charmland/crush.
KORA Systems, a Silicon Valley startup, is building an AI-centric operating system with Qualcomm, planning a PC OS launch in 2027 before expanding to smartphones.
Cursor's Grok Bot browser has been offline since Nov 8: updates never complete and repeated resets leave it hanging (ticket T-J64440). Its GitHub connector also lacks rebase, reset, force-push, branch delete and secure token storage.
Amp, a frontier coding agent and development environment, shipped new versions of its npm CLI, which developers install via npm i -g @ampcode/cli to run the agent from the terminal.
A guide explains low-rank adaptation (LoRA), which fine-tunes a frozen model by learning small low-rank update matrices instead of changing every parameter, covering trade-offs, evaluation and controls.
Concentrate AI launched a HIPAA-compliant AI gateway that uses a single BAA to simplify model access for healthcare organizations and reduce inference costs.
The Linux Foundation added the Agent Name Service, which provides discoverability for agents operating across the internet, backed by 11 companies including Cisco and Salesforce.
A 3D interactive world styled as an N-gauge model railway of Fürth and the line to Munich, built with Claude; every train, bus and tram runs on real timetable and sensor data, with nothing hand-animated.
An ML engineer released KQuant, a new MLX quantization technique claiming 3.7x better quants for Qwen Flash Next 180B and Qwen 27B, 35B and 9B models, measured by KL-divergence reduction.
OpenAI publishes a customer story on Holiday Extras using Codex to turn customer expertise into internal apps, improve booking conversion and explore new growth areas.
Baidu launched a Token Exchange for verified AI model services; the new LLM trading platform exceeded 50 million average daily calls in its first month.
Spacefast by Automattic gives AI agents a place to build, run and ship apps. Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Codex or Cursor and it handles hosting, databases, domains, uploads and version history.
Harness Memory plugs a chosen memory engine (Mem0, Graphiti, Hindsight, ReMe or custom) into agent harnesses like Claude Code and Codex, sharing memory across harnesses with access control; open-source Community Edition.
three.dev is a tool that watches production traffic to find and rank AI agent failures like wrong refund policies, set up with one prompt to Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.