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On November 5 Thinking Machines Lab introduced Inkling 2 Small, the first second-generation model: a 594B-total / 17B-active MoE with image input and variable thinking effort. The company reports an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of about 31, with large gains versus prior Inkling models in agentic coding, vision and knowledge work. It is available now on Tinker for inference and fine-tuning with closed weights; full Apache 2.0 weights are planned next week after external safety testing. Tinker list pricing is about $0.30/$1.00 per million input/output tokens at 64K context.

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On November 5, Solid founder Trevor Keith launched Glasshand: dedicated real iPhones and Macs hosted in a data center—not emulators—so agents can see the screen and tap or type via API. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others; agents can install apps, sign into iCloud, add eSIM for SMS codes, run social workflows or build/test in Xcode. Official pricing is $60/mo for an iPhone and $90/mo for a Mac, month to month with cancel anytime and factory wipe on release. It ranked #1 on Product Hunt that day.

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On November 5, Cognition launched Devin Review 2.0. Since August, per-PR review cost fell about 82%, with a typical review at about $0.25–$0.75 and median latency about 94 seconds (down from about 139). It adds automatic review rules, incremental re-reviews, configurable per-PR spend limits, and tighter Devin Autofix loops. New controls include Devin Review Ultra and Custom Reviewers (beta).

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On November 5, independent evaluator METR published a high-access assessment at Anthropic (Aug 12–Oct 29, 2026). As of October 2026, Anthropic is likely improving model capabilities on well-specified tasks at about twice the March 2024–October 2025 historical rate. Since October 2025, AECI scores grew at an estimated 1.9x the prior rate [95% CI 1.5–2.8]. METR judges that a majority of current acceleration is attributable to AI-assisted R&D, not faster training-compute scaling; Anthropic redacted much of the most informative evidence.

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On November 5, interpretability lab Goodfire published a paper and blog on mechanistic shaping: add training penalties on a model's reliance on or expression of specific internal concepts, so training specifies how a task is solved—not only whether the answer is right. Experiments cover chest X-ray shortcuts, DPO-induced sycophancy and Countdown reward hacking. Per vendor figures, expression shaping raised honest solving from ~0% to 96–98% and transferred to unseen chess puzzles.

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On November 5 Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) and CEO Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) launched Teammates: persistent personal agents on Computer that own ongoing responsibilities, inherit Projects, Skills, Memory and tool permissions, run in isolated desktops and browsers, collaborate with other teammates, and proactively monitor Slack. Official help docs call it a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web; Enterprise Pro/Max are not included by default; native mobile and desktop apps are coming later.

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On November 5 Meta AI (@AIatMeta) said Muse Realtime Avatar, previewed at Connect, is rolling out in the US Muse app, turning Muse Realtime Voice into interactive live avatars. The research blog describes an audio-driven Diffusion Transformer that shares the speech-token stream with voice for lip-sync and expression; a single GB200 session streams 448×768 at 25 fps with about 870 ms from end of user turn to first synchronized audio-video byte, with Meta Video Seal invisible watermarking. Muse is for users 18+; no global schedule or developer API was announced.

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On November 5 Mistral expanded Mistral Studio. Managed Agents, built with the Agents SDK (mistralai-agents), run the same code in-process, self-hosted (agents serve) or Mistral-managed (agents deploy), with durable execution for hours or days, crash resume and human approvals. Mistral also shipped a Vibe-powered workflow builder, the mistral apps CLI, HTTP API connectors, webhooks and triggers, a managed search index, and offline and online evaluations, mostly in Public Preview.

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On November 5 Anthropic announced a US beta of Personal Finance in Claude via @claudeai. Users link bank, card, loan and investment accounts through Plaid, see balances, cash flow, subscriptions and bills on one page, and ask questions in plain language. The official help article says access is read-only, so Claude cannot move, manage or invest money. It is limited to US Pro, Max and Ultra personal plans (not Free, Team or Enterprise) and is rolling out gradually.

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On November 5 OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber for authorized security research: ExploitGym rose from GPT-5.6 Cyber's 32.1% to 48.5% (about 51% relative), out-of-scope exploitation fell to 0.07% without deployment prompts and 0% with them. The model helped find 81 novel high-severity Firefox bugs and develop exploits for 948 Linux privilege-escalation cases, and OpenAI raised its Preparedness Framework cyber rating from High to Critical. It is initially available via API and Codex to select Daybreak Red customers, with expansion to all Red customers planned.

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On November 5 Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (gemini-omni-1.2-flash) generally available in AI Studio and the Gemini API: video generate/edit length rises to 15 seconds, vendor pricing cuts video output about 30% (~$12 per 1M tokens, roughly $0.07/s at 720p), with stronger multi-reference consistency and more natural speech. The changelog states that from December 3, 2026, requests to gemini-omni-1.1-flash will automatically route to 1.2 at 1.2 rates.

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At BoxWorks 2026 on November 5, Box announced an expanded NVIDIA collaboration: Box Context Retrieval, a new engine built on NVIDIA Nemotron Retriever embedding models, combines keyword and semantic search to return the most relevant passages to AI agents while honoring existing file permissions, with general availability for Enterprise Advanced customers planned for early next year. Box's press release claims 20% better search accuracy (Recall@5), 90% fewer tokens and 4x faster answers. Open-weight Nemotron models, starting with Nemotron 3 Ultra, are available in Box AI now. Box also unveiled Box Architect, which designs workflows from a stated goal; Box Mount, which mounts Box folders inside agent sandboxes and works with NVIDIA OpenShell; and agent security controls including MCP Guardrails.

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On November 5 Baidu (official blog + @BaiduResearch) open-sourced ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base: a text-only MoE base checkpoint at end of pre-training (no mid/post-training), 280B total / 14B active per token, 33.5T pretrain tokens, up to 128K train context and 1M for fine-tune/inference. FP8 and BF16 weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Under Baidu's unified eval pipeline vs similar bases: MMLU 93.3, HumanEval+ 82.3, LiveCodeBench 40.1 (vendor-reported). Post-trained ERNIE 5.5 Flash "will follow". License is custom (excludes EU/UK/South Korea; commercial use above $50M related revenue needs prior written authorization).

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On November 5 OpenAI published a National Community Compact for U.S. compute campuses it owns and operates: no NDAs with public officials except narrow security carve-outs, public construction and impact reporting (noise, water, energy), Ratepayer Protection Pledge to pay full electricity and incremental grid costs with stranded-asset assurances, Grid Protector peak curtailment (up to 1,000 MW in Effingham, Georgia), and community investments already listed at $80M in Effingham and $40M in Pike County, Ohio. A PDF of the Compact is on openai.com.

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