Morning Edition · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Tech
Google Opens Gemini 4 Carbon at $2 per Million Input Tokens, a Quarter of Anthropic's Fable 5.2 Price
Cursor reports Carbon scoring 60.4% on CursorBench against 60.0% for Fable 5.2 Max, but the introductory rate doubles on December 1, and Google's claim of lower cost per task is not backed by published data.
Tech
Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5.2 With a 20% Price Cut and Keeps Its Cyber-Capable Mythos 5.2 Behind Vetting
Fable 5.2 scores 65 on the Artificial Analysis index, the top score among 74 models, but costs $26.54 per index task, and its counterpart Mythos 5.2 found 89.6% of known vulnerabilities on a rediscovery test.
Markets
Anthropic Sets Share Price Range of $70 to $78, Valuing It at Up to $1.405 Trillion
The 825-million-share offering would raise between about $57.8 billion and $64.4 billion, and reported investor valuation talk has fallen from an earlier range of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion to a more recent $1.1 trillion to $1.3 trillion.
Tech
DeepMind's AlphaProof Code Agents Produce Lean Proofs That Signal's Compiled Encryption Code Meets Its Specification
Agent teams produced millions of lines of machine-checked proof in about four weeks against roughly 26,000 lines of human-written specification, and the checks correctly failed on two reintroduced bugs.
Tech
Gemini Robotics 2.5 Reaches 96% Success Sorting Metal Parts in a Mercedes-Benz Pilot With Apptronik
DeepMind reports success rates 30% to 100% above its prior baselines across more than 200 tasks and released an adversarial safety benchmark, but the model goes only to robotics partners.
Tech
Meta's Muse Ember Matches Claude Haiku 5.5 on Artificial Analysis at About One-Third the Cost per Task
Meta's smallest model costs about $0.14 per index task against $0.41 for Haiku, but trails Haiku by more than seven points on FrontierCode 2.0 and ranks thirteenth of 36 on the independent Vals Index.
Tech
MiniMax Releases Open Weights for a 33-Billion-Parameter Model That Generates 16-Megapixel Images, With a License Reported to Exclude the US, EU and UK
H3-Image generates 4096-by-4096 images in six distilled steps without classifier-free guidance, and its license restrictions follow a pattern that MiniMax tied to Hollywood copyright litigation.
Tech
Berkeley Lab Runs Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 on 300 A100 GPUs to Label X-ray Scans in About 15 Minutes
New arXiv research on auditable human-agent teams for X-ray experiments addresses the harder problem: sustained autonomous operation of physical instruments.
Tech
NVIDIA Hands Its OpenShell Agent-Sandboxing Runtime to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Red Hat, Docker and Canonical co-maintain the runtime, which keeps credentials out of agents and enforces YAML access policies, and it enters the foundation as a Sandbox-stage project at KubeCon in Salt Lake City.
Tech
ChatGPT Holds About 81% of Assistant Traffic as OpenAI Launches Merchant Listings Inside the Chatbot
Graphite's estimate gives Claude 6.8%, Gemini 5% and DeepSeek 4%, and OpenAI's new Businesses in ChatGPT tool lets companies manage how the assistant presents them.
Tech
Google Cloud Launches Gemini for Healthcare Aimed at Clinical Data and Administrative Workflows
The same-day launches target hospital administration, not clinical decisions, and Google added Gemini features on more Android devices and Adobe tools inside Drive and Gemini.
Tech
Apple's Xcode Plugin Joins Claude Code's Official Directory as Claude Sheets Enters Paid Beta
The plugin lets Claude Code build, run and test iPhone apps through the Xcode binary installed on each developer's Mac, and Anthropic is adding spreadsheet generation to its paid plans.