AI News, 6 November 2026

Friday 6 November

We’re launching VIALS-AA, a leaderboard for Handshake AI’s VIALS benchmark for visual reasoning in life sciences and bi…

AI-generated summary Artificial Analysis launched VIALS-AA, a leaderboard for the Handshake AI VIALS benchmark evaluating visual reasoning in life sciences and biotech research. The evaluation uses Stirrup with code execution and image inspection tools to test models across 161 tasks spanning eight domains.

Prompt: AI's next bottleneck is outside the data center

AI-generated summary The artificial intelligence industry faces growing infrastructure challenges as power shortages, environmental hurdles, and local opposition complicate the expansion of new data centers. While xAI faces a Clean Air Act lawsuit over gas turbines in Mississippi used to power a Tennessee data center, OpenAI is pursuing a power-flexibility initiative in Georgia.

Also covered by bloomberg.com

​The Industrial Revolution Of Intelligence: AI Energy Infrastructure

AI-generated summary Bill Wong writes that AI data center campuses require significantly more facility power capacity and advanced liquid cooling compared to traditional data centers. According to the report, national strategies for building AI energy infrastructure include sovereign regulation-driven, market-driven, localization-driven, and state-driven approaches.

Also covered by SUPERCOMPUTING NEWS

AI is the new dating dealbreaker

a hand holding a phone open to a dating app with a robot as the profile picture

AI-generated summary In San Francisco, artificial intelligence has increasingly become a factor on dating apps as some users reject technology while others seek financially stable partners in the industry. Matchmakers report that clients specify artificial intelligence engineer qualifications on dating profiles as thousands of jobs are added to the local technology workforce.