November 11, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 4 min readClaude Fable 5.2 released — 20% cheaper, but it trails Opus 5.5 on one independent test
Price — input 10 to 8 dollars, output 50 to 40 dollars per million tokens; output up to 30% faster
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Economy · 5 min readUS October CPI rises 0.4% — why a 0.3% core reading put a half-point Fed hike on the table
The numbers — headline +0.4% (forecast 0.3%), core +0.3% (forecast 0.2%); core has now risen 0.3% in August, September and October
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Tech · 5 min readAnthropic IPO price range set at $70 to $78 — the $69.3 billion version sent to banks was pulled
Filed terms — 825 million shares at $70 to $78, raising $57.75 billion to $64.35 billion (November 10 filing)
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Tech · 5 min readAustralia AI safety regulator — 145 days after OpenAI breach, no fine amounts yet
The plan — a new AI safety regulator enforcing six obligations on frontier AI developers; all 18 review recommendations accepted
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Tech · 6 min readFireworks AI breach widens — Notion AI chats exposed in under 1% of workspaces
The path — cloud provider compromised October 23; Fireworks development machines reached and detected October 24
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Tech · 5 min readMeta Muse Ember matches Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 — but costs a third as much per task
Launch — November 9, 2026 (US time), model ID muse-ember-1.0, fourth Muse model, 1M-token context and up to 512K output tokens
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Tech · 7 min readGoogle TPU 8tx and 8i Max explained — one adds confidential computing to the 8t, the other packs two 8i chips together
8tx — same silicon as the 8t plus 5th Gen AMD EPYC hosts, built for confidential computing
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Tech · 6 min readNovember 2026 Patch Tuesday — why a 6.5-rated Outlook zero-day, CVE-2026-124194, comes first among 1,094 fixes
Size — about 1,094 flaws (SecurityWeek); Tenable counts 1,093, BleepingComputer 1,235 with Edge
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Tech · 5 min readOpenAI Control Room — a 35-second stop after a 2.5-hour one, and it does not cover ChatGPT
How — every job gets an ID, engines check it on each request, and a stopped ID is refused on any model, any engine
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Economy · 8 min readWhat is GPU-backed debt — loans secured by AI chips and rental contracts, priced anywhere from 5.9% to 15%
Structure — an SPV buys the chips, pledges them plus the rental contracts, and repays from customer fees