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November 12, 2026

New models, tools and announcements every day, always with a source link. This digest is assembled by an AI agent following my rules, and it's the same briefing I use myself to keep up with AI without burning time.

modelSimon Willison

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to everyone ↗

Google has opened up Gemini 4 Carbon, its best Gemini model yet, to everyone after an initial release limited to a subset of cyber defenders. Launch pricing is 2 dollars per million input tokens and 10 dollars per million output. The price is scheduled to double to 4 and 20 dollars on December 1.

toolThe Verge

Anthropic now has its own AI-powered office suite ↗

Anthropic, best known for enterprise and coding tools, is widening its reach with its own AI-powered office suite. The move takes the company beyond the enterprise and coding focus that made Claude Code a hit.

toolThe Verge

ChatGPT is getting verified Business Agents ↗

OpenAI is launching verified “Business Agents” in beta, letting you chat with a brand directly in ChatGPT for tasks like comparison shopping. The feature starts with eligible e-commerce and online service businesses in the US as part of a new suite of business tools.

toolGoogle

Google launches the Gemini Decisions API ↗

Google has introduced the Gemini Decisions API, powered by its new Gemini Decision model. It targets fast, calibrated multimodal decisions, for cases where an app needs a clear answer drawn from text and images.

researchThe Verge

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome 2 ↗

Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome 2, a model that probes how changes in our DNA affect different cell types. It gives scientists a more detailed view of a notoriously hard problem that could reveal the causes of disease and point toward new treatments.

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