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AIChina's state-owned CASC recovered a Long March 10B first-stage booster at sea in July, while LandSpace's Zhuque-3 booster landed softly on August 18 after a failed December attempt. Analysts say the tests are significant steps but do not yet mean China has mastered rocket reusability, which requires multiple successful launches to prove reliability. China launched 371 satellites in 2025 compared with SpaceX's 3,169, and Starlink accounts for about 70% of satellites in low Earth orbit.

AIa16z says it is leading Armadin's Series B, backing a team led by Kevin Mandia, Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, and David Slater. Armadin's platform uses an agentic attacker swarm to run continuous offensive testing across external assets, cloud, identity, internal networks, and applications, producing validated kill chains and proactive remediation. The first product is Armadin Red.

AIElevenLabs is opening an office in Amsterdam and launching its Netherlands operation, with the company inviting interested candidates to join its team via its careers page. The post is a recruitment announcement and does not mention products, models, or figures.

AIBarclays is expanding its collaboration with Anthropic to roll Claude out across its global operations, with Claude Code expected to reach 50% of its developer population by the end of 2026. Its Colleague Knowledge Assistant, powered by Claude through retrieval-augmented generation, has been used by more than 16,000 colleagues and handled over one million searches. In Global Markets, Claude models classify and route roughly 120,000 client emails daily.

AICalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order declaring "Artificial Intelligence" to remain the official term in the state, responding to a proposal to rename AI "Superintelligence." The post mocks the resulting naming dispute, saying it diverts energy from substantive work into endless naming games.

AIOpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is no longer making the second $25 million donation he had promised to the super PAC Leading the Future, according to a New York Times scoop. The commentary notes that AI regulation has become a major national issue far faster than many expected since Brockman's August 2025 commitment.

AIFulcrum's Echo was trained using Fireworks' serverless training API on a rank 32 LoRA of Kimi K3. The team's writeup describes a "persona post-training" approach and a total training cost of $4.5k.

AIModal says it is looking forward to Runtime tomorrow, with a guest appearance from 1X Technologies' NEO. The event is also set to feature Bernhard Sson, according to a companion post.

AIMeta has named Dhruv Vohra Managing Director, Global Business Group, Southeast Asia, to lead commercial strategy across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He reports to Benjamin Joe, Vice President for Asia Pacific, and will oversee teams serving advertisers and agencies. Vohra joined Meta in 2019 and previously led the SMB Group across Asia Pacific.

AIAmazon researchers will attend COLM 2026 in San Francisco next week with accepted publications on agentic AI, LLM post-training, multi-agent systems, and automated reasoning. The post links to their research and booth schedule.

AIDemis Hassabis, Google DeepMind's CEO, expressed pride in the team's relentless work on a new release, pointing readers to a blog post for details. The post itself provides no specific model names, figures, or features.

AISophia Yang praised Fireworks AI for leading the open model inference economy, citing a plot from Nathan Lambert showing exponential growth in daily tokens processed. The chart compares leading companies using public disclosures for Together, Baseten, and Fireworks, plus OpenRouter API data, with Lambert noting he had underestimated OpenRouter's growth.

AIA flu forecasting model built with Google AI ranked first among 39 eligible models in the CDC's FluSight 2025-26 season evaluation for predicting U.S. flu-related hospital admissions. The model was developed using Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), an AI tool that generates optimization algorithms, and ERA's underlying technology is now available to trusted testers.

AISGLang will appear at Modal Runtime in San Francisco tomorrow, with a talk by Banghua Zhu on building frontier AI infrastructure with SGLang and Miles at 11:05am. SGLang engineers will also be available from 8:30am to 6:30pm to discuss inference, serving, and RL questions.

AIGoogle introduces Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model rolling out to cyber defenders starting today and more widely as soon as possible. Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Merve Noyan of Hugging Face reacts to the news with "google is so back."

AIStanford HAI is hiring a one-year project manager to coordinate the AI Index chapter on AI in medicine and science. The role is hybrid and based on the Stanford campus, and the post asks for experience managing complex writing projects and a background in biomedical AI.

AINoam Brown, now at OpenAI, says he met Samuel Sokota at a conference poster session five years ago, was impressed by his explanation, and offered him an internship. The two kept collaborating, and Sokota now works with Brown at OpenAI. Sokota later told Brown he was the only person to stop by his poster during the entire session.

AIClément Delangue of Hugging Face jokes that the next robot should have arms to help assemble Microducks, and he'd like to see the Microduck production and assembly line. The context is Pollen Robotics' announcement that 10,950 Microducks will ship in weekly batches between December 10 and January 10.

AIGoogle Labs is shutting down its Opal experiment on November 17, 2026, as Skills roll out globally in the Gemini app. Skills let users automate repetitive tasks and save custom instructions directly in chat, building on what Google learned from Opal.

AI“Instead, they manipulated model interactions so that protected reasoning could be reproduced in forms visible to the requester in a coordinated, scaled manner that violated our terms of service” It’s the API company’s problem if their model can be manipulated like this. Add KYC

AICognition has named Chris Degnan its Chief Revenue Officer to help it scale globally, after he spent a decade at Snowflake, rising from its first sales hire to CRO and driving over $3B in ARR. Cognition is also partnering with Chad Peets and the RPT team to build its go-to-market team. Degnan says he is excited to help drive customer outcomes for Devin, Cognition's product.

AIFlow has raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Valor and Atreides with Sequoia Capital participating. Investor swyx says Flow is becoming the default requirements and verification platform for frontier hardware teams, including Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, and Rivian, and that AI agents will move from integrating hardware work to doing it within the next year.

AIStanford HAI is running a fall lecture series, held Wednesdays at 4:30 PM PT, where different researchers present how AI and data-driven methods are used across the sciences. Topics mentioned include decoding the genome and modeling the brain. Many speakers use Stanford's Marlowe GPU cluster, operated by HAI with UIT and VPDoR, and the talks are open to the public in person.

AIProduct Hunt's Hypership Day lets users request features and bugs on launch pages while makers build and deploy them during the event. The fastest shippers can climb the leaderboard and win prizes from TypeSafe AI and Supabase.

AILeading AI companies, including Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, and Nvidia, signed a White House Accord on AI responsibilities that calls for voluntary commitments, robust internal controls, and layers of internal and external review. Microsoft and Amazon were present but did not visibly sign, and President Trump described the accord as "morally binding."

AILovable's security team found a vulnerability (CVE-2026-102989) in TanStack Start, which allows attackers to run unwanted JavaScript in visitors' browsers via crafted links. Lovable reported it to TanStack and deployed firewall protections for hosted apps while a fix was prepared, and affected projects will be automatically updated on their next change or via the Security page. Lovable says it found no evidence of exploitation in reviewed logs, and apps hosted elsewhere must apply the upstream update themselves.

AIRadixArk is a platinum sponsor of the first SGLang Summit, held November 12–13 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The company says SGLang has been crucial to its mission of making frontier-level AI infrastructure open and accessible, and invites attendees to visit its booth.

AIThe SGLang Project, which aims to run complex LLM programs more efficiently by exploiting their structure, has grown to over 2,000 contributors and 19,000 commits. It is hosting its first SGLang Summit, with talks and deep dives on frontier AI infrastructure, silicon, models, and applications, on November 12–13 at Fort Mason in San Francisco.