OpenAI reportedly raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation
Bloomberg reported on 6 November 2026 that OpenAI had raised $11 billion so far in an unclosed round valuing it at $1.25 trillion, below the $30 billion it reportedly sought.
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Agility Robotics to go public through a SPAC merger
Agility Robotics announced it will go public through a SPAC merger, raising $465 million as it works to commercialize Digit robots and launch the next-generation Digit 5.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Cyber for vulnerability hunting
On 5 November 2026 OpenAI released ChatGPT Cyber, a model for cybersecurity work, limited to the top tier of its Daybreak Red programme. OpenAI says it scanned the Linux kernel and found flaws in Firefox.
SenseTime launches SenseNova 6.8 Flash
On 5 November 2026 SenseTime announced the official version of SenseNova 6.8 Flash, a multimodal agent model for office and design work that offers free trial access.
Baidu releases the open-weight ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base checkpoint
On 5 November 2026 Baidu introduced ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, an open-weight 280B-parameter mixture-of-experts pre-training checkpoint published on Hugging Face under Baidu's own license.
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
In early November 2026 Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor's cloud service was set to shut down on 20 November 2026.
Fal doubles its valuation to $16B on $1.3B round
Fal, a startup that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its valuation from earlier in the year.
Apple requires 18+ ratings for dating and AI companion apps
On 2 November 2026 Apple told developers that apps with dating or romantic features, including AI companion apps, must carry an 18+ rating, with new content descriptors required from 16 November.
Six AGIBOT G2 robots run a 24-hour convenience store trial
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026
AGIBOT's Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on 29 October 2026 introduced the Worken output metric, the AHA3 humanoid hardware architecture, the G2 Max industrial robot, Link-U OS 1.0, the GO-3 Preview and the WITA-Omni interaction model.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary 2
On 28 October 2026 Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight, free speech recognition model covering up to 40 languages, alongside the second version of its Granary speech dataset.
Anthropic files publicly for an IPO
On 26 October 2026 Anthropic filed an S-1 registration statement with the US SEC for a proposed IPO, intending to list on Nasdaq under the symbol "ANT".
The Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members in under a year
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
iFlytek releases device-cloud Spark X2.6
On 22 October 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.6, a device-cloud model series, at its developer festival in Beijing. The same event also launched a speech foundation model and a digital-employee platform.
DeepSeek updates V4.1-Flash and opens its Search and Fetch APIs
On 17 October 2026 DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an update to its smallest model with better benchmarks, faster task completion and shorter outputs; its weights were published and its Search and Fetch APIs opened at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
Kuaishou rolls out Kling 4.0
On 15 October 2026 Kuaishou's video generation model Kling 4.0 became available to all users, adding longer shots, more dynamic motion and Omni Reference, with a faster Flash variant released alongside it.
Meta releases the open-weight Muse Spark Open
On 15 October 2026 Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight, natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, optimised to run on Apple's Mac Studio. Its weights were published on Hugging Face.
Physical Intelligence opens the Pi API beta
On 13 October 2026, Physical Intelligence opened a beta of the Pi API, a service that lets customers upload their own robot data, fine-tune the company's models and run cloud-hosted inference on their own machines.
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5
Released on 7 October 2026, Claude Haiku 5.5 is the third model of the Claude 5.5 family. It is the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting, and its prices start at $0.10 per million input tokens.
Waymo announces its first Canadian service, in Toronto
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
MiniMax releases MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
MiniMax posted the weights of M3.1-Flash to Hugging Face on 17 October 2026. The model is a multimodal M3-line release with about 428 billion parameters, MiniMax Sparse Attention throughout, and DSpark speculative decoding.