AI News Today, November 13: Top Stories

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huggingface.co 1h ago 26

llama.cpp hits v1.0.0 stable with semantic versioning

The ggml-org team at Hugging Face shipped llama.cpp v1.0.0 and ggml v1.0.0 on Nov 13, formalizing API/ABI stability under semantic versioning after 3.5 years of development. The release supports 150+ model architectures across NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Arm, IBM, and Intel backends, with 102+ contributors credited. The maintainers framed the milestone as a commitment to AI sovereignty so local inference doesn't end up controlled by a handful of companies.

theguardian.com 1h ago 27

Claude surfaces 663 theorems in Gödel's shorthand notebooks

Helsinki logician Jan von Plato used Claude to analyze his 1,009-page transcription of Kurt Gödel's Gabelsberger-shorthand notebooks, producing a 650-page explanation in days. Claude surfaced 663 theorems and proof ideas; verification via Coq confirmed about 400 as stated, 200 needed repairs, and roughly 50 were false. The reconstruction includes a proof of the independence of the axiom of choice that Gödel claimed in 1966 but never published.

bloomberg.com 1h ago 22

Amodei: compute is Anthropic's 'deepest business dilemma'

At a JPMorgan event Friday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called compute 'the deepest business dilemma' the company faces, citing the mismatch between locking in multi-year infrastructure commitments and unpredictable revenue. He said Anthropic deliberately buys on the low side and tops up on the spot market when demand exceeds expectations. Anthropic's S-1 disclosed $900.9B in long-term compute commitments extending through 2045.

bloomberg.com 1h ago 23

Banks bar China and Hong Kong from Anthropic IPO over ITAR

Institutional investors in mainland China and Hong Kong have been excluded from Anthropic's IPO order book, Bloomberg reports, with syndicate banks citing US International Traffic in Arms Regulations. The move mirrors the approach taken for SpaceX's $86.2B IPO earlier this year. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lead the offering with pricing expected Nov 18 and trading Nov 19.

rte.ie 1h ago ALERT 30

Nvidia board eyes Arm's Rene Haas as Huang successor

fortune.com 1h ago ALERT 29

OpenAI disbands robotics team, says general models can run robots

OpenAI has disbanded its standalone robotics team, moving researchers to its main research org under Chief Research Officer Mark Chen and applied hardware staff to the Applied org under President Greg Brockman. The company reframed the move as acceleration, with researchers citing that general models like GPT-6 Astra can directly run robots. CMU's Guanya Shi said OpenAI likely sees robotics as 'a downstream application of general intelligence' rather than a special problem.

theinformation.com 4h ago 23

xAI cuts ~60 Grok Imagine staffers, keeps skeleton crew

The Information reported Nov 13 that Elon Musk's xAI laid off roughly 60 staffers from its Grok Imagine video-generation team in the past week, leaving only a handful of employees to keep the product alive. The cuts come as xAI reprioritizes resources toward its AI coding tools and the consumer Grok Bot, mirroring a broader AI-lab pivot away from standalone video generation after the Sora/Veo category consolidated.

huggingface.co 4h ago 21

inclusionAI's Duo does full-duplex audiovisual chat under 650ms

inclusionAI released Duo v1 on Nov 13, pairing an autoregressive 'intent' multimodal LLM that decides when to speak with a causal audiovisual diffusion transformer that generates synchronized video and audio in 0.71-second chunks. On 30 real-time duplex interactions the system cleared 93.3% of 180 pass criteria, hitting 100% on language adherence and speech intelligibility and 90% on lip-sync, with 330-650ms time-to-first-output on 8 GPUs.

huggingface.co 4h ago 22

Open-source Vision Banana clone beats Google on Cityscapes

UTN's Fundamental AI Lab on Nov 13 released Open Vision Banana, a fully open reproduction of Google's proprietary Vision Banana unified perception model, built on public FLUX.2-Klein image generators at 4B and 9B scale. The 9B zero-shot checkpoint hits 73.9 mIoU on Cityscapes (versus Vision Banana's 69.9) and matches state-of-the-art depth estimators while retaining base image-editing ability. The release ships complete training data, code, weights and a novel 'legend ensembling' test-time method that adds up to 15 mIoU on COCO-Object without retraining.

huggingface.co 4h ago 22

NVIDIA BirdDreams renders driving video and bird's-eye layout jointly

NVIDIA posted BirdDreams on Nov 13: an autoregressive driving world model that uses joint attention between two video diffusion transformers to generate matched first-person and bird's-eye-view video from a single camera image, no HD map or vehicle-state input required. On PhysicalAI-AV and nuScenes the model follows input ego trajectories more faithfully than prior driving world models and generates more plausible surrounding-vehicle motion than ego-action-free baselines.

huggingface.co 4h ago 24

SO-Arena pits 21 decision models across 2,919 tasks and 11 domains

NUS's SO-Arena, posted Nov 13, is the first large-scale benchmark aimed squarely at the 'System One' decision model category, scoring 21 models across 2,919 tasks in 11 domains including safety, tool use, math and web interaction. Open-weight GLiDE (27B) and KnowLine-31B tie near 70 while GPT-6 Sol/Luna reference models score 79.7-82.3. The paper separates a Reliability score from Capability and finds the best capability model (GLiDE) ranks only 7th in reliability, with JevAny-27B topping reliability despite ranking 11th in capability.

cnbc.com 4h ago ALERT 31

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet so agents can buy for users

OpenAI on Nov 13 rolled out ChatGPT Wallet, letting its Dots agents purchase items on a user's behalf after a one-time card entry and per-transaction approval. The feature uses network-issued payment tokens so agents never see raw card data, launches with American Express, Mastercard and Visa as partners, and is initially limited to Pro subscribers aged 18+ in the US. OpenAI says it is not taking a cut of transactions at launch while it builds merchant relationships.

euronews.com 7h ago 18

China rebukes US 'abuse of export controls' over chip curbs

China's foreign-ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning on Nov 13 publicly opposed the US's 'abuse of export control measures,' calling the fresh wave of restrictions a pretext for 'technological blockade.' The pushback followed reports that a firm founded by Alice Huang — the executive at the center of the Nvidia espionage allegations — obtained banned H800 chips despite 2023 controls. Beijing again denied the espionage claims entirely, setting up new friction ahead of next week's Trump-Xi APEC meeting in Shenzhen.

salesforceben.com 7h ago 21

Salesforce rolls AI Skills into Agentforce Coworker

Salesforce on Nov 12 generally launched AI Skills in Agentforce Coworker — reusable instruction sets that teach the agent repeatable tasks — alongside Agentforce Coworker in Microsoft Teams, iOS and Mac/Windows desktop apps, and a Coworker MCP server for connectivity. Salesforce says over 185,000 users are now actively using Coworker, with The Adecco Group among the scaled customers. A free trial opens for Flex Credits customers in November.

bloomberg.com 7h ago 20

Teen social-media addiction payouts mostly land at $2-2.5M

Bloomberg reports Nov 12 that the major social-media platforms have reached roughly a dozen confidential individual-teen settlements in recent months over mental-health harms, with most payouts landing in the $2M-$2.5M range per plaintiff. In just the past two weeks Meta agreed to pay two teens a combined $7M. The figures are distinct from the $17.1B multistate deal Meta signed in August and TikTok's September $100M Alabama agreement — those addressed government claims and did not set individual-victim baselines.

wsj.com 7h ago 22

Huang called Kress 'deer in the headlights' three months ago

According to a Wall Street Journal report surfaced Nov 12-13, Jensen Huang interrupted CFO Colette Kress at an August 2026 finance meeting to call her 'a deer in the headlights' and merely a 'reporting CFO' — not a strategy partner. The meeting was convened to diagnose a 'ballooning problem' of Nvidia considering billions in guarantees for customers that couldn't afford its chips. Three months later Kress is interim CEO after Huang's resignation.

cryptobriefing.com 7h ago 22

Applied Materials Q4 sets record $10.4B, up 53% on AI

Applied Materials reported fiscal Q4 revenue of a record $10.41B (up 53% YoY) and adjusted EPS of $4.16 (up 92%), both beating consensus, as its Semiconductor Systems segment surged 64% to $8B. The company guided Q1 revenue to $11.1B against $10.89B expected, saying AI demand for leading-edge logic, DRAM and advanced packaging is overwhelming tool supply. Management flagged cloud capex growing 'more than 50% in 2027 to well over $1 trillion.'

thequantuminsider.com 7h ago 23

AMD will take an equity stake in PsiQuantum

PsiQuantum and AMD announced a Nov 12 expansion of their partnership to co-design classical infrastructure for utility-scale fault-tolerant quantum systems, with AMD planning an undisclosed equity investment in PsiQuantum. The deal pairs AMD's Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs and ROCm software with PsiQuantum's silicon photonics platform, and includes PRISM, a new ML decoder for real-time quantum error correction on programmable accelerators. Early GPU-accelerated simulation delivered breakthrough results on covalent-inhibitor molecules for oncology drug discovery; both companies will present more details at SC26 next week in Chicago.

thenextweb.com 7h ago 24

EU leaders hold first dedicated AI summit in Dublin

On November 12 the EU's 27 leaders convened in Dublin for the bloc's first dedicated AI summit, prioritising competitiveness, regulatory burden and safety guardrails against the backdrop of US-China dominance. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch briefed leaders on building European AI sovereignty, while Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton spoke on existential risk. Central to the agenda was progress on seven planned EU AI 'gigafactories' under the €200B InvestAI program, though budget disputes over 2028-2034 EU spending have delayed implementation.

huggingface.co 9h ago 21

WorldDraft finds video models leak source cues on 64% of 4D renders

WorldDraft, released Nov 13, puts 12 representative video models through 432 strictly paired 4D world-rendering tests spanning 48 executable world families and six dynamic challenge categories. Results show world preservation and visual realization in persistent tension: richer draft scaffolding anchors structure but hurts appearance fidelity, and conflicting source cues trigger source leakage in up to 64% of cases. The authors also ship WorldDraft-Primer, a plug-and-play visual prompting strategy that lifts both objectives on frozen video renderers.

huggingface.co 9h ago ALERT 28

IBM Granite 4.1 LLMON drops prompt injection success below 6%

IBM released Granite 4.1 LLMON-preview models in 3B and 8B sizes on Nov 12, replacing conventional chat templates with LLMON — a markup that wraps every prompt block (system, instructions, data, documents, tool definitions, tool results) and tags each with an exec permission. IBM's internal tests show indirect prompt-injection success dropping from 53-100% on baselines to 0.02-5.6% when the privilege rule treats only exec-authoritative instructions as commands. IBM cautions the behavior is learned, not enforced, and should not be the sole defense for agents with access to sensitive systems.

thinkingmachines.ai 12h ago ALERT 29

Thinking Machines open-weights 594B Inkling 2 Small on Hugging Face

Thinking Machines Lab published the full weights for Inkling 2 Small on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 on November 12, following external safety and red-team testing. The MoE model has 594B total parameters and 17B active, supports image inputs and variable effort, and ships as a 393.5 GB checkpoint across 36 files. It initially launched November 5 as hosted-only on Tinker; Together AI, Fireworks, Baseten, Nebius, Modal and Cloudflare now offer inference, with Unsloth, SGLang and vLLM support.

helpnetsecurity.com 12h ago ALERT 29

Anthropic ships self-hosted Claude agents, credentials stay in customer cloud

Anthropic put Claude Managed Agents into private beta as a self-hosted edition on November 12, letting enterprises run the agent harness, sandboxes, PostgreSQL session store and workers inside their own cloud or on-prem. Model calls can be routed to Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google's Agent Platform, Microsoft Foundry or an internal gateway, and credentials are held outside sandboxes via a proxy that injects secrets into MCP tool calls. Access is gated through Anthropic account teams; pricing is by quote.

theregister.com 13h ago ALERT 28

OpenAI launches Daybreak Red Team and Defense Factory security products

OpenAI unveiled two products at its Cyber at the Frontier keynote on November 12: Daybreak Red Team, now in early access, deploys agent fleets to pen-test web apps using source code and app context and validates findings from scanners and bug-bounty reports. Daybreak Defense Factory, built on GPT-6 Cyber and available as a Codex plugin in research preview, scans connected GitHub repos and prepares merge-ready pull requests with tests. President Greg Brockman argued companies 'will be secure only to the extent of the frontier model that they use to defend themselves,' alongside a $1B Daybreak for Frontline Defenders subsidy.

cnbc.com 15h ago ALERT 28

Nscale Q3 revenue jumps 1,344%, net loss widens to $1.69B

Nvidia-backed neocloud Nscale filed an updated IPO prospectus on November 12 showing Q3 revenue of $307.5M, up 1,344% YoY from $25.5M a year earlier and from $140.6M in Q2, but net loss widened to $1.69B from $1.02B. The filing notes Nscale is contracted to supply computing power to Anthropic's West Virginia facility after Anthropic exercised an expansion right in late September. The FT separately reported Nscale needs additional financing to meet its 2027 Nvidia chip obligations for the Anthropic deal.

prnewswire.com 16h ago ALERT 28

Mirendil raises $1B at $5B to automate AI R&D

Mirendil closed a $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital, with Battery, Google, M13, Pear VC, S32 and others participating, roughly 5x its seed round from a few months earlier. The company, founded by researchers formerly at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI, says it is building tools 'to make frontier AI research and development more accessible'; outside reporting pegs the post-money at about $5B. Public products include a 10M-token-context model, Fern 0.1, and Lor, a platform that orchestrates hundreds of autonomous coding and experiment agents.

cnbc.com 18h ago ALERT 28

Huang exit threatens $500B Nvidia-backed AI financing push

Nvidia's August pact with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize over $500B for AI data centers has produced no deals, and partners pushed Huang in the past month to raise his 25% residual-value backstop on GPUs used as collateral. Bloomberg sources say Broadcom's rival program offers 72.5%, leaving lenders hesitant. Huang's exit, with CFO Colette Kress stepping in as interim CEO, makes final agreements harder to close and risks a broader repricing of AI credit.

news.bloomberglaw.com 18h ago ALERT 28

Senate Banking chair summons Huang and Lutnick, threatens subpoenas

Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott invited former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to testify December 3 and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on December 10 over the Chinese-spy affair and chip-export fallout. Scott warned the committee is 'prepared to use all tools at our disposal, including subpoenas' if either declines voluntarily. The move escalates Senate scrutiny on top of earlier House demands for closed-door interviews with Huang and Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter.

edge0.ai 19h ago ALERT 30

Edge0 open-sources 145B on-device model, 80 tok/s at 29GB on a laptop

Edge0 released Edge0-145B and Edge0-120B on November 12, calling the larger model the first open-source 145-billion-parameter AI that runs fully on-device, with a latent-MoE design that activates about 10B parameters per step. The team reports 80+ tokens/sec generation, 1,100+ tok/s prompt processing, and 29GB peak memory on a 48GB laptop, with a 128K–256K context window. Benchmarks include 86.52 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (above DeepSeek-V4-Flash's 82.7), 90.4 on GPQA-Diamond, and 80.6 on IFBench (above Claude-Opus-4.6's 62.5).

aljazeera.com 19h ago ALERT 29

Nonprofits sue five AI labs in California to freeze frontier training

Four nonprofits — Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and Alliance for Secure AI — filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court on November 11 under California's Unfair Competition Law, asking the court to immediately freeze training and deployment of frontier models at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX's AI unit. The complaint cites the companies' own leaders' warnings that advanced AI could threaten humanity and requests an emergency injunction blocking next-generation models until the firms prove their systems are under human control. The plaintiffs also call for federal independent evaluators, strict liability, and a new independent AI regulator.

nvidianews.nvidia.com 19h ago ALERT 36

Nvidia names Kress interim CEO, Harvey Jones its first-ever Board Chair

Nvidia's board announced on November 12 that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, CEO and board member effective immediately, with CFO Colette Kress serving as Interim CEO while retaining her finance role. The board also named former Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones as the first-ever Chair of the Board, and said it will consider internal and external candidates for a permanent CEO. The transition follows the company's probe into Huang's alleged affair with an executive U.S. intelligence linked to Chinese recruitment.

nextgov.com 20h ago ALERT 29

FBI shuts down North Korean deepfake crypto theft scheme

The FBI on November 12 disclosed Operation FaceStealer, a North Korean campaign that used secretly recorded webcams and increasingly AI-generated deepfake videos to impersonate contacts in fake Zoom/Teams calls, then push targets to install malware. Agents seized cloud infrastructure plus 900+ victim webcam videos and identified 677 targets across 58 countries; attackers stole more than $400M in crypto over 18 months and targeted open-source software maintainers.

This Week's Biggest Movers in AI

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Entity	Now	Avg	Change
Agents	101	6	▲ +1583%
Chips	80	3.3	▲ +2324%
NVIDIA	67	0.5	▲ +13300%
Anthropic	69	9.8	▲ +604%
Regulation	64	7.3	▲ +777%
Funding	53	0.3	▲ +17567%
AI Infrastructure	47	1.3	▲ +3515%
Google	47	2.5	▲ +1780%
OpenAI	51	10	▲ +410%
Generative AI	32	0.3	▲ +10567%
Inference	33	0.5	▲ +6500%
Microsoft	32	2.3	▲ +1291%
Jensen Huang	28	0	▲ +100%
Open Source	26	0	▲ +100%
Robotics	26	2	▲ +1200%