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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…

ON1 released Photo RAW 2027 for Mac and Windows on November 2, 2026, adding a new RAW processing engine, revised NoNoise AI models and an AI Culling Assistant available only in the MAX edition. Both Photo RAW 2027 and Photo RAW MAX 2027 run as standalone applications and share the core editing, AI and organizational…

Physician reviewers preferred AI-generated discharge summaries over their human-authored counterparts in 95% of the hospitalizations evaluated in a Stony Brook University study. The retrospective analysis focused on 60 Internal Medicine admissions lasting seven to 21 days, where extended treatment and large volumes of clinical notes make the handoff to outpatient care especially demanding. The findings,…

Microsoft and Lumen Technologies announced an expanded co-selling collaboration on November 2, 2026, focused on connecting the data, applications and infrastructure used for enterprise AI workloads and broadening access to Lumen networking capabilities through Azure and Microsoft Marketplace. Microsoft and Lumen said enterprise AI initiatives often rely on data and applications distributed across public clouds,…

Larridin has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Pelion Ventures, bringing its total financing to $47 million. The company measures how AI spending translates into work across employees and software agents, targeting enterprises seeking clearer evidence of return on their AI investments. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Gradient Ventures participated alongside new…