AI news for Saturday, 7 November 2026

The day’s AI news in one list, the biggest stories first. Each story links to its short read and to the outlets that reported it.

1. 1 · Models & Releases
   Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchers

   A research organization released findings showing that AI is dramatically speeding up its own development at a major AI company, with models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago.

   Reported by The Verge

2. 2 · Policy & Drama
   China reportedly recruited exec to spy on Nvidia CEO

   China's Ministry of State Security reportedly recruited a technology executive to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and gather information about American AI chips, according to a memo circulated earlier this year.

   Reported by The Verge and 1 more

3. 3 · Hardware & Compute
   China's Galaxy datacenter rivals US Stargate scale

   A Chinese datacenter campus in Inner Mongolia called Galaxy is being built to a scale comparable to America's Stargate facility in Texas, with planned capacity of up to 800MW.

   Reported by SemiAnalysis

4. 4 · Policy & Drama
   US approved Nvidia chip sales to empty Chinese office

   The US government has approved sales of an AI chipmaker's products to Chinese firms that have ties to blacklisted companies, raising concerns about insufficient vetting.

   Reported by The Verge

5. 5 · Hardware & Compute
   Crusoe sells unfinished Wyoming data center to Google

   Crusoe, a Denver-based data center developer, sold an unfinished Wyoming data center project to Google after failing to deliver it on time and within budget.

   Reported by TechCrunch

6. 6 · Agents & Products
   NYT Cooking adds AI assistant to help customize recipes

   The New York Times Cooking app has introduced a beta AI assistant feature that allows users to modify recipes by swapping ingredients, adjusting serving sizes, and accommodating dietary needs and equipment constraints.

   Reported by The Verge and 1 more

7. 7 · Policy & Drama
   AI broke the cybersecurity world. What’s next?

   AI has made it easier for both private and state actors to break into computer systems by helping them detect and exploit vulnerabilities simultaneously, leading to a wave of interconnected breaches across the tech industry.

   Reported by The Verge

8. 8 · Robotics
   Robots make high-precision manufacturing accessible to midmarket firms

   High-precision manufacturing, once available only to large corporations, is now becoming accessible to midmarket and smaller manufacturers through advances in robotic integration and automation.

   Reported by The Robot Report

9. 9 · Agents & Products
   Caregiver apps gain AI features but face limits

   AI-powered apps designed to help family caregivers manage medical information, appointments, and daily care tasks are becoming more sophisticated, but experts warn they come with significant limitations.

   Reported by Wired AI

10. 10 · Agents & Products
    Buoyant Releases Kinference: An Open Source Inference Control Plane for Kubernetes and vLLM

    Kinference is an open source control plane that manages how requests are routed to language model servers running on Kubernetes clusters with vLLM.

    Reported by MarkTechPost

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