AI news
Business
Anthropic publishes IPO roadshow, with pricing due 18 Nov and Nasdaq trading 19 Nov
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.
Agents
AWS releases a free local emulator of its cloud, written entirely by AI 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.
Language
CD Projekt uses Respeecher AI to match Polish Geralt actor's voice after a stroke
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.
Communication
ElevenLabs adds Memory, Routines and an orchestration engine to its voice agents
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.
Policy
Finance Bill would let HMRC request AI chat histories used to work out tax
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.
Communication
Fish Audio launches Fish Agent, a no-code builder for phone voice agents
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.
Tools
Google launches Gemini Decisions API for fast yes/no, choice and scoring calls
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.
Agents
SpaceXSI releases Grok Bot 1.0, with shared Bots in Slack, Teams and video calls
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.
Language
Voice Arena benchmarks 10 dictation apps on finished drafts, Wispr Flow leads at 79%
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.