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TechCrunch AI ↗
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 on Monday, with gains in coding, reasoning, and vision and answers about 30 percent faster than the previous generation. It cut Fable's price from $10 to $8 per million input tokens, undercutting OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, and a faster mode costs twice that. In prerelease tests the models formalized a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and solved two open black hole physics problems. It is Anthropic's first launch since a METR report said internal models were roughly doubling the lab's own research pace.
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Reuters ↗
Google introduced TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, the third and fourth tensor processing unit systems it has shipped this year, as it pushes further into Nvidia's chip market. TPU 8tx targets governments and regulated companies, pairing Google's chips with AMD processors and encrypting data while it is processed. TPU 8i Max puts two chips in one package for long-context work such as coding assistants and drug discovery. Alphabet said TPU sales already helped Google Cloud more than double, to about $31 billion, in the September quarter.
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Bloomberg ↗
Nvidia-backed Fireworks AI told customers that attackers reached customer data in a second known breach in a matter of weeks. A cloud-provider incident on October 23 let an outsider onto its development machines the next day. The exposure includes billing records and, for a limited set of accounts, secrets, datasets, and incomplete model weights. Card numbers were not taken, and Bloomberg said the company is working with Notion, Cursor, and Harvey on tens of thousands of affected files.
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Reuters ↗
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a recall query into 2,895 Waymo vehicles that kept passing stopped school buses. Regulators want to know whether a software fix Waymo finished in November 2025 failed, because most reported violations came after that remedy was deployed. The original defect was robotaxis passing buses with flashing red lights or extended stop arms, including in Atlanta and Austin. Waymo said it has received no citations since March 2026 and will answer the query.
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Ars Technica ↗
Apiiro researchers found Claude Code local settings files in more than 100,000 public GitHub repositories. About 1,100 of those files, from 63 organizations, held secrets such as database passwords, API tokens, and private keys, and two common scanners missed 215 of them. The files store shell commands a user approved so the tool would not ask again, sometimes with the secret included, and they can still be committed. Claude Code lead Boris Cherny said the team is looking at fixes, including built-in secret scanning.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Ember, its smallest and cheapest Muse model, priced at 10 cents per million input tokens. Meta says Ember handles the repetitive part of agent work, including tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, and long document parsing, and can take text, images, and audio. A larger model such as Muse Wonder is meant to plan the work while Ember handles the volume. Ember is the fourth Muse model, after Spark, Glimmer, and Wonder.
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Reuters ↗
Shanghai's cyberspace regulator said Apple Intelligence is now registered for tablets and laptops in China, after the iPhone version was approved in July. China requires companies to register generative AI services before the public can use them. Apple is training a Chinese-market model with Alibaba, whose Qwen model is set to power Siri, writing tools, and visual intelligence there. A developer test began on November 4, with a public release planned for December alongside iOS 27.3.
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Engadget ↗
Meta is expanding AI age estimation worldwide so Instagram users it judges to be 13 to 17 go into teen accounts, even if they signed up with an adult birthday. Those accounts default to private profiles, block messages from strangers, and add time limits and parental controls. Meta said the same checks will reach Threads later this year and keep expanding on Facebook. The move follows an August settlement with 52 attorneys general that could cost Meta as much as $18 billion.
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The Verge ↗
Disney and Adobe announced a multiyear deal at Adobe MAX to build proprietary, artist-led generative models for Disney's production pipeline. Using Adobe Firefly Foundry, the models will be trained on Disney characters, environments, and visual styles so the output can be used commercially. Adobe will also give Disney early access to tools for theme parks, cruises, Walt Disney Studios, and ESPN graphics. Disney's Imagineering group already uses Firefly for theme park work.
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MIT Tech Review ↗
Scott Wiener won Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco seat after writing California AI bills SB 1047, which Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed, and SB 53, which he signed. He told MIT Technology Review that a new METR report on Anthropic is a reason for Congress to regulate recursive self-improvement now. He wants a federal AI regulator, audits, whistleblower protections, and a kill switch, and he opposes broad preemption of state laws. His campaign took more than $3 million from Public First Action, a group funded in part by Anthropic.