Tech news, November 13, 2026

November 9 - November 13 Bringing conversational analytics to Gemini with Data Cloud connectors: Data Cloud connectors in Gemini are now in preview, enabling knowledge workers to…

Ryan sits down with Jeff Wang, co-founder at EXA, to talk about the huge scale required to support trillions of agentic searches, the technical complexities of building custom emb…

Anthropic ships its Claude Desktop beta for Linux only as a.deb.

Due to an ongoing Microsoft 365 service outage, merchants using custom SMTP with Microsoft 365 may experience delayed or failed email notifications.

A worldwide Microsoft 365 outage is having a severe impact on companies that rely on services like Outlook, Sharepoint, and Teams.

Replacement: gemini-3.8-flash.

From major launches to real-world demos, CoreWeave’s GTC 2026 recap explores the industry shifts shaping how AI is built, run, and improved in production.

Unlock the performance of NVIDIA HGX B300 at scale on CoreWeave.

Vercel Daemons can now send OpenTelemetry traces to Vercel Tracing, allowing you and your agents to inspect background worker operations alongside the rest of your project's trace…

In June, we announced the general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents.

Among OpenSearch query types, span queries give you precise control over where terms appear in a document and how they relate to one another.

An Amazon Aurora MySQL cluster can exhaust its virtual index ID limit, after which any CREATE INDEX that includes a virtual column fails with error 63955 until you rebuild the dat…

RDS Proxy multiplexes many client connections across a small pool of database connections, but connection pinning, pool fragmentation, and uncommitted transactions can silently di…

Metrics alone can't always pinpoint what is reducing RDS Proxy multiplexing for PostgreSQL.

AWS Cloud WAN Flow Logs capture flow-level traffic across your global network.

It’s not every day our browser begins a life on a whole new platform.

Python UDFs in PySpark can be slow because data is serialized between the JVM and the Python runtime.

Snowflake is named a Leader in the inaugural Magic Quadrant for Data Lakehouse Platforms report by Gartner.

Education Innovation

We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on December 14, 2026…

This year's Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26) will reaffirm multistakeholderism or extend intergovernmental authority over the Internet.

Claim your Google Cloud Credits in Google AI Studio

Learn how Thermo Fisher Scientific built an AI-powered patient-matching platform on AWS, modernizing its clinical trial recruitment data foundation and using AWS Countdown Premium…

Kitesurf, our experimental browser engine for AI agents, is now open source.

Which parts of the creative process can AI do for us—and which do we insist on keeping for ourselves?

Azure Data Share will retire on November 12, 2029.

Recraft V4.1 Flash V2 is a text-to-image model from Recraft, an updated version of [Recraft V4.1 Flash](/recraft/recraft-v4.1-flash) in the speed tier of the V4.1 family.

HY-World 2.1 Panorama is a 360-degree panorama generation model from Tencent, part of the Hunyuan World family.

New open weights from inclusionAI (Ant Group) on the Hugging Face Hub.

HeyGen Decision 1 Turbo is a lower-cost variant of [HeyGen Decision 1](/heygen/heygen-decision-1) from HeyGen, with the same question types (`noul`, `choice`, and `score`) over te…

HeyGen Decision 1 is a decision model from HeyGen.

SCKit abuses ScreenConnect to deploy unauthorized remote access and target technicians.

Bulletin ID: HCSEC-2026-60 Affected Products / Versions: cap/jwt up to 0.13.0; fixed in 0.14.0.

AI-enabled penetration testing and red team frameworks can automate and chain reconnaissance, vulnerability testing, and follow-on actions, lowering the skill threshold for attack…

On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced the availability of fixes for multiple vulnerabilities across the following supported release lines: 22.x, 24.x, and 26.x.  These vulne…

From Oct.

Bulletin ID: HCSEC-2026-59 Affected Products / Versions: Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.10.0 up to 2.2.1; fixed in Vault 2.2.2 and Vault Enterprise 2.2.2, 1.21.14, and 1.19.26.

Bulletin ID: HCSEC-2026-58 Affected Products / Versions: Vault and Vault Enterprise up to 2.2.1; fixed in Vault 2.2.2 and Vault Enterprise 2.2.2, 1.21.14, and 1.19.25.

Between October 17 and October 20, 2026, a critical security compromise involving Certificate Authorities that are managed by  eMudhra was uncovered.

The Dev channel has been updated to 160.0.8157.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

GS Caltex connects Amazon SageMaker Canvas to Amazon SageMaker Pipelines so process engineers' no-code models run in production.

Coding agents work in tasks, and the number that matters is cost per solved task, not price per token.

Many scientific simulations, from molecular chemistry to materials science, spend the majority of their execution time computing high-precision dense general...

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime V2 snapshots your initialized environment and restores it for each new session, so session start no longer grows with image size.

Deploy OpenFold3-preview from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to predict 3D structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and ligand complexes in your own AWS account.

Resilience is foundational to keeping what you build on AWS running.

Imaging black holes is challenging because they are distant and appear tiny in the sky—for example, M87*’s observed ring spans just 42 microarcseconds.

Learn how AssemblyAI runs cost-optimized speech-to-text inference at scale on AWS, using Amazon ECS, Amazon EC2 Spot GPU instances, and an Amazon SQS-based retry architecture to a…

AI applications at the edge often need to run multiple neural networks within limited compute and power budgets.

Amazon Bedrock provides built-in, zero-instrumentation cost attribution that traces every inference call back to the IAM principal that made it.

AI Now's Aya Ibrahim joins Lawfare Contributing Editor and host of the Security Economics podcast Peter Harrell to talk about AI regulation and U.S.-China policy.

More than 60,000 engineers, developers, and business leaders will soon gather in Las Vegas, NV, for Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent November 30-December 4, 2026.

Engineers rarely validate more than a handful of designs because each physics-based simulation can take days to months.

AI agents are only as useful as the business data and processes they can reach.

The AI Now Institute has released a statement outlining concerns with the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), which serves as a backdoor bailout of the AI indu…

The system asks humans for feedback to increase trust in machine-generated designs for buildings and bridges.

Climate change is the issue.

Why I now expect superintelligence by 2030

The best Stratechery content from the week of November 9, 2026, including the shocking demise of Jensen Huang; enterprise, consumer and Intel; and professional basketbal.

Remove the need to have to type out the name of the helper.

Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of Nvidia and left its board.

This essay is adapted from a keynote speech delivered at the DEF CON 34 conference in Las Vegas on August 7, 2026.

Providing Accuracy Guarantees for the Fixed-Point Emulation of Matrix Multiplication Fixed-point methods such as Ozaki-II emulate double-precision matrix multiplication (GEMM) on…

In recommender systems, user feedback typically follows a long-tail distribution, which leads many recommendation algorithms to exacerbate popularity bias by disproportionately fa…

Multi-modal Recommender System (MRS) has emerged as a key information retrieval technology, widely adopted to enhance various web platforms.

Recommendation throughout the cold-start period remains a challenge in recommender systems.

The conversational recommendation system (CRS) breaks the limitations of traditional static methods, presenting a novel framework for personalized recommendations with real-time a…

The rapid growth of long-form documents presents a fundamental challenge to information retrieval (IR).

Large Language Models (LLMs) are extensively used for many Natural Language Processing tasks such as question answering, natural language inference, document summarization, etc.

As modern NVMe SSDs become increasingly capable of in-device computation, workloads such as SQL filtering and key-value store operations are now being offloaded from the host to t…

The rapid development of domain-specific deep neural network (DNN) accelerators, particularly spatial architectures such as systolic arrays, has become essential for improving pow…