32 stories, 127 Manifests cited.
Voice agents are adding parallel audio-decision layers that read frustration and laughter, while SoundHound puts a voice co-pilot on motorcycles and CX teams admit they lack the skills to run agents.
Pony.ai reports vehicle-level breakeven in Guangzhou and Shenzhen and a fleet target above 3,500 vehicles by the end of 2026, while Wayve rebuilds validation around simulation and fleet data.
Reflex raised a $14 million Series A led by Standard Capital, taking total funding to $19 million, as founders and investors argue custom software only pays when the process is repeatable.
In preprints this week, researchers show a reranker router lifting answer F1 by 28%, an evaluation agent catching poisoned context, and tampered vectors hijacking retrieval in a quarter of targets.
GPT-6.1 Sol reached production service work, Images 2.6 sped up generation, Pierre Computer joined OpenAI, and an autonomous pipeline patched 61 Linux kernel flaws in ten days.
Open-weight models process more than 71.5% of AI gateway tokens, and enterprises are building the serving, routing and governance to run them themselves.
Fieldfisher is rolling Legora out to about 1,400 lawyers and business staff after a six-week pilot, while Harvey and Luminance push contract work toward routed decisions and conversational review.
In preprints this week, LoopVQ claims 6.1x serving throughput, EntropyCache claims up to 26.4x speedups for diffusion models, and TokenScale lifts SLO attainment to 80-96%.
In preprints this week, researchers show grammar-constrained decoding and simulated moderation traces jailbreaking models, agents executing harmful actions despite refusing, and a pruning method cutting attack success by up to 90%.
Agility Robotics completed its Nasdaq listing with over $300 million in committed Digit orders, while Pudu unified its robots under one foundation model and Shield AI finished a fighter prototype in a year.
UnitedHealth Group aims to eliminate 30% of prior authorisations and reach touchless approval, while Google publishes a health AI evaluation framework and OpenEvidence builds clinical training on evidence.
Lambda plans a $33.1 billion data centre campus in Alabama, Blackfuel emerged with $250 million in contracted revenue, and Aethir warns most GPU clusters break even only above 55% utilisation.
In preprints this week, an outage registry links AI downtime to fewer new trading executors, a bounded research loop shows LLM trading strategies failing holdout, and a framework argues benchmarks cannot measure AI reliability.
Trajectory's Ronak Malde argues continual learning is the next paradigm, citing a Harvey model six times cheaper than frontier models, while preprints probe sparsity in continual learning and the side effects of mass-produced training data.
In preprints this week, researchers show no single memory substrate wins everywhere, weight memory can cut token use, and a graph method reaches near-oracle reward prediction with a fifth of the labels.
Most firms run unknown AI agents, most lack a complete inventory, and vendors from Fiddler to Uptiq are selling registries, identity controls and audit trails to close the gap.
Metadata is absent, measurements depend on the protocol, and clinical reports still err. Four preprints map the gap — and the auditing tools built to close it.
Three preprints show random splits flatter chemistry models by wide margins. A fourth shows what honest evaluation looks like — and the old baseline nearly wins.
Apollo's chief economist warns the strain is moving from CCC-rated issuers toward single-B borrowers. Oaktree and DoubleLine put the backdrop at 5% yields and a $2 trillion deficit. The risk is not a cliff. It is a slow leak with a closed refinancing window.
AppLovin's net income rose 72%. Coherent's revenue reached $2.37 billion. Qualcomm's car-chip revenue nearly doubled. The quarter's winners are the companies selling the tools, not the ones doing the digging.
Comstock is selling $1.65 billion of gas interests to Azerbaijan's state oil company. Chord is selling $550 million of Marcellus assets. Permian Resources spent $1.15 billion buying in the Permian. The map is being redrawn, not expanded.
Cigna, Cardinal Health and McKesson each lifted guidance. Edwards, Privia and agilon did the same. The common thread is not one drug or device. It is distribution, contracts and discipline.
Planet Fitness and Cirrus Logic each authorised $500 million. Rayonier, Enovis and Prospect Capital added $700 million more between them. Gulfport expanded its programme by a third, to $2 billion.
HP is paying $30 million in equity to land a new chief executive. MNTN and CoreCivic are changing bosses mid-turnaround and mid-deal. The pattern is not the departures. It is what each board is buying.
20VC called OpenAI's valuation cut rational, a $2 billion firm said it stays out of AI infrastructure, and Laffont said the chip era still has room to run.
Fibroblasts and immune cells talk to each other in all three diseases — and in each case, interrupting the conversation changes the outcome.
Odor identification, a blood protein and plasma proteomics each track the disease before symptoms — but the replication record is uneven.
Butler, Saint Mary's and Cal all set three-point records, Boise State put up 132 points, and Wichita State won ugly in its opener.
One November night belonged to the league's biggest names — Wembanyama, Gilgeous-Alexander, Doncic and Jokic — while Portland quietly moved to 6-1.
The EPA, the Justice Department and a federal tax credit program all put states and cities in charge of carrying out federal priorities this week.
Pennsylvania moved to regulate hyperscale data centers, New York advanced device age checks, and 45 attorneys general pressed Congress on kids' online safety.
Three preprints price circular chemistry properly: the potential is large, the costs are still high, and the break-even points are now on the table.