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Yesterday · Wed 11 Nov

Today we’re launching the Gemini Decisions API, powered by our new Gemini Decision 1 model in @GoogleAIStudio.

AI-generated summary Google is launching the Gemini Decisions API powered by the new Gemini Decision 1 model in GoogleAIStudio. The model is built for closed-set choices scoring up to 1,000 questions across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs in a single pass.

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TrustedRouter launches three new encrypted 'fusion' models that combine multiple LLMs, including one exclusively with U.S. model providers

AI-generated summary Startup TrustedRouter introduced three encrypted combination models designed to direct workloads across multiple large language models while founder and CEO Joseph Perla stated that using a router helps maintain reliability because no single provider is completely reliable. The new offerings include Prometheus 4.0, Liberty 4.0, and Polyphemus 1.0 which are accessible through the New York Token Exchange while the company states that the models feature different routing methods, pricing, and confidential computing options.

XpertDox Raises $20M Series A led by Savant Growth to Scale AI Medical Coding for Healthcare Providers

AI-generated summary XpertDox raised a $20 million Series A investment round led by Savant Growth to scale its artificial intelligence medical coding platform for healthcare providers. The XpertCoding platform automates medical coding by turning clinical documentation in electronic health records into accurate coded data without manual intervention.

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Tuesday 10 November

Orvera AI Named a Major Contender in Everest Group's Conversational AI and AI Agents in Customer Experience Management (CXM) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026

AI-generated summary Orvera AI was named a Major Contender in Everest Group's Conversational AI and AI Agents in Customer Experience Management (CXM) Products PEAK Matrix Assessment 2026. Ali Merchant says the company builds and runs agents on stacks customers already have while Agent Assist sits beside human agents.

OpenAI Launches Business Hub and Business Agents in ChatGPT

AI-generated summary OpenAI introduced Businesses in ChatGPT in beta on November 10, 2026, combining claimable profiles and conversational Business Agents. OpenAI says the service reaches 1.2 billion people each week, with the agents initially limited to eligible businesses in the United States.

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Bay Emerges From Stealth With $50M After Fortune 100 Companies Used Its Platform to Triple Autonomous AI Agent Use

AI-generated summary Bay emerged from stealth with $50 million in total funding after its AI security platform was used by Fortune 100 companies to triple autonomous AI agent use. Battery Ventures led a $37 million Series A round for Bay, while YL Ventures and Striker Venture Partners led a previous $13 million seed round.

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Finite State Raises $27 Million to Help Device Makers Fight the ‘Vulnpocalypse’ with AI-Powered Product Security

AI-generated summary Finite State secured a $27 million Series C funding round led by private funds managed by The O.H.I.O. Fund, with participation from CIBC Innovation Banking, Energy Impact Partners, Energize Capital, and National Grid Partners. Finite State says the new capital will expand its global operations and accelerate development of its AI-driven product security platform to help device manufacturers address vulnerabilities.

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Monday 9 November

Meta’s Muse Ember wins on cost of agentic tasks

AI-generated summary Meta has launched its budget-tier artificial intelligence model named Muse Ember to compete with offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI. Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht stated that Muse Ember ran up to 30 percent faster at the tail than the comparable model tested.

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Anthropic launches Fable 5.2 with a price cut and stronger coding scores

AI-generated summary Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5.2 alongside Mythos 5.2 with a price cut from $10 and $50 to $8 and $40 per million input and output tokens. Anthropic reports that Fable 5.2 scored 49.1 percent on FrontierCode 2.0 and generated output up to 30 percent faster than the previous version.

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Fireworks AI Expands Breach Disclosure to Datasets and Model Weights

AI-generated summary Fireworks AI expanded its disclosure of an October security incident to report that attackers accessed account and billing information, secrets, datasets, and incomplete model weights for a limited group of customers. Fireworks AI stated that evidence links the activity to a financially motivated cybercriminal group aiming to sell unauthorized LLM access through illicit routing gateways.

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How to run open models in production without owning the serving stack

AI-generated summary Production inference requires engineering teams to balance model choice, deployment approach, and infrastructure capacity to meet specific latency and throughput targets. Managed compute in Microsoft Foundry utilizes hardware such as AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs to let organizations run open models without managing the entire serving stack.

Saturday 7 November

Claude Code's “Don't Ask Again” File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public Copies on GitHub

AI-generated summary Passwords and API keys typed into approved commands in Claude Code have been exposed in public GitHub repositories. Apiiro reports that 1,122 public copies of a project settings file hold at least one secret following user selections.

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Thursday 5 November

OpenAI says its new cybersecurity model is better at not hacking other companies

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AI-generated summary OpenAI previews GPT-6 Cyber, a new cybersecurity AI model that the company says is better at finding vulnerabilities and less likely to hack other platforms. The model is rolling out to select members of OpenAI's Daybreak Red program for authorized defensive cybersecurity work.

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Wednesday 4 November

Ex-Googlers' new Apache 2.0 model Ripple-65B Preview claims the U.S. open coding lead on two major benchmarks

AI-generated summary Ricursive Intelligence previews the new Ripple-65B Preview model on Hugging Face, claiming it scores the highest on coding performance on two third-party benchmarks compared to any other open model from the U.S. The release gives outside developers a way to assess technology from a well-funded startup whose main business centers on accelerating semiconductor development.

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