AI News for November 11, 2026
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1The Verge00:00
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature
Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon generally available two weeks after a limited release to cybersecurity defenders. The company calls it its strongest model yet and positions it against the best systems from Anthropic and OpenAI, with a new agent "swarm" capability that coordinates multiple agents on one task.
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2Ars Technica23:00
DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"
DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, which it says is up to twice as successful as its predecessor on some tasks, alongside an open safety benchmark called ASIMOV-jailbreak for testing how robotics models respond to adversarial instructions. Publishing the benchmark gives outside researchers a shared way to measure safety in embodied systems.
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3TechCrunch22:01
Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion
Anthropic set an IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share, implying a fully diluted valuation of up to $1.404 trillion if shares list at the top of the range. That would make it one of the largest listings ever, though it falls short of earlier expectations; The Verge also reported on the filing.
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4TechCrunch04:52
OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect
New York is preparing to enforce its AI safety law, which requires major developers including OpenAI and Anthropic to register with the state, disclose safety practices and report critical incidents. Companies that fail to comply face fines, making New York one of the first US states to put binding obligations on frontier labs.
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5TechCrunch23:54
Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips
Google added two specialized tensor processing units to its AI chip lineup, one aimed at confidential model training and another offering greater memory capacity. The additions extend Google's in-house silicon strategy into workloads where customers have been constrained by privacy requirements or memory limits.
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6TechCrunch03:57
All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPO
Each of Anthropic's seven co-founders plans to sell exactly the same number of shares in the IPO, worth roughly $250 million apiece at the midpoint of the price range. The symmetrical arrangement leaves the founding group's collective control of the company intact.
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7Ars Technica05:12
Grok Build coding agent leaks oodles of confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI
A researcher found about 35,000 applications built with the Grok Build coding agent openly accessible to anyone who looked, exposing confidential information including data belonging to SpaceXSI. The case shows how default configurations in agentic development tools can leave users' projects unprotected.
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8TechCrunch03:03
PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery
PSI says it used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that researchers had pursued for nearly two decades. The company is building its business around AI-led discovery itself rather than selling models or developer tools.
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9The Verge01:30
Anthropic has its own AI-powered office suite now
Anthropic is extending Claude beyond coding and enterprise tooling with an office suite of its own, pushing into territory held by Google and Microsoft. The launch includes Claude Meetings, which drafts plans as participants talk, maps timelines on a whiteboard, answers questions in meeting chat and pulls figures from connected work apps; TechCrunch covered that component separately.
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10TechCrunch02:49
OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google
OpenAI is adding business profiles and a set of related tools so companies can present themselves inside ChatGPT, pushing the assistant further toward being a consumer discovery engine. The beta also includes verified "Business Agents" that represent a brand for tasks such as comparison shopping, available first to eligible US e-commerce and online service businesses, as The Verge reported.
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11TechCrunch03:23
Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M
Oura agreed to buy Counsel Health, an AI-native primary care startup, for $625 million. The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed an IPO of up to $2.2 billion indefinitely, citing uncertainty in the listing market.
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12TechCrunch05:08
OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder
OpenAI acquired Odessia, a travel startup founded by Sonder founder Francis Davidson, and has not said what it plans to do in travel. Davidson is a well-known figure in the industry, and the deal suggests OpenAI is assembling domain expertise for consumer-facing services.
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13TechCrunch01:04
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline
TechCrunch laid out a timeline of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, an episode with potential national security implications as the US and China race to build advanced AI infrastructure. The Verge published its own analysis of what the case could mean for the US position in that race.
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14TechCrunch21:00
Cyberattacks threaten to make open source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns
Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force them to impose tighter security restrictions. Those controls would erode the easy access that makes open-source model communities valuable to developers worldwide.
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15The Verge00:20
eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents
eBay appears to have blocked third-party AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing its listings; a reader who had used Muse to compile a daily digest of watches for sale found it stopped working. The move is another sign that marketplaces are resisting agentic shopping tools they do not control.
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16TechCrunch22:05
Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly
At its Max conference Adobe opened its applications to AI agents, including an MCP implementation that lets third-party agents access and change work inside its tools, and added a prototype builder in Firefly aimed at Figma. The Verge reported separately on the broader strategy of automating creative workflows with agents.
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17The Verge22:00
Photoshop, Lightroom, and Premiere are making it easier to remove things
Adobe is adding automatic removal of objects, blemishes and other unwanted distractions across Premiere, Photoshop and Lightroom, along with further generative features on the Firefly platform. The updates target routine cleanup work that editors still do largely by hand.
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18TechCrunch22:00
After challenging Google's Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era
A Cyanogen co-founder is launching Kora, a free desktop operating system pitched as an alternative to Windows for users who work mainly through AI models and agents. The project revives the open-alternative playbook he once used against Android, this time aimed at the desktop.
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19TechCrunch23:29
Meta's AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS
Meta brought its Muse assistant to Apple Watch and Android Wear OS, letting users reach it by voice call, text message or dictation from the wrist. The rollout puts Meta's agent on hardware it does not control, alongside its own devices.
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20TechCrunch21:30
Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot
Amazon-owned Ring is moving into robotics with an AI-piloted indoor drone camera for homes and a rolling robot built to patrol business premises, shipping in late 2026 and early 2027. The Ring Drone Cam is priced at $249.99 and due on January 27th, 2027; Ars Technica also covered the launch and The Verge went hands-on with the drone.
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21Ars Technica20:15
Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand
Demand for optical fiber from AI data centers is tightening supply for Ukraine's fiber-optic drones, which compete with Russia and with data center builders for China's production. It is a concrete case of the AI infrastructure buildout crowding out other users of the same components.
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22The Verge01:32
The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk
Jurors for the Independent Games Festival said they would not vote for games that use generative AI in any capacity, after which the developer of indie hit Big Walk said it had used AI sparingly in the final stretch of development to work through difficult problems. The dispute shows how unsettled disclosure norms remain in game development.
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23TechCrunch15:00
Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages
Otter AI added support for 27 more languages, taking its transcription coverage past 30, and previewed a feature that keeps up when speakers switch languages mid-conversation. Code-switching has been a persistent weak point for meeting transcription tools.
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24TechCrunch22:00
Spotify's AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter
Spotify Premium subscribers can now choose among new AI DJ voices with different personalities, or turn off the spoken commentary between songs entirely. The options respond to listeners who wanted the feature's music curation without the talking.
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25Ars Technica04:30
What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?
Mathematician Steven Strogatz discusses his new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World, and what changes for the field when AI systems can produce answers without accompanying understanding. The question is becoming practical as proof assistants and large models start contributing to research-level work.
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