Saturday, November 7, 2026
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AI / The Decoder ·
Google Research built an AI that spots signs of high blood pressure using only the pulse and motion sensors in a standard smartwatch, no cuff needed. In a 196-person study, its 65.8 percent detection rate beat the traditional in-office measurement. The method is already live in the Google Health…
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI has secured $11 billion in fresh capital, the first tranche of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion. The full round could swell to $20 billion. That OpenAI is already turning to wealthy private investors hints at a saturating AI capital market and growing investor caution. The…
AI / TechCrunch ·
The deal highlights the challenges of developing massive AI data centers.
AI / TechCrunch ·
OpenAI has reportedly raised an additional $11 billion as part of a funding round that hasn't closed yet but is expected to in the coming weeks.
AI / The Decoder ·
Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks, however, Ripple…
AI / The Verge ·
OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world's most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in March at a valuation of $852 billion. Echoing FT and Wall…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
AI / The Verge ·
China's intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about American AI chips and "potentially influence the company to push for its most…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers…
AI / The Decoder ·
Perplexity is launching "Teammates," always-on agents that work through ongoing projects on their own virtual machines. The feature requires the Max plan at $200 per month, well above similar offerings from OpenAI or Anthropic. The market for always-on agents is getting crowded. The article…
AI / The Decoder ·
OpenAI is talking about the AGI era, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AGI has arrived. At the same time, co-creators of today's models are leaving OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta to start their own labs, raising billions with no product to show. Why? They're betting that the current recipe alone…
AI / TechCrunch ·
AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI hypergrowth.
AI / The Verge ·
Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment.…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Amazon said that the feature will roll out to millions of users in coming weeks.
AI / The Decoder ·
Nonprofit METR spent eleven weeks auditing Anthropic's internal research data and concluded that the pace of model development has roughly doubled, with about 80 percent of the speedup driven by AI-assisted research. Anthropic redacted the most informative evidence, though, which means the public…
AI / The Decoder ·
Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it's the strongest western open-weight model. Better agentic performance comes at a price, though, with token usage rising…
AI / The Verge ·
Meta will now allow you to build customized, app-like experiences within its Muse AI assistant. The new feature, called "spaces," allows Muse to build things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, music tracker, trivia game, and more, which you can interact with directly in the app. If you connect…
AI / TechCrunch ·
Despite its small size, Underdog's new model can generate both speech and music.
AI / TechCrunch ·
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
AI / The Verge ·
When Irene moved to San Francisco last year, she started using dating apps as a way to meet new people, get to know her new city, and connect with others who care about the things she does. After the 25-year-old analyst downloaded Hinge and started swiping, she noticed a trend. "Hinge has a prompt…
AI / The Decoder ·
Anthropic's IPO is in trouble as investors push back on the $1.5 trillion valuation and the tech market sells off. The article Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuation appeared first on The Decoder.
AI / The Verge ·
On Tuesday, millions of American voters went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for Democrats and against AI. The fight against Big Tech is about to come roaring back, and the fight over data centers is looking even harder for the folks trying to build them. On this episode of The Vergecast,…