Saturday, 7 November 2026
8 stories, most important first.
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Sand.ai raises $200M Series A+ to reach $1B valuation
Sand.ai, a Beijing-based AI startup focused on video generation, has completed a $200 million Series A+ funding round. This investment values the company at over $1 billion, granting it unicorn status. The round was…
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Tado AI heating system saves 18% on gas bills in two-year test
A Guardian journalist spent two years testing whether AI-powered smart heating could reduce energy costs compared to manual control. The test took place in a 1930s brick house, comparing a basic Hive thermostat with a…
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Meta improves Muse and Meta AI with Active Memory and Active Focus
Meta AI Research rolled out updated versions of Muse and Meta AI on November 6, 2026, using specialized models trained with Muse Wonder. The current Muse model now scores 47% on Meta’s Personal Superintelligence Index,…
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Buoyant releases kinference, an open source inference control plane
buoyant released kinference, an open‑source inference control plane for kubernetes that sits in front of vllm workers. the project, written in rust and licensed under apache 2.0, is available on github as…
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AMD CEO says company is data‑center first amid soaring GPU prices
AMD reported a record $13.4 billion in third‑quarter 2026 revenue, roughly 100% more than a year earlier, with 63% of the sales coming from data‑center products. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, CEO Lisa Su said the…
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WWT to secure £225m in European compute for AI startups
World Wide Technology (WWT) has announced a new initiative called InfiniteAI, aiming to secure up to £225m (US$303m) worth of computing power hosted in Europe. This six-year program is designed to support a select…
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John Langford quits Microsoft, declares AI Frontiers over
John Langford, the founder of Microsoft’s AI Frontiers research group, has left the company and declared the group dissolved. In a blog post and on X, Langford described the situation as a "train wreck" resulting from…
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Opinion: Gillian Tett argues economics and culture drive Western AI pessimism
Gillian Tett, a columnist for the Financial Times, argues that Western pessimism toward artificial intelligence stems from distinct economic, policy, and cultural factors. She notes that voter hostility toward Big Tech…
1 sourceft.com
