diginomica · 56m # ☆

Zendesk lets businesses choose AI agents, shifts to outcome-based pricing

At its AI Summit, Zendesk unveiled new ways for AI agents to access its platform and rebranded around outcome-based pricing beyond resolution.

Ad Age · 1h # ☆

ChatGPT adds verified brand pages and business agents

Why it matters: Extends ChatGPT from ads into brand-verified surfaces and agentic commerce.

ChatGPT introduced verified brand pages and business agents, giving marketers new ways to appear and transact inside the chatbot.

AIBase · 1h # ☆

Alibaba enters AI music with end-to-end full-song generation

Why it matters: A major Chinese platform's entry intensifies competition in full-song AI generation.

Alibaba launched a music-generation model that creates complete songs end to end, joining the 'Happy' series of models and entering the AI music arena alongside Suno and Udio.

TechJuice · 1h # ☆

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings for video calls

Why it matters: Puts Anthropic's assistant directly inside meetings, a core enterprise surface.

Claude Meetings adds Claude to video calls as a visible participant that drafts plans, builds timelines on whiteboards, answers chat questions and pulls data from work apps, then produces notes and action items.

Digital Health News · 1h # ☆

ElevenLabs introduces medical transcription tool and expands models

Why it matters: Voice AI leader pushing into regulated medical transcription expands speech market.

ElevenLabs launched a medical transcription tool and expanded its AI models and capabilities, targeting clinical documentation with its speech technology.

TechNode · 2h # ☆

Xiaohongshu tests Dada app for building AI agents

Xiaohongshu (RedNote) is testing a standalone app called Dada that lets users turn their expertise into AI agents others can use, covering tasks like design, job hunting and studying.

YourStory · 2h # ☆

Frammer AI launches live sports clipping platform with Astro Malaysia

Frammer AI launched a live sports platform that turns match footage into social media clips in under 30 seconds, with Astro Malaysia as its first customer.

DigiTimes Asia · 4h # ☆

Acer unveils AI teaching assistants for education market

Acer launched a classroom-of-the-future platform at IT Month and EdTech Taiwan, spanning AI teaching assistants, AI agents and a smart-campus management platform.

MediaNama · 4h # ☆

Hyderabad Police launch Dooradrishti AI tool to map criminal networks

Dooradrishti profiles accused persons and links suspects to criminal networks, but questions remain about its data sources, accuracy and safeguards.

OrcaRouter · 5h · 2 sources # ☆

ByteDance releases cheaper, faster Seedance 2.5 Flash video model

Seedance 2.5 Flash is a video generation model that roughly doubles speed and lowers cost per second versus Seedance 2.5, but is capped below 1080p resolution. Comparisons put it against Kling 4.0 Flash on cheap tiers.

Hacker News · 5h · 3 sources # ☆

Brave Search API adds x402 agentic payments per query

Why it matters: Pay-per-query agent payments could become a standard way agents buy data.

Brave's Search API now accepts agentic payments through the x402 protocol, letting AI agents buy search at $0.005 per query without an API key.

RIABiz · 6h # ☆

Schwab launches MCP servers, moves to agentic AI

Why it matters: A major brokerage adopting agentic MCP servers signals agent access to financial accounts.

Charles Schwab surprised analysts with fast launch of its own MCP servers, moving from read-only to agentic AI that can complete tasks. RIAs are excluded for now; Anthropic's exclusive LLM role may end.

Reuters · 7h · 6 sources # ☆

EU leaders hold first AI summit with Mistral CEO, Hinton

Why it matters: Europe's leaders convene to set a coordinated AI policy direction.

EU leaders seek to tackle AI challenges at their first-ever AI summit, joined by Mistral CEO and Geoffrey Hinton; Mistral targets cyber defence and sovereign AI with ML4.

Kalkine · 7h # ☆

Gaxos.ai's ArtGen introduces new AI video model, stock gains 4%

Gaxos.ai (NASDAQ:GXAI) rose 4% as its ArtGen unit introduced a new AI video model, according to Kalkine.

Wazzup.PH · 7h # ☆

iProov launches human verification layer for AI agent gateways

iProov rolled out a human verification layer for AI agent gateways, aimed at confirming a real person is behind an AI agent's actions, with its first integrations.

Fintech News Singapore · 7h # ☆

OCBC launches Velocity Smart Assist AI assistant for business banking

OCBC launched Velocity Smart Assist on its Velocity business banking platform, letting business customers complete account maintenance requests digitally in minutes.

DigiTimes Asia · 7h # ☆

SpaceX-Tesla merger talks advance toward $3.4 trillion deal

Why it matters: A record-scale tie-up would reshape one of AI's biggest corporate players.

SpaceX and Tesla are advancing merger talks that could create a US$3.4 trillion conglomerate spanning EVs, aerospace and AI, with an announcement possibly as early as December 2026, though China ties complicate approval.

Reddit · 8h · 2 sources # ☆

Thinking Machines releases Inkling-2-Small on Hugging Face

Why it matters: A new open-weight model from a prominent lab expands choices beyond the frontier labs.

Inkling-2-Small is a new open-weight language model from Thinking Machines Lab, released on Hugging Face.

eufy launches AI security cameras in Australia from $159

Anker's eufy launched AI security cameras in Australia starting at $159, adding AI-powered detection to its home security line.

WSJ · 9h # ☆

Startup raises $1B to build AI faster with fewer humans

Why it matters: A $1B raise aimed at automating AI research is a major bet on AI building AI.

WSJ reports a startup raised $1 billion to accelerate AI development with far fewer human researchers, betting on automation of AI R&D itself.

Startup Fortune · 11h · 2 sources # ☆

Lightning Labs launches pi402 for bitcoin AI inference payments

Lightning Labs releases pi402, a protocol letting AI agents pay for inference in bitcoin via the Lightning Network, integrated with the Pi coding agent.

Hacker News · 11h · 2 sources # ☆

Edge0-145B brings 145B-parameter frontier AI on-device

Why it matters: A 145B open model claiming on-device frontier capability would be a major local-AI milestone.

Edge0-145B is an open-source, 145-billion-parameter AI model designed to run on-device, according to a Hacker News and Reddit post.

MarkTechPost · 12h # ☆

Liquid AI releases LiquidCodec streaming audio codec

LiquidCodec is a ~74M-parameter streaming audio codec that powers LFM3-Audio-2B and LFM3-Omni-2B. It runs at 12.5 Hz with 12 codebooks and encodes about 361x faster than real time on a single CPU thread.

BigGo Finance · 12h # ☆

AWS releases free API emulation tool; agents wrote its codebase

AWS released a free API emulation tool whose entire codebase, per the report, was autonomously generated by AI agents.

AWS Machine Learning · 12h # ☆

AWS releases SGLang-Neuron to serve frontier models on Trainium

Why it matters: Makes it easier to deploy and fine-tune frontier models on AWS's custom AI chips.

SGLang-Neuron is now publicly available via an AWS Deep Learning Container, letting users serve models and generate RL rollouts with the SGLang interface on AWS Trainium using native PyTorch.

Reddit · 13h # ☆

Yogurt offers free, open-source, on-device Granola alternative for Mac

Yogurt is a free, open-source AI meeting-notes app that runs entirely on a Mac, keeping calls, transcripts and summaries local with no account required.

MarkTechPost · 13h # ☆

CopilotKit releases OpenBot 1.0 self-hostable AI coworker

Why it matters: Open, governed AI coworker workspace lets firms self-host agents with policy checks and audit trails.

OpenBot 1.0 is an MIT-licensed, self-hostable AI coworker workspace: companies bring their own agents, models and infrastructure, and every action passes a policy check and audit trail.

RuntimeWire · 13h # ☆

Hatchet announces serverless endpoints for task orchestration

Hatchet, a task orchestration platform, launches serverless endpoints and durable streams in version 2. It demonstrated a distributed ray tracer where an LLM writes scenes that fan out across Cloudflare Workers.

SiliconANGLE · 14h # ☆

Block unveils Builderlab tools for AI agents in shared workspaces

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.

India Today · 14h · 9 sources # ☆

OpenAI launches AI security agents to find and fix vulnerabilities

Why it matters: OpenAI pushing autonomous red-teaming agents into security workflows could reshape vulnerability testing.

OpenAI opened early access to Daybreak Red Team agents that pen-test web applications, part of new AI security products for finding vulnerabilities, testing exploits and fixing flaws; OpenAI also backed chip control measures.

Unite.AI · 14h # ☆

Ambience Healthcare launches Ambience Prepare pre-visit briefings

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.

Virtualization Review · 14h · 2 sources # ☆

Nvidia unveils Scale-In security for AI networking and agents

Why it matters: Extends Nvidia's security stack to agentic AI workloads as agents gain autonomy.

Nvidia introduced Scale-In, a security approach for AI networking and autonomous agents, as an expert details real-time security for agent deployments. It reworks the security playbook as agents take on more control.

Unite.AI · 15h # ☆

RemotePC MCP lets AI assistants manage remote computers

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.

TechCrunch · 15h # ☆

Nectar launches AI agent for creator discovery and outreach

Nectar's new AI agent automates influencer marketing: discovering creators, managing outreach and partnerships, and tracking campaign results for brands.

IBM releases Granite 4.1 3B and 8B models with LLMON markup

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.

Benzinga · 16h · 2 sources # ☆

Roundhill launches MAGP ETF with OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX

Roundhill launched the MAGP ETF, packaging OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX into a "Magnificent Seven"-style fund for the first time.

Unite.AI · 16h # ☆

Constant Contact launches Catalyst AI marketing agent

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.

Unite.AI · 16h # ☆

Perplexity releases Decider V1.3 models with text-span extraction

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.

Unite.AI · 16h · 3 sources # ☆

Alpaca launches Claude connectors for paper trading and portfolios

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.

PCMag UK · 13m · 2 sources # ☆

Nothing teases screen-free AI gadget, launching next month

Nothing is ramping up teasers for a screen-free AI device set to launch next month; the company has not disclosed product details or pricing.

MacRumors · 25m # ☆

Apple launches HomeView smart display and new Apple TV 4K

Why it matters: Apple's first AI-powered smart home display brings Siri AI into the home.

Apple released the Apple HomeView smart home display, powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI, and the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, both previously available for pre-order.

The Elec · 2h # ☆

Shinsung E&G shows integrated cooling for AI data centers

Shinsung E&G showcased integrated cooling and energy systems for AI data centers at Data Center Korea 2026, including its AIO module that combines servers and cooling equipment.

ETtech · 2h # ☆

IIT Madras builds Seanav digital twin for autonomous ships

Researchers at IIT Madras created Seanav, a real-time digital twin for maritime navigation that combines AI and VR to give autonomous vessels a virtual ocean test environment.

Gasgoo · 4h # ☆

UBTECH starts selling robots to auto dealerships

UBTECH has begun selling its robots to automobile dealerships, per Gasgoo, expanding humanoid and service robot sales into retail automotive showrooms.

Pandaily · 8h # ☆

HiSilicon CS6286 image sensor adds on-chip AI

HiSilicon's CS6286 packs a 50 GOPS AI engine into an 8MP sensor; it detects people with 95%+ accuracy and lets dashcams sleep, extending sentry mode past seven days.

Pandaily · 8h # ☆

Huawei Cloud to launch Ascend-native CloudRobo-WM1.2 Nov 16

Why it matters: A world model built natively on Ascend chips signals Huawei's push into physical AI.

Huawei Cloud will unveil CloudRobo-WM1.2, billed as the first Ascend-native world model from its Industry AI Dream Factory, at an online launch on Nov 16; specs are not yet public.

DigiTimes Asia · 8h · 5 sources # ☆

Asus unveils Gallop humanoid robot, posts record Q3 revenue

Why it matters: A major PC maker entering humanoids with a factory-proven robot signals broadening physical AI competition.

Asus announced Gallop, its first humanoid robot, which learns to pack small motherboard parts in factory tasks. Asus also posted record Q3 revenue of NT$258.788B ($7.86B), up 36% year-on-year on AI server growth.

The Elec · 10h # ☆

Everpure adds Portworx features for Kubernetes AI and VMs

Pure Storage, now Everpure, announced new Portworx capabilities: Pre-staged Volumes for AI/ML workloads and general availability of other Kubernetes data-management features.

MacRumors · 11h # ☆

Siri AI coming to older Apple TV 4K models in tvOS 27.2.1

Apple says tvOS 27.2.1 will bring Siri AI to second- and third-generation Apple TV 4K models, according to a support document on Siri AI requirements across Apple products.

Android Authority · 12h · 2 sources # ☆

WHOOP launches Humans, a human-only social feed built on health data

WHOOP launched WHOOP Humans, a social network where each user has a 'verified heartbeat.' It turns sleep, recovery and workout data into a social feed and aims to replace bots with humans.

Unite.AI · 13h # ☆

Gates introduces ThermalCool 2100SS pump for AI racks

Gates launched the ThermalCool 2100SS, a stainless-steel coolant-circulation pump for rack-level AI and high-density computing that cools its own motor with the coolant it moves.

Unite.AI · 15h # ☆

Innodisk expands AI data-center portfolio with SSDs and CXL memory

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.

Melexis launches tactile fingertip module for humanoid robots

Melexis unveils its first tactile fingertip module, giving humanoid robots a sense of touch for grasping and manipulation tasks.

Unite.AI · 17h # ☆

Exowatt launches P3 Gen 2 solar-thermal system for AI data centers

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.

TechCrunch · 18h · 6 sources # ☆

SoftBank takes $3.7B charge on failed AI gas turbine bet

Why it matters: SoftBank's costly turbine over-ordering shows how power supply is the bottleneck for AI data centers.

SoftBank lost over $3 billion pre-ordering natural gas turbines to power AI data centers, driving a $3.7bn charge; separately Anthropic's Dario Amodei predicted AI could cure major diseases within a decade.

CNA · 18h · 4 sources # ☆

SpaceX plans $74B AI supercomputing campuses in Texas, Arizona

Why it matters: A $74B buildout would make SpaceX a major AI compute player beyond its launch business.

SpaceX plans over $74 billion investment in AI data center campuses in Texas and Arizona, facing local opposition and political hurdles.

The Elec · 19h # ☆

AMD launches 6th-gen EPYC Venice server CPUs

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.

SiliconANGLE · 21h · 2 sources # ☆

Qvyon launches with $8M to validate physical AI deployments

Qvyon Technologies launched with $8M led by MaC Venture Capital to build validation infrastructure and software that companies use to test autonomous vehicles and robots before real-world deployment.

Unite.AI · 21h # ☆

Vertiv unveils PowerNexus MV outdoor UPS for AI data centers

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.

Viam launches Launchpad to speed robotics deployment

Viam Launchpad provides software and engineering infrastructure to help robotics startups bring robots to commercial deployment.

Interesting Engineering · 21h # ☆

Fishing drone flies 2 kg of bait out to sea

A fishing drone carries up to 2 kg of bait out to sea and releases it, letting anglers cast farther from shore.

Runway releases Praxis-1 open-weights robot world action model

Why it matters: An open-weights action model from a video-AI leader could accelerate robot world-model research.

Praxis-1 is a world action model that lets robots learn actions from video-style world modeling; Runway released it with open weights under Apache 2.0, developed with partners Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra.