Morning Edition · Saturday, November 7, 2026
Tech
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594-billion-parameter MoE priced at $0.30 per million input tokens
The model activates 17 billion parameters per token and reads up to 1 million tokens of text and images. The lab says Apache 2.0 weights will follow next week, and the license would carry none of the revenue conditions attached to Moonshot's newly published Kimi K3.1 Pro.
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Anthropic's amended IPO filing shows compute consumed 58% of third-quarter revenue
Revenue reached about $17 billion, but growth slowed to roughly 47% from the prior quarter, and the company disclosed $895.4 billion in purchase commitments that are almost entirely for compute and infrastructure.
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OpenAI pledges to pay full power and grid costs at its own data center campuses after midterm voters restrict data centers
The National Community Compact covers only sites OpenAI owns and operates, excludes leased capacity, and asks lawmakers to make the same commitments binding on every data center builder.
Tech
OpenAI's BioBasicsBench finds its best model scores 66.7% on interpreting raw wet-lab data
The 100-task benchmark, built with the enzyme-design company Ligo, reports scores only for OpenAI models and gives no human baseline, while OpenAI president Greg Brockman predicts major biology gains within 12 to 18 months.
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NVIDIA claims its Vera CPU runs 1.6 times more AI agents per watt than the fastest x86 chip
An independent test by Signal65 measured a 1.64-times per-core speedup across 69 agentic tasks, but it did not measure whole-server throughput or power, which is where NVIDIA's headline claim applies.
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Anthropic says Claude helped resolve the first 3D structure of a vault particle from bacterial life
The preprint reports a shell built from 96 copies of a protein called L05, and it also records Claude's errors, including a mirrored density map that human researchers had to catch and a mistake that cost two weeks.
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OpenAI expands security firm Hacktron's frontier-model access to attack its third-party integrations
OpenAI first encountered Hacktron through its bug bounty program, and Hacktron says it previously chained two critical flaws to take over several OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts.
Tech
Hightouch cuts LLM-judge cost 4.4 times by sending 22% of identity-resolution cases to Claude Opus
The hybrid scored 98.8% against Opus alone at 99.0% on a 1,000-identity synthetic benchmark, and the better-calibrated cheap model produced the better cascade even though another model was more accurate.
Tech
US prosecutors charge three men with using AI-cloned executives on calls to steal about $129 million
The indictment in Manhattan federal court alleges the money moved through nine countries and into cryptocurrency, and all three defendants are awaiting extradition from Spain and the United Kingdom.
Tech
FAH paper distills Meta's SAM 3D Body into real-time hand models as Meta's open vision models reach labs and wheelchairs
The arXiv paper fits MANO or MHR-Hand meshes and estimates contact without object geometry. Separately, a Pittsburgh wheelchair-arm project and a Berkeley Lab beamline pipeline run Meta's DINO and SAM models on their own hardware.
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Russian Telegram resellers advertise two years of Gemini Pro for 800 rubles while Google and Anthropic exclude Russia from their services
The advertised price is about 2% of the listed 39,000-ruble value, and the offer lists access to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 alongside Google's tools.
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A Unitree A2 quadruped wins China Media Group's first robot race up Mount Tai in 43 minutes 41 seconds
Nearly 90 teams ran a course of about 3.9 kilometers with more than 3,100 steps, and a Unitree G1 humanoid overheated during the climb and was carried down on a stretcher.