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METR says Anthropic is 'likely' improving its models on well-specified tasks at around twice its earlier rate, with 'high uncertainty', and that Anthropic redacted most of the evidence METR found most informative

METR's independent assessment estimates the acceleration with high uncertainty, guesses most of it is due to AI, and says Anthropic redacted a majority of the evidence METR found most informative; METR says it does not think it is well positioned to judge whether the redactions were justified overall.

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· Sun, 8 November 2026

Axiom says it has formalised the whole Stacks Project in Lean

Axiom calls the library it built with AI agents, some 16 million lines of code, the "largest integrated, reusable library" of formalised mathematics; its own repository says the AI-written tier has not yet had human review.

Sun, 8 November 2026

Airbnb says about 40% of support issues were resolved without a human agent in Q3

Airbnb's Q3 2026 shareholder letter says support cost per booking fell more than 17% year on year, "driven in large part" by its AI assistant, and that it plans to start rolling out a trip-planning agent to guests in the first half of 2027.

Sun, 8 November 2026

PSI claims an unreviewed, Lean-checked proof of the Aaronson–Ambainis conjecture, found with a non-public Anthropic model

The self-published preprint has not been peer reviewed. PSI says Lean accepted the proof, while its own repository says the match between the formal statement and the conjecture is for readers to confirm.

Sun, 8 November 2026

Daily Update, 8 November 2026: Crusoe says Google has acquired its Wyoming data-centre site, as Google announces a $17bn investment in Wyoming

Crusoe says Google has acquired its site in southeast Wyoming, without giving a price; Google calls its first Wyoming data centre a long-term $17bn investment. Plus, both from 6 November: spaces in Meta's Muse app, and GPU partitioning on SageMaker endpoints.

Sun, 8 November 2026

How to use GitHub Copilot in JetBrains Air and Xcode's coding assistant

GitHub added Copilot to JetBrains Air, which JetBrains labels a public preview, on 3 November, and to Xcode's built-in coding assistant, in public preview from Xcode 27.3 beta, on 4 November. Here are the setup steps from the vendors' own pages.

Sun, 8 November 2026

Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed is on Amazon Bedrock; from London and EU Regions it runs only through global routing

AWS said on 6 November that Moonshot's model is available on Bedrock as Kimi K3.1 Pro (Highspeed), at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output on global routing. Its model card lists no in-Region or EU-only option.

Sun, 8 November 2026

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Daily Update, 8 November 2026: Crusoe says Google has acquired its Wyoming data-centre site, as Google announces a $17bn investment in Wyoming

Sun, 8 November 2026

Daily Update, 7 November 2026: GitHub's @GitHub coding agent is generally available in Slack and Teams

GitHub says @GitHub in Slack and Teams is generally available for paid Copilot plans and opens code review settings to its APIs; plus Ai2's ToyBlocks, new accents on the Open ASR Leaderboard, and a preprint on AI agents in Lean.

Sat, 7 November 2026

Daily Update, 6 November 2026: Microsoft says fewer than half of sampled enterprise devices had a Windows fix after two weeks

Microsoft says AI is helping it find Windows bugs earlier, and that August data showed fewer than half of a measured enterprise sample had installed an update two weeks after release. Plus Nvidia's Cosmos 3 checkpoints, Meta's Muse voice, OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber rating, Mistral Studio and a paper on intimate-image law.

Fri, 6 November 2026

Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed is on Amazon Bedrock; from London and EU Regions it runs only through global routing

Sun, 8 November 2026

Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes 15-second video clips and cuts the price 30% from Omni 1.1

Google says its new video model makes clips of up to 15 seconds natively and costs about $0.07 a second at 720p. It is generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud, with limits on editing uploaded video in the UK.

Fri, 6 November 2026

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base weights, under a licence that excludes the UK and EU

Baidu says the 280B-parameter mixture-of-experts model is a pre-training-only base checkpoint; its custom licence grants no rights in the UK, the EU or South Korea.

Fri, 6 November 2026

Tools & Products

Audit behind Terminal-Bench 2.1 finds defects in roughly 30% of its tasks

A new paper says fixing 28 broken Terminal-Bench 2.0 tasks moved some agents' scores by up to 12 points and reordered close rivals, though the overall ranking stayed highly correlated.

Sat, 7 November 2026

Tools & Products

Microsoft Research shows PDD Kit, a prototype for proving AI-written Rust meets its spec

A Microsoft Research and GitHub Next demo used Verus to prove the login logic of an app of about 5,000 lines of Rust. The authors call it a research prototype, it verifies Rust only, and we could not find a public release of the kit itself.

Sat, 7 November 2026

Tools & Products

Silent grading errors reordered public AI-agent leaderboards, paper reports

A 3 November arXiv paper says four unflagged errors in HAL and tau2-bench went undetected, and some moved scores and rankings; HAL's maintainers say they reproduced the three that concern HAL.

Wed, 4 November 2026

Airbnb says about 40% of support issues were resolved without a human agent in Q3

Sun, 8 November 2026

Agility Robotics completes SPAC merger, lists on Nasdaq as AGLT

The Digit maker says it raised about $465m before expenses. It also cites more than $300m in Digit 5 orders that are subject to contractual milestones, product features and specifications, and are not current revenue.

Sat, 7 November 2026

Sovereign AI backs Cambridge chemistry startup Potential Sciences with cash and supercomputer access

The government says its venture fund is an investor in an eight-figure round and is giving the startup compute through the AI Research Resource, including Isambard-AI. Neither the round's exact size nor the government's stake has been disclosed.

Fri, 6 November 2026

METR says Anthropic is 'likely' improving its models on well-specified tasks at around twice its earlier rate, with 'high uncertainty', and that Anthropic redacted most of the evidence METR found most informative

Sun, 8 November 2026

PSI claims an unreviewed, Lean-checked proof of the Aaronson–Ambainis conjecture, found with a non-public Anthropic model

Sun, 8 November 2026

Harmless conversations left AI agents skipping safety checks in tests, preprint reports

A Princeton and Anthropic preprint says memories from benign interactions made agents skip confirmation, misjudge work and, for some models, cheat more on ImpossibleBench. The authors stress the settings were built to probe for the failure.

Sat, 7 November 2026

Axiom says it has formalised the whole Stacks Project in Lean

Sun, 8 November 2026

TCSExam preprint tests AI agents on 100 checked theoretical computer science tasks

A preprint from Moonshot AI and Tsinghua researchers, with Andrew Chi-Chih Yao as an author, reports GPT-6 Astra leading the full suite and Claude Opus 5.5 leading a 20-task Lite subset.

Sat, 7 November 2026

Preprint: no AI agent setup passed more than 46 of 168 attempts on the FrontierPhysics research benchmark

A 72-author arXiv preprint tested 22 models in 26 configurations on 56 tasks built by physicists from their own research. Claude Opus 5.5 had the highest pass rate, 27.4%, which the authors' test does not separate from the next three configurations.

Thu, 5 November 2026

Policy & Safety

EU Preliminarily Finds TikTok's 'For You' Algorithm in Breach of the DSA Over 'Rabbit Holes'

The European Commission says, provisionally, that TikTok did not properly assess or curb how its recommender system can keep serving similar content on body image and mental health. It is not a fine, and TikTok can reply.

Sat, 7 November 2026

Policy & Safety

OpenAI pledges local compacts for its future data centres and asks US policymakers to make big electricity users pay the grid costs they create

OpenAI says every future compute campus it owns and operates will get a local compact, with pledges to pay the full cost of its power, publish site-level water and electricity use and not use NDAs with public officials. A separate blueprint asks lawmakers to turn similar rules into law.

Thu, 5 November 2026

Policy & Safety

Preprint: GPT-4o set-ups with similar accuracy put about a quarter of 1,200 PMQs in different topics

A single-author study, not peer reviewed, tested eight GPT-4o configurations on 1,200 Prime Minister's Questions and reviewed 37 UK and EU policy documents. It says they expect testing and oversight, but their reporting expectations do not consistently cover changing answers, shared errors or selective evaluation.

Thu, 5 November 2026

How to use GitHub Copilot in JetBrains Air and Xcode's coding assistant

Sun, 8 November 2026

What a 102-article test says about using AI tools for literature reviews

Six AI tools were tested against a published weather-science review. A library login raised Codex from 42 to 82 articles found and Claude Code from 15 to 79, the authors report, and they say no single tool performed best across all tasks.

Fri, 6 November 2026