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Artificial Intelligence
Inference diet: cheaper serving without training new models
Six preprints published on November 11 and 12 take the same approach from different angles: delete weights, spend precision only where the model is unsure, or route each prompt to the cheapest model that can handle it. The gains are measured in points and percentages, not in new model sizes.
Defence AI funding wave turns to factories, shipyards and allied production
UFORCE raised $700 million at a $6 billion valuation, Saronic signed a shiplift contract worth more than $100 million for its $3 billion Port Alpha yard, and Shield AI set up V-BAT support in Japan. The common thread is production, not pitches.
Databricks spends $3B abroad as power, not money, limits AI buildout
Databricks announced about $3 billion of spending across Europe and the Middle East and more than $1 billion in San Francisco. In the UK, data centres already account for 73 gigawatts in the grid connection queue, against peak demand of about 45 gigawatts. The money is moving; the power is not.
Customer AI Goes Global — but the Handoff Still Decides
Parloa and OpenAI deepen their partnership and Cresta launches in Japan, while Afiniti's numbers show the chatbot-to-human handoff is where loyalty is won or lost.
Agents join the on-call rotation, with humans still holding the call
Dynatrace, Rootly, Databricks and Oracle published on 11 November on agents that triage incidents, investigate security signals and spot credential attacks, and on why human oversight alone is not a safety plan.
Agents are now graded on running a store, shopping and driving robots
Five preprints published on 11 and 12 November replace chat-style tests with weeks of storekeeping, shopping advice, game play and robot control, and the scores show how far agents still are from finishing the job.
Agent permission layer: the question is now who clicked yes
Manifold Security found 6,125 Claude Code add-ons running with broad access and no sandbox, OWASP's new guide treats agent output as an untrusted proposal, and MCP advisories jumped from 90 to 686. The fix is not a better prompt. It is a permission record.
Workers Are Drawing the Line on AI — and Managers Are on It
Mercor's survey, Amplify's case for management, Serval's HR agents and Every's conference all point the same way: judgment stays human.
Same model, different results: the provider is now part of the model
FriendliAI, Scale Ventures, OpenRouter, AMD and SambaNova published on 11 and 12 November on how serving choices change speed, accuracy and cost, and why teams should test the serving stack, not just the model.
Robots Are Becoming a Platform You Build On, Not a Fleet You Run
Serve opens its delivery network to developers, KEENON cleans in 70-plus countries, and Arrive AI bets on shared endpoints.
In regulated AI, the audit trail is now the product
Federato, Ocrolus, Trelium, Novee and Higgsfield published on 11 and 12 November on the same point from different sides: insurers and lenders must be able to explain, evidence and own every decision AI touches.
The document pipeline under AI search is now measured like infrastructure
LlamaIndex and Datalab published on 11 and 12 November on parsing benchmarks and per-page pricing, with the same message: the pipeline before the model decides what the model can say.
Nvidia scandal tests its board, its stock and US export controls at once
Reports of a board preparing to remove Jensen Huang, a probe into chips bought by Megaspeed, and a thin enforcement net in South-East Asia have landed in the same week. None of the central claims is settled, but together they raise questions Nvidia and Washington cannot leave unanswered.
The Agent Framework Race Is Now About Protocols, Not Demos
A2UI 1.0, Mastra Forward, Rilla MCP, Polyaxon and n8n's guild model all moved this week — each claiming a different piece of the default stack.
Research & Science
Nobody announced a new battery. The gains came from the parts around it.
Four ChemRxiv preprints worked the parts around the battery cell: an electrolyte design that lets lithium move faster, a generative model that screens electrolytes with physics in the loop, a warning that symmetric crystal models mislead, and scrap recovery in 60 seconds.
Forever chemicals can now be destroyed, measured, and broken down — in the same week
Three ChemRxiv preprints take PFAS and polluted water from three directions: a solvent-free milling process that turns PFAS into potassium fluoride, a way to track PFOS inside bacteria, and a plant-extract photocatalyst for wastewater.
Finance & Investing
Mortgage fraud is up, late payments are up, and rate resets are coming
Cotality's fraud index hit 139, UK late payments rose 24%, and Dutch households face an average €150 monthly reset. The system's answer is machines and mortgage bonds.
Central bankers agree on one thing: nobody is hiring, and nobody is firing
Waller and Lombardelli both call it low hire, low fire. Bailey defends independence, Bowman counts AI debt above $800 billion, and the ECB's Lane explains how the message gets read.
One day of filings: a co-COO out, an AI chief gone, and a 53% headcount cut
StepStone restructured its operating leadership, Public Storage lost the executive who ran its AI and digital work, and EyePoint cut more than half its staff to fund one trial.
October inflation sealed a December Fed hike. The argument now is 25 or 50 basis points
Headline prices rose 0.4% and core 0.3% in October. UBS, PIMCO and ABN AMRO all expect a quarter-point move, but Waller's 50-point condition is now in play.
Americans keep spending. Their feelings about the economy just split in two
Spending stays strong, funded by jobs at the bottom and asset prices at the top. Sentiment moved 6 points in opposite directions by party after the midterms, while demand did not move at all.
Public markets are concentrated and pricey. The money is moving private
The S&P 500 trades at about 40 times Shiller earnings against a 29-times average. T. Rowe Price saw $10.8 billion leave in October while Hamilton Lane's infrastructure platform keeps growing.
Emerging-market central banks want to cut. Capital flight will not let them
Carry trades unwound in Türkiye and Egypt in October. Ankara is loosening loan limits at the margin, Kyiv faces 11% inflation, and Mauritius just hiked to 5%.
Health & Biotech
The pathogens keep moving. This week, the countermeasures moved too.
Four bioRxiv preprints show the week's infectious-disease race: a 25-minute test for the 2026 Bundibugyo outbreak strain, a dengue strain that escapes a potent antibody more than a thousandfold, a vaccine built for all four dengue serotypes, and a map of antifungal resistance.
Sports
Two unanimous Cy Youngs and a night of broken streaks at the MLB Awards
Cam Schlittler and Jacob Misiorowski swept every first-place vote, Yordan Alvarez ended Shohei Ohtani's six-year hold on the top DH honor, and the Brewers put a league-high four players on the All-MLB Team.
The trade deadline sorted the NFL into buyers, sellers, and teams that stood pat
Buffalo bought a safety, Indianapolis sold its receivers, and Dallas, New England and Pittsburgh did nothing. The deadline's verdicts say more about each team's record than about any one player.
Federal Government
A quiet House day: six reauthorizations from one member, and a bill to police pardons
Thirteen bills and two resolutions landed on November 11. Most keep existing programs alive. One, from Rep. Levin with 12 cosponsors, would add oversight to presidential pardons and clarify that bribery law applies to them.
State Legislatures & Executives
Four governors move money: $190 million for rural health, disaster aid, and a museum
Maine locked in a second year of federal rural health money, Minnesota authorized disaster aid for six counties, Texas asked Washington for low-interest disaster loans, and New Mexico set a date to break ground on a $20 million museum.