AI News, 9 November 2026

Monday 9 November

David Ellison says AI could be the ‘biggest creative unlock in modern history’

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AI-generated summary During an earnings call, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison stated that artificial intelligence could become the largest creative unlock in modern history while comparing its potential impact to the introduction of CGI in the early nineties. Ellison claims the tools will help make budgets more digestible for original storytelling and announced that Paramount Skydance is developing its own tools while emphasizing that the technology will never replace artists.

Adobe Max 2026 Live Updates: All the AI, Photo and Video News

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AI-generated summary Adobe Max brings new artificial intelligence tools and assistants to flagship programs like Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Firefly. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen prepares to step down after 18 years as customer experience chief Anil Chakravarthy takes over on Dec. 1.

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BlackRock: an AI spending slowdown in 2027 would hurt markets but could also lower yields

AI-generated summary BlackRock says the easy phase of the artificial intelligence trade is over as the investment story enters a more nuanced period focused on demand and adoption. BlackRock states that a potential slowdown in artificial intelligence spending in 2027 could harm equities while easing competition for capital and lowering bond yields.

Introducing GIFT-Eval-CTX: An Open-Source Benchmark for Contextual Forecasting

AI-generated summary Salesforce introduces GIFT-Eval-CTX as an open-source benchmark for contextual forecasting to evaluate how forecasting systems turn future context into numerical forecasts. Salesforce says incorporating structured future context yields significant error reductions across frontier LLMs, with tool-augmented agentic architectures achieving superior accuracy.

Five AI models tackled 227 pharmacy exam questions. Here's where they struggled

AI-generated summary Researchers at the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy published a study in Scientific Reports comparing the accuracy of five large language models on 227 infectious disease examination questions. ChatGPT-4o-mini achieved the highest accuracy at 91.2 percent, while the evaluation showed that model performance declined on questions containing images.

Microsoft patent describes turning idle gaming GPUs into paid AI training hardware

AI-generated summary Microsoft has filed a patent detailing a system that would enable PC gamers to share idle GPU processing power for artificial intelligence training. The patent application describes monitoring hardware resources to distribute tasks and potentially compensating participating users with credits or money.

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JPMorganChase Broadens Claude Code Use Beyond Engineering Teams

AI-generated summary Anthropic announced that JPMorganChase is expanding the use of Claude beyond engineering teams into product development, infrastructure, risk assessments, and asset and wealth management. Anthropic says the expansion pairs broader employee access with strict limits, pipeline gates, and required human approval for every production change.

Meta's forecasts show it must raise hundreds of billions as soon as fall 2026

AI-generated summary Meta Platforms disclosed in a securities filing that internal forecasts presented to its board in May showed the company may need to raise hundreds of billions of dollars beginning as early as fall 2026 to fund artificial intelligence growth. The filing states that management wanted a new class of non-voting shares available to secure capital before competitors such as Alphabet, SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI saturate various funding options.

Huang’s future raises questions for AI infrastructure industry

AI-generated summary Nvidia said its board launched an independent investigation after reports linked CEO Jensen Huang to a former executive at Megaspeed International who U.S. authorities reportedly suspected of working for China. Nvidia stated that the board had no reason to believe national security or proprietary information had been compromised, and a company spokesperson said Jensen Huang will continue to lead Nvidia without interruption.

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