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Louis Amira is the Founder of Circuit & Chisel, drawing on experience building products and partnerships across AI, crypto, and payments. His career includes co-founding a venture within Google’s Area 120 incubator, working at Chainlink, and leading crypto and AI partnerships at Stripe. He started Circuit & Chisel with David Noël-Romas to address the infrastructure…

Adobe announced a multi-year strategic alliance with The Walt Disney Company on November 9, 2026, becoming an Official AI Innovation Partner of Disney. The agreement includes custom Firefly Foundry models and technical collaboration across Disney’s theme-park, studio and sports operations. Announced at Adobe MAX, the agreement gives Disney early access to Adobe’s latest AI, creative…

Google announced on November 9, 2026 that developers can build location-aware apps with Google Maps Platform inside Google AI Studio, using automated setup, live previews and a free demo allowance of 100 calls per API each day. A developer describes an idea to Gemini, and AI Studio handles the Maps Platform configuration and API-key management…

Ali Ansari is the Founder and CEO of micro1, where he focuses on turning human expertise into training data and evaluations for advanced AI systems. His entrepreneurial background includes building a software development agency and founding peerlinc before launching micro1 in 2022. He studied computer science at UC Berkeley and Stanford, with a focus on…

Pillar Security announced on November 9, 2026 that Vanta had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the AI security company. The planned deal would connect Pillar’s agent testing and runtime protection with Vanta’s Trust Graph, linking AI governance policies to the systems they are meant to control. Dor Sarig and Ziv Karliner founded Pillar in…

Elith and NVIDIA released Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan on November 9, 2026, opening nine million synthetic Japanese personas for commercial and non-commercial AI development. The CC BY 4.0 dataset adds household finances, money behavior and financial literacy to demographic profiles, giving banks, insurers and developers a way to test customer-facing systems without real customer records. NVIDIA describes the…

Skyways announced on November 9, 2026 that the Federal Aviation Administration had authorized long-range beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operations from the US coastline over the high seas, clearing a planned inspection and simulated cargo-delivery mission for Shell Pipeline Company LP in the Gulf of America. The company described the authorization, granted through the FAA’s Section 927…

It’s becoming cheaper to create convincing vulnerability reports, and that’s increasing the consequences for software maintainers and security teams. Six Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) were published against SQLite in July 2026, and two of them received a severity score of 9.8. The reports seemed legitimate, describing memory-safety bugs and including technical explanations and proof-of-concept…

Medium announced on November 9, 2026 that TK, its private notebook and writing app, is free with a Medium account after an invite-only phase. The app embeds an @TK assistant in the editor and includes AI feedback, archive organization and connections to personal AI agents. The wider opening follows Medium’s September 16, 2026 post, which…

Northern Trust and Microsoft announced on November 9, 2026 that a jointly developed client onboarding agent had reduced data preparation time by 83%, from about two and a half weeks to three days. The deployment begins an expanded AI collaboration and serves clients on Northern Trust Asset Servicing’s Front Office Solutions platform. The system takes…