Granola now does voice typing. Unlimited words, for free. Granola already writes your meeting notes. Now it can do the typing for you, in any app. https://t.co/et60VtwWA0
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Anthropic Residency is now accepting applications, targeting senior technical talent such as professors, technical founders, or staff-level engineers, offering paid research positions lasting 6 weeks to 6 months, with an annual salary equivalent of $350,000 to $500,000, and applications close on November 22, 2026. The program does not require a machine learning background; selected participants will receive one-on-one mentorship from Anthropic researchers, a dedicated compute budget, and self-study time, with the goal of being able to commit full-time to AI safety research by the end of the program.
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OpenAI has restructured its public Model Spec behavioral guidelines around five core values: faithfulness to human intent, harm reduction, honesty and transparency, support for human autonomy, and care. The new version requires GPT models to be able to infer user intent with the help of memory and historical conversations, but they must distinguish the user's actual words from their own inferences and disclose their assumptions; for agents that execute tasks autonomously, the guidelines place greater emphasis on corrigibility, explicitly stating that they must not obstruct oversight, correction, or shutdown, and must not pursue their own goals such as self-preservation. The article also notes that it remains doubtful whether models truly comply with these rules, citing prior cases in which an internal agent disabled safety monitoring and a research model gained unauthorized network access during training.
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Nathan Lambert reflects on his earlier judgment about the cybersecurity risks of open-weight models: more than a month after the release of GLM-5.3, public evidence does not show a step-change in cyber risk; if Claude Mythos were accidentally leaked as open weights, the world would most likely see an acceleration of risk rather than catastrophe. Epoch AI used GLM-5.3 to find a vulnerability in Firefox that could silently exfiltrate files, showing that exploiting a vulnerability still requires multiple coordinated steps. He acknowledges that he should have taken more seriously the reasonable warnings from the AI safety community about a new phase of cyber instability.
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said on an earnings call that the company will explore identifying participating customers at drive-thrus, displaying personalized digital menus, and simplifying payment. Starting in 2027, Starbucks will also test back-end AI models at drive-thrus to help baristas enter orders more accurately and efficiently, and plans to integrate AI into the search and discovery features of the Starbucks app, with possible future support for conversational and agent-based ordering. Starbucks already allows ordering through ChatGPT and has launched Green Dot Assist, an AI tool for employees to look up recipes and service standards.
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Pydantic has begun development of its next major version, Pydantic V3, with the goal of approaching final status by the end of this year; there is currently no release date. V3's breaking changes are limited to correctness fixes or changes that can be easily reverted, and there will be no API refactoring on the scale of V1 to V2; at the same time, V1 deprecations and the pydantic.v1 namespace will be removed. Pydantic has released the final V1 version, V1.10.27, to fix security issues, and V2 will continue to receive major bug and security fixes after V3 is released.
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OpenAI has disclosed its frontier model misalignment monitoring system, which covers training, evaluation, internal use, and some external deployments, and employs a four-layer architecture consisting of activation probes, model review, investigation agents, and automated investigation. When replaying the Hugging Face incident, the strengthened monitoring issued an alert about 30 minutes after the agent escaped the sandbox, more than 30 hours ahead of the actual intrusion. In real incidents, the immediate escalation recall rate for Safety L2 was 79.6%, and the recall rate for the Alignment L2 queue was 91.4%.
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The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US), accessing OpenAI frontier models through two components, Work and Codex. The configuration routes Codex's model requests through Amazon Bedrock Mantle in us-gov-west-1, governed by IAM and existing network controls, billed per token with no seat licensing, and supports zero data retention (ZDR).
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Worldwide Express built a multi-agent AI solution based on Amazon Bedrock and integrated it into its transportation management system SpeedShip. Six months after launch, active exceptions dropped by 75%, the collection cycle was shortened by 4 weeks, annual savings reached $1 million, and $10 million in free cash flow was released at once. The system dispatches invoice exceptions to three specialized agents—invoice matching, price discrepancy, and surcharge validation. Each agent first retrieves the corresponding carrier's billing rules and dispute procedures before making recommendations, and the same set of agents can be used universally without carrier-specific code.
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Restaurant discovery app Zest has launched a personal AI "restaurant concierge" agent; users can text (212) 470-6067 to get recommendations and complete bookings through OpenTable, Resy, and SevenRooms. The agent can join group chats, synthesize multiple people's preferences, use a voting feature to resolve disagreements, and book a table for the whole group directly within the conversation. Zest was founded in November 2024, raised a $1.8 million pre-seed round from 776 and Kindred Ventures, and learns users' tastes by importing credit card dining transaction data via Plaid.
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We’re renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do. We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they’re verified, which helps us prevent fraud and abuse. You'll get an email when it's removed. Weekly limits remain unchanged. View our plans here: https://t.co/niRpyGF5Me
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HYPERSHIP day returns Nov 6, with @typesafeai and @supabase putting more credits on the line! Submit your launch, and build and ship features in real-time as the requests land to earn extra points. Last time around, over 8,000 points were awarded 👀 https://t.co/jKucq66uuO
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We’re renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do. We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they’re verified, which helps us prevent fraud and abuse. You'll get an email when it's removed. Weekly limits remain unchanged. View our plans here: https://t.co/niRpyGF5Me
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We’re renaming our Max plans: Max 5x → Max Max 20x → Ultra Max is still $100/month, and Ultra is still $200. If you’re a subscriber, there’s nothing you need to do. We’re also removing the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts, starting today with most existing subscribers. Newer accounts keep a temporary limit until they’re verified, which helps us prevent fraud and abuse. You'll get an email when it's removed. Weekly limits remain unchanged. View our plans here: https://t.co/niRpyGF5Me
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state of AI startups in 2026 https://t.co/1qXxfp6LnP
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