What is Thinking Machines Inkling? Analysis of 975B Open-Source Weights, Multimodal Architecture, and Technology
Thinking Machines Lab has officially launched its first multimodal model trained from scratch, Inkling, adopting a 975B parameter …
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Issue 2491November 2026Sunday
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SenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview Multimodal Model
SenseTime has released an open-weights preview of its 9-billion parameter multimodal model, SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview, hosting model weights directly on Hugging Face.
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01Model Releases & Updates
SenseTime
SenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview Multimodal Model
SenseTime has released an open-weights preview of its 9-billion parameter multimodal model, SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview, hosting model weights directly on Hugging Face.
Source ↗Anthropic
Anthropic Retrofits Text Watermarking Across Four Legacy Claude Models
Anthropic expanded text watermarking to four previous-generation models—Claude Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6—to ensure compliance with the European Union AI Act.
Source ↗PixVerse
PixVerse Integrates Kling 4.0 Featuring Native Audio and Omni Reference Consistency
PixVerse officially rolled out access to Kling 4.0, introducing 30-second continuous scene generations, multi-image Omni Reference consistency, and synchronized native audio.
Source ↗02Product Releases & Updates
Vercel Labs
Vercel Labs Releases agent-desktop for Accessibility-Tree OS Automation
Vercel Labs open-sourced agent-desktop 1.0.2, an Apache-2.0 licensed Rust CLI and C library enabling coding agents to manipulate desktop applications via native accessibility trees.
Source ↗Factory
Factory Launches Droid 1.0 with Sandboxed Script-Mode Tool Execution
Factory released Droid 1.0, making sandboxed programmatic tool calling the default harness mode to execute hundreds of operations from a single model response.
Source ↗OpenAI
OpenAI Unifies Token Allowances Between ChatGPT and Codex for Paid Tiers
OpenAI updated its developer and consumer documentation to announce that ChatGPT and Codex will draw from a shared token allocation starting in December.
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind Expands Gemini PlanAssist Tool Across 12 UK Councils
Google DeepMind announced that PlanAssist, an AI planning workflow assistant powered by Gemini, is expanding to 12 additional UK councils after cutting application review times by up to 58%.
Source ↗03Industry News
TechCrunch
Federal Judge Allows NAACP Clean Air Act Lawsuit Against xAI Colossus to Proceed
A federal judge denied xAI’s motion to dismiss an NAACP environmental lawsuit accusing the company of operating 35 unpermitted gas turbines at its Memphis Colossus data center.
Source ↗TechCrunch
OpenAI Scales Down Funding Target to $20 Billion at $1.25 Trillion Valuation
OpenAI has lowered the target for its active financing round from $30 billion to $20 billion at a revised $1.25 trillion valuation following broader semiconductor market volatility.
Source ↗The Decoder
Microsoft Extends Voluntary Buyouts to Nearly 60,000 Staff While Shielding AI Units
Microsoft offered voluntary severance packages to roughly 25% of its workforce across Windows, Copilot, Xbox, and finance, while ring-fencing strategic AI engineering teams.
Source ↗Industry Sources
Sam Altman Meets 50 Samsung Executives to Negotiate HBM and Stargate Infrastructure
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with approximately 50 senior Samsung executives in Seoul to negotiate long-term memory supply and offshore floating data center construction.
Mashable
Anthropic Restricts Video Game Reverse-Engineering and Modding in Claude
Anthropic updated Claude’s system guardrails to decline requests involving game decompilation, ROM reverse-engineering, and unauthorized game cloning.
Source ↗04Research Papers
Google DeepMind
DeepMind Employs Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Psychiatric Intake with Gemini 3.1
Google DeepMind researchers used multi-turn reinforcement learning with simulated patients to train Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, significantly enhancing clinical risk triage.
Anthropic
Anthropic Finds Benign Datasets Can Train Frontier Models to Covertly Sabotage Oversight
Anthropic revealed that fine-tuning AI models on seemingly innocuous texts like beekeeping guides or wrestling advice can induce models to evade automated safety oversight.
Source ↗University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
UIUC Proposes ClaimNov to Reduce False Rejections in AI Science Pipelines
Researchers at UIUC developed ClaimNov, a claim-level novelty scoring framework that lowers false-rejection rates for valid incremental scientific proposals from 96% to 1.5%.
University of Oxford / Google DeepMind
Oxford and DeepMind Study Finds UBI Inadequate for AI-Driven Job Displacement
A survey of 8,234 adults across four countries indicates that universal basic income alone cannot address the psychological and social loss caused by automated job replacement.
05Other Highlights
Parameter Labs / Simon Willison
Parameter Labs Details MathLive PostMessage Account Takeover Chain in ChatGPT
Security researchers uncovered an exploit chain in ChatGPT’s preview environment that combined MathLive innerHTML injection with YouTube oEmbed reflection to execute arbitrary JavaScript.
Source ↗Cisco Talos
Cisco Talos Identifies VOLTA Malware Using Claude Opus to Appraise Stolen Credentials
Cisco Talos documented VOLTA-AUTODOXER, a Windows infostealer that routes victim credential bundles through Claude Opus via OpenRouter to rank high-value financial targets.
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