# AI news, Friday, 13 November 2026

Compiled by Richard Brooks's AI news desk. Canonical: https://richard-brooks.com/ai-news/2026-11-13/

## Anthropic publishes IPO roadshow, with pricing due 18 Nov and Nasdaq trading 19 Nov

Business. Q3 2026 revenue was $17.0bn, up more than 12 times year on year, with a $23.3bn net loss mostly from non-cash charges. Claude buyers will get quarterly public accounts on their supplier. Follows the 26 Oct S-1 filing.

Source: Anthropic, https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/

## AWS releases a free local emulator of its cloud, written entirely by AI agents

Agents. Developers and coding agents can test against 200+ AWS services offline at no cost, under a CC0 licence. AWS says no human wrote or reviewed the code, which relies on agent teams gated by automated tests.

Source: AWS, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/test-your-applications-against-aws-locally-with-aws-emulator/

## CD Projekt uses Respeecher AI to match Polish Geralt actor's voice after a stroke

Language. The actor recorded every line and consented, and AI only aligned his changed voice with the 2015 original. It is a consent-led case for voice AI in localisation that dubbing buyers and voice actors will cite.

Source: Game File, https://www.gamefile.news/p/witcher-3-jacek-rozenek-voice-ai-cd-projekt-respeecher

## ElevenLabs adds Memory, Routines and an orchestration engine to its voice agents

Communication. Agents will remember returning customers and handle follow-up work such as call-backs, and a new ElevenAI app takes meeting notes and dictation. Most features are previews without dates or pricing. Follows the 11 Nov Scribe v3 release.

Source: ElevenLabs, https://elevenlabs.io/blog/nyc-summit

## Finance Bill would let HMRC request AI chat histories used to work out tax

Policy. Requests need an existing lawful basis, with fines from £300 to £3,000. Self-employed people, landlords and small firms using chatbots for tax figures should treat those chats as records. Takes effect after Royal Assent.

Source: The i Paper, https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/rule-hmrc-snoop-taxpayers-ai-chat-history-4890354

## Fish Audio launches Fish Agent, a no-code builder for phone voice agents

Communication. Agents are described in plain text, get a phone number and run on the Live 3 full-duplex voice model. Small firms can set up a receptionist or support line without developers. Follows the 11 Nov Live 3 release.

Source: Fish Audio (@FishAudio on X), https://x.com/FishAudio/status/2120924589429522457

## Google launches Gemini Decisions API for fast yes/no, choice and scoring calls

Tools. One request scores up to 1,000 questions over text, images, audio, video or PDFs at $0.10 per 1m input tokens, with no output charge. It makes routing, policy checks and triage inside agents cheaper and faster.

Source: Google, https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/

## SpaceXSI releases Grok Bot 1.0, with shared Bots in Slack, Teams and video calls

Agents. Bots can be shared across a team, join Meet, Zoom or Teams calls through the chat and offer to pick up unfinished work. Team Bots need Team or Enterprise plans, and meetings also run on Ultra.

Source: SpaceXSI, https://x.ai/news/grok-bot-1-0

## Voice Arena benchmarks 10 dictation apps on finished drafts, Wispr Flow leads at 79%

Language. The test scores the drafts real apps produce, not the speech models underneath, with Apple Dictation at 35%. Buyers choosing a dictation tool now have an open baseline, though it covers US English on macOS only.

Source: Shobhit Banga (X), https://x.com/shobhitbanga/status/2120527865947234622