AGI Pulse

2026-11-09 to 2026-11-15 digest

15 items on this page: 15 with their own page, 0 short.

A digest puts the short items from one day or one week on a single page. Opened alone, those briefs are often a headline and a sentence, which is a poor fit for a standalone article. Items that meet the importance threshold keep their own pages and are listed here by title.

Items with their own page

Microsoft Research's Lazarus: editing fewer than 10 dormant neurons, with no training, turns an AI agent into a sleeper agent (≥98.8% trigger success); agent-built detector catches 91.4%

Paper

NVIDIA's independent directors hire ex-SDNY acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim and Wachtell to investigate reports that Jensen Huang was targeted by foreign intelligence; Huang apologizes and pledges cooperation

Industry

ElevenLabs launches Scribe v3 and v3 Live: 27% lower WER than v2 across 102 languages, 43% lower semantic WER in realtime, and first realtime diarization

Model release

Anthropic launches Claude Sheets and Whiteboards (beta), makes Claude Data GA, and lets partner apps open full screen inside Claude for Claude to edit

Product

OpenAI launches Businesses in ChatGPT (beta): claimable profiles, priced product feeds, mention and click insights, and Business Agents as ad destinations

Product

DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2.5: 30%–100% higher success across 200+ tasks, 96% success on Mercedes-Benz lines, and an open ASIMOV-Jailbreak benchmark

Model release

Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon generally available at Argon's price ($2/$10 intro, $4/$20 from Dec 1); claims #1 on CursorBench 4.0 and two other agent benchmarks

Model release

Australia to legislate mandatory safety obligations for frontier AI companies and create a dedicated AI safety regulator with significant penalties

News

MiniMax launches H3 Image: text-to-image and editing with up to 16 references and ~20MP output, about $0.022 per 1K image; billed as open-weight

Model release

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Code formally verifies Signal's libsignal at the machine-code level: ~6.5M lines of Lean written by Gemini Carbon agents in four weeks

Paper

Anthropic launches IPO roadshow: $70–78 per share for 825M shares on Nasdaq “ANT”, plus a $26B private placement from Google, NVIDIA, AMD and others

Industry

Ant Group's Robbyant open-sources LingBot-Touch: a tactile foundation model pretrained on ~5,000h of real touch data, Apache-2.0, lifting VLA success by 22–25 points

Model release

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