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On November 5 Perplexity Developers (@perplexitydevs) said every Agent API effort level now costs less per query with equal or better research quality, and added an ultra tier for broad long-running research. Vendor figures: medium rose from ~55% to ~77% on BrowseComp/DSQA with nearly 90% lower cost; xhigh held ~76.5% WANDR at ~25% of August 2026 cost; ultra runs three parallel researchers plus a consolidator at ~85.9% WANDR and about $21.71/task.

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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 4 Anthropic's biology team reported that Claude helped determine the first 3D vault structure from a prokaryotic/phage system (protein L05). Vendor-reported timing: ~90-minute purification and a first model in ~34 hours, plus an open discussion of mistakes and the multi-agent research workflow.

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arXiv paper 2611.03233 by Yuqi Jia, Yunjie Tian and five co-authors introduces Axion 1.0, an agent foundation model that is open beyond its weights. It uses just two lightweight SFT stages plus reinforcement learning, with no dedicated mid-training, DPO or on-policy distillation, and about 18K SFT trajectories in total. Training code is hosted under the bytedance GitHub organization, and the training data and an Axion 1.0-35B reproduction checkpoint (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B base, 35B total / 3B active, Apache 2.0) are on Hugging Face; weights for the paper's 122B model are listed as coming soon.

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On November 3, the official Grok Bot account @bot posted a video promoting a new shopping experience: have the Bot find the best deal, compare items, and track all your orders. The features come from the official changelog for version 0.78.1 (which includes 0.78.0), dated October 27: products appear as cards with photo, rating, price and store plus up to two badges, and three or four results scroll in a carousel. Product pages list in-stock options first, and Buy now starts an order you approve. After purchase the Bot tracks shipping and delivery, with shipment cards showing carrier and stage. Shop Pay can be connected in the Vault Payments tab and set as the preferred method.

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On November 3, Menlo Ventures released its fourth annual enterprise AI report. It estimates enterprise spending on using AI reached $176.8B by September 2026, up 5.4x from $33B in 2025. In enterprise LLM API spend, Anthropic rose from 40% to 55%, OpenAI from 27% to 31%, and Google fell from 21% to 9%. Coding is the largest app category at $34.0B. Figures come from a survey of about 400 US enterprise AI decision-makers plus third-party data, so they are estimates; Menlo is an Anthropic investor.

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Flower Labs, the company behind the Flower federated learning framework, released Endeavor 1.1 on November 3, its third model this year after the UK sovereign 7B model Lizzy in April and Endeavor 1.0 in September. The update adds image input, an optional EU-only GPU inference tier, and Flower-managed, private-cloud or on-premises deployment, and promises readable thinking traces plus ownership of outputs that customers may use to train their own models. Vendor-reported scores are GPQA 94.4, HumanEval 99.9, AIME 2026 99.9 and MMMU-Pro 81.1, but the comparison uses GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 rather than either lab's newest models, and access is request-only for now.

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On November 2 (US time) Anthropic put message threads into public beta on the Messages API (beta header message-threads-2026-08-12). The API keeps the conversation on the server: the first request sends the full conversation and creates a thread, and each later request sends only new messages plus the previous response id. Anthropic says threads are on by default for most Claude Code users, cutting median time to first token by about 35% on 500K-1M token requests, while the median long-conversation request shrank from about 800 KB to 1.8 KB. Threads expire after 5 idle minutes; pricing and rate limits are unchanged.

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Hangzhou-based AI-for-science company Deep Principle released Hydrogen-1.0 on November 2, its first general-purpose scientific model. It post-trains Zhipu's GLM-5.3 with SFT and RL on chemistry, materials and life-science data plus its own lab records and discovery trajectories, and ships about 753B parameters of BF16 weights on Hugging Face under the MIT license. By the vendor's own evaluation it scores 38.3% on FrontierScience-Research versus 33.3% for GPT-6 Astra; none of the results have been independently reproduced yet.

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A widely discussed experiment on X: on Oct 31 indie developer div (@divagr1925) showed QwenPU, which compiles a 32-bit RISC-V CPU plus a vector unit directly into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B and runs Andrej Karpathy's 260K-parameter stories260K inside the model's own forward passes, matching a reference implementation token for token. None of the added weights are trained; a compiler computes them all. The post drew about 1,540 likes, 163 reposts and 85K views and became an X trending story. It is a personal, self-described work-in-progress project: the checkpoint is 26.7 GB and one story token takes about 16 seconds on an L4. This is a write-up of the discussion, not an official announcement from any company.

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In a press release on its China newsroom, Apple said the first Apple Intelligence features will open for testing in the latest iOS developer beta starting November 4 and reach users in China with the iOS 27.3 release in December. The features run on Apple-built generative models and include Live Translation, Writing Tools, Visual Intelligence, Clean Up, Genmoji, notification and Mail summaries, and Type to Siri; Apple also partnered with Alibaba to bring Qwen into Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence. The first wave covers iPhone 15 Pro and newer only; Siri AI and the other next-generation features announced at WWDC 2026, plus Image Playground, are not included, and Mac, iPad and other platforms wait on further approvals.

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