Omen AI announced on November 2, 2026 that it had acquired Aquatic Labs for $16 million in cash and stock. Aquatic Labs founder Allan Adams will join Omen AI as chief science officer, and the acquisition brings his team, intellectual property and sensor research into the San Francisco-based company. Adams will lead research and development…
DeepSeek published the v0.2.1-alpha.1 prerelease of DeepSeek Harness on October 3, 2026, adding a “Let Agent create a plugin” entry to plugin management. Selecting it carries the existing draft into Creator mode, and execution waits until the user submits the plugin-creation request. Plugin Management Changes Creator mode was already documented before this prerelease. The v0.1.6-alpha.2…
Apple announced fiscal fourth-quarter results on November 2, 2026, reporting revenue of $114.5 billion for the quarter ended September 26, 2026, up 12% year over year, and diluted earnings per share of $2.10, up 14%. Gross margin was 47.9%, which Apple said included a favorable impact of approximately one percentage point from tariff refunds. Diluted…
OpenAI published LifeVal on November 2, 2026, an evaluation built partly from a 3,995-respondent survey to track AI model performance over time on practical work including finding childcare, creating budgets and ordering groceries. LifeVal covers areas where users wanted help from AI and personal agents. OpenAI has used the evaluation over the past year to…
LongCat introduced LongCat-2.5 on November 1, 2026, a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model for long-horizon agentic tasks with 1.6 trillion total parameters and approximately 48 billion activated per token. LongCat said the release builds on LongCat-2.0 with stronger native visual understanding and agentic coding. Its training incorporates more long-horizon trajectories and large-scale long-horizon reinforcement learning for…
xAI introduced Data Bot on November 2, 2026, as a Shared Bot in Grok Bot built by SpaceXSI’s data science team to handle warehouse queries and analytical work using shared team practices, with results formatted for each user. SpaceXSI’s data science team said its small size could make it a bottleneck for colleagues whose straightforward…
Oracle filed a preliminary prospectus supplement for senior notes with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 2, 2026, covering concurrent offerings of common stock and senior notes, with the stock and debt components each sized at $10 billion. Both documents are preliminary and subject to change. The common-stock prospectus supplement leaves the public…
Sierra announced on November 2, 2026 that it had redesigned Agent Studio around Ghostwriter, its agent-building agent, bringing investigation, journey editing and testing into one conversation. Evidence, proposed changes and test results remain together so teams can review them before anything goes live. Previously, users had to move between different parts of Agent Studio to…
Utilizing waste carbon at scale, assessing public trust in artificial intelligence and data centers, and building a quantum toolkit for critical applications were among the topics energy experts explored at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s annual research conference on Sept. 22-23. The complexity of the energy transition demands “a truly interdisciplinary and international approach,” said…
Anthropic introduced message threads in public beta on November 2, 2026, allowing Messages API applications on the Claude Platform to send only new messages after an initial full-conversation request. The feature is intended for active sessions where latency matters, including long-running coding agents, computer-use agents whose screenshots remain with the thread, and document- and image-heavy…