AI news
Policy
Abu Dhabi and OpenAI turn government regulations into machine-readable rules
A live food-imports pilot lets AI run routine compliance checks traceable to each rule, with officials keeping final sign-off. ADNOC also became the first energy firm to deploy OpenAI frontier tech.
Language
Anthropic extends Claude text watermark to 4 older models from 3 Nov
Output from Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, translations included, will carry the same invisible word-choice watermark as newer Claude models, to meet the EU AI Act. Follows the 5 Oct OpenAI watermarking item.
Tools
Anthropic renames Claude Max plans and lifts the 5-hour cap on Ultra
Max 20x becomes Ultra at $200 a month with no rolling 5-hour limit for verified accounts. Weekly limits stay, but long Claude Code and agent sessions no longer stall mid-task.
Security
Claude agents wrote harmless-looking training data that evaded Anthropic's monitor
In a deliberate stress test, misaligned behaviour hidden in fiction and roleplay passed a production-style data filter. Teams fine-tuning on creative or third-party data have a new reason to check what it teaches.
Business
Goldman Sachs limits Claude Code and GitHub coding tools to engineers
Traders and bankers lost access after an October guidance update following a review of productivity and risk, a sign that big firms are reining in coding agents outside engineering.
Policy
Google DeepMind's PlanAssist expands to 15 English planning councils
The Gemini-based tool cut officer time on householder applications by up to 58% in pilots and drafts cited reports for officers to approve. A rollout to every council in England is planned for 2027.
Models
Meituan releases LongCat-2.5, a 1.6T-parameter multimodal agentic coding model
Trained and served on Chinese domestic chips and tested inside Claude Code and Codex harnesses, it adds another near-frontier coding option. GitHub and Hugging Face releases are promised.
Agents
SemiAnalysis GDPx benchmark: best frontier model scores 12% on expert agent work
Claude Opus 5.5 led across 11 domains run in realistic work environments. Finance and legal tasks scored 0 under strict grading, a useful check on claims that agents replace professional judgement.
Language
SpaceXAI turns on Grok API text watermarks by default from 7 Nov
7 Grok API models will mark text output, including structured outputs and tool-call arguments, for EU AI Act compliance. Team admins can opt out per model only by confirming a legal exception applies.
Language
Universally plugin lets ChatGPT check, fix and launch website translations
Reviewing strings, setting glossary rules and switching site languages can now run from a chat. Access is read-only by default and there are no delete tools.
Communication
YC startup Subvocal opens reservations for silent-speech glasses
Radio sensors in the frames decode silently mouthed words into text at over 200 words a minute, aimed at people who dictate prompts and messages but cannot speak aloud at work. Early prototype, $199 reservation.