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Alibaba previews Qwen4-Max, Google ships a decision-making API, and Samsung's AI glasses go on pre-order.
November 12, 2026 · 7 stories
DeepMind's most capable vision-language-action model yet, rolling out to robotics partners including Boston Dynamics and Apptronik. On 200+ tasks it beat prior baselines by 30-100% on success rate; in a Mercedes-Benz factory test, an Apptronik Apollo 2 humanoid picked and packed parts at a 96% success rate. No public API.
Source: SiliconANGLEAdvanced Voice and Standard Voice leave ChatGPT's settings on December 11, leaving GPT-Live as the only voice mode. Live video and screen sharing keep running on Advanced Voice for now, and voice chats inside custom GPTs end the same day.
Source: NeowinQwen4-Max-Preview is live for two weeks on Alibaba's Token Plan subscription, with a 1M-token context window and text, image and video input. No benchmarks, parameter count, per-token price or open weights have been published, and the preview retires on November 25.
Source: ApidogDevelopers can now call InvokeWebSearch with one signed API call to get ranked results from Amazon's own web index, with no gateway to set up. Priced at $7 per 1,000 queries, available in six regions including US East and Europe (Ireland).
Source: Unite.AIThe new endpoint scores up to 1,000 yes/no, choice or rubric questions against one multimodal input in a single pass, returning probabilities instead of generated text. Google reports 150–250 ms end-to-end latency and charges $0.10 per million input tokens, with output free.
Source: VentureBeatAlphaGenome 2 predicts how a genetic variant changes gene activity in a specific cell type or state, rather than a tissue average. On DeepMind's immune-cell test it recovered 30% of causal variants at 90% precision, against 16% for the original. Free for non-commercial research via API; not for clinical use.
Source: Unite.AISamsung's first AI glasses — audio-first Android XR frames with a camera, Gemini and Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 — open for pre-order today at Warby Parker, with deliveries expected in mid-December. No price has been announced yet; Warby Parker says it will be revealed when pre-orders open.
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