AI Daily Insights No. 102 · November 14, 2026

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TechCrunch reports a growing graveyard of AI products and bets

TechCrunch reports that S&P Global Market Intelligence estimates about 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their corporate parents. The article highlights OpenAI’s short-lived attempt to turn ChatGPT into a broader “super app”: on July 9 it combined Chat, Codex and Work modes, renamed the familiar version ChatGPT Classic, then rolled the redesign back after users said the interface was confusing and cluttered. It also notes that ChatGPT Atlas was discontinued on August 9 and Sora shut down in March 2026.

AI-generated Reported TechCrunch ↗ #OpenAI#Apple#Rabbit

IT之家: Meta’s AI agent Muse opens call-making feature for premium subscribers

Meta has opened Muse’s phone-calling feature to subscribers on its highest-tier Meta AI plan, with pricing starting at $19.99 per month. The AI agent can contact U.S. businesses on a user’s behalf for tasks such as insurance, cable service, DMV appointments, and restaurant reservations. Muse uses synthetic voice to speak with staff, but the feature does not always work; some calls end when employees realize they are talking to AI and hang up.

AI-generated Released IT之家 ↗ #Meta#Muse

IT之家 reports Huada Jiutian-backed HyperS2C formed by combining Yake Hongyu and S2C

According to IT之家, Huada Jiutian and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Sci-Tech Innovation Industry Investment Fund held a launch event at IC China on Nov. 14 for a domestic digital front-end EDA platform. The report says Yake Hongyu and S2C have completed a merger and restructuring, creating the new company HyperS2C. It says the combined business holds 205 patents and 200 software copyrights, serves more than 800 customers worldwide, and covers the full digital front-end flow from architecture design to system-level verification.

AI-generated Announced IT之家 ↗ #华大九天#思尔芯#亚科鸿禹

IT之家: Meta says Quest in-app purchases have overtaken paid app sales

According to IT之家, Meta said that from January to September 2026, in-app purchases on the Quest platform surpassed paid app sales and became the largest revenue source for the Meta Horizon Store. UploadVR said the shift reflects how free social games and microtransaction-driven titles are increasingly dominating the Quest ecosystem. The report also noted that Meta has recently spun off most of its first-party paid game studios, even though it remains the biggest financial supporter of VR gaming.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗ #Meta

According to IT之家, Cursor reports results of investigation into malicious Anthropic Claude Code extension copy

According to IT之家, Cursor said that after a two-week investigation it found a malicious, unauthorized copy of the Anthropic Claude Code extension in its VS Code extension marketplace on October 29. The company said most customers were unaffected, with at most 5,000 users impacted. For users who did not use privacy mode, fewer than 0.05% had programming-agent trace data exposed. Cursor said it has directly notified affected customers and will keep strengthening security.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗ #Anthropic#Cursor#Claude Code

IT之家 reports Cloudflare open-sources Kitesurf browser for AI agents

According to IT之家, Cloudflare said on Nov. 13 that it was open-sourcing Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents. Kitesurf runs on Cloudflare Workers and can parse HTML, apply CSS, execute page JavaScript and render screenshots without relying on a traditional browser container. It supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol and does not depend on any Chromium process or container. Cloudflare says the design focuses on token use, context window size, scalability, performance and cost rather than human-oriented browser features.

AI-generated Released IT之家 ↗ #Cloudflare#Kitesurf

IT之家 reports Huawei details new Malu GPU and AI ISP in Kirin 9050 series

According to IT之家 on November 14, Huawei has continued to reveal more specifications for the Kirin 9050 series τ chip, focusing on its new-generation Malu GPU and Kirin AI ISP. The company says the GPU uses a fourth-generation architecture, lifts performance by 40% and cuts power use by 45%. It also supports second-generation hardware ray tracing with a 78% performance gain. The AI ISP pairs a pixel-specific NPU with a general NPU and enables 4K60 real-time video processing and 200-megapixel fusion photography.

AI-generated Technical overview IT之家 ↗ #Huawei#麒麟 9050 系列#马良 GPU

According to IT之家 and The Elec, Intel launches K-AI Full-Stack Alliance with 23 Korean firms and shows D270 chip

According to IT之家, citing The Elec, Intel announced the K-AI Full-Stack Alliance on November 12 at its 2026 AI Summit in Seoul, bringing together 23 Korean companies. The group is led by Intel and spans hardware, software, vertical AI solutions, and services, with the goal of building a sovereign and open AI infrastructure ecosystem for Korea. Intel also displayed the D270, a physical chip from its next-generation GPU D series for data-center inference, saying it delivers up to 26,200 TFLOPS of FP4 performance at 350 watts.

AI-generated Announced IT之家 ↗ #Intel#K-AI 全栈联盟#FuriosaAI

IT之家 reports Musk says Cybercab subscription should be about $115 a month

According to IT之家 on Nov. 14, Elon Musk responded on X to criticism over Cybercab’s $299 monthly Autonomy Subscription, saying the price should be closer to $115. The same report says Tesla has opened Cybercab orders to some individual buyers, with a starting price of $29,990 and first deliveries expected in December. Buyers must also add the subscription, which is currently free for one month only. Musk said the service would roll out nationwide after regulatory approval.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗ #Tesla#Cybercab

IT之家 reports Tsinghua team’s ProtCell single-cell proteomics foundation model and its MTT S5000 reproduction

According to IT之家, a research team from Tsinghua University’s Department of Automation has unveiled ProtCell, a foundation model for single-cell proteomics, alongside the paper “ProtCell: a foundation model for single-cell proteomics.” The model was trained and evaluated on about 380 million cells from 98 public datasets. The paper says ProtCell can map cell states and infer unmeasured protein expression. It also reports a full pretraining reproduction on Moore Threads’ MTT S5000 AI card, with key metrics differing by about 0.2% from mainstream GPU platforms.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗ #Moore Threads#ProtCell#清华大学