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Matthias Bastian

Nov 13, 2026

AI in practice

Jensen Huang's ouster likely traces back to Nvidia's risky business practices more than his personal life

Maximilian Schreiner

Nov 13, 2026

AI in practice

OpenAI rebuilt AI shopping from scratch with ChatGPT Wallet

Matthias Bastian

Nov 13, 2026

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Investors from mainland China and Hong Kong are being shut out of Anthropic's IPO, according to Bloomberg. Multiple banks have reportedly rejected buy orders from those regions or consider allocations unlikely, with some of the people involved citing ITAR, the US export control rules governing defense-related goods, as the reason. Anthropic declined to comment.

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are leading the offering, with 20 other banks involved. The stock is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT after pricing on November 18.

The company's products aren't officially available in China or Hong Kong, and its broader relationship with the country has been defined by confrontation. Anthropic has blocked firms under Chinese control from its AI services and is fighting workarounds that let Chinese companies access Claude Code. It also exposed large-scale distillation attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax involving some 16 million queries.

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Manuel Uth

Nov 13, 2026

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Anthropic has released Claude for Manufacturing, a plugin giving the AI direct access to industrial software to automate factory workflows. The new solution connects via four universal interfaces to Autodesk Fusion, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft 365, and Infor. Other systems can be integrated through file exports to Microsoft 365.

With 17 specific skills, the AI drafts quotes from actual inventory, compares suppliers, generates quality reports and design variants, and analyzes sensor data and manuals during machine downtime. Via an added Infor plugin, Claude can also order from backup suppliers when deliveries are delayed and reschedule production—after human approval. All results are linked to original source documents for employee review before reaching customers or suppliers.

The plugin is available to Team and Enterprise customers but doesn't control physical machines yet. For that, Anthropic is separately developing the Model Hardware Standard as a research preview, connecting AI agents to devices like robotic arms and microscopes via standardized drivers. This cuts setup time from weeks or months to hours or minutes but still requires human oversight due to the AI's limited grasp of physical processes.

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Manuel Uth

Nov 13, 2026

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US public-sector unions are winning more protections against AI surveillance and automation-driven job losses. The issue is growing more urgent as nearly 70 percent of US government agencies already use generative AI, according to an Ernst and Young survey.

The wins are piling up nationwide. After a strike vote in October, IFPTE Local 21 in Oakland secured retraining programs instead of AI-related layoffs. In Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro guaranteed SEIU Local 668 human oversight during a pilot of OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise. The Transport Workers Union in Ohio won veto power over autonomous vehicles. On top of that, California Governor Gavin Newsom banned AI surveillance software, often called "bossware," along with automated firings in September. New York has protected state employees from AI displacement by law since late 2025.

Employers are pushing automation to cut costs, according to labor researcher Kung Feng at UC Berkeley. Union leaders like Liz Shuler of the AFL-CIO, Lorena Gonzalez, and TWU's John Samuelsen support AI safety systems where they help workers but insist on mandatory human control over every AI application in the workplace, the Guardian reports.

Comment Source: Guardian / US unions AI

Maximilian Schreiner

Nov 13, 2026

Plus AI and society

Former OpenAI researcher says he found Nvidia Blackwell fingerprints hidden inside six Chinese AI models

Former OpenAI researcher Will DePue says he has produced the first technical evidence that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, and Ant Group are using Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs despite US export controls. His forensic method reads characteristic chip signatures directly from published model weights. He estimates the hardware behind the five training runs cost more than half a billion dollars.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Nov 13, 2026

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Anthropic is on track for the largest IPO ever, with orders exceeding available shares by a factor of six. That's according to Bloomberg. The Claude developer and its co-founders aim to raise up to $64.4 billion through the public offering and another $26 billion via a private placement, which would surpass even SpaceX's IPO. The target valuation sits at roughly $1.4 trillion, with existing investors getting priority in share allocation.

The company's financials likely fuel much of the demand. Anthropic's annualized revenue climbed to $81 billion by late October, up from $71 billion in September. Nvidia, whose investors have grown more cautious since CEO Jensen Huang was ousted over an alleged espionage scandal, is itself buying $10 billion in Anthropic stock through the private placement. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are managing the Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT, and CEO Dario Amodei will pitch investors alongside JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon in a Friday livestream.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Nov 13, 2026

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Meta's AI agent Muse can now place calls to US businesses on behalf of its users. The feature, tested in September, is available to all paying Muse subscribers in the US, turning what Google Duplex demoed to widespread amazement in 2018 into a standard capability of always-on AI agents.

Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang said the agent, with more than 10 million users, handles tedious calls to cable companies, the DMV, and restaurants, and will soon get a free email address. Google's Gemini, startup Instinct, and xAI's Grok Bot can already place calls as well, while OpenAI's ChatGPT Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet still cannot.

Many businesses, however, hang up the moment they detect an AI on the line. That problem forced Meta to temporarily test human operators for Muse in September, echoing Google's experience with Duplex, where on launch one in four calls was handled by a human. Synthetic voices keep getting more realistic, making that detection increasingly difficult. Users are drawn to the feature largely because the AI will sit on hold indefinitely and work through complex phone menus without complaint.

Comment Source: X / Alexandr Wang | Reuters / Muse Concierge

Maximilian Schreiner

Nov 13, 2026

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OpenAI has launched two security products under its Daybreak brand. The first, Daybreak Red Team, is available in Early Access and uses AI agents to automatically probe web applications for vulnerabilities by analyzing source code and app context to map out attack paths. The tool also verifies reported security flaws from bug bounty programs or code scanners and tests patches. Nancy Wang, head of Cyber-Applied AI, said the tool is designed to deliver penetration testing at the speed of automated continuous scanning while matching the depth of human testers.

The second product, Daybreak Defense Factory, automates the defensive side. AI agents scan a company's codebase for vulnerabilities and generate patches, delivering ready-to-deploy pull requests with fixes and accompanying tests for developer approval. Both products run on OpenAI's latest cyber model, GPT-6 Cyber.

Comment Source: Daybreak Red Team | Nancy Wang / Cyber-Applied-AI | Daybreak Defense Factory

Matthias Bastian

Nov 12, 2026

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Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a feature that puts Claude into video calls as a visible participant. During a call, Claude can answer questions, generate documents and whiteboards, and log notes and action items, responding in text by default and accessing connected tools when granted permission.

All notes, transcripts, and documents Claude produced are available on a dedicated page in claude.ai once the meeting ends. Privacy controls prevent Claude from joining calls with external participants by default.

The feature is in beta for Team and Enterprise plans, with Google Meet as the only supported platform so far. Anthropic says more platforms will follow. Organizations running HIPAA or customer-managed encryption configurations can't use Meetings yet.

Claude Meetings extends recently announced capabilities like whiteboards and data dashboards that are gradually reshaping the Claude app into an all-in-one office tool.

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