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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.

Google released Gemini 4 Hydrogen on November 12, a model it pitches as the fast execution engine for coding and agent work beside the larger Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon. It costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens across a 1 million-token context and is rolling out in the Gemini API, AI Studio, the Gemini app, Search and Antigravity. Artificial Analysis scores it 51 on its Intelligence Index at the default high setting and 54 at xhigh, where it ranks 16th of 78 models; most other benchmark figures are Google's own.

Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and The Alliance for Secure AI filed suit on November 12 in San Francisco Superior Court against Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI. Invoking California's Unfair Competition Law and a public-nuisance theory, they ask the court to bar the companies from developing or deploying AI systems more capable than their current most advanced models. The complaint leans on the companies' own warnings about catastrophic risk and on past incidents involving AI agents. The claims are allegations, and the defendants had not responded when the suit was reported.

Google DeepMind announced AlphaGenome 2 on November 11, a DNA sequence model that predicts how genetic variants affect gene activity in specific human cell types and states, trained on more than 100 million single-cell profiles across 68 tissues. DeepMind says it identifies nearly twice as many expression-changing variants as its predecessor on one immune-cell dataset and can adapt to new single-cell data without retraining. It is available free for non-commercial research via the AlphaGenome API, in private preview for commercial research, and is not validated for clinical use.

Google launched the Gemini Decisions API on November 11, powered by a new model, Gemini Decision 1, that scores closed-set questions (yes/no, 2 to 255 choices, or rubrics) against one text, image, audio, video or PDF input and returns probabilities and confidence scores instead of generated text. It handles up to 1,000 questions per request at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output charge. Google's own benchmarks put it ahead on five of seven shared tests; the independent Artificial Analysis Decision Index ranks it ninth of 18, per VentureBeat.

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5 on November 10, a vision-language-action model it says achieves 30% to 100% higher task success than previous baselines and runs 20% to 30% faster, and that let Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid sort automotive brackets on Mercedes-Benz production lines with a 96% success rate in a proof of concept. It also released ASIMOV-Jailbreak, an open benchmark for robot jailbreaks. The model is rolling out to partners only, and all figures are DeepMind's.

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.

Google DeepMind said on November 10 that AlphaProof Code, a multi-agent framework built on Gemini Carbon, produced machine-checked Lean proofs that the code implementing the Signal protocol meets key security properties that human experts specified. DeepMind says the work took four weeks, that agents flagged about 1% of the proof for human review, and that the system caught two reintroduced bugs. Signal's CTO welcomed it; no independent audit has been published.

Updated Nov. 13: Anthropic's IPO has drawn about six times as many orders as shares available, Bloomberg News reported on November 12, citing people familiar with the matter, and bankers told prospective investors existing backers will be prioritised. Anthropic will price the offering on November 18 and start trading as ANT on November 19, Yahoo Finance and Reuters report, two days after Nvidia's first results since Jensen Huang resigned. Earlier: Anthropic launched the roadshow on November 10, offering 825 million Class A shares at $70 to $78, about $1.4 trillion fully diluted at the top, with seven chip and cloud suppliers buying $26 billion of stock at the IPO price; its roadshow video says its Mythos model ported Claude to AMD chips in three days.

Some banks that weeks ago were lining up to fund AI deals are now reluctant to finance more, even when deals are backstopped by companies such as Anthropic and Google, Reuters reported on November 9, citing several unnamed banking and credit sources. Lenders are stress-testing cash flows and scrutinising when big tech customers can cut or end commitments, after a selloff that pushed the Nasdaq 100 into a correction. Anthropic and Google declined to comment.

Google announced TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max on November 9, making four eighth-generation TPU systems in one year. TPU 8tx, built on TPU 8t silicon with AMD EPYC hosts, is aimed at confidential inference for regulated customers; TPU 8i Max puts two 8i chips on one package, which Google says doubles compute, SRAM and HBM bandwidth. Google says TPUs now have nearly 100 customers but gave no prices, availability dates or independent benchmark results.

Google has put Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash into general availability on the Gemini API and Google Cloud, raising native clip length to 15 seconds from 10 on Omni 1.1 Flash and cutting the 720p price 30% to $0.07 per second. The update adds multi-turn conversational editing and stronger reference adherence; outputs carry SynthID, and Provisioned Throughput is available on Cloud. Independent ranking boards were not checked for this release.

In the first generative AI case at the EU's top court, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said on November 3 that a chatbot such as Google's Gemini can infringe press publishers' rights when it reaches articles unlawfully, for example past a paywall, or reuses their wording so closely that readers no longer need the original. He said training on such content is, as a rule, allowed under the EU's text and data mining exception. The opinion is not binding.

Apple lowered the daily AI spending cap for some engineers to $200 from $300 last month and plans further cuts for some teams to as little as $100 a day, Bloomberg reported on November 4, citing people familiar with the change. Groups outside engineering already capped at $100 could go to $25, and staff can ask senior leaders for exemptions. Apple has not confirmed the report.

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.

Employees at Google DeepMind are pressing executives to drop non-disparagement clauses that apply for life, arguing they need to be free to tell the public about AI risks, The Washington Post reported on November 3. Google says it does not enforce the clause against former employees and has removed it from new hires' contracts; staff want it removed from existing ones too.

TeraWulf said on November 4 that Google signed credit support agreements behind about $19 billion of Anthropic leases at its Hawesville, Kentucky campus, to help TeraWulf raise project debt. Its 8-K says that if Anthropic misses rent or becomes insolvent, Google can pay the rent and take over the lease or pay a termination fee. The backstop ends once Anthropic holds investment-grade ratings for three months. TeraWulf also signed Fluor to build three buildings.

WIRED reported on November 2 that more than 400 connected apps and domains, posing as everyday AI tools, quietly loaded an interface for making explicit deepfakes of uploaded photos when users arrived under certain conditions, such as clicking a Meta ad. Researchers linked the network to Chinese-language developers and a Hong Kong-registered company, KeLing Technology Limited, which did not respond. Apple removed 19 apps after WIRED's questions and says the developers swapped content after review; Meta says it has taken action against 11,600 ad accounts.

Google said on November 3 that Gemini, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will be off for K-12 student accounts until administrators turn them on, reversing an August change that made AI the default in Classroom. A report carried by DNYUZ quotes Google's education chief saying schools that ban AI will not get search either, because 'search and A.I. are deeply integrated.' From early 2027, schools that allow AI choose between search with AI Overviews or search through Guided Learning.

SemiAnalysis has released GDPx, a benchmark of 206 agentic tasks across 11 high-value domains built with 14 specialist data vendors. Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 12.0, ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon at 10.9 and GPT-6 Astra at 9.6. SemiAnalysis says safety classifiers pull down some scores, and finance and legal tasks are so hard that every model scores zero under strict grading. Most tasks are private, and no one has reproduced the results.

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.

Cisco Talos says the VOLTA infostealer bundles a victim's stolen data into a dossier and sends it through OpenRouter to Claude Opus 4.6 by default, falling back to Kimi K2 and then Gemini 2.5 Flash if a model refuses, to rank what the victim is worth. The AI stage is optional, and Talos did not track whether VOLTA has been used in the wild.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says an unreleased internal research model, after initial prompting, wrote five attack chains against Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux, including zero-click root on Linux servers running multipath TCP. Anthropic says 62 Chrome CVEs were assigned and patched as of Chrome 156. The vendors have shipped fixes; how much of each chain was human work is not broken down.