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Microsoft Starts Capping Free Copilot Chat for Companies With 2,000+ Seats, and Won't Say Where the Cap Is

Priya Nair · November 9, 2026

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NewsNovember 9, 2026

Goldman Sachs Pulls Claude Code and GitHub's AI Tools From Bankers and Traders, Keeps Them for 12,000 Engineers

Bloomberg's 2 November report says October guidance narrowed access to the advanced coding tools. The move reverses the bank's July enthusiasm for non-technical staff vibe coding, and the sources disagree on exactly which GitHub product is covered.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsNovember 9, 2026

Revolut Says Self-Hosting GLM Cut Its AI Coding Costs by About 90%, and Claude Is Now the Exception

At the AI Engineer conference, the fintech's infrastructure lead described moving about 2,000 engineers onto an open-weight model on 56 Nvidia B200 GPUs. The details that matter are in how it serves the model, what it still sends to other models, and what the 10x figure compares.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsNovember 9, 2026

Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small: Scores 31 on Artificial Analysis, Ships Closed, Promises Apache 2.0 Weights Next Week

The 594-billion-parameter model beats the lab's first generation but trails Chinese open models on terminal and kernel-optimization benchmarks in its own tables. The open license is a promise, not a fact, until the weights appear.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsNovember 9, 2026

Pruna's P-H3-Image Makes 8-Megapixel Images in 8 Steps, but Its License Excludes the US, EU, UK and South Korea

The open image model built on MiniMax's H3 video model has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times in its ComfyUI form. The model card documents what it does well, where it breaks, and a territory restriction most coverage skips.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsNovember 5, 2026

Anthropic's Amended IPO Filing: $16.96 Billion in Q3 Revenue, a $567 Million Operating Loss and $5 Billion of Short-Term Compute

The S-1/A filed on 2 November replaces October's reported figures with the company's own quarterly table. Growth slowed to 47% quarter on quarter, extra compute bought at short notice pushed Anthropic back to an operating loss, and the price range and share count are still blank.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsNovember 5, 2026

Cognition's SWE-2 Flash: One-Fifth the Price of SWE-2 in Devin, and the Benchmarks Most Coverage Left Out

Cognition calls it the best American coding model in its class. Its own full table shows SWE-2 Flash ahead of other US open-weight models but behind DeepSeek's and Zhipu's smaller Flash models on Terminal-Bench 4.0, and its own weights aren't public yet.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsNovember 5, 2026

Ricursive's Ripple-65B Preview: An Apache 2.0 Coding Model That Fits on a DGX Spark, Built for $32 Million

Ricursive Intelligence says its first open-weight model is the best US open-weight model on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Its own model card also shows where it trails much larger models, and how much the test harness changes the scores.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsNovember 5, 2026

Pangram Image 1.0 and Image Flash 1.0: AI Image and Video Detection Leaves Preview, With Heatmaps and Video Uploads

Three months after its research preview, Pangram's image detector now spots AI edits inside real photos, accepts smaller images, checks video frame by frame and runs in its Chrome extension. Every accuracy figure is still Pangram's own.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsNovember 5, 2026

Ai2's StateBench: Frontier Models Fall to 13% or Lower When Long Documents Keep Changing

The new open benchmark separates finding a value in a long input from following a chain of changes to it. Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna all handle the first and break down on the second.

Priya Nair · 4 min

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