# AI news, Wednesday, 11 November 2026

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

## AirCaps A5S Async v1 tops independent benchmark for who-said-what transcription

Language. It ranked first of 15 systems on VoiceArena's Diarization-Bench, covers 9 languages and costs $0.18 per audio hour. Meeting notes, interview transcripts and subtitles depend on getting the speaker right, not only the words.

Source: AirCaps, https://aircaps.ai/models/a5s-async

## Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at lower prices

Models. Up to 30% faster and down to $8 per million input tokens and $40 output, with about 55% fewer unnecessary safety blocks. Anthropic still advises Opus 5.5 for everyday work. Follows the 2 Sep Fable 5.1 release.

Source: Anthropic, https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-2

## Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2.5, rolling out to robotics partners

Models. An Apptronik humanoid running it hit a 96% success rate sorting parts on Mercedes-Benz lines in Hungary and Germany. DeepMind also open-sourced ASIMOV-Jailbreak, a benchmark for disguised unsafe robot instructions.

Source: Google DeepMind, https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-5-accelerates-real-world-physical-intelligence/

## Google makes Gemini 4 Carbon available to developers, businesses and Ultra users

Models. Follows the 28 Oct preview for cyber defenders only. API pricing is $2 and $10 per million tokens until 30 Nov, then $4 and $20, and a /swarm preview in Antigravity runs teams of agents from one prompt.

Source: Google, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-carbon-now-available/

## Meta launches Muse Ember, a low-cost model for high-volume agent work

Models. At $0.10 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context, it matches Claude Haiku 5.5 on Artificial Analysis at about a third of the cost. Built to run repeated subtasks while a larger model plans.

Source: Meta, https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-ember

## Nuance Labs launches Emma, a video AI persona that listens and talks at once

Communication. Built on its Nuplex full-duplex model, Emma nods and reacts mid-sentence, and a beta API lets developers brief their own personas. English only, with watermarks and no cloning, and available in the UK and EU.

Source: Nuance Labs, https://home.nuancelabs.ai/research/meet-emma-the-first-nuplex-persona

## Zyphra releases ZONOS3-Mini, an open voice-cloning TTS model that runs on phones

Language. Apache 2.0 weights clone a voice and steer accent, emotion and pace word by word, in real time in a phone browser. Cheap on-device cloned speech helps dubbing and voice teams and sharpens consent questions.

Source: Zyphra, https://www.zyphra.com/our-work/zonos3-mini