Saudi Arabia pumped 10.563 million barrels a day in October, OPEC said, as the U.S. average gas price fell to $3.94, its first time under $4 in months.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has passed 11,000 cases and 5,387 deaths, its health ministry said Nov. 11, as Kenya began a 42-day countdown to Ebola-free status.
Spain held its first general strike in 14 years on Nov. 11 over housing costs. Masked groups clashed with police in Barcelona as 120,000 marched in Madrid.
Cost of living by country for mid-2026: the most expensive and cheapest nations, the biggest changes over the year and official inflation, with charts.
Russia hit six major power substations overnight, Kyiv said, a second night of strikes that left outages in eight regions and darkened city streetlights.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large prisoner exchange as Abu Dhabi talks ended Wednesday with no breakthrough. Envoys go to Moscow and Dublin Thursday.
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AWS made Kiro bots generally available in Kiro Crew: long-running agents with their own memory that run parallel coding sessions. Analysts flag token costs.
Salesforce says Agentforce Coworker usage grew 21-fold in three months to over 185,000 users at $50 per user per month as it expands into Microsoft Teams.
Hugging Face ProtoStar aims to make publicly funded science AI-ready. Its first challenge, run by Carnegie Mellon through Nov. 13, uses weather from 210 cities.
Meta Muse voice lets U.S. users talk to the Muse AI agent and its animated avatar on mobile, web and Mac, with hundreds of voices. Glasses support is next.
Palantir Q3 2026 earnings: revenue rose 96% to $2.31 billion and U.S. commercial sales of $984 million topped government for the first time. Key numbers.
Cohere North is now generally available on SAP Business AI Platform, and Singapore's CSIT will use it for national security work. What the deals cover.
Mistral Studio adds managed agents and apps as Mistral AI buys SkipLabs, its fifth acquisition this year. What French enterprise customers get and when.
Perplexity Teammates are always-on work agents for $200-a-month Max users. Perplexity also cut Agent API costs and says web grounding lifted accuracy to 97.3%.
Microsoft put SharePoint tools in Work IQ into public preview, giving AI agents 60+ operations. Internal evals show pass rates rising from 70.1% to 84.6%.
OpenAI BioBasicsBench tests AI agents on 100 routine wet-lab tasks. GPT-6 Astra earned 66.7% of credit vs. 43.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol, with clear failures left.
Apple AI spending caps: Bloomberg says engineers’ daily generative AI allowance fell from $300 to $200 in October, with deeper cuts still under review.
Google Wyoming data center: Alphabet announces a $17 billion Laramie County campus with 702 MW fuel cells, carbon capture and air cooling near Cheyenne.
McGraw Hill said Nov. 5 it will let district customers use licensed K-12 curriculum inside Claude for Teachers through an MCP connector, starting in beta.
Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 research preview generates interactive worlds with native audio and Gemini steering, including experimental robotics simulation pairings.
METR’s Nov. 5 assessment finds Anthropic’s well-specified-task progress near 2× prior pace and AECI scores growing 1.9× since Oct. 2025, while noting major redactions.
Three House chairmen asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Nov. 5 to brief them Nov. 18 on interactions with Megaspeed’s Alice Huang and Nvidia’s espionage defenses.
TeraWulf said Nov. 4 that Google will credit-backstop financing for about $19 billion in Anthropic lease commitments at its Justified campus in Hawesville, Kentucky.
Nvidia posted four 16B-parameter Cosmos 3 Nano open-weight checkpoints on Nov. 5 for multi-view driving simulation and bimanual robot video prediction under OpenMDW 1.1.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available with native clips up to 15 seconds and a 30% lower 720p list price of $0.07 per second, Google said Nov. 5.
Google health AI evaluation combines benchmarks, automated graders and expert review. Its new framework is a testing method, not proof of clinical benefit.
MIT robot memory research checks doubtful object labels and improves test accuracy. A Cambridge team explains the gains, the method and its limits in use.
A Claude research usage study of 207,049 sessions finds analysis ahead of idea generation, with clear limits on what it proves about scientific progress.
GPT-6 Cyber arrives with restricted security access and a higher OpenAI-reported ExploitGym score. What the tests show, and where safeguards still matter.
Business report November 5, 2026: the Dow sinks 1,833 points and the Nasdaq enters a correction as AI stocks crash, oil rebounds and the Bank of England hikes.
Meta acquires Conductor, an AI coding multi-agent startup, on undisclosed terms; cloud shuts Nov. 20 while the local app keeps running into early 2027.
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