Tech News · The field notes
Personal Tech — Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Anthropic's new Claude Fable and Mythos models, the Fireworks breach that leaked Notion AI chats, Google's new TPUs, Nvidia's robot brain, and fresh funding rounds.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 (Nov 9)
- models for coding/scientific research, up to 30% faster responses, $8/$40 per million input/output tokens
Anthropic demo
- newest Claude built a working OS with 1,000+ AI agents over 8 days
- boots on a laptop with windows, file storage, login screen
Anthropic IPO
- Reuters reports company circulated then retracted details of potential $69.3B IPO, pricing info inaccurate, updated filing to follow
- roadshow week continues
Fireworks AI disclosed multiple cyberattacks exposing customer info and portions of unfinished AI models
- two customers told Forbes they moved substantial business away
Notion AI chat transcripts leaked via Fireworks breach (Insights classification jobs)
- Notion shut Fireworks routing, asks teams to rotate pasted content
Google expands 8th-gen TPU portfolio
- TPU 8tx (training) and TPU 8i Max (inference), supply starting 2027
- Alphabet leases TPU capacity to Apple, Anthropic, Citadel via Google Cloud
- SOX +6.85% Nov 9
NVIDIA reportedly tightens overseas AI chip rentals to China
- cloud partners must reserve at least 51% of services for non-Chinese clients
- B300 server racks selling up to $2.8M in China
NVIDIA unveils GR00T 2 robot foundation model at CoRL (Austin, Nov 9)
- learns manual manipulation skills from human first-person video
IBM + Microsoft announce Imagine Enterprise agentic platform (Nov 10)
- 6,000+ prebuilt IBM agents/assets, Microsoft AI/cloud/security, forward-deployed engineers
- first frameworks financial services, insurance, retail
Funding
- Bay (Israeli AI security) $50M total — $37M Series A led by Battery Ventures + $13M seed (YL Ventures, Striker)
- customers Micron, Peloton, ClickUp, Wix
Funding
- Avante Health $30M Series A (AI agents for employee benefits work)
- Kalepa $75M Series B at $470M valuation (AI commercial insurance underwriting)
- Laza Medical $160M Series B (AI robotic imaging for cardiovascular procedures)
Weekly funding
- 78 rounds, ~$16.75B total, down ~16% rounds / ~19% dollars vs prior week
Paris AI safety declaration signed Nov 9
- Bahrain, Canada, Finland, France, Norway, Netherlands + Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, Mistral, Synthesia
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey (Zurich speech)
- calls for stronger AI testing before/after release and better incident reporting
UK survey (Air IT, 504 decision makers)
- 83% could not demonstrate returns from some AI spending or did not measure returns at all
Meta's AI personal AI assistant reportedly heading to UK within weeks with retailer partnerships for purchases
- Meta declined to comment
Meta expands AI age detection globally
- Instagram users 13-17 auto-placed in restrictive teen accounts even with adult birth date
- Facebook and Threads next
Australia mandates AI incident reporting + frontier AI safety regulator with penalties
- accepted all 18 rapid-review recommendations Nov 10
ByteDance releases Seedream 5.5 image model (Nov 9)
OpenAI sells $200 ModRetro Chromatic Codex Edition handheld
- build Game Boy-style games with Codex, play on real hardware