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Nous Research released Arete-27B, a supervised fine-tune of Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-27B. On its 803-prompt eval, answers containing official-line framing fell from 22% to 0.9%, with no meaningful drop on its general-capability bench.
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OpenAI said on October 26 that an internal model found a subexponential algorithm for counting k-SAT assignments, which would refute the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Impagliazzo, Paturi, and Williams are examining the claim — not certifying it — and Impagliazzo later called the result shocking news.
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Google said on November 5, 2026 that it will invest $17 billion in its first Wyoming data center near Cheyenne, including a 702 MW Bloom Energy fuel-cell project with carbon capture. Crusoe said the next day that Google acquired its southeast Wyoming site.
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Asahi Linux’s November 7, 2026 Linux 7.3 report says the project is moving its repositories from MIT to GPLv2-or-later after in-development code was copied without attribution or rewritten with LLM help. M3 support is now generally available, and a limited Thunderbolt drop is shipping.
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On November 6, 2026, OpenAI partnered with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, focusing on third-party service connections and expanding Daybreak Red access.
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Anthropic’s November 6 research post explains Claude agent memory and dreaming: a 350,000-file wiki eval rose from 13% to 48%, and search plus wiki reached 61%.
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GitHub will block pull_request_target by default in public repositories on December 2, 2026, after two-hour brownouts on November 9 and 16 (16:00–18:00 UTC). Here is who is affected and how to prepare.
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METR’s Nov. 5, 2026 public report says Anthropic is likely improving well-specified tasks about twice as fast as in March 2024–October 2025, with perhaps ~80% of today’s acceleration from AI — and most of the key evidence redacted.
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Apiiro found 1,122 public GitHub copies of Claude Code’s .claude/settings.local.json holding secrets from “don’t ask again” approvals — 2,539 secrets across 1,994 repos in a broader count. Rotate first, then clean history.
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OpenAI Images 2.6 (Nov 4, 2026): ~50% faster images, native GIFs in ChatGPT, and GPT-Image-2.6 Flare/Sunburst in the API.
