Google DeepMind has launched Gemini Robotics 2.5, its most capable vision-language-action (VLA) model so far — the kind of AI that watches, understands an instruction, and moves a robot's body. The he
OpenAI has acquired Odessia, the AI travel-agent startup built by Francis Davidson — the founder who previously built the hospitality company Sonder. Davidson announced the deal himself on 10 November
Most people use ChatGPT like a search box — one short question, one short answer, then start again. The difference between that and real time saved is the prompt: a clear instruction that tells the AI
AI video generators are brilliant artists and terrible physicists: balls float, objects melt, and motion ignores gravity. A research team from six institutions has a different idea — do not ask the vi
Most AI model launches chase the top of the leaderboard. Meta went the other way. On 9 November 2026, Meta Superintelligence Lab released Muse Ember — the lightest and most cost-efficient model in its
Anthropic shipped two new models on 9 November 2026: Claude Fable 5.2 for general use and Claude Mythos 5.2 for a restricted circle of verified organisations. The headline for most developers is simpl
Data centres are running out of easy places to live on Earth, so Google has started testing one in orbit. Its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite — launched earlier in October on a SpaceX Falcon 9
Here is a sentence that would have sounded impossible a year ago: one of the world's most celebrated AI companies could go public carrying a "junk" credit rating. According to a Financial Times report
AI companies keep telling us their agents can "do real work." This week, a research firm actually tested that claim the hard way — and the best AI model in the world completed about one task in eight.