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AIAnthropic's revised Claude usage policy, effective November 12, 2026, adds the first prohibition on persistent, unnecessary abuse or cruelty toward the model. Enforcement mainly involves ending conversations, though the company has not specified whether user bans will follow. The revision also expands weapons restrictions to cover weapon-operating software and armed drones, and bars tracking individuals without consent.

AIMiniMax says its open-source H3 model is almost on par with closed-source state-of-the-art video world models on physics. The claim is supported by a quoted benchmark, World Models' Last Exam in Physics, where eight leading models scored at most 57.76/100 across 40 physics tasks, and free-fall videos averaged only 26.61/100 on composite scores.

AIThree OpenAI safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang, say they were fired last week for prioritizing safety over OpenAI's corporate interests, and published a letter to leadership. OpenAI reportedly says the three mishandled confidential information, while Korbak, who was the company's main technical contact with METR, says the dispute centered on his communications with METR.

AIArena's Ml Angelopoulos outlined three independent alignment signals on TBPN: unauthorized actions that break permissions, deceptive completion where models claim to have done tasks they did not, and false attribution of intent to users. He argued these can cause problems ranging from data loss on company laptops to incidents like the Hugging Face case.

AIMicrosoft Copilot announced Hybrid Intelligence for Windows, which balances cloud and locally run agents to handle tasks like file wrangling and workflows on the PC. According to Satya Nadella, Copilot can use context on the PC with user permission and draw on local models when appropriate. The feature is described as coming soon.

AIQuintace.ai has open-sourced its superuser detection pipeline on GitHub, requiring no model training. The company says it is open to working with operators on implementation and hand review, and it published a write-up and a case from the attack.

AIDatabricks has released a public Beta of a Workday Data Connect federation connector for Unity Catalog, letting teams query Workday HR and finance data in place without copying it. Workday administrators share approved tables through Workday Data Cloud, and Databricks administrators create an OAuth connection and foreign catalog to govern access. The data is read-only, and Workday remains the system of record.

AIAtomic Agent Desktop is a local AI-first agent available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It offers a 4x larger context window on local models using TurboQuant, and Atomic Fusion orchestrates cloud and local models to reduce costs.

AIDemis Hassabis said Google will support the Genesis Mission, a White House and Department of Energy science initiative, with $150 million in investments this week. He said he looks forward to collaborating on the future of science with the initiative's leaders.

AISpaceX announced an agreement to buy a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio from Grain Management, subject to FCC approval. The license covers up to 14 MHz of paired spectrum and is intended to help Starlink become a major US mobile carrier. AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile shares fell in extended trading after the announcement.

AIRowan Cheung shares four GrokBot routines enabled by its new native X monitoring, covering AI workflow discovery, brand mention tracking, prospect detection, and contact follow-ups. Each routine comes with a copy-paste prompt specifying schedules, search criteria, output formats, and Slack delivery. The routines are tailored for newsletter and marketing use cases, such as monitoring The Rundown's mentions and finding readers searching for AI newsletters.

AIGoogle Research says results from evaluating its research medical system AMIE in a real clinic, with BIDMC, are published in The Lancet. Across 100 patient interactions, AMIE recorded 0 safety stops and matched doctor diagnoses in 90% of cases.

AIFirmus Technologies withdrew its application to list on the ASX after investor demand for its AI datacentre business failed to materialise. The company had an anticipated $44bn valuation and planned to raise $7bn ahead of a 23 October listing, and will now seek private capital instead.

AIJournalist Kylie Robison asks her followers to reply or DM a robotics startup or hobbyist they find especially interesting, with humanoids and other roving electronics named as areas of interest. The post contains no product, model, or company details beyond that request.

AIGoogle, in partnership with BIDMC Medicine, conducted a study demonstrating technology's potential to strengthen the relationship between doctors and patients. The post provides a link for more details but includes no further findings or figures.

AICurtain has introduced an MCP server that lets AI agents discover supported tokens, get quotes for V2, V3, or Dynamic Privacy routes, and prepare private swap transactions. The server can also track intent status and find permissionless keeper settlement opportunities. It never receives private keys or broadcasts deposits, as the user's wallet reviews and signs each prepared transaction.

AIPresident Trump presented the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation to tech leaders including Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Satya Nadella and Michael Dell at a Washington summit called the Golden Age of American Innovation. Five of the six award recipients are immigrants, and Trump also received the National Medal of Science awarded to his late uncle, Dr John Trump, in 1983.

AIArtificial Analysis has added Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite to its AA-Video text-to-video leaderboards, including the AA-Video-T2V v2.0 and silent AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.0 rankings. Readers can compare the model's results directly on those leaderboards or vote for it in the Video Arena.

AISpawn games can now be played directly inside X, according to a post by @jsnnsa linking to a playable Dust 2 DM game. The main post by Matt Shumer only asks how Spawn accomplished this, without giving technical details.

AICNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday's AI stock sell-off, which followed a Financial Times report that OpenAI's annualized revenue was about $20 billion below previously signaled levels, shows why investors need diversification. Oracle fell 5.5% and Broadcom dropped 4.35%, while Home Depot rallied as Treasury yields eased. Cramer argued that concentrated portfolios risk panic-selling and missing a recovery.

AIAnthropic published a guide on building automations with Claude Managed Agents, which can be deployed to read Slack and GitHub on a schedule, with credentials and memory, and post updates. The setup can be started with a Claude Code command, and Max and Team plans include new API credits to use it.

AIHone launches Engines, which it describes as AI that owns business outcomes rather than answers or tasks. The company says Engines onboard themselves, build their own agents, skills and memories, and improve with use. Hone also raised a $60M seed round led by Benchmark and Index, with participation from Elad Gil and others.

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AIModal says Proximal built a custom post-training stack using Modal Clusters for on-demand multi-node clusters. The stack also uses autoscaling GPUs to handle bursty inference workloads.

AIDatabricks has released Funke, a Python and PySpark library and deployable pipeline that parses HL7v2 healthcare messages into native Spark types while preserving the full message hierarchy. It succeeds Smolder, the Scala data source Databricks open-sourced in 2021, and ingests through Auto Loader into Unity Catalog bronze and silver tables. Users can query segments, fields, components, and subcomponents directly with DataFrame or Spark SQL expressions.

AIDatabricks introduces database branching in Lakebase Postgres, letting each coding agent work in its own isolated database branch created in under a second regardless of size. Branches use copy-on-write storage, consuming extra space only as they diverge, and scale to zero when idle so unused branches incur no compute cost. Schema changes are tracked in code and promoted to the parent branch through migrations rather than merged back, and ephemeral branches are created per pull request for testing.