AI Daily Insights No. 97 · November 9, 2026

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IT Home says Alibaba Cloud raises Token Plan quotas and cuts Pro pricing

According to IT Home on November 9, Alibaba Cloud announced a broad update to its Token Plan personal subscription tiers. Lite, Essential and Standard keep the same monthly prices at 39 yuan, 79 yuan and 139 yuan, while their monthly credits rise to 20,000, 45,000 and 80,000. The Pro plan increases its allowance to 200,000 credits from 180,000 and cuts the fee to 312 yuan from 499 yuan. The report says the new quotas start rolling out the same day for existing and new subscribers.

AI-generated Announced IT之家 ↗ #Alibaba Cloud

IT Home reports Honor 700 series will get an AI smart rear display

According to IT Home on Nov. 9, Honor terminal product line president Fang Fei said the Honor 700 series will feature an AI smart rear display across the lineup, calling it the biggest exterior upgrade in the digital series so far. The report says the rear screen can switch content, show personalized themes and support rear-camera selfies, AI interactions, heart-rate and blood-oxygen checks, plus flight reminders. Honor also highlighted a floating-glass design and said the phone is 7.96mm thick while still housing the largest battery in its class.

AI-generated Announced IT之家 ↗ #Honor#Honor 700 series

NVIDIA expands sovereign AI collaboration with Korea’s MSIT

NVIDIA announced an expanded collaboration with Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT across the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem, spanning AI semiconductors, data center infrastructure, talent, models, agents and security. Under Korea’s AI for All initiative, NVIDIA will work with three selected consortia and four leading foundation model builders, using NVIDIA Dynamo to optimize and scale inference. NVIDIA also announced a separate collaboration with SK Telecom and Rebellions, supported by MSIT, to advance sovereign AI infrastructure with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion.

AI-generated Announced NVIDIA ↗ #Nvidia

MIT News AI reports WorldParticle unifies physics simulation with one AI model

According to MIT News AI, researchers at MIT, the University of British Columbia and other institutions have built WorldParticle, a deep-learning system that can simulate diverse physical processes with one architecture. The model represents matter as particles and predicts their next positions and properties step by step, while accounting for external forces and generalizing to unseen materials and conditions. The team says it outperformed numerical methods on six phenomena and modeled protein dynamics about 100 times faster. The paper will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia.

AI-generated Technical overview MIT News AI ↗ #WorldParticle#MIT#University of British Columbia

According to IT之家, Anthropic study says scientists use Claude most for analysis and writing

According to IT之家, Anthropic released a research report based on 207,000 research sessions from Aug. 2 to Sept. 30, 2026. The study found that scientists use Claude mainly for data analysis and writing, while data collection, research ideation, and hypothesis generation are less common. Users in computer science, math, and statistics were more active, and Claude Code was even more concentrated in quantitative research. Anthropic also surveyed 528 scientists, and the results broadly matched the session data.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗ #Anthropic#Claude

IT之家 says Nvidia confirms Jensen Huang will remain CEO

According to IT之家, Nvidia spokesperson publicly confirmed on Nov. 8 local time that Jensen Huang will remain chief executive without interruption and that the episode will not affect the company’s normal operating pace. The report follows Huang’s open letter to employees earlier that day, in which he acknowledged an affair and apologized for the harm caused to his wife and children. IT之家 also said CNBC reported President Donald Trump called Huang a good person and voiced support for him staying on as CEO.

AI-generated Reported IT之家 ↗ #Nvidia

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 Verge AI, Nvidia board opens independent probe into Jensen Huang

According to The Verge AI, Nvidia’s board has launched an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang and his relationship with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang. The board said the review, overseen by independent directors with outside counsel, follows recent reporting that Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. Nvidia said it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised, and Huang has pledged to cooperate. The board said it will provide further updates as appropriate.

AI-generated Announced The Verge AI ↗TechCrunch ↗ #Nvidia#Megaspeed

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

The Verge reports NYT Cooking has added an AI recipe assistant

According to The Verge, NYT Cooking has added an AI assistant for subscribers on iOS, letting users customize recipes from a recipe page with substitutions, scaling, and measurement conversions. The tool keeps the original recipe intact and generates a separate adapted version, which the reporter found useful for everyday cooking. The New York Times later clarified that Genevieve Ko’s article was not a product announcement, and that the feature had only been mentioned unofficially on a help page.

AI-generated Released The Verge AI ↗ #NYT Cooking#The New York Times