AI Daily Insights No. 97 · November 9, 2026

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IT之家, citing Bloomberg, says Apple may launch a more agent-like Siri as soon as next year

IT之家, citing Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, says Apple is planning to launch a more autonomous, agent-style Siri as early as next year. The report says the assistant would move beyond simple command-and-response behavior and proactively manage tasks on a user’s behalf. Gurman frames the shift as Apple’s attempt to catch up with systems such as ChatGPT, Meta Muse and Grok, which can keep pursuing goals without each step being initiated by the user. IT之家 also says Apple is under pressure internally to accelerate AI work.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗The Verge AI ↗ #Apple#Siri

According to the Financial Times, Anthropic takes over a $3.4 billion gas generator order

According to the Financial Times, Anthropic in late September spent $3.4 billion to take over a heavy gas-generator order from OnePWR Solutions in San Antonio, Texas, with total capacity of 1.7 GW. The report says it is the largest power-equipment purchase yet known for an AI company. As turbine and generator lead times stretch, Anthropic chose to bypass intermediaries and secure power capacity directly, with some units due soon and the rest over the next two years.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗ #Anthropic

According to The Verge AI, METR says Anthropic’s AI is accelerating its own R&D

According to The Verge AI, AI safety research group METR found after an 11-week investigation that Anthropic’s models are improving roughly twice as fast as a year ago, amounting to about two years of historical progress in the last year. The report says Anthropic employees using its most capable internal model self-reported about a 12x productivity boost, and METR concluded most of the acceleration “is due to AI” rather than just more compute. METR also said Anthropic heavily redacted the public version of the report.

AI-generated Reported The Verge AI ↗ #Anthropic#METR

GitHub Copilot updates code review API and review overview

GitHub Copilot said on the GitHub Blog that code review settings can now be managed through the REST and GraphQL APIs, from enterprise policy down to individual repositories. The update adds explicit attribution fields, review-effort metadata and source details for skills, MCP servers and custom instructions. It also makes the review overview more compact and includes fixes for billing, automatic retries and reliability. The changes are available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.

AI-generated Released GitHub Copilot ↗ #GitHub Copilot

TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, says OpenAI has raised $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation

According to TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, OpenAI has raised $11 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $1.25 trillion. The round is still open and is expected to close in the coming weeks, with a source telling Bloomberg it could total about $20 billion. In late September, Bloomberg said OpenAI was seeking $30 billion in the round, a target the current figures fall well short of. TechCrunch said it reached out to OpenAI for comment and will update the story if the company responds.

AI-generated Reported TechCrunch ↗The Verge AI ↗ #OpenAI

GitHub adds Copilot Chat and VS Code agent usage to impact dashboard

GitHub said on the GitHub Blog that the Copilot impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code Agents window in its Agent adoption chart, giving visibility across nine Copilot experiences. It also renamed the “Passive users” cohort to “Chat-first users” to better describe people who mainly use chat but have not reached the adoption stage. The same two features are now included in enterprise and organization 28-day usage reports, while adoption phases and cohort size remain unchanged.

AI-generated Released GitHub Copilot ↗ #Microsoft

GitHub Copilot weekly release adds JetBrains Air and Xcode support

GitHub’s November 2 Copilot weekly release says Copilot is now available in JetBrains Air and in Xcode’s built-in coding assistant. The Xcode integration is in public preview and available starting with Xcode 27.3 beta. The update also lets users set up Agent Merge directly from pull requests, check reviewer status, request more reviews, quote comment text, and keep working when a chat hits its context limit. GitHub says it also streamlined session management, settings, and remote-task features in VS Code.

AI-generated Released GitHub Copilot ↗ #GitHub Copilot#Xcode#JetBrains Air

TechCrunch reports Censys found 800+ publicly exposed Artex instances

According to TechCrunch, cybersecurity firm Censys found more than 800 Artex deployments that were reachable from the public internet, even though the Chinese-made open-source AI penetration-testing tool does not need to be internet-facing. The blog post says Artex has been linked to several attacks since its July release, and that exposed systems can reveal implants and other attack data. Censys researcher Silas Cutler said many installations are used for authorized testing, but misconfigurations can leave them open to misuse.

AI-generated Reported TechCrunch ↗Techmeme ↗ #Cybersecurity#Censys#Artex

According to TechCrunch, Meta adds Spaces for Muse collaboration

According to TechCrunch, Meta has launched Spaces for Muse agents, a new sidebar-based way for users to create separate collaboration spaces around projects such as trip planning, recipe collection or event tracking. Meta says a Space can be built from a chat prompt and can stay updated with third-party apps in the background so new dates, prices or progress appear automatically. Mark Zuckerberg also posted examples on X, including a BBQ game, an event tracker and a home control dashboard.

AI-generated Released TechCrunch ↗ #Meta#Muse

AWS adds NVIDIA MIG GPU partitioning to SageMaker Inference

AWS announced on its official blog that SageMaker Inference now supports NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU partitioning. The feature lets a physical GPU be divided into isolated partitions with dedicated compute and memory, so more models can share one endpoint and teams can choose a better-sized slice instead of a whole accelerator. AWS said the capability works with inference components, while single-model, serverless, and heterogeneous instance pool endpoints are not supported. Salesforce has helped define requirements and validate the initial implementation.

AI-generated Released AWS Machine Learning ↗ #Nvidia#Amazon#Salesforce