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Meta has confirmed it acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup. Conductor's Cloud service goes read-only on 13 November and shuts on 20 November; the local app runs into early 2027.
5 Nov 2026Some AI data centres are making their own electricity with jet engines rebuilt to burn natural gas, TechCrunch reports, citing the New York Times. xAI is among them, with eight units in Mississippi.
4 Nov 2026Fal announced a combined $1.65B across its Series E and F rounds on 3 November. TechCrunch puts the Series F at $1.3B, and says Bloomberg reported a $16B valuation.
4 Nov 2026Anthropic's amended S-1, filed on Monday 2 November, adds third-quarter results. Revenue reached about $17bn, but compute took 58% of it and growth slowed from the quarter before.
4 Nov 2026SpaceXSI's developer documentation says text from seven Grok models will carry an invisible watermark from 7 November 2026. It is on by default, needs no code change, and team admins can opt out per model.
4 Nov 2026Apple says a new Developer Preview lets any developer connect an app to Siri AI. It is in beta, and Apple says it ships to customers in a few months.
3 Nov 2026Google has opened a preview of a platform that lets developers bring their apps into Gemini and Search. Access is being opened in phases, and Google gave no date for wider availability.
3 Nov 2026Anthropic's Addy Osmani says two sentences were added to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game. Here is what is confirmed, what rests on one user's word, and what is questioned.
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