News

November 6, 2026

12 briefings. Each one is an original summary, with the source linked underneath.

  1. Baidu open-sources its ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base model

    Baidu published the weights for ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base on Hugging Face and ModelScope, making a large Chinese-developed language model freely downloadable.

    • open models
    • Baidu
    • China AI

    Baidu

  2. Cloudflare proposes a way to verify AI agents acting on behalf of users

    Cloudflare introduced a concept called Trusted Agent Delegation, aimed at a tricky problem in modern web security: AI agents that act on a person's behalf don't fit neatly into existing categories of either a trusted...

    • AI agents
    • web security
    • Cloudflare

    Cloudflare

  3. Firefly Aerospace signs $1.3 billion engine deal with AST SpaceMobile

    Firefly Aerospace announced a rocket engine supply agreement with AST SpaceMobile valued at more than $1.3 billion.

    • space
    • satellites
    • aerospace

    Firefly Aerospace

  4. GitHub details its new Git storage architecture

    GitHub's engineering team published a deep dive into a newly built architecture for storing Git repository data at the company's scale.

    • GitHub
    • infrastructure
    • developer tools

    GitHub

  5. Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash extends video length and cuts price

    Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available across the Gemini API and Google Cloud.

    • AI video
    • Google
    • Gemini

    Google

  6. Hyperstition open-sources Hyperkernel for faster GPU inference

    A team called Hyperstition released an open-source project on GitHub named Hyperkernel, which automatically generates optimized megakernels, essentially large, highly tuned chunks of GPU code, for running AI models.

    • GPU optimization
    • AI inference
    • open source

    Hyperstition

  7. METR finds Anthropic's AI research speed roughly doubled

    METR, an outside group that measures AI capabilities, ran a close-access assessment inside Anthropic from mid-August to late October 2026.

    • AI research
    • Anthropic
    • AI safety

    METR

  8. Microsoft's Q3 report finds phishing attackers reviving old file tricks

    Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team released its Email Threat Landscape report for the third quarter of 2026, documenting a surge in phishing attacks during the period.

    • cybersecurity
    • phishing
    • Microsoft

    Microsoft

  9. New benchmark shows AI models still struggle with full research tasks

    A group calling itself AItonomy, working with the Gen-Verse project, released Science's Last Exam, a benchmark built by researchers from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and other institutions.

    • AI benchmarks
    • AI research
    • evaluation

    AItonomy / Gen-Verse

  10. NVIDIA pitches its Vera CPU as built for fast AI agents

    NVIDIA published a technical blog post describing its Vera CPU and the design choices behind it, positioning the chip as suited for high-throughput workloads and fast-responding AI agents.

    • NVIDIA
    • AI hardware
    • AI agents

    NVIDIA

  11. Thinking Machines Lab launches Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal model on Tinker

    Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion total parameters but only 17 billion active at a time, keeping it efficient despite its scale.

    • open models
    • multimodal AI
    • Thinking Machines

    Thinking Machines Lab

  12. Zipline raises $1.5 billion to expand its drone delivery network

    Drone delivery company Zipline raised $1.5 billion in new funding, valuing the company at $21.5 billion after the round.

    • drones
    • logistics
    • funding

    Zipline