The Polylog AI Intelligence Brief

Morning Edition · Saturday, November 14, 2026

Tech

Forensic Analysis of Public Weights Ties Six Chinese Frontier Models to Export-Controlled Nvidia Blackwell GPUs

Will DePue says a rented Blackwell B300 reproduced the starting weights of DeepSeek-V4-Flash bit for bit, while a rented H100 did not, as the Commerce Department reportedly prepares to require licenses for Blackwell-class capacity in seven countries where Chinese firms rent compute.

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Plausible

Markets

Nvidia Shares Fall to $162.85 After Huang Resigns and Report Says Chipmaker Paid for Customers That Bought Its GPUs

The Wall Street Journal reports that Colette Kress, the finance chief now serving as interim chief executive, had pushed to scale back the circular financing commitments Jensen Huang favored, four days before the company's November 17 earnings call.

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Tech

Anthropic Cuts Prices 20 Percent With Claude Fable 5.2 and Reports 49.1 Percent on FrontierCode 2.0

Fable 5.2 lists at $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output, and Anthropic's headline coding score is measured at maximum effort and drops to 37.6 percent at medium.

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Tech

Four Nonprofits Ask San Francisco Court to Bar Five Labs From Building Models More Capable Than Their Current Frontier

Public Citizen and three other groups bring a single claim under California's Unfair Competition Law, two months after a separate federal suit accused the same labs of illegally agreeing to slow development.

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Tech

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Wallet So Agents Can Pay With Tokenized Cards From Visa, Mastercard and American Express

Each purchase requires the user to review items and total and pass a biometric check, and OpenAI's help center limits the first rollout to US Pro subscribers using the dots agent, although the announcement also names Work and Codex.

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Tech

Claroc Finds 35,578 Grok Build Apps Open Without Sign-In Because the Publish Step Defaults to "Anyone With the Link"

Researchers found the app addresses through public DNS records and estimate that 650 to 800 of the exposed apps held private data, including patient records and plain-text passwords.

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Corroborated

Tech

ggml and llama.cpp Ship Version 1.0.0 With Semantic Versioning and a Pruned Public C API

The release removes deprecated functions and the legacy DIAG_MASK ops, adds FP8 support and configurable YaRN truncation, and commits to a major version bump for any breaking change to the headers in ./include.

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Tech

Adobe and KAIST's MoviEdit Edits Multi-Shot Video Up to 25 Seconds Using 87,000 Training Pairs and a Cascaded Diffusion Design

The authors claim parity with frontier commercial editors on their own new benchmark, MoviEdit-Bench, and according to one report they have released the benchmark but not the model weights.

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Tech

Claude Helps Anthropic Researchers Solve the First 3D Structure of a Bacterial Vault Particle

The model searched about 15 billion predicted proteins and designed DNA for candidates. Seven of 15 expressed proteins formed vault-like shells, and Anthropic documents two model errors, one of which cost about two weeks.

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Tech

Google Labs Opens Waitlist for Tabletop, Where Groups Prompt an Assistant to Build and Edit Shared Planning Tools

US adults can join the experiment, in which participants type @Tabletop to generate itineraries, polls, brackets and expense splitters inside a space that several people edit at once.

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Tech

OpenAI Customers Put Agents on Legacy IT Portals and Product Analytics as New Research Targets Invalid Agent Actions

Shield's Forge agents navigate old administration portals for IT technicians and Amplitude says its Wave agent helps teams ship changes in one to two days, while a new arXiv paper trains agents to choose among valid actions instead of generating free-form tokens.

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Tech

Russia's MWS Cloud Cuts Inference Prices Up to 30 Percent Between 1:00 and 7:00 on Its GPT Model Hub

The cloud unit of the Russian operator MTS calls the nightly discount the first in Russia, a pricing tool DeepSeek used in 2025 when it cut off-peak rates by up to 75 percent.

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