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Google opened preorders on November 12 for Intelligent Eyewear, screenless glasses built with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster that put Gemini in the frame via voice, a 12-megapixel camera and open-ear speakers. Warby Parker frames start at $395 and Gentle Monster's at $449, before prescription lenses, with sales from December 10 for Google accounts in the US and South Korea. Google says camera visuals are not saved to Gemini history or used for training or ads and that bystanders' faces are blurred before processing; Ars Technica notes voice chats get no such guarantee and data is not encrypted on Google's servers.

AWS released AWS Emulator on November 11, a free local emulator built from more than 400 API models covering more than 200 AWS services, so developers and coding agents can test against AWS APIs without an account or network calls. AWS says autonomous agents wrote all of the code and its team has not written or reviewed any of it, relying instead on agent-run tests checked against real AWS and an automated merge gate. The code is public under CC0; unsupported operations return 501 Not Implemented.

OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta on November 10. Through Business Hub, eligible companies can claim and verify their profile, update details and product feeds, and see aggregated mentions, website clicks and discovery topics. Eligible U.S. ecommerce and online-service businesses can also build Business Agents that users can chat with in a labeled, separate conversation, and can sponsor those agents as destinations for ChatGPT Ads. OpenAI did not detail its verification methods.

Anthropic launched Claude Meetings in beta on November 10, letting Claude join Google Meet calls as a visible participant that drafts plans, maps timelines and answers questions while people talk, for Team and Enterprise plans. It also released Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on paid plans, made Claude Data (formerly Claude Dashboards) generally available, and let partner apps such as Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot open inside Claude. Sheets ships with basic functions: no pivot tables, a 100,000-cell limit, and no HIPAA or zero-data-retention support yet.

Adobe previewed local Model Context Protocol integrations at its MAX conference on November 10 that would let third-party AI agents, from providers including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, work directly in native Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects files on a user's computer; a private beta is due in early 2027. It also previewed always-on background agents and added Plan Mode and a model selector to its Firefly AI Assistant beta. Most agent features are in beta or preview.

Apple could make Siri function 'more like an agent' as early as next year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman wrote in his November 8 Power On newsletter, after CEO John Ternus told software chief Craig Federighi in a closed-door meeting to accelerate Apple's software roadmap. Gurman says nearer-term updates give Siri finer control of Apple's own apps and, likely in spring, third-party apps. This is reporting on plans, not an Apple announcement.

DeepSeek says Harness, its open-source agent application, had 1.54 million daily active users on its official API in the week ended November 4, up from about 271,000 at the end of September, and that users consume about 92 trillion tokens a day, according to Yicai and Bloomberg. Bloomberg puts that at about 60 million tokens per user per day. The figures are DeepSeek's own and have not been independently checked.

Cursor's November 5 changelog says users on paid plans with cloud agents enabled can ask a cloud agent to build a live web app: scaffold the app, provision a Postgres database if needed, configure authentication behind Cursor SSO, and deploy hosting at a URL the user chooses. Cursor says deterministic and agentic security checks run before publish, and that nothing goes live until those checks pass and the user explicitly publishes. Team admins can see apps and secrets, add their own review rules and unpublish an app. Apps can start from a new Cursor Origin repository or an existing GitHub repo, the changelog says.

Perplexity has launched Teammates, personal agents meant to plan and carry out ongoing, large-scale work on top of Perplexity Computer. The Verge, which compared the product to OpenAI's Dots and Claude Duet, says it requires Perplexity's Max plan at $200 a month. Perplexity's help documentation describes an initial research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web; Enterprise Pro and Enterprise Max are not included by default. The company has said a native iOS version is coming soon.

Meta is rolling out real-time voice and expressive avatar conversations in the Muse app on mobile, web and Mac for all US users, after previewing the feature at Connect 2026. Users tap a phone icon to start; Muse Realtime Avatar and Muse Realtime Voice power reactions while listening and speaking, with hundreds of voice styles. Voice on AI Glasses and Muse Charm is listed as coming soon.

Anthropic is rolling out Personal Finance in Claude this week as a US beta for Pro, Max and Ultra: users connect bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask spending questions in natural language. Access is read-only — Claude cannot move, manage or invest money — and hub chats are not used for model training. TechCrunch notes ChatGPT launched a similar finance experience in May.

OpenAI released Images 2.6 on November 4 in ChatGPT, Codex and the API. It adds animated GIFs, generates images 50% faster than before by OpenAI's measure, and offers two API models: GPT-Image-2.6 Flare, which can return a low-quality image in about six seconds, and Sunburst, aimed at consistency across edits. OpenAI says people now create 4 billion images a week across its products.

ChatGPT's search-like queries now equal roughly one-fifth of Google's query volume, OpenAI consumer product lead Adam Fry said at a company dinner in New York. Fry also said ChatGPT went from 1 billion to 1.2 billion weekly users in 60 days and that 250 million people a week use voice. The search figure counts every question that sends ChatGPT to the web, and OpenAI has not said how it estimated Google's volume.

Apple said on November 3 that any developer can now connect an app to Siri AI through App Intents, in a Developer Preview in the iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3 and visionOS 27.3 betas. Siri AI can use personal context, onscreen awareness and natural language to run an app's custom actions, and developers can build 'skills' that combine several actions. It reaches customers in a few months, App Store submissions open in spring, and Siri AI remains unavailable in the EU on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Anthropic released message threads in beta on November 2. The Claude API keeps a conversation on the server, so long-running agents send only new messages on each request. Anthropic says the wait for a first token fell about 35% on requests of 500,000 to 1M tokens, but prices and rate limits are unchanged. Threads expire five minutes after the last request and are not eligible for zero data retention or HIPAA setups.

Google moved the Gemini API's Computer Use tool to general availability on October 30 across the Interactions and GenerateContent APIs. Its documentation lists Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3 Flash Preview as supported, with browser, mobile and desktop environments and opt-in prompt-injection scanning of screenshots.

DeepSeek has published dsh-superagent on GitHub under the MIT licence: a proactive coding agent for one GitHub repository that listens to GitHub and, optionally, Feishu, takes requests from approved people and replies in the original thread, for example with a pull request. DeepSeek calls it a research prototype and not an official product. Bloomberg reported it is aimed at Anthropic's Claude Code.

Updated November 5: Anthropic's Addy Osmani said the Claude Code rule steering Opus 5.5 away from recreating existing games was also firing when users only named a game to describe the mechanics they wanted. In version 2.1.317, Claude should build an original game in that genre, and offer something similar when asked for a copy. The rule was first confirmed on October 30.

Anthropic has renamed its $200-a-month Max 20x plan as Ultra, with no price change, and removed the rolling five-hour usage limit for Ultra accounts it has automatically verified, its help center says. Ultra keeps a weekly cap of 10 times Pro's usage plus a separate weekly limit for Fable; Max 5x is now simply Max, Notebookcheck reports. Unverified accounts keep a temporary limit.

Updated Nov. 2: A new OpenAI help page says ChatGPT may block a new subscription if too many are tied to the same payment card or device, and limits how many paid accounts can be used on one device, across Go, Plus and all Pro tiers. OpenAI publishes no thresholds. On Nov. 1 OpenAI said Plus, Pro and Business usage will be shared across ChatGPT and Codex and measured in tokens from December; on Oct. 29 it doubled Pro Work and Codex allowances and cancelled a Pro 200 cut.

Google says Jules, the asynchronous coding agent it launched in December 2024, will wind down on December 31, 2026, as part of unifying its agentic coding efforts. Users can keep working in sessions until November 11, after which Jules becomes read-only. Google says lessons from Jules are going into Antigravity, its agent-first development platform, and it has published a way to export settings, memories and session history.

Wabi, the personal AI assistant founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, raised $55 million led by IVP at a $1.25 billion valuation, with a16z, Forerunner and the Amazon Alexa Fund participating. Wabi is built around shared spaces where friends, couples and families use one AI agent and custom mini-apps together. It gives no user or revenue figures.

Microsoft introduced the Copilot harness on October 28, the agent loop it says runs Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, the GitHub Copilot app, CLI and VS Code, and put it into public preview in Foundry Agent Service. It supports more than 20 frontier models and bring-your-own keys. Runtime is free until December 1, when sandbox compute and memory billing begins.

Google launched a preview of its Connected Apps Platform on October 28, letting developers build one MCP-based integration and choose to appear in Search, the Gemini app or both, managed through a new Google Connected Console. Access is phased; TechCrunch says it starts with US developers on a waitlist. Adobe, Experian, Localiza and Peloton apps are live in Gemini.