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OpenAI drops older voice modes from ChatGPT on 11 December. Hour caps stay

OpenAI has given ChatGPT users 31 days to get used to a single voice mode. Advanced Voice and Standard Voice leave the app on 11 December 2026, and every account falls back to GPT-Live, the full-duplex system that arrived in July. Transcripts stay. Audio clips last 30 days. The hourly caps stay as well.

What actually retires on 11 December

Two modes go at once. Standard Voice is the old turn-taking system: you speak, it waits, it answers.

November 13, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Germany's Agile Robots raises $500M to scale humanoid production

Agile Robots closed a $500m Series F at an $8.5bn valuation on November 12, 2026. SoftBank led the round; Nvidia, Hitachi Group and T.Capital joined. The Munich company says the money will fund U.S. expansion and scale manufacturing in Germany, including a facility near Munich with capacity for 10,000 legged and wheeled humanoid robots a year.
November 12, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Uber booked four rides through AI agents despite massive weekly volume

Uber said it handled roughly 320 million trips and orders during Halloween week. Four of those rides went through an AI agent. Five hundred Uber Eats orders did too. That is the measured distance between the agent talk on travel earnings calls and what customers actually did with their phones.

Four rides out of 320 million

The numbers come from the companies themselves. Uber said on its Q3 earnings call that it handled roughly 320 million trips and orders during Halloween week, including four rides booked through AI agents and 500 Eats orders.

November 12, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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First Time in 13 Years, G20 Talks Have No Seat for Civil Society

The Civil 20 was created in 2013 to give non-governmental organisations a formal voice in G20 talks. In 2026, for the first time since then, it does not exist. The European Commission says it has told the G20 presidency, in writing, that this is a loss.

For thirteen years, a seat in the G20 process was reserved for organisations that sell nothing: consumer groups, digital rights advocates, researchers, environmental NGOs. This year only one engagement group survived, and it represents business.

November 11, 2026 Miriam Česáková
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Capital Markets Want AI Agents, but MiFID II and AI Act Set the Terms

A sponsored Harvard Business Review piece published on 10 November 2026, produced with AWS and Moody's, makes a narrow argument: capital markets have stopped asking whether AI agents work in demos and started asking how to keep them inside an audit trail. The HBR summary does not publish performance numbers. Its claim is narrower: Moody's positions institutional data and risk analytics as the layer that makes agent output checkable and auditable. For a European bank the notable part is not the demo.
November 11, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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META-IR trains LLMs to audit their own reasoning for safety

A new arXiv preprint proposes META-IR, a safety framework that trains large language models to inspect their own intermediate reasoning for policy violations and adjust their risk checks when a jailbreak attempt changes shape. The paper is free to read. It is also not a compliance certificate for European deployers, who since 2 August 2026 face binding Article 50 transparency duties, including disclosure of AI-generated content and machine-readable marking.

META-IR stands for Meta-Introspective Reasoning for Adaptive Safety Alignment in LLM.

November 10, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Brussels' 2027 tech plan: the files and dates UK suppliers are watching

A UK trade body has picked out the one file in Brussels' 2027 Work Programme that decides whether non-EU companies can keep selling cloud and AI services to European public bodies — and it wants the question settled at the UK–EU summit on 20 November 2026. techUK's reading of the programme, published on 9 November, warns that British suppliers risk being treated as third-country providers under the coming Cloud and AI Development Act unless a mutual access arrangement exists.
November 10, 2026 Miriam Česáková
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Walmart gives AI shopping agents a capped wallet, Amazon blocks them outright

Meta's Muse reached more than 10 million users in the United States within six weeks of its September launch, according to Forbes. The most popular task people give it is buying things. A basket in the low hundreds of dollars is the working illustration here — not a measured average. That is where retail splits in two. Walmart lets outside agents in, but only into an isolated profile with a spending cap and a human approval step. Amazon blocks them. JPMorgan says no external agent touches a customer account at all.
November 9, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Your iPhone can query a 26B model on your own PC, with no router setup

A 26-billion-parameter model now answers questions typed into an iPhone while the GPU that runs it sits in another room. LM Studio's LM Link pairs the two without port forwarding, VPNs or router changes. The app is free. The desktop has to stay switched on.

What LM Link connects

LM Studio is a desktop application for downloading and running open-weight models on your own hardware.

November 9, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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As the AI trade cools, BCA tips European stocks over Wall Street

The Nasdaq fell 6.4% in one session and ended more than 10% below its recent peak. Wall Street's VIX volatility index rose over 40% in a week to above 28, its highest level since late March. In that same stretch, BCA Research, the independent macro research house, told clients to move money out of US equities and into Europe. The note is a house view. The advice is about portfolios. It also touches pension savers, gas bills and the price of running an AI tool in a European office.
November 8, 2026 Miriam Česáková
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GitHub's agentic playbook lands as PR review time climbs 441%

GitHub has published a developer guide that splits AI-assisted software work into four phases: plan, build, verify and observe. It appeared in November 2026, and it reads more like a reply to a measurement than a product announcement. In the Faros AI 2026 report, telemetry covering 22,000 developers across more than 4,000 teams shows median time spent in pull request review rose 441% as organisations moved from low to high AI adoption.
November 8, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Ukraine's EU Path: Commission Flags Single-Bidder Tenders and Empty Court Seats

More than seven in ten Ukrainian state tenders are won by a single bidder. State auditors found violations in 63% of the public procurement audits they carried out. Both figures appear in the European Commission's 2026 enlargement package, adopted on 4 November, next to 2,505 unfilled judgeships and a state-funded television marathon.

The package is the Commission's yearly account of how far each candidate country has travelled toward membership.

November 7, 2026 Miriam Česáková
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Amazon Tests SMS Shopping Agent in the US, Sponsored Ads Included

Amazon has started texting US shoppers. An invite-only group can message a contact called "Alexa Shopping" to reorder a repeat purchase, send a photo of ingredients and ask what can be made from them, or set a trigger that buys when the price drops. Sponsored products appear inside those answers. Europe is not on the list.

How the text agent works

Opted-in customers get a contact saved as Alexa Shopping in their messaging app.

November 7, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Brussels plans a pilot AI literacy certificate for 15-year-olds

One in three EU 15-year-olds does not reach the basic level in mathematics. In reading it is nearly as many, and four in ten pupils sit in schools where teacher shortages limit instruction. Those figures from the first PISA 2025 report, published in September 2026, framed the European Commission's education package on 5 November, which arrived with new guidance for schools on artificial intelligence.

What the guidance contains

The document is written for primary and secondary teachers.

November 6, 2026 Miriam Česáková
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Safety tuning often costs reasoning models accuracy. A 671B test says it needn't

A reasoning model that has been through safety training often gets worse at maths. Researchers in China argue the trade-off comes from training design, not from the nature of alignment. Their framework, SAVeR2, went up on arXiv on 5 November 2026 and was tested on models from 1.5B parameters up to 671B.

What the "safety tax" actually is

Refusal training works by rewarding the model when it declines a harmful request.

November 6, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Capgemini to lead EU consortium stress-testing advanced AI models

Capgemini has been selected to lead a European Commission consortium for AI safety and cyber risk assessment of advanced AI models, announced through GlobeNewswire on 5 November 2026. It is a procurement story, not a product launch, and it puts independent testing of frontier systems on a budget line instead of a conference panel. The one price we could verify at publication puts a 50,000-prompt test campaign at $3,375; without attributable list prices for the other models, that figure stands alone rather than as a cross-provider spread.
November 5, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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ChatGPT now builds looping animated GIFs with frame-by-frame controls

ChatGPT can now build a looping animated GIF from a text prompt or an uploaded photo. OpenAI's Images 2.6 model was announced on 4 November, runs on web, desktop and mobile, and lets you adjust animation speed and step through frames inside the chat window.

What Images 2.6 adds over Images 2.5

Before this week, a ChatGPT user who wanted motion had to generate a sequence of stills and stitch them together in another program.
November 5, 2026 Daniel Cesak
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Brussels puts AI copyright on its 2027 agenda, with fewer new rules overall

On 4 November the European Commission published its work programme for 2027. Among the initiatives it lists is a package on digital transformation, simplification and copyright, scheduled for the second quarter of next year. For anyone who draws, writes, photographs or codes for a living, that file will matter more than most of this autumn's AI announcements.

The Commission's work programme is a planning document, not a law. It tells you what the executive intends to put on the table and roughly when.

November 4, 2026 Miriam Česáková
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AI cuts powder-coating cure time by up to 77% after rapid fitting

A study published in October 2026 in the Journal of Coatings Technology and Research combines a tabular transformer with a genetic algorithm to set catalytic infrared curing parameters and reports a mean relative error of 8.10% or better across five measured properties. The paper reports that catalytic infrared schedules cut curing cycles by 47% to 77% against conventional hot-air curing. The speed is not the difficult part. Knowing which lamp distance, radiation intensity and dwell time keep gloss, colour and adhesion where the customer wants them is.
November 4, 2026 Daniel Cesak

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