Links / November 2026

Thursday, 12 November 2026

The AI links the most newsletters and link sources had shared by the end of the day (UTC), each source counted once.

As of 2026-11-12 23:59 UTC Status sealed

That day 36-hour window

  1. Shared by 8

    Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions

    Google launches the Gemini Decisions API using model gemini-decision-1 to score options in 150-250 ms at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. Includes code for noul, choice, and score questions, plus demos for dynamic routing and rapid design iteration. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison, Latent Space / AINews, The Rundown AI, TLDR, The Deep View, TLDR AI

    Discussed onHacker News 558 pts · 157 comments

    Where it was shared
    blog.google announcement · 4 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  2. Shared by 7

    AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease

    DeepMind releases AlphaGenome 2, a model trained on over 100 million cell profiles that identifies nearly twice as many expression-changing variants. Includes a conditional architecture for analyzing new cell states without retraining and precomputed scores for thousands of GWAS variants. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, Forward Future, The Deep View, TLDR AI, Mindstream

    Where it was shared
    deepmind.google announcement · 7 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  3. Shared by 11

    Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

    Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to all developers and enterprises at the same introductory price as Argon. Includes benchmark results showing #1 ranking on CursorBench 4.0 and 100% recall on internal scanning benchmarks. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison, The Neuron, Superhuman AI, TLDR, The Deep View, TLDR AI, AI Breakfast, What's Up in AI, Ben's Bites

    Discussed onHacker News 295 pts · 165 comments

    Where it was shared
    blog.google announcement · 8 min read First shared 2026-11-10
  4. Shared by 3

    Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen

    Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen at $1.50 per million input tokens for everyday coding and agentic workflows. Details Orchestrator switching between Carbon and Hydrogen to consume 24% less quota while reaching near-Carbon task success rates. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison

    Discussed onHacker News 512 pts · 325 comments

    Where it was shared
    blog.google announcement · 6 min read First shared 2026-11-12
  5. Shared by 4

    Introducing Grok Bot 1.0

    xAI launches Grok Bot 1.0, an AI teammate that joins Slack, Teams, and video calls to work proactively with whole teams. Details how bots monitor projects to spot unfinished work, coordinate with other agents, and learn team preferences to improve over time. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, Ben's Bites

    Where it was shared
    x.ai announcement · 3 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  6. Shared by 8

    Businesses in ChatGPT

    “OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT beta for eligible US ecommerce and online services brands.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, TLDR AI, What's Up in AI, FryAI, Ben's Bites

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-11-10
  7. Shared by 6

    Working with Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors

    Anthropic launches Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data tools plus interactive connectors for Adobe and Atlassian. Details how Sheets handles collaborative formulas, Whiteboards summarize meeting findings, and Data creates narrated videos from Snowflake or Salesforce. cited

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, AlphaSignal, TLDR AI, What's Up in AI, Ben's Bites

    Where it was shared
    claude.com announcement · 5 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  8. Shared by 3

    Try Tabletop: Customizable, collaborative spaces for groups to plan, play and do more together.

    “Tabletop: new Google Labs experiment built for real-time collaboration” via The Deep View

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Deep View, TLDR AI

    How 1 source put it
    blog.google 1 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  9. Shared by 2

    The fall of “what you can do” and the rise of “who you know”

    “Why Connections Matter More in AI (5 minute read) Professional relationships are becoming increasingly important in AI as coding agents commoditize technical execution, frontier research demands more compute resources, and closed-source development makes individual contributions harder to evaluate.” via TLDR AI

    Reported byTLDR, TLDR AI

    How 1 source put it
    • TLDR2026-11-12issue ↗
    • TLDR AI2026-11-12issue ↗ Why Connections Matter More in AI (5 minute read) Professional relationships are becoming increasingly important in AI as coding agents commoditize technical execution, frontier research demands more compute resources, and closed-source development makes individual contributions harder to evaluate.
    jasonwei.net 4 min read First shared 2026-11-12
  10. Shared by 2

    The Surprising Effectiveness of Deleting Weights in LLM Post-Training

    Zeroing fewer than 0.05% of weights matches full fine-tuning across reinforcement learning, supervised fine-tuning, and on-policy distillation. Includes analysis showing prior-task accuracy stays near base levels while FFT, LoRA, and random sparse fine-tuning lose up to 5.4 points. cited

    Reported byLatent Space / AINews, AlphaSignal

    Where it was shared
    arxiv.org paper · 2 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  11. Shared by 2

    Runway Praxis-1 Is Now Available: Open-Weight Robotics Model

    Runway releases the 27B-parameter Praxis-1 open-weight robotics model under Apache 2.0. Includes a 46.2% success rate on RoboLab-120 and LoRA support for adapting to custom hardware. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, TLDR AI

    Where it was shared
    runway.com announcement · 2 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  12. Shared by 1

    Release 0.37

    “Release: llm-gemini 0.37 Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen today - the lowest cost member of the Gemini 4 family. It's actually not too far off the price of its much bigger siblings, Carbon and Argon. I'm finding Gemini 4's pricing really confusing. Here's the pricing scheme: Model Dates Input ($/M) Cached input Output Gemini 4 Carbon Through Nov 30, 2026…” via Simon Willison

    Reported bySimon Willison

    github.com 1 min read First shared 2026-11-12
  13. Shared by 1

    Google AI Studio

    Google AI Studio pricing for Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon doubles on December 1, 2026. Details per-model rates for Standard, Batch, Flex, and Priority tiers through November 30, 2026. cited

    Reported bySimon Willison

    aistudio.google.com product page · 74 min read First shared 2026-11-12
  14. Shared by 3

    AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code

    AWS releases an emulator built by agents from 400 API models covering over 200 services. Includes fidelity tests verified against real AWS, a merge gate with security agents, and deterministic checks. cited

    Reported bySimon Willison, TLDR

    Discussed onHacker News 111 pts · 2 comments

    Where it was shared
    allthingsdistributed.com announcement · 7 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  15. Shared by 2

    Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of disease

    Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome 2, a model trained on over 100 million cell profiles across 68 tissues. Details how the model identifies nearly twice as many variants changing gene expression compared to its predecessor. cited

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, Mindstream

    Where it was shared
    theverge.com announcement · 3 min read First shared 2026-11-12
  16. Shared by 2

    Escaping SPACE: Part II

    Perplexity tested 12 models against its SPACE agent sandbox, finding none escaped VM-host isolation despite network bypass attempts. Includes detailed analysis of agent behaviors, showing CTF prompts distracted models from security boundaries and specialized cybersecurity models underperformed general ones. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, TLDR AI

    Where it was shared
    perplexity.ai analysis · 24 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  17. Shared by 2

    Jensen Huang’s job in doubt after second affair report

    “NVIDIA🚪 Jensen Huang’s job in doubt after second affair reportImage source: Creative Commons / The RundownThe Rundown: Nvidia’s directors are preparing to remove Jensen Huang as CEO, according to The Wall Street Journal, just hours after The New York Times reported a second affair for the co-founder — this time with a vice president who answers to him.The…” via The Rundown AI

    Reported byThe Rundown AI

    Discussed onHacker News 1,217 pts · 1,640 comments

    wsj.com First shared 2026-11-11
  18. Shared by 2

    Anthropic’s upcoming IPO has reportedly received orders for several times the shares it’s selling, which would top…

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, The Deep View

    How 1 source put it
    • The Rundown AI2026-11-12issue ↗ Anthropic’s upcoming IPO has reportedly received orders for several times the shares it’s selling, which would top SpaceX as the largest stock debut ever.
    • The Deep View2026-11-12issue ↗
    bloomberg.com First shared 2026-11-12
  19. Shared by 4

    OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder

    OpenAI acquired Odessia, the AI travel agent founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson. Details that the tool shut down after helping plan millions in travel and that Davidson previously built Sonder into a unicorn. cited

    Reported byThe Neuron, TLDR AI, AI Breakfast, Mindstream

    Where it was shared
    techcrunch.com news report · 2 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  20. Shared by 2

    Gemini Decisions API: Google introduced a new API backed by Gemini Decision 1.

    Reported byLatent Space / AINews, The Neuron

    How 1 source put it
    • Latent Space / AINews2026-11-12issue ↗ Gemini Decisions API: Google introduced a new API backed by Gemini Decision 1. The model handles closed-set decisions, so it scores choices in a single pass instead of generating text token by token (Sundar Pichai, Logan Kilpatrick, Google).
    • The Neuron2026-11-12issue ↗
    x.com X post First shared 2026-11-12

The week to that day two or more sources

  1. Shared by 13

    Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2

    Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, which generate outputs up to 30% faster than the previous versions. Includes a benchmark table showing Fable 5.2 scores 49.1% on FrontierCode 2.0 Xhigh effort and details pricing of $8 per million input tokens. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison, Turing Post, Latent Space / AINews, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, The Deep View, TLDR AI, Ben's Bites, What's Up in AI, AI Breakfast

    Discussed onHacker News 998 pts · 8 comments

    Where it was shared
    anthropic.com product page · 18 min read First shared 2026-11-09
  2. Shared by 11

    Gemini 4 Carbon is now available

    Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to all developers and enterprises at the same introductory price as Argon. Includes benchmark results showing #1 ranking on CursorBench 4.0 and 100% recall on internal scanning benchmarks. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison, The Neuron, Superhuman AI, TLDR, The Deep View, TLDR AI, AI Breakfast, What's Up in AI, Ben's Bites

    Discussed onHacker News 295 pts · 165 comments

    Where it was shared
    blog.google announcement · 8 min read First shared 2026-11-10
  3. Shared by 8

    Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions

    Google launches the Gemini Decisions API using model gemini-decision-1 to score options in 150-250 ms at $0.10 per 1M input tokens. Includes code for noul, choice, and score questions, plus demos for dynamic routing and rapid design iteration. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison, Latent Space / AINews, The Rundown AI, TLDR, The Deep View, TLDR AI

    Discussed onHacker News 558 pts · 157 comments

    Where it was shared
    blog.google announcement · 4 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  4. Shared by 8

    Businesses in ChatGPT

    “OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT beta for eligible US ecommerce and online services brands.” via AlphaSignal

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, TLDR AI, What's Up in AI, FryAI, Ben's Bites

    How 1 source put it
    openai.com First shared 2026-11-10
  5. Shared by 7

    AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease

    DeepMind releases AlphaGenome 2, a model trained on over 100 million cell profiles that identifies nearly twice as many expression-changing variants. Includes a conditional architecture for analyzing new cell states without retraining and precomputed scores for thousands of GWAS variants. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, Forward Future, The Deep View, TLDR AI, Mindstream

    Where it was shared
    deepmind.google announcement · 7 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  6. Shared by 6

    Working with Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors

    Anthropic launches Claude Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data tools plus interactive connectors for Adobe and Atlassian. Details how Sheets handles collaborative formulas, Whiteboards summarize meeting findings, and Data creates narrated videos from Snowflake or Salesforce. cited

    Reported byThe Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, AlphaSignal, TLDR AI, What's Up in AI, Ben's Bites

    Where it was shared
    claude.com announcement · 5 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  7. Shared by 4

    Introducing Grok Bot 1.0

    xAI launches Grok Bot 1.0, an AI teammate that joins Slack, Teams, and video calls to work proactively with whole teams. Details how bots monitor projects to spot unfinished work, coordinate with other agents, and learn team preferences to improve over time. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, The Rundown AI, Superhuman AI, Ben's Bites

    Where it was shared
    x.ai announcement · 3 min read First shared 2026-11-11
  8. Shared by 6

    Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

    Meta launches Muse Ember, a multimodal model costing $0.10 per million input tokens for agent subtasks. Details evaluation results showing a 37.8% score on AutomationBench-AAE2E business workflows and 40.9% on Terminal-Bench 4.0. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Turing Post, Simon Willison, The Neuron, The Rundown AI, TLDR AI

    Where it was shared
    research.meta.ai announcement · 9 min read First shared 2026-11-09
  9. Shared by 7

    Introducing Inkling 2 Small

    Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model with 17B active parameters that supports image inputs. Includes benchmark tables showing it scores 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 1527 ELO on AA-Briefcase. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Latent Space / AINews, TLDR AI, The Rundown AI, The Deep View, Superhuman AI, Turing Post

    AboutInkling

    Where it was shared
    thinkingmachines.ai announcement · 29 min read First shared 2026-11-05
  10. Shared by 3

    Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen

    Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen at $1.50 per million input tokens for everyday coding and agentic workflows. Details Orchestrator switching between Carbon and Hydrogen to consume 24% less quota while reaching near-Carbon task success rates. cited

    Reported byAlphaSignal, Simon Willison

    Discussed onHacker News 512 pts · 325 comments

    Where it was shared
    blog.google announcement · 6 min read First shared 2026-11-12