# AI news, Saturday, 7 November 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's AI news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/ai-news/2026-11-07/

## Claude adds Personal Finance beta with read-only bank links via Plaid

Tools. US Pro, Max and Ultra users can ask Claude about spending and bills from connected accounts. Access is read-only and hub chats are not used for training.

Source: Anthropic, https://claude.com/resources/articles/introducing-personal-finance-in-claude

## Cursor cloud agents build and deploy live web apps from a prompt

Agents. Cloud agents scaffold an app, provision Postgres and Cursor SSO, run security checks and publish a shareable link on paid plans. Nothing goes live without an explicit publish.

Source: Cursor, https://cursor.com/changelog/build-live-apps

## Google launches Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with 15-second video

Models. Native clips stretch to 15 seconds, multi-turn conversational edits replace full regenerations, and 720p price falls 30% to $0.07 per second. Speech and lip-sync also improve for multi-speaker scenes.

Source: Google, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemini-omni-1-2-flash/

## Hugging Face adds Egyptian and Nigerian English to Open ASR Leaderboard

Language. Private conversational splits from Liva AI (1.34h Egyptian, 1.55h Nigerian) join the leaderboard, with US vs non-US and Inner vs Outer Circle accent breakdowns to reduce benchmaxxing.

Source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/blog/open-asr-leaderboard-liva

## Meta rolls out real-time voice and expressive avatars in Muse

Communication. Consumer AI agents move from text chat to interruptible voice calls with a customisable face. Hundreds of voices ship now in the US; glasses and Charm come later.

Source: Meta, https://about.fb.com/news/2026/11/introducing-muse-ai-voice-expressive-avatars/

## METR finds Anthropic AI R&D pace roughly doubled, mostly via AI

Policy. Independent high-access review (Aug to Oct 2026) estimates about 1.9 times AECI growth since Oct 2025, with most of today's acceleration attributed to AI-assisted R&D. Anthropic redacted much of the evidence.

Source: METR, https://metr.org/blog/2026-11-05-anthropic-ai-rd-acceleration-assessment/

## OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber for scoped vulnerability research

Security. Follows the 5 Nov Linux paths-to-root disclosure. Daybreak Red customers get a Critical-rated model that stays in authorised scope while finding and validating exploits.

Source: OpenAI, https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-cyber

## Perplexity launches Teammates, persistent agents for ongoing work

Agents. Max subscribers get always-on agents that own projects, monitor changes and collaborate in Slack. Moves Perplexity from one-off queries toward delegated background work.

Source: Perplexity, https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/teammates-are-agents-for-complex-ongoing-work

## Thinking Machines Lab ships Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE model

Models. Multimodal MoE with 17B active parameters for agentic coding, vision and knowledge work is live on Tinker with closed weights. Apache 2.0 weights are planned after external safety testing.

Source: Thinking Machines Lab, https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/