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Google's strongest model goes public, Anthropic opens its trillion-dollar IPO roadshow, Claude moves into the office, and Ring takes flight.
November 11, 2026 · 8 stories
OpenAI's new internal safety system, already deployed across its research infrastructure, cuts off further model output within 35 seconds of a stop instruction — down from a 2.5-hour manual shutdown earlier this year. It fails closed: if Control Room itself goes down, all inference requests are refused.
Source: The Indian ExpressGoogle DeepMind's agentic framework generated over six million lines of machine-checked Lean proof verifying libsignal's post-quantum handshake and Triple Ratchet down to machine code — in four weeks, a job that historically takes expert teams years. It found no new flaws in the parts checked; humans wrote the specification and reviewed the definitions.
Source: Google DeepMindRing's new robotics business ships the $249.99 Ring Drone Cam, an indoor flying camera, on January 27 and the $999.99 Ring Rover Cam, a patrolling robot for businesses, on December 16. Both use Ring's AI Pilot system to map spaces and pick patrol points.
Source: ReutersMiniMax's 33B image model generates up to 16-megapixel images in 10–20 seconds, takes up to 16 reference images, and ships with open weights on Hugging Face. Note the licence: MiniMax's community licence excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea without separate permission.
Source: Pasquale PillitteriGoogle's strongest model is now open to paying developers through the Gemini API and to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search and Antigravity — two weeks after a cyber-defenders-only preview. Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens until November 30, then $4 and $20.
Source: Google BlogPixel 10 gets Gemini Intelligence, which handles multi-step tasks like placing a morning coffee order, and Google's $29.99 Pixel Tag tracker goes on sale November 11. Google Fi also gains a super network that switches between two of America's top 5G networks.
Source: Google BlogAnthropic will sell 825 million shares on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, raising up to about $64.4 billion at a valuation of roughly $1.02 trillion — about $1.4 trillion fully diluted. CNBC reports pricing on November 18 and trading from November 19; Google, Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft are among seven companies buying $26 billion in a separate private placement.
Source: The Straits TimesAnthropic launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on paid plans, made Claude Data (formerly Dashboards) generally available, and put Claude Meetings — which joins Google Meet calls as a visible participant to take notes and update documents — into beta for Team and Enterprise plans. The launch landed the same day Anthropic opened its IPO roadshow.
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