OpenAI · Original source
OpenAI published a customer story on LegalOn Technologies, which cut estimated daily Codex costs by about 65% while keeping development speed by routing work across GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Astra. The company’s AID CoE set model-selection guidelines and department budgets, seeking roughly 20% efficiency gains in mature lines while funding newer businesses more generously. LegalOn is also building a feature-release ROI metric that links AI spend to customer value.
OpenAI · Original source
OpenAI reported disrupting two AI-enabled influence operations, one linked to Russia and one to Iran, that used ChatGPT alongside traditional tactics to run false-front journalist and think-tank personas. The company said both operations placed content in mainstream outlets and that the Russian case was its first Category 5 disruption since early 2024 reporting. OpenAI banned related accounts and shared findings with relevant stakeholders.
OpenAI · Original source
OpenAI published a startup story on Pollo AI, a creative platform that uses GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-Image-2.5 to turn rough ideas into images and short video ads. Pollo routes simpler tasks to GPT-5.6 and harder narrative work to GPT-6 Astra, and says about 30% of creator sessions start from templates. The company highlights Photo to Video Ads and Pollo Agent workflows aimed at creators and small marketers.
OpenAI · Original source
OpenAI published a customer story on how Oracle uses ChatGPT Work and Codex across talent acquisition, applications, and production engineering. Recruiters use ChatGPT Work to research roles and benchmark compensation, while Codex helps site reliability engineers gather incident context and surface playbooks. Oracle says more than 100,000 employees are using the tools, with leaders stressing that people remain responsible for system design, security, and maintainable code.
Weaviate · Original source
Weaviate has released an Engram plugin for Claude Code that gives the coding agent long-term memory across repositories and sessions. The plugin captures work history, such as features added, approaches chosen and libraries rejected, that does not belong in a project rules file. Weaviate says Claude can then recall earlier decisions when similar work arises in another project, helping keep codebases consistent without developers tracking every past choice.
Anthropic · Original source
Anthropic has published an updated Usage Policy for Claude that takes effect on November 12. Most changes clarify existing rules, adding examples of how they apply to Claude's longer and more independent work. The update draws on misuse seen in influence operations, weapons development and surveillance, clarifies requirements for high-risk uses in health and finance, adds controls for autonomous physical actions, and addresses abusive behaviour toward models.
Anthropic · Original source
Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term effort to give defenders tools, research and resources to secure critical software and systems. It begins with the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, which brings frontier models, on-site engineers and threat research to those protecting operational technology in power, water and transport systems. Anthropic also launched OSS Scanner, which offers open-source projects free, regular security scans from its strongest models.
Anthropic · Original source
Anthropic has committed $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission, the US federal initiative to accelerate scientific discovery with AI. The funding will provide Claude, Claude Code and API credits to several hundred research projects across more than 15 participating agencies, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Anthropic announced the commitment at the White House Science: A New Golden Age Summit and will also offer training and technical support.
Meta · Original source
Meta has published a first-person post addressing common misconceptions about data centres, drawing on visits to two types of Meta facilities. It starts with water use, explaining that traditional air-cooled sites use water for only a few months a year to cool incoming air. AI-optimised facilities instead circulate a water and glycol mix through a sealed closed-loop liquid cooling system, so the water is not consumed as it cycles.
Amazon · Original source
Amazon Web Services has introduced the Physical AI Toolchain on AWS, an open-source stack for building machines that perceive, reason and act in the physical world. Built with NVIDIA's physical AI stack and drawing on Amazon's robotics experience, it combines architecture guidance, deployment automation and ready-to-use code. AWS says it targets industrial automation, autonomous mobility and humanoid robotics across the full development lifecycle.
LangChain · Original source
LangChain has published Restock, a sample office-supply agent that runs in Slack on Managed Deep Agents and completes real purchases. The agent finds products, builds a cart and checks out through APIs that support the Machine Payments Protocol, while Stripe's Link wallet handles payment so the agent never sees card numbers. Users approve a spend request with a fixed limit; the worked example ordered a 12-pack of blue pens for $22.18.
ElevenLabs · Original source
ElevenLabs has launched its ElevenReader audio app in Brazil, with actor and comedian Fábio Porchat available as a narration voice. A partnership with Bookwire Brasil brings 70,000 licensed Brazilian Portuguese titles into the app, most of which have no existing audio edition. The launch includes a free cinematic edition of Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro narrated by Porchat, while the full catalogue requires an ElevenReader Ultra subscription.
ElevenLabs · Original source
ElevenLabs has officially launched in Singapore, opening an office that will serve as its Southeast Asia hub and expand its Asia-Pacific presence. The voice AI company introduced Singapore data residency in July, offering local hosting, zero-retention options and lower latency. Regional customers named include Funding Societies, Atome, Boost Bank, Salmon Group, MNC Group, AI Rudder, Rezonate and Level3AI, which use its tools for sales, customer service and healthcare conversations.
Meta · Original source
Meta has donated 1,000 Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped, Guide Dogs Singapore, the Singapore Disability Sports Council and Gardens by the Bay. Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan announced the donation at an accessibility showcase in Singapore, alongside a US$30,000 grant for the association to build a free training curriculum. Meta says the glasses help blind and low-vision users read text, identify objects and describe their surroundings.
NVIDIA · Original source
NVIDIA has announced commitments valued at $1 billion over five years to expand US capacity for AI-driven research in fields including quantum computing, healthcare and energy security. The announcement came at the White House Science: A New Golden Age event in Washington, D.C., alongside the expanded Genesis Mission. The funding will support university research, US quantum efforts and cloud providers serving government missions, and NVIDIA is collaborating on several phase 2 Genesis Mission awards.
Google · Original source
Google Cloud launched the Gemini agent at Gemini at Work 2026, positioning it as a universal work agent that plans tasks, uses tools and connects to business systems from a single prompt. The agent can handle knowledge work, content creation and coding inside existing documents, email and developer environments, with model selection, cost controls and enterprise governance. Google said more detail is on the Google Cloud blog.
