Token Times
The daily dispatch from the AI arms race. 763 stories from 129 feeds, ranked by heat and rebuilt every morning.
Everything in the issue, ranked by heat.
01Front page
The stories with the most heat right now, plus one pick from every corner of the AI world.
- 02Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips
- 03Claude can now analyze your spending with its new Personal Finance tool
- 04Switzerland's Embodied AI Unveils Humanoid Robot Designed to Learn Factory Tasks From Workers
- 05Global stocks plunge as fears over US AI slowdown spread to Asia and Europe
- 06NY-based Kalepa, whose AI platform supports insurance underwriting, pricing, and portfolio management, raised a $75M Series B led by Updata at a $470M valuation
- 07GPT-6 Cyber: OpenAI’s Frontier of “Aligned” Security Agents
- 08Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending
- 09Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuation
- 10Democrats AI Bills: 3 Targets After Jan. 2027 [2026]
- 11Democrats planning flood of AI bills when they take control of Congress
thedotmack/claude-mem
Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini,…
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
image-text-to-text · license mit
Advances in Agentic Computer Graphics
This report proposes a unified taxonomy and literature system for agentic computer graphics driven by large language models, analyzing trends and open challenges in human-agent collaboration and long-horizon planning.

Which AI is the best liar?
Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Cloptima
AI Gateway, Guardrails & LLM FinOps
The Ultimate MoE Training Handbook
A hands-on guide to training Mixture-of-Experts models

[AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark
Build AI systems with context graphs and agentic memory. Join Andrew Ng and AI engineers at NODES 2026 for 100+ live technical sessions . Free, online, 24 hours. Save your spot ! There was a time in the early days of Thinking Machines, post 2025 start and…
02Watch and follow
The newest videos and Instagram posts from the AI accounts worth following, refreshed every morning.
New on YouTube

7 Things Your AI Coworker Needs - Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind

GPT-6.2 Could Be OpenAI's Biggest Leap Yet

The Future of AI Is Absolutely Incredible (Spencer Huang)

Pika turns images and sound into an editable video

The Man Who Built New York Without Winning a Single Vote - Robert Caro

How a Data Center Slowdown Benefits Big Tech

What will people REALLY use these for?

Stop wasting time: How to value your hours #time #efficiency #tips
13 more new videos

How Mozilla strengthens Firefox security with GPT-6 Cyber

Ripple 65B: A Chip Design Lab Just Beat Every US Open Model

Multicellular Systems - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich

this might be HUGE...

I can't believe Pewdiepie made this

I REALLY Want Open Models to Win, But They Just Don't Cut It (Yet)

8 Businesses for the AI Age

Pushing the 3D slider on Minecraft 3DS… for real this time

The worst week in cybersecurity history... so far

DeepSeek's New LLM Engine Just Made GPUs 3x More Valuable

Weight-Space Programming: AI Is Now Rewriting Other AI Models

‘We may release models we can’t control’: Amodei, Altman … and Gemini Carbon

Tiny Software Factories: Agentic Engineering DONE WRONG
No new upload this week: Andrej Karpathy, Yannic Kilcher, AI Jason, Lex Fridman, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, 3Blue1Brown, ThePrimeagen.
New on Instagram

Join Kling AI during Adobe MAX 2026 in Miami! From November 10-12, we’re bringing together creative professionals, brands, and agencies across three events: 🎤 Nov 10 | 5:00-8:00 PM | Industry Forum Join Adobe’s Elissa…

Comment "GAME" to get these Free AI Skills for Building Full Games with Claude Code. Your Claude Code can now build full video games like a real developer. And it only takes this one plugin. Someone on GitHub created a…

Japanese company Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing (SMFL) used Replit to streamline software development and found a development process that used to take 6 people 6 months was reduced to completion by one person in o…

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now live in Krea. 15 second clips, deeper cinematic control, and multi-turn editing! try it now on krea.ai/video

Cold weather requires staying vigilant. Here’s how our technology works to navigate winter conditions.

Well, it’s our fault for asking whether they had a message for Alex Jones in the first place. Patti Harrison and Ben Collins were speaking at WIRED World Fair in Miami. Tap the 🔗 in bio for more.

Around 600,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips are sitting in Hong Kong as China continues to withhold approval for large-scale imports, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Despite strong demand from Chinese…

Your local ElevenCreative community is getting together this November. Come meet the creative community near you, see what they’re making and share what you’re working on. - Singapore, Nov 10, with Son Le Thanh - Bhopal…
23 more Instagram posts

The Realbotix Echo is for uh... Hospitality use, clinics, and education... And I'm sure that's ALL they'll be used for. #robots #robotics #futuretech

Before Google hired me, I was a professional clown. At 17 I built a clown business. Everyone said I was crazy. I got a government grant, hired performers, and ran kids’ events. Charging $100 an hour at 17 changed how I…

Here’s a look at what our new model, Pika H3 Flex can do. Swipe through these examples to see how it handles multiple references, motion graphics, product films, animation, multi-shot stories and editing. Comment “FLEX”…

In September, artists, designers, and technologists gathered in New York for An Evening on Making, a celebration of creative work and the process behind it. At dinner, a researcher at the Anthropic Institute ran an expe…

Google’s Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now available in Runway. Create and edit videos up to 15 seconds, with more natural dialogue and stronger consistency across shots. Refine your scene without starting over, then upscale…

Washington, D.C. is up next. 🏛️ ㅤ Conference passes for #NVIDIAGTC are sold out, but you can still join us with an exhibits-only pass. ㅤ Connect with innovators and explore the latest technology in the nation’s capital…

Here's what landed in October The #1 voice model in the world, a pro voice clone, a free Turbo mode in the API, and speech to speech that keeps your delivery. Plus 30 new LiveAvatars, 2K video with 30s takes, and HyperF…

At 40, you may be behind on energy. But you've got something they don't: 15+ years of experience, the discipline to grind through the boring parts, and the courage to start over in a new field. That's your superpower.

Did you know v6 comes in three versions? 👀 Which one’s your go-to?

Comment “TV” to get Clean your TV of Ads and Bloatware with Claude Code. Claude Code can now clean up your smart TV, and in about 15 minutes it looks like a brand new Apple TV. Most smart TVs today come loaded with spon…

Comment “AI” for the full list with prompts Lighting is what separates a flat AI generation from a cinematic one. This breakdown covers 34 lighting styles with examples, from classic film setups to stylised looks, all g…

This surgeon is doing a real hip surgery while wearing an Apple Vision Pro. It’s the first time ever the FDA has allowed this to happen. And they’re doing it, because of this… What you’re looking at is what the doctor c…

Comment “Edit” and I’ll send you my full setup 👇 What happens when you ask Claude to edit your videos for you? I tried this and I literally got rid of my video editor. Open Claude, click Code and give it any raw video…

Comment “SAFE” 👇 and I’ll send you all 10. Your email, your face, even your WiFi. It’s all easier to find than you think. Check yours before someone else does. All free. #cybersecurity #privacy #hackers #techtips #onli…

15 AI/ML internships. Top companies. Your next opportunity might be here. PayPal, Apple, Meta, Sony & more are hiring! Comment “INTERN” and I’ll DM you all 15 application links. #AIInternship #MachineLearning #AIJobs #D…

Meet Marine! One of our Campus Leader’s studying at ESIEE Paris. For the insider look into her world at ESIEE, check out her Field Guide on ntn.so/for-students 🎒

Your waitlist is giving people absolutely nothing to talk about. Instead of asking people to sign up and wait, give them a reason to bring their friends along. With Bolt, you can build a waitlist that shows people their…

Comment ‘Motion’ and I’ll send you the link

Who ya gonna call? If you have a Rivian...yourself! Rivian's 2026 Halloween update is the kind of thing we'll likely see more of, as more ambitious changes to touchscreens and car UIs appear within standard and auton…

China is the center of the climate and energy tech world. The country is home to the world’s largest electric grid, and it’s growing quickly because of massive clean power installations. We highlighted some of the compa…

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Almost every demo I’ve seen has some amount of mis-touches and slight fumbles because at the end of the day this is still a computer designed to be used with a keyboard and a trackpad/mouse,…

Steven Strogatz thinks the rise of AI will put a greater value on humanity in general. Hear the full conversation on the 3b1b Podcast.

Gemini 4 Carbon is our next frontier model. It comes with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. We’re rolling it out first to a set of cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program, with broader a…
40 Instagram accounts worth following
Labs
Generative media
Robotics
Vibe coding
Creators
News & explainers
03Arms race tracker
Who is shipping, who owns the news cycle, where the compute is, and what the money thinks happens next.
Who has the best model?
Live Polymarket odds on which company tops the leaderboard. Market prices, not predictions or advice.
Which company has the best AI model end of November? · $823k traded
Which company has best AI model end of 2026? · $4M traded
Who owns the news cycle
Share of today’s stories mentioning each lab. Merged coverage counts once.
Open-weights race
Where the 50 hottest Hugging Face models come from. Fine-tunes and quantized builds count for the base model’s lab.
- CNdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 5.3k
- OTHsperidlabs/idol 857
- CNmoonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro 1.4k
- CNQwen/Qwen3.8-27B 19k
- CNQwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 6.8k
- USLiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B 1.5k
- CNccore/Qwen3.5-4B-3D-Coder 744
Frontier compute
Largest known training run each year, in FLOP (log scale). From Epoch AI’s 1.1k notable models.
Show as a table
| Year | US | China | Europe |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 1e21.82 | 1e19.81 | 1e21.28 |
| 2017 | 1e20.93 | – | 1e20.81 |
| 2018 | 1e21.94 | – | 1e20.23 |
| 2019 | 1e22.83 | 1e19.58 | 1e23.03 |
| 2020 | 1e23.5 | 1e21.22 | 1e21.48 |
| 2021 | 1e24.31 | 1e24.02 | 1e23.8 |
| 2022 | 1e24.44 | 1e23.55 | 1e23.76 |
| 2023 | 1e25.7 | 1e24.11 | 1e23.89 |
| 2024 | 1e25.58 | 1e25.4 | 1e22.7 |
| 2025 | 1e26.7 | 1e25.18 | – |
| 2026 | 1e26.97 | 1e25.3 | 1e25.09 |
Latest additions to Epoch’s notable-model list
- USGemini 4 Carbon · Google DeepMindOct 28
- USMAI-Base-2 · MicrosoftOct 15
- USGrok Voice 3.0 · xAIOct 14
- USMuse Wonder Full · Meta AIOct 12
- USMuse Wonder · Meta AIOct 12
- EUMistral Large 4 · Mistral AIOct 6
Release radar
33 models landed on OpenRouter in the last 30 days, out of 453 listed. Price is dollars per million tokens, input / output.
| Added | Model | Maker | Context | $ / 1M tok |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5 | Gemini Omni 1.2 FlashGemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the successor to Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. It generates clips up to 15 seconds long with native... | US Google | 131k | $1.5 / $9 |
| Nov 5 | Auto RouterAuto is OpenRouter’s flagship model router, built for general-purpose usage. It adapts to each request, choosing cost-optimal models and adjusting reasoning effort. It balances task difficulty,… | OTH openrouter | 2M | $-1000000 / $-1000000 |
| Nov 5 | Auto CodeAuto Code is OpenRouter’s router built specifically for coding agents and harnesses. It uses the same routing engine as the [Auto Router](https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/auto), with every request… | OTH openrouter | 2M | $-1000000 / $-1000000 |
| Nov 4 | Gemini Omni 1.1 FlashGemini Omni 1.1 Flash is Google's native multimodal video generation and editing model, the generally available successor to Gemini Omni Flash Preview. It is suited for text-to-video,… | US Google | 131k | $1.5 / $9 |
| Nov 4 | ricursiveAI/Ripple-65B-PreviewRipple-65B-Preview by ricursiveAI, a 65B model with native tool calling, served in BF16. | OTH ricursiveai | 1M | $0.2 / $0.6 |
| Nov 3 | Hy4The official release of Hy4 delivers comprehensive and substantial improvements over Hy4 Preview, with particularly strong gains in agentic capabilities and performance across a wide range of… | CN Tencent | 1M | $0.417 / $1.25 |
| Nov 2 | Crouton AlphaCrouton Alpha is a lightweight model built for scalable coding, agentic, and multimodal workflows. It's ideal for executing agentic sub-tasks, tool use, and document analysis in high-volume,… | OTH stealth | 1M | free |
| Nov 2 | GLM 5.3 FlashX LegalGLM-5.3-FlashX-Legal (GLM-Legal) is Z.ai's legal-domain variant of GLM-5.3-FlashX, a native multimodal model that accepts text, image, and video input and produces text. It adds legal-domain… | CN Z.ai | 1M | $0.37 / $1.25 |
| Oct 28 | Particle-1Particle-1 is a token-efficient agentic coding model from Particle AI, post-trained on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. It is suited for software engineering work such as terminal workflows, codebase changes,… | OTH Particle AI | 1M | $0.05 / $0.5 |
| Oct 26 | GPT-6.1 Terra ProGPT-6.1 Terra Pro is the same underlying model as [GPT-6.1 Terra](https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6.1-terra), served with `reasoning.mode` set to `pro` for higher-quality responses on complex… | US OpenAI | 1.1M | $1 / $5 |
Biggest training runs, last 24 months
Notable models released in the last 12 months: 127.
- USGPT-6 Astra · OpenAI9.3×1026 FLOP
- USGrok 4 · xAI5.0×1026 FLOP
- USGPT-4.5 · OpenAI3.8×1026 FLOP
- USGrok 3 · xAI3.5×1026 FLOP
- USGPT-5 · OpenAI6.6×1025 FLOP
- USLlama 4 Behemoth (preview) · Meta AI5.1×1025 FLOP
- USComposer 2.5 · Cursor3.9×1025 FLOP
- USClaude 3.7 Sonnet · Anthropic3.4×1025 FLOP
What the money expects
The busiest AI prediction markets on Polymarket and their current front-runner. Market prices, not predictions or advice.
04The feed
Everything in today’s issue. Filter it, search it, and share the link: the URL keeps your filters.
Showing all 763 items; the 27 already shown above aren’t repeated.
Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex
Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.
speridlabs/idol
image-to-3d · license apache-2.0
+1 more story from 1 other outlet
- Comfy-Org/IdolHugging Face
pbakaus/impeccable
The design vocabulary for your coding agent. Steer with polish and bolder, review with critique and audit, catch AI slop before it ships.
Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

Tech stocks plunge on worries about AI and Democrats' midterm landslide
+1 more story from 1 other outlet
- Global stocks tumble as AI panic grips markets after Democrats' midterm successHacker News · discussion · 31 points
moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro
image-text-to-text · license other
deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype
Towards a More Autonomous Agent System
New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation
Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios
Turn Claude Code into a full game dev studio — 49 AI agents, 72 workflow skills, and a complete coordination system mirroring real studio hierarchy.

Vera Delivers the Best of Both Worlds: Highest Throughput and Fastest Agents
AI agents do more than generate answers. They search for information, query databases, write and test code and take action. Each of those steps relies on a CPU, with agents moving between GPU reasoning and CPU execution throughout a task. As businesses put…
How do you keep local coding agents running on a MacBook with the lid closed?
I run Codex and other coding agents locally on my MacBook. When a task is still running, I'd like to close the lid, leave the laptop plugged in on my desk, and come back to the results later. The confusing part is that…
Qwen Image 2.1 Uncensored
Uncensored Qwen-Image-2.1 generate + edit
Nutlope/hallmark
Anti-AI-slop design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates
Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.
Wall Street set to steady after tech rout
Donald Trump blames voters for AI sell-off as futures point to small gains at the opening bell
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
image-text-to-text · license apache-2.0
+1 more story from 1 other outlet
- unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUFHugging Face
obra/superpowers
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
Franklin Templeton uses OpenAI to support investment research
Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
A robot cleaned my apartment for $30 — San Francisco startup Tau Robotics is sending humanoid robots into people's homes, piloted remotely by humans who collect training data while the robots clean — making the service cheaper than you'd expect for something…

Microsoft’s Buyout Offer Sets Its Workforce on Edge
As Microsoft pours billions into artificial intelligence, the company has offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees. The work force was already on edge.
Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
image-text-to-text · license other
+2 more stories from 1 other outlet
- SC117/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-abliterated-GGUFHugging Face
- unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUFHugging Face

The Wizard of Open Weights: Chris Alexiuk Makes AI Easy With Open Models
Chris Alexiuk has a simple rule about open source AI: If you believe in it, be loud about it. “We should be shouting about this technology from the rooftops,” said Alexiuk, a Toronto-based senior product research engineer in deep learning at NVIDIA who…

More Performance From Every Byte: How Full-Stack Codesign Solves AI’s Memory Challenge
Larger models, longer contexts and agentic applications are increasing GPU memory pressure while supply tightens and prices rise — a trend expected to continue through the near term. NVIDIA works closely with memory partners to rapidly adopt the latest…
Japanese stocks post biggest one-day fall since ‘liberation day’ chaos
‘Complete carnage’ as Nikkei 225 and Topix indices drop nearly 6% in flight from AI trade
Wan2.2 14B Preview
generate a video from an image with a text prompt
Quoting Paul Ford
The web browser is very, very, very powerful software for applications, and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day . — Paul Ford , The Web Is More Than Enough Tags: browsers , paul-ford , web-development

‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Gets a Magical NVIDIA DLSS 5 Upgrade on GeForce NOW
Hogwarts Legacy receives an NVIDIA DLSS 5 upgrade with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering today, bringing lifelike lighting and materials to the wizarding world on GeForce NOW . Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft: Forever also opens a new chapter in Azeroth,…

Sources: Nvidia is requiring Southeast Asian customers seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner status to enroll in a program that tracks the locations of their AI chips
Nvidia Corp. is stepping up monitoring of AI accelerators sold in…
How do you build visibility through open source contributions?[D]
I’m an MSc CS student with a background in 3D computer vision, trying to figure out how to build visibility and credibility in the AI/ML community. I’ve been thinking about contributing to established open source…
Idol
One image to a 3D object (Gaussian splats)

The Iron(wood) Throne: Google's TPU Stakes Its Claim on Inference
In November 2025, we published a newsletter saying that Google is selling TPUs to external customers. Since then, we have been proven right over and over again with Oracle, OpenAI , Anthropic, and Meta all becoming customers of TPUs just as our Accelerator…
Merge builds product and business tools with OpenAI technology
Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.
Is the AI stock bubble finally bursting?
Any reasonable person can see the hallmarks of an unsustainable party in markets
calesthio/OpenMontage
World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.
LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B
text-generation · license other
+1 more story from 1 other outlet
- LiquidAI/LFM3-Omni-2BHugging Face

AI #193: Progress May Dramatically Accelerate
Anthropic is warning us. Its modified S-1 now says that ‘we may imminently meet our Responsible Scaling Policy’s definition of ‘dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI.’ That is a highly scary sentence to have a company put in its S-1. This…
05Wire room
Every source that fed this issue, and whether it answered.
Newsrooms
- ok TechCrunch15 items
- ok The Verge10 items
- ok MIT Technology Review8 items
- ok Ars Technica6 items
- ok WIRED10 items
- ok The Guardian15 items
- ok The Decoder10 items
- ok MarkTechPost10 items
- ok IEEE Spectrum3 items
- ok Financial Times15 items
- problem VentureBeatHTTP 429
- ok Techmeme10 items
- ok BBC News2 items
- ok The New York Times9 items
- ok Axios5 items
- ok Rest of World2 items
- ok South China Morning Post11 items
- ok Google News (18 beats)252 items
Labs
- ok OpenAI8 items
- ok Google DeepMind6 items
- ok Google AI Blog4 items
- ok Hugging Face Blog8 items
- ok NVIDIA Blog6 items
- ok Mistral AI4 items
- ok Apple Machine Learning2 items
- ok AWS Machine Learning4 items
- ok GitHub Blog: AI2 items
- ok Anthropic12 items
Deep reads
- ok Simon Willison6 items
- ok Import AI (Jack Clark)2 items
- ok Interconnects (Nathan Lambert)4 items
- ok Latent Space4 items
- problem One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)no fresh items
- ok Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)1 items
- ok SemiAnalysis4 items
- ok Andrej Karpathy1 items
- ok Don’t Worry About the Vase (Zvi)3 items
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- problem AI Snake Oilno fresh items
- ok Gary Marcus3 items
- ok ChinaTalk4 items
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Community
- ok Hacker News46 items
- ok Reddit (14 subs)101 items
- ok Lobsters1 items
Code
- ok GitHub Trending17 items
- ok GitHub new AI repos33 items
Models
- ok Hugging Face trending models50 items
- ok Hugging Face trending Spaces24 items
Research
- ok Hugging Face Daily Papers45 items
Video
- ok YouTube (29 channels)50 items
Launches
- ok Product Hunt: AI30 items
Arms race
- ok Polymarket AI markets1 items
- ok OpenRouter model catalog1 items
- ok Epoch AI notable models1 items