AI-Proven Quantum Computing Conjecture & AI Accelerating AI Research - AI News (Nov 10, 2026)

Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - Discover the Future of AI Audio with ElevenLabs - https://try.elevenlabs.io/tad - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad Today's topics: DeepMind AI verifies Signal protocol - Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Code used AI agents and the Lean proof assistant to formally verify security properties of the real Signal protocol implementation. The project generated over six million lines of Lean in four weeks, and DeepMind is open-sourcing the verification artifacts. Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon - Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, its most capable frontier model so far, aimed at agentic workflows, software engineering, cybersecurity and scientific reasoning. It is available through AI Studio, Antigravity's multi-agent /swarm feature, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. Microsoft MAI-Transcribe-2 speech model - Microsoft AI introduced MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model covering 60 languages with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps. Microsoft says it leads the FLEURS benchmark and costs ten cents per hour of audio. Forecasters shorten AI timelines to 2027 - AI forecasters cite new METR evidence that AI is speeding up AI research by about 1.7x, and now expect a Superhuman AI Researcher around 2027. They argue this shorter timeline justifies pausing or substantially slowing frontier AI development. - Buildkite Updates Pricing with All-Access Trial, Tiered Plans, and Usage-Based Billing - AI Futures Project: Timelines Shorten, SAR Now Expected in 2027 - Microsoft Launches MAI-Transcribe-2 Speech Recognition Model - DeepMind Says AlphaProof Code Formally Verified Signal Protocol - Buildkite Promotes AI-Ready CI Platform for Large-Scale Workflows - Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon Episode Transcript DeepMind AI verifies Signal protocol We'll start with Google DeepMind, which says it used a new agentic system called AlphaProof Code to formally verify key security properties of the Signal protocol. The important detail is that the proofs cover the real, deployed implementation, not just the design on paper. Plenty of cryptographic designs have been checked mathematically, but their implementations are where bugs usually appear, and DeepMind says no one had formally verified an implementation like this by any method until now. Human experts wrote the specifications of what 'secure' means. AI agents then produced the proofs in Lean, a proof assistant that checks every step on its own. In four weeks the system produced more than six million lines of Lean, and humans needed to review only about one percent of it. As a test, the team put two old, already-fixed Signal bugs back into an isolated copy of the code, and the system correctly showed that this version was insecure. DeepMind is open-sourcing the artifacts and sees the same approach applying to medical devices and power grids. Until now, formal verification has been too slow and expensive for most real-world code. If AI handles the routine proof work, that could start to change. Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon Google also had a second announcement this week. Gemini 4 Carbon, released on November 10th, is the company's newest frontier model, and Google calls it its strongest so far. It is aimed at hard knowledge work: long-running agentic tasks, software engineering, cybersecurity and scientific reasoning. Google reports top results on several coding and automation benchmarks and says it costs less per task than competing models. Carbon is available almost everywhere at once, including AI Studio for developers, Gemini for business, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. Scientists and...

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Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad - Discover the Future of AI Audio with ElevenLabs - https://try.elevenlabs.io/tad Today's topics: Russia-Ukraine Talks Yield Prisoner Swap - Russian and Ukrainian negotiators agreed to a large-scale prisoner exchange after two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, and Trump's envoys then headed to Moscow. Deep mistrust over territory and peace terms remains. Mississippi Elects Historic Black Senator - Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith after a long ballot count, becoming Mississippi's first Black US senator since Reconstruction and a major Democratic breakthrough in the South. Gaza Hospital Strike, Erdoğan's Ecocide Claim - An Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis killed six people, including a surgeon, while Turkish President Erdoğan called the Gaza war an ecocide at the UN climate summit in Antalya. Iran-Backed Plot Charges Unveiled - The US Justice Department charged three alleged Iran-backed operatives over plots in the United States and Europe, including a terrorist plot targeting a UK air force base. G7 Warns China Near Taiwan - The G7 issued a warning about Chinese military activity east of Taiwan, highlighting rising Indo-Pacific security tensions and pressure on Taipei. Pakistani Taliban Ambush Kills Police - Militants ambushed police returning from an anti-illegal gold mining operation in Pakistan's Kohat district, killing ten officers; 18 militants died, and the Pakistani Taliban claimed the attack. Spain's Nationwide Housing Strike - Millions of Spanish workers joined a general strike called by UGT and CCOO unions over the housing affordability crisis, weeks before a national election, hitting the automotive and port sectors. Congo Ebola Outbreak Worst Ever - The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak has surpassed 11,000 confirmed infections and 5,387 deaths, the country's worst on record, straining health authorities and international responders. Brooklyn Building Collapse Kills Two - A three-story building collapsed beside a Brooklyn construction site, killing at least two people and leaving others feared trapped, raising construction safety concerns in New York City. SS United States Sunk Off Florida - The historic ocean liner SS United States, former holder of the transatlantic speed record, was sunk off Florida, ending efforts to repurpose the iconic American maritime vessel. Episode Transcript Russia-Ukraine Talks Yield Prisoner Swap We start with the war in Ukraine. After two days of talks in Abu Dhabi, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have agreed to a large-scale prisoner exchange. It's one of the few tangible results from the first direct discussions between the two sides in nine months. American mediators were frank, though: major differences and deep mistrust remain, especially over territory and the wider terms of any peace deal. The diplomatic spotlight has now moved to Moscow, where President Trump's envoys arrived to go over the outcome of those talks with the Kremlin. The big question is whether this swap stays a one-off humanitarian gesture, or becomes a stepping stone toward real negotiations to end the war. Mississippi Elects Historic Black Senator Now to American politics, and a result with genuine historical weight. After a drawn-out ballot count, Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi. That makes Colom the state's first Black US senator since the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. Beyond the history, it's a notable win for Democrats, who have long struggled to break through in Southern...

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Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Discover the Future of AI Audio with ElevenLabs - https://try.elevenlabs.io/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily Today's topics: METR: AI Doubling Anthropic's R&D Speed - A new METR report estimates AI-assisted AI research at Anthropic is speeding up model progress about twofold, raising questions about recursive self-improvement and AI safety timelines. Anthropic's Compute Bill and Gas Turbines - Anthropic's amended S-1 shows roughly $895 billion in compute commitments, and the company is reportedly spending $3.4 billion on Caterpillar natural gas turbines to power its data centers. Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2, Opus Complaints - Anthropic released Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 with coding, reasoning and vision gains, while some users claim Opus 5.5 in high mode now reasons less deeply in Claude Code. Meta Muse Ember Efficient Agent Model - Meta launched Muse Ember, a small, low-cost model with a 1M-token context window built for agentic tool calls, coding subtasks and document parsing. Google Unveils Two New TPUs - Google announced TPU 8tx for confidential inference and TPU 8i Max for long-context agentic workloads, expanding its AI hardware lineup with PyTorch support. Smarter Compression and Test-Time Compute - AutoCompress tailors LLM compression to real GPU latency and memory limits, while new essays examine compute extrapolation and reasoning as search through token space. US Could Import AI Tokens - An analysis warns US AI token demand could outpace domestic data center and power supply between 2028 and 2030, making the US a net importer of AI compute. NVIDIA GR00T 2 Robot Foundation Model - NVIDIA's GR00T 2 predicts video and robot actions together, learning from human egocentric video and transferring skills to robots across different bodies. Apple Harbor and Paid Logic Pro AI - Apple is reportedly building Harbor, a local AI inference server app that pools Mac memory over Thunderbolt 5, and now sells paid AI usage packs in Logic Pro. OpenAI Control Room Kill Switch - OpenAI built Control Room, a centralized system that can quickly halt model workloads across research infrastructure for AI safety and security, with fail-closed design. Fireworks AI Breach Grows Wider - Fireworks AI says its October security incident also exposed account, billing and some customer data, linking it to an LLMJacking cybercriminal group. Open Source Projects Rejecting AI Code - The Open Source Says No catalog tracks projects like QEMU, Zig and Servo that ban or restrict LLM-generated contributions, documenting the open source backlash. AI Reshaping News, Freelancing, Workdays - Studies show generative AI becoming a news gateway amid audience skepticism, AI reshaping Upwork freelance projects, and AI users working longer, more fragmented days. - NVIDIA Unveils GR00T 2 Robot Foundation Model - Granola Launches AI Notepad for Meeting Notes and Follow-Ups - Open Source Projects That Ban AI Contributions - Anthropic’s $895 Billion Compute Bet Puts Growth to the Test - Claim That Opus 5.5 Was Quietly Nered - Meta Launches Muse Ember, a Low-Cost AI Model for Agentic Work - ChatGPT Enterprise Launches in AWS Marketplace - OpenAI Launches Control Room to Stop Research Model Workloads Quickly - AI Is Becoming a News Gateway, but Audiences Still Reject AI-Made Journalism - Apple starts selling extra AI access for Logic Pro - LiveKit Announces Introductory Voice Agent Workshop - AutoCompress: Hardware-Guided LLM Compression - Fireworks AI Expands Disclosure of October 2026 Security Incident - Wiz Explains How to Secure AI Agents - Apple Reportedly Developing Harbor Mac App for Local AI Models - METR Report...

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Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Consensus: AI for Research. Get a free month - https://get.consensus.app/automated_daily - SurveyMonkey, Using AI to surface insights faster and reduce manual analysis time - https://get.surveymonkey.com/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily Today's topics: Robot assembles structure in orbit - Caltech’s ASTRA robot autonomously assembled part of an antenna structure in orbit, a first for construction without astronauts. Autonomous assembly could enable space telescopes and antennas too large to fit inside a rocket. [122] Twin probes depart for Mars - NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes completed powered Earth flybys and are now traveling toward Mars. The mission will study how the solar wind interacts with the Martian atmosphere and magnetic environment. [107] Planet disappears from telescope view - TOI-2535 b became the first confirmed exoplanet whose transits were directly observed disappearing. Researchers attribute the change to an unseen neighboring planet tilting the gas giant’s orbit. [91][93] Software reveals hidden Webb planet - A digital model of the James Webb Space Telescope removed stellar glare from existing observations, revealing the known exoplanet 51 Eridani b where standard processing could not. The method could expose additional planets hidden in archived Webb data. [167] Ancient quasars challenge growth models - Astronomers found the oldest known compact quasar pair, seen only 900 million years after the Big Bang. The enormous, actively feeding black holes are difficult to explain with current models of early cosmic growth. [226] Ice giants’ magnetic mystery - Computer simulations suggest that changing electrical conductivity deep inside Uranus and Neptune can produce their unusually tilted, complex magnetic fields. The finding offers a shared explanation for both ice giants. [151][159] Pentagon addresses rocket shortage - The Pentagon has conditionally offered Rocket Lab and Stoke Space 150 million dollars each to expand American launch capacity. The financing reflects concern that demand for military launches may outgrow the available supply of rockets. [181][193] NASA reshapes its Moon rocket - NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman outlined a plan to standardize the Space Launch System and fly it more frequently until commercial lunar transportation becomes available. NASA is targeting at least one crewed deep-space flight each year. [211] Episode Transcript Robot assembles structure in orbit We begin with a milestone for construction beyond Earth. A robot developed by Caltech has autonomously assembled part of a reflector antenna in orbit. The machine selected structural pieces and joined them without assistance from astronauts or direct, step-by-step control from the ground. The structure itself is modest, but the demonstration matters because rockets impose strict limits on the size and shape of anything they carry. If robots can reliably build after launch, future antennas, solar arrays, habitats and telescopes could be much larger than a rocket’s protective shell. There is still a considerable distance between assembling one section and constructing a complete observatory, but this test shows that orbital construction is moving from an idea to a real capability. Twin probes depart for Mars Two small NASA spacecraft have now committed to their journey to Mars. The twin ESCAPADE probes, called Blue and Gold, completed separate powered flybys of Earth. Each used our planet’s gravity together with an engine burn to gain the speed and direction needed for the interplanetary trip. They are expected to reach Mars in September 2027. Once there, the spacecraft will observe the planet from different locations at the same time, helping scientists...

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Support The Automated Daily directly: 15 free episodes a day, 5 editions, 3 languages, about $4 a day to produce. A coffee keeps it going: theautomateddaily.com/support Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Effortless AI design for presentations, websites, and more with Gamma - https://try.gamma.app/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron Today's topics: Google TPU 8 chips challenge Nvidia - Google introduced TPU 8tx and 8i Max AI processors for large-context AI, coding assistants and drug discovery, adding cloud competition against Nvidia GPUs. Rapidus falls behind 2028 target - Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus is reportedly behind its plan to mass-produce cutting-edge semiconductors by March 2028, a setback for Japan's chip strategy. Anthropic launches Fable and Mythos 5.2 - Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 with a 20% price cut, limited Mythos access to vetted security and life-sciences groups, and Cisco AI Defense adopts Mythos for agent red-teaming. Anthropic IPO valuation comes down - Anthropic is pushing ahead with its IPO amid an AI stock selloff, with investors pressing for a valuation below the $1.5 trillion recently discussed and far under earlier $2 trillion talk. Nvidia faces shareholder lawsuit over Huang - A shareholder lawsuit accuses Nvidia of misleading investors about Jensen Huang's ties to Megaspeed and executive Alice Huang, raising governance and securities-fraud questions. Australia plans tough AI regulator - Australia's prime minister announced an AI safety regulator with significant penalty powers, plus mandatory reporting and criminal-law changes after an OpenAI and Medicare hack. Iran-linked attack on French refrigeration - France attributed an October cyberattack on refrigeration controllers at about 700 retail sites to an IRGC-linked Iranian unit, highlighting operational technology risks. N-able and SAP critical flaws - N-able took its hosted N-central platform offline after 30-plus zero-days were disclosed, while SAP patched four CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated flaws in NetWeaver and Web Dispatcher. CISA flags exploited Aspera, FreeSWITCH bugs - CISA added IBM Aspera Faspex and SignalWire FreeSWITCH vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a three-day federal patch deadline. North Korea launders crypto via memecoins - A suspected North Korean hacking group is laundering cryptocurrency from the record Binance hack through short-lived memecoins to obscure transaction trails. Wing builds Texas drone factory - Alphabet's Wing will invest up to $125 million in a Fort Worth, Texas drone manufacturing plant capable of producing tens of thousands of delivery aircraft yearly. Agent-ready tools and everflux software - Storybook 11 beta adds agent-ready skills and CLI tools, Chrome gains native tab video recording, and Thomas Wolf describes AI-driven 'everflux' software blurring open and closed source. Kevin Kelly on AI and difference - Kevin Kelly argues abundant AI creation makes difference the scarce value, with portable specifications and standards like MCP and Agent2Agent as new knowledge units. mRNA therapy helps hearts self-repair - Cambridge researchers used a temporary mRNA therapy activating Myc and Cyclin T1 to help heart muscle regenerate after heart attacks in mice, improving pumping function. Episode Transcript Google TPU 8 chips challenge Nvidia We'll begin with the hardware behind AI. Google has introduced two new members of its in-house chip family, the TPU 8tx and the 8i Max. Each is aimed at different kinds of work, from AI that has to keep very large amounts of context in view to coding assistants, mathematical reasoning and drug discovery. The bigger story is competition. Cloud customers want alternatives to Nvidia's dominant GPUs, and Google keeps expanding the options it builds itself. Japan's...