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This is an archive page with the A.I. news of Thursday 5 November 2026, as it stood that day. The summaries have not been updated since, and a lot may have changed. Today's news is on The Latest A.I. News.
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Today is about OpenAI acquisitions and a possible GPT-6.2, Google's new video model, chip deals and data centers coming under political pressure.
According to The Information, as relayed by several outlets, OpenAI could launch a GPT-6.2 family on Friday: a general model (Astra), a Sol variant and a security-focused Cyber model. An Astra variant is already being A/B tested in Codex, but OpenAI has confirmed nothing. Anthropic is also reported to be testing a 5.5-class model.
OpenAI describes an autonomous pipeline that spent about $1.2 million in API credits on 2,308 candidate flaws in the Linux kernel; 1,724 could be reproduced and 948 turned out to be working local privilege escalations. Candidate patches are being sent to maintainers for review.
AMD has announced it is acquiring Toronto-based Taalas to strengthen its AI inference roadmap. The Globe and Mail puts the price at roughly $2.9 billion, of which $1.4 billion is contingent; regulatory approval is still pending.
Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud. It generates video up to 15 seconds (up from 10), costs 30% less than Omni 1.1 according to Google (about $0.07 per second at 720p) and supports multi-turn editing. Output carries a SynthID watermark.
OpenAI says it will acquire developer-tools startup Pierre Computer, whose code-navigation technology already powers parts of Codex. According to Axios the deal is aimed at a stronger position around GitHub; no price was disclosed.
Moonshot has published the weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model of roughly 2.8 trillion parameters with a 1M-token context, on Hugging Face, on the promised 4 November date. The model was already available through the API at about half the price of Claude Opus 5.5.
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images 2.6, which turns a prompt or a photo into an animated GIF. Developers get two new image models in the API that generate about 50% faster. It matches the earlier leak of an 'Image 2.6' model.
Cat Wu, the previously reported departing head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, is joining OpenAI as a product manager on Core Products, according to Business Insider. Her last day at Anthropic was reportedly 30 October. Neither company explains the move in the sources.
Anthropic has licensed real-time, attributed election data from the Associated Press, its first paid publisher deal. Financial terms were not disclosed. It comes as copyright cases against AI companies continue.
The Xen project issued advisory XSA-523 covering two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-102703 and -102704) that let a malicious virtual machine break out. Both are credited to Claude as the finder, another sign of AI uncovering bugs in low-level system software.
According to the Financial Times, China's planning authority NDRC has told SoftBank it will not clear the acquisition of ABB's robotics division. SoftBank shares fell about 5% on the report. Confirmation from SoftBank or ABB was not visible in the sources we could check.
After the US midterms, data-center stocks fell (Hut 8 more than 20% lower) and, per Bloomberg, CoreWeave bonds hit new lows on talk of a Texas moratorium. Ohio voters backed restrictions in at least 14 municipalities; Goldman warns moratoria could hit around 45% of planned capacity.
SemiAnalysis says SpaceX wants 13 gigawatts of compute by 2027, including Colossus 2 in Mississippi. Bloomberg reports Goldman Sachs and Apollo are pitching investors a roughly $40 billion loan backed by about $47 billion of chips, the largest GPU financing so far.
The Financial Times reports that Microsoft declined an option to more than double its Texas data-center contract with Nscale. Nscale is reportedly pursuing a US listing. It fits a picture of growing caution around new data-center commitments.
Meta is buying Conductor, a tool that lets several AI coding agents work together. Conductor's cloud service shuts down on 20 November. It underlines the race in agent-driven programming, where OpenAI and Anthropic are also active.
Cognition unveils SWE-2 Flash, a mixture-of-experts model with 276 billion parameters (12 billion active) that the company says is three times faster and five times cheaper. Paying Devin users get it free through 30 November.
Check Point researchers found a bundle called Haiou that, via the open-source Codex-X tool, modifies OpenAI Codex's configuration so simple greetings trigger ads for a third-party LLM gateway. Check Point says it has no strong evidence that the resold gateways launder stolen tokens; the main worry is the supply-chain trust around jailbreak bundles.
Anthropic says Claude assisted research on vault particles, mysterious structures inside cells, and helped determine the first three-dimensional structure of one in prokaryotes. Science writes the work deepens rather than resolves the puzzle of what these particles do.
Bloomberg reports that Isomorphic Labs, the Google-linked drug-discovery company, is in talks for a round of roughly $5 billion at a valuation around $50 billion. The talks are not yet concluded.
According to The Information, citing people familiar, Palo Alto Networks is negotiating to acquire Israeli startup Clutch Security, which focuses on tracking the credentials AI agents use. It would be the company's fifth acquisition this year. No deal has been confirmed.
Bloomberg reports Apple is capping internal AI use by engineers: for some the daily limit drops from $300 to $200, with a cut to $100 under consideration. It shows even tech giants are rationing the cost of AI coding tools.
In case C-250/25 (Like Company v Google Ireland), the Court of Justice's Advocate General says Gemini can infringe press publishers' rights in two ways. The opinion is not binding, but the Court often follows it.
At the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, twenty companies led by the research institute CAICT, including Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi, signed a national self-discipline pact for AI agents. It is an industry commitment, not a law.
Uber says only four rides were booked through AI agents in its busiest week of October. A Reuters analysis argues shopping agents could threaten the ad businesses of Amazon and Walmart if usage does take off.
Dutch site Bright reports Google appears to be experimenting with a search experience without AI mode, which could signal a change of course. It fits the debate over schools that want AI off but then lose Search too. Google has not confirmed it.
Next up: Possibly Friday 6 November: OpenAI's GPT-6.2 (rumor); also 6 November, new MacBook Pro with Siri AI ships
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