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OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation
In Brief Posted: 2:53 PM PST · November 6, 2026 Image Credits: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Lucas Ropek OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.
Current Muse Scores 47% on Meta’s Personal Superintelligence Index
Meta AI Research announced on November 6, 2026 that it is rolling out specialized versions of the models behind Muse and Meta AI, trained using Muse Wonder, with the current Muse model scoring 47% on its Personal Superintelligence Index versus 38% for the previous model. The update brings Active Memory and Active Focus to both products. The models being deployed are specialized versions of Meta’s existing systems, improved through Muse Wonder, rather than a rollout of the Wonder series itself…
Dev & ToolsCrusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google
Crusoe, an eight-year-old, Denver-based data center developer recently valued at $30.9 billion , confirmed Friday it has sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google.
Dev & ToolsSalesforce Introduces Koa Decisions with Image and Audio Support
Salesforce introduced Koa Decisions on November 6, 2026, a decision model built from Google’s open-weight Gemma that accepts text, images, and audio. The company plans to expand the technology beyond Agentforce request routing into Salesforce workflows and developer tools. Koa Decisions is the next version of HyperClassifier. It reads a request and a user-defined list of categories, then returns a selection, a yes-or-no decision, or a score in one step. Salesforce describes that operation as…
Dev & ToolsBMO Introduces Agentic AI Case Preparation for Credit Card Support
BMO announced on November 6, 2026 the introduction of AI Agent Assist for employees handling Canadian clients’ credit card transaction inquiries at its Virtual Connect contact centre, with targets of cutting resolution time by 20–30% for eligible inquiries and automatically processing about 40% of eligible credit refund requests. Virtual Connect receives more than 500,000 such calls each year, and each currently takes an average of 12–14 minutes to resolve. Against that baseline, the deployment…
Dev & ToolsOpenAI Introduces BioBasicsBench to Test AI Agents on Wet-Lab Data
OpenAI introduced BioBasicsBench on November 6, 2026, a 100-task benchmark developed with enzyme-design company Ligo to test whether AI agents can interpret raw evidence from routine wet-lab experiments. OpenAI reports results as mean reward, the average task score expressed as a percentage of available credit. At xhigh, the highest reasoning-effort setting reported for all seven models tested, GPT-6 Astra reached 66.7% with a 95% confidence interval of 60.3–73.1%, while GPT-5.6 Sol scored…
Dev & ToolsBaseten Makes Serverless Loops Generally Available for Post-Training
Baseten announced on November 6, 2026 that Serverless Loops is generally available, opening its managed SDK for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on open models to everyone. The service uses per-token training billing and provides a direct path from checkpoints to Baseten Dedicated Inference. Loops is built around a division of labor: users supply the training signal, while Baseten operates the GPUs, kernels, model architectures and distributed-training backend. The Python SDK…
Dev & ToolsClaude can now analyze your spending with its new Personal Finance tool
Anthropic announced Thursday that Claude is getting a new tool called Personal Finance, designed to help users keep track of their money. With it, users can connect their bank and credit card accounts through Plaid and ask Claude questions about their finances.